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La bohème
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Cast: Christopher Bengochea Maria D'Amato Levi Hernandez Monica Yunus Sidney Outlaw Tyler Simpson Dan Stern |
Bohemian Nation
Periodically in history, the unique social climate of the times creates a new type of person; some character that had never existed before but instantly becomes so important that a new word must be coined. The 1960’s gave us the “hippie” and the 1920’s gave us the “flapper.” In the 1830’s, Parisians started referring to the strange assortment of people living on the margins of bourgeois society as “bohemian, “ which, at the time, was the French word for gypsy. It was mistakenly believed that the Roma people came from Bohemia, the modern day Czech Republic. And so “bohemian” became the name for that portion of modern society that has no visible means of supporting itself – the artists, musicians, intellectuals, radicals, men and women of ill repute, and the dropouts that populate the cultural capitals of the west. Every bourgeois city has them – London, New York, Chicago, San Francisco; but no city, now or ever, has had a greater claim on the title “capital of the Bohemian nation” than Paris. (Read More)
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