[proxy_user]

I am not touching that headline with a ten-foot keyboard!

[RichInOC]

A first for Saudis: Mozart performed publicly and women come

Maybe for the Saudis, but almost certainly not for the Austrians.

[cue Tom Hulce doing that maniacal laugh]

[Ann Archy]

Music soothes the savage beast (breast).

Way to go, Saudis!! They are now up to the 19th century.

[purpleraine]

I used to prefer Sade or Anita Baker.

[lesser_satan]

Mozart performed publicly and women come

I guess I'll be downloading some Mozart to play in the bedroom.

[Norman Bates]

Ping

[vladimir998]

“...held on the sidelines of Riyadh’s book fair.”

Even the book fair is huge news since the entire Arab speaking world has translated fewer books in 1400 years than Spain translates each and every year!

“The number of books translated in the Arab world is one fifth of the number translated in Greece. The aggregate total of translated books from the Al-Ma’moonera to the present day amounts to 10,000 books - equivalent to what Spain translates in a single year. This disparity was revealed in the first half of the 1980s when the average number of books translated per 1 million people in the Arab world during the 5-year period was 4.4(less than one book for every million Arabs), while in Hungary it was 519, and in Spain 920.”
http://www.cato.org/pubs/byrne2.pdf

No wonder these people are clueless and backward.

[Misterioso]

"The concert is a sign that things are changing rapidly here," said German Ambassador Juergen Krieghoff, whose embassy sponsored the concert as part of the first-ever German Cultural Weeks in Saudi Arabia.

When things are changing rapidly you don't need a "sign." AP propaganda written by a reporter with a curious name.

[HoosierHawk]

Slowly creeping into the 18th century...

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Implausible headline.

For so many reasons.