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A voice like Barbra Streisand’s is a mystery, even to its owner: two bits of gristle in the throat resonantly swell in her head and chest to produce a storm of sound that Streisand first heard when vocalising in the stairwell of a Brooklyn tenement. Taken to a recording studio by her mother at the age of 14, she gratuitously riffed on a melody and, as she recalls, “something came out of my mouth that completely surprised me”. A decade later in Funny Girl, that finely tuned and amped-up “something” stunned the world. At…

P.9 recto of the Heege Manuscript. ‘Red herring’ appears 3-4 lines from the bottom of the page. Credit: National Library of ScotlandAn unprecedented record of medieval live comedy performance has been identified in a 15th-century manuscript. These boisterous texts – which include jests at the expense of kings, priests, and peasants; advocate for audience inebriation; and surprise them with physical comedy – provide fresh insights into the renowned British sense of humor and the significant role minstrels held in medieval…

This week’s spat with Mark Zuckerberg highlights Musk’s flirtation with blue jokes that has both helped and hindered him. This week’s spat with Mark Zuckerberg highlights Musk’s flirtation with blue jokes that has both helped and hindered him. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all…

Scribe's note ‘By me, Richard Heege, because I was at that feast and did not have a drink’, in the Heege Manuscript (bottom of p.60 verso). This caught the attention of Cambridge researcher Dr James Wade. Credit: National Library of Scotland An unprecedented record of medieval live comedy performance has been identified in a 15th-century manuscript. Raucous texts—mocking kings, priests and peasants; encouraging audiences to…

A momentary glimpse of a woman’s breast in the nearly half-century-old film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, has a Denver suburb scrambling to revamp its indecency and lewdness statutes. Parker plans to show the 1975 cult classic — which has long featured audience members dressing up in outlandish costumes and acting out parts of the film as it screens — at its arts center on Oct. 28. But because the Parker Arts, Culture & Events Center holds a liquor license, it cannot under town code show anything that is “lewd and…