(Stacey Anderson) ★ Bang on a Can Marathon (Sunday) The mind-bending tradition heralds the start of the River to River Festival by packing 12 hours of avant-garde notables into the crystalline World Financial Center's Winter Garden.
"Rimur" is a largely austere album of solo vocals, but a few tracks bend tradition, adding the drone of didgeridoo or a reticent Irish harp.
So it goes with Arsenal's Tarkovsky retrospective, which receives minimal advertising and as far as I know doesn't even have a special name, and which is nevertheless a time-bending tradition of its own, especially for Berlin, a city that sometimes seems allergic to its own past.
The snack is a specialty of Cádiz, although Mr. García smartly bends Andalusian tradition by pairing it with a kimchi mayonnaise.
In those battles, mainline Protestantism was willing to bend ritual, tradition and even biblical precedents to serve a deeply felt ethical agenda and to accord with modern science.
In previous port calls, the Navy has bent its traditions in honor of Vietnamese custom, Commander Davis said.
Even Lula, who is stratospherically popular, has shied away from openly supporting peace enforcement and the left still attacked him over Haiti for bending the Brazilian tradition of non-intervention.
Republicans, for example, have been bending longstanding Senate tradition that allows home-state senators of a nominee to deny or advance their nomination in the Judiciary Committee.
In disguising his light-skinned narrator as a girl, McBride taps into both the long legacy of racial passing and the race- and gender-bending tradition of American slave narratives, evoking one from 1860 — William and Ellen Craft's "Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom," in which Ellen passes as a white man and William her valet — in order to fashion a rich metaphor for racial identity.
The worst of both cultures became entwined in the combination of Western style urban gangs, and Islamic tradition bent on idolizing boys and constraining girls.
