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My dear friend Wendy Jehlen is doing a dance performance called “Forest“ Fri, June 18 8pm Sat, June 19 3pm & 8pm BU Dance Theater on Buick Street at 915 Commonwealth Ave. tickets: $25, $20 Student/Senior/BDA, $10 Children under 12 available at 617-358-2500 and www.akhra.org/tix.html ANIKAI Dance invites you to escape the confines of our urban world, and step into the ever-evolving, unpredictable world of the forest – a landscape unfamiliar and alluring, full of serenity and sensuality, conflict and metamorphosis. Forest is but a moment, a small part of a longer, eternal story. FOREST is choreographed by Wendy Jehlen…

Profile of ‘Dirty Paki Lingerie’ Playwright – WSJ.com

Profile of 'Dirty Paki Lingerie' Playwright – WSJ.com. As a playwright, Aizzah Fatima knows she is pushing boundaries with the title of her one-woman show, "Dirty Paki Lingerie," which will make its debut Saturday at the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre as part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival. But as an actress, Ms. Fatima is delighted to portray roles that transcend the traditional fare she is typically offered as a Pakistani Muslim actress. "'Terrorist No. 2's girlfriend' is an actual title of a character I once auditioned for," she said.

G. Willow Wilson (@g_willow) on the latest Draw Muhammad Day Insanity

Guest Voices: A Muslim cartoonist on “Draw Muhammad Day” – On Faith at washingtonpost.com. What Norris failed to understand is that by creating events like “Draw Muhammad Day”, artists hurl rhetorical stones that go straight through their enemies and hit Muslims like me. Al Qaeda isn’t hurt by Draw Muhammad Day. Its entire PR campaign is built on incidents like these. Without the Molly Norrises and Jyllands Postens of the world, Al Qaeda would have to get a lot more creative with its recruitment strategies. Artists who caricature the Prophet inevitably claim, as Norris has done, that they never meant…