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Rock-and-Roll Dandies Through the Years
Stylish rockers are the nucleus of the classic rock and roll philosophy. One cannot survive without the other - a singer's personal style and his music are inextricably linked. From 1960s British mods...
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California Dreaming at Paul Loya Gallery, Los Angeles
Summer can be a boring season for gallery going: many venues take time off; some leave shows up for longer than usual. The group shows that predominate are often uninspiring or exhausting due to...
View ArticleWatch #AOLBUILD Live Stream Featuring Ziggy Marley Moderated by @MARCLAMONTHILL
Watch the live stream AOL BUILD with Ziggy Marley of the Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, moderated by the Huffington Post Live's very own Marc Lamont-Hill. Catch the reggae artist as he talks...
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A Day at Storm King Art Center Sculpture Park (VIDEO)
In this video, we spend at day at Storm King Art Center Sculpture Park. Storm King Art Center is one of the world's leading sculpture parks. The park is located one hour north of New York City, in the...
View Article7 Reasons To Bring Back Sunday Dinners
As the granddaughter of an Italian woman who perhaps wore the label a bit too seriously, Sunday dinners were the rule. "Colorful" doesn't begin to describe those occasions, where I learned how to set a...
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These Posters Show How the Government Sold America on the First World War
From Zócalo Public Square On April 2, 1917, the U.S. entered World War I. And the government didn't have time to waste while its citizens made up their minds about joining the fight. How could ordinary...
View ArticleTheater: Stephen McKinley Henderson Front and Center...Finally
BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY *** out of **** ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY AT LINDA GROSS THEATER Over the years, whenever actor Stephen McKinley Henderson has stepped out on stage, I would break out into a...
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Coming to America
They traveled across oceans to reach the fabled land of opportunity, where the streets were supposedly paved with gold. From the Chinese laborers who helped build the transcontinental railroad to Cuban...
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In the Footsteps of Monet at Bordighera
The French painter Claude Monet spent one winter -- the early part of 1884 -- in the Italian town of Bordighera, having been introduced to this part of the Riviera by his friend Renoir the year...
View ArticleWilly Loman: Vampire Hunter, or The Delusional Gravitas of the Everyman Antihero
This lecture was given at The Dionysium, Alamo Village. Austin, TX June 4th, 7:00pm "...we both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believers nimble." -Emily Dickinson Willy...
View ArticleTaking the Snowpiercer Train to Gaza, Syria and Iraq in the Company of...
Because this article is written in response to the spate of mainstream media reviews accompanying the release of Snowpiercer, first on the internet and then in theatrical distribution, rather than...
View ArticleSummon Your Inner Songwriter
Successful Songwriting is not a science by any means. It's an art, by every means. Everyone who practices it practices it very differently. It appears in different forms through myriad channels and...
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On The Road Again: Summer Travels
Led Zeppelin by Robert M. Knight It's summer, and the open road is calling. Our collection is brimming with travel shots -- artists from Boston to U2 going places. Planes, trains and automobiles --...
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Somi: A New High Priestess of Soul
Cynical music fans like to talk about the things that aren't happening today; things that aren't happening in jazz, that aren't happening in R&B. A few months ago, I was invited to witness what...
View ArticleWhen it Comes to Leveling the Playing Field for Women Writers, VIDA Reminds...
With the pervasiveness of gender inequality in nearly every arena, it's heartening to know that there are passionate individuals and organizations out there working hard to affect change. Nonprofit...
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A Master Builder
You've seen lots of Master Builders if you were brought up on Shaw's The Quintessence of Ibsenism or if you are an aspiring artist or married to one--or you're just someone who 's interested in the...
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Israeli Artists of the Imagination Orit Raff and Nir Evron
"Jealousy" by Orit Raff Art -- both making it and enjoying it -- seems a luxury in times of war. Yet the work of two Israeli artists, Orit Raff and Nir Evron, showing at the contemporary art space...
View ArticleTwist and Shout
What is to be done about the biographical musical? A play like Passing Strange showed it could be its own unique animal: reveling in messy individuality rather than trying to tidy up its subject's...
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Twitter Fights of the High Renaissance: Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and...
A blog and video that recently appeared on the HuffingtonPost Arts page -- Why Leonardo Da Vinci Was A Loser (And What That Means For You) -- has apparently re-ignited a longstanding feud between...
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The Threepenny Opera, The Garage Theatre IN COLLISION WITH Alive Theatre,...
Bertolt Brecht's "The Threepenny Opera," directed by Eric Hamme for the Garage Theatre IN COLLISION WITH Alive Theatre, offers a rambunctiously cynical look at London's demimonde, at the...
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