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Volume 27, Issue 7, September 23, 2004

Features

Vampires, Ballet, and the Count

by Travis Combs
The Metropolitan

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Dracula is preparing to dance. The stage has been turned into an ancient keep where the Count spends his days in the death-like womb of a black coffin and his nights gluttonously drinking from the veins of mortals. Born in 1897 and transformed on countless occasions through countless medium, Count Dracula has metamorphosed from the literary mind of nineteenth-century author Bram Stoker into a film star and theater actor, and is now permanently infused into legendary status in the modern age. more >>

Manna from the heavens

by Kathryn Graham
The Metropolitan

If a bunch of hundred dollar bills were on the ground would you stop to pick them up? more >>