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Author: Hilary Bienstock

Contributing Writer

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‘Cabaret’: All the world’s a nudie bar, old chum

By Hilary Bienstock
INTERMISSION| “Life is a cabaret, old chum / Come join the cabaret.” These words present a very different image of 1930s Germany from what most Americans usually imagine — not the gray country of political confusion and devalued Deutchmarks, but instead the trashy, gaudy finery of Berlin’s equivalent of the Tenderloin District.

Another ‘Saturday Night’ and I ain’t got no fashion sense

By Hilary Bienstock
INTERMISSION| During the year I was born, men strutted the street wearing white polyester suits with long, starched collars. They sported patterned polyester shirts unbuttoned to the navel and platform boots.

Altan

By Hilary Bienstock
INTERMISSION| Traditional Irish music usually gets lumped into the category of “world music,” which means that it is treated as a quaint musical form that people used to listen to long ago.