CULTURE BUZZ – Broadway musicals are dropping like flies due to tough economic times.Godspell, Brigadoon, and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf have been scrapped before opening, and others are threatening the same. We say, what gives? Why is it that when pennies must be pinched, tap shoes and glitter are always the first things to go? Sigh.

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The Best Links:

1. Some shows that will still open: Equus (shirtless Harry Potter), Billy Elliot (dancing boys), and Shrek: The Musical.
2. Broadway Feels the Money Slump
3. “Wall St. Woes Worry Theater Industry”

SCIENCE BUZZ – A major volcanic eruption in Chile, a horrifying cyclone in Myanmar, a series of global earthquakes, most recently in Japan: Have the end times arrived?The Myanmar death toll keeps climbing, and the area around the Chaiten volcano has been evacuated. Relief organizations are doing their best to help out.

The Best Links:

1. Myanmar Death Toll May Top 100,000
2. A List of the World’s Worst Disasters
3. Image of the Day: Chilean Volcano From Space
4. Magnitude 6.8 Earthquake Hits Tokyo
5. Ash from Chile volcano shuts down Argentina flights