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In Short—Other Places We've Been,
Things We've Seen
By the Red-Eye Crew
SeeingBlack.com Contributing Writers
 Janet
Jackson's All For You Tour
All we can do is blow kisses. Jackson's
glossy, feel-good, big stage production at Washington D.C.'s MCI
Center showed this mature performer's public balancing act between
being the nice girl next door and the sweetest freak-of-the-week
ever. [The evening started with a photo of her nearly nude flashed
on a big screen and later she summoned a brother from the audience
to fake seduce on stage] But mostly she was real, real nice and
took the sold out crowd down a music and video memory lane from
the 80's to the present—"Nasty Boys," "Let's Wait a While,"
"Control," "Rhythm Nation," etc. Dang, she wasn't even scared to
show those videos when she was chunky. -- August 2001
Inaugural Space Show—"Passport to the Universe"
The Rose Center for Earth and Science, The American Museum of Natural
History, New York City
 Sit
back in your cushy chair and travel into deep space. This 30-minute
show, a virtual re-creation and tour of the universe inside the
Space Theater's 38-foot-high dome, is both entertaining and informative
for adults and children. If you have any doubts about our small
place in the universe, you'll come away with a new sense of the
miniscule space we earthlings hold in not only our solar system,
but in our galaxy and in even larger celestial bodies of space.
The recreation of planets, of how solar systems are born in the
Orion Nebula, of even a "trip" through a black hole, is all a part
of the show. -- July 2001
 "Constant Star,"
By Tazewell Thompson
If you have a chance to catch this musical play about the life
of Ida B. Wells, you need to check it out, most def. We saw a production
at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. and were told that it might
travel to other cities. Thick with the atmosphere, scenery, wardrobe
and music of Wells' time, it is an unsparing narrative about the
horrors of lynching and racial violence that African Americans endured
in the decades after Reconstruction and leading up the middle of
the last century. Five actresses with sumptuous singing voices are
employed to play the feisty journalist and anti-lynching activist
and, here, the art of old Negro spirituals gets a newfound spotlight
and respect. --June 2001
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