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Liam Bailey: The Song Remains The Same
The distance from Nottingham, England to New York City's Central Park is roughly 3,383 miles. As with many UK born artists, the time zones and ocean divide hasn't prevented singer-songwriter Liam...
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ACT OUT: Enabling the LBGT Actor's Inherent Tendancies
"Beautiful, Laverne. I told you ages ago -- you were born to play Whitney Houston," The Studio owner and coach Brad Calcaterra earnestly relates to his long-time student Laverne Cox, better known as...
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It's Becoming
What the mathematician John Allen Paulos (Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences) doesn't take into consideration in his recent Science Times piece "The Advanced Metrics of...
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Big Ideas: Greg Bergman Obsesses Over His Penis Size In The Documentary Big...
What is it that makes man reach for the stars? What makes mankind dream? Why do we engineer monstrous constructions that scrape the sky? Why do we ride rockets to the moon? What is the mysterious...
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An Art Form That Just Keeps Evolving
Historians credit the 1866 production of The Black Crook as the birth of the American musical theatre. Since then (like numerous politicians), the art form has continued to evolve. From George Gershwin...
View ArticleHow Robin Williams Inspired Kids to Become Teachers...or Just Drop Out and...
As a teacher, there are metaphorical life lessons you probably shouldn't impart on your students. For example, author Peter DeVries once offered the storied advice: "Write drunk and revise sober." Not...
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This Is Criminal: The Best New Radio Show in America
While rumors of True Detective's second season ripple across social media, Criminal, the next name to know in radio, has emerged for those still craving that fix for nuanced depictions of crime. In...
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Grandma's House (Photos)
This is officially my first post here on Huffington Post. I have been considering what I wanted to write about and share with the world. Fortunately, I just returned from a family trip where I grew up....
View Article'No Blue, No Green' -- New Sylvia Earle Film Shows Power of Protecting Our...
In a beautiful new film released this Friday on Netflix, oceanographer and explorer Sylvia Earle describes her underwater adventures. She also explains why she is driven to protect wild oceans the way...
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'The Lady of Shalott,' TE San Pedro Rep
Richard Wagner thought a gesamtkunstwerk, an integration of all the arts, would be the purest form of theatre. "The Lady of Shalott: A Journey Beyond Arthurian Legend," conceived and directed by Aaron...
View ArticleWho the Hell Put These People in Charge of Popular Culture?
An Asian-American group in Seattle has appointed itself the Lord High Executioner for culture, pronouncing the Gilbert and Sullivan classic light opera The Mikado repugnant to their sensibilities. One...
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Utah Shakespeare Festival Offers Unique Experience
The Utah Shakespeare Festival is truly unique. Founded in 1961 and presenting its first season in 1962, the organizers wanted to create something special. And they have. While all the festivals like...
View ArticleA Conversation with Danielle Eubank, Expedition Artist, On Her Upcoming Trip...
Recipient of a 2014-15 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Danielle Eubank paints bodies of water. She also paints water as if it were a body. The way light plays on its surface, the way it reveals its...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Theresa Rebeck's "Poor Behavior"Just Plain Poor
At the start of Poor Behavior, Theresa Rebeck--who may be the most overrated contemporary American playwright by virtue of 15 New York City productions to date--has Ella (Katie Kreisler), who's married...
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Plimpton! The Professional Amateur
How many of us have ever wanted to play a professional baseball or football, box in the ring with a champ, or perform in a world-renowned symphony orchestra? Many, to be sure. But how many have had...
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Bikes Without Dykes
Some types of love are strictly for the young at heart. I'm not talking about full-blown infatuations that escalate toward stalking or impassioned double suicides (as in Romeo and Juliet). Instead, I'm...
View ArticleMoving Side Show to Broadway
We just announced that Side Show, a revival that the Kennedy Center produced in association with La Jolla Playhouse, will be moving to Broadway this autumn. We will begin previews this October at the...
View ArticleThe Importance of a Certificate of Authenticity
You are a good artist and a good salesman, since some buyer likes your work and wants to purchase the cast piece that you have been explaining and touting to him (or her). The remaining question is,...
View ArticleWho Is FKA Twigs?
Who is FKA Twigs? When the 26-year-old artist emerged onto the stage at the El Rey in Los Angeles earlier this week she wore white '90s street wear with exotic gold chains wrapped around her belly and...
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Cantoni Crescenti's Interactive Installation 'Melt' (VIDEO)
Ruhrtriennale, the International Festival of the Arts in the Ruhr district in Germany, opened with a variety of art events last weekend, including concerts, theater productions, dance performances, and...
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