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7 Fictional Women Whose Life Stories Inspire Us
Emily Byrd Starr Emily is the heroine LM Montgomery wrote after Anne of Green Gables and its many sequels, when she was sick of being "dragged at Anne's chariot wheels". In 1920, she confided in her...
View ArticleWhy Maddie Ziegler Matters to the Dance World
Poised inside a door frame, Maddie Ziegler appears the image of stoicism and composure. Her legs swing like pendulums in 360-degree loops, and her jétés and pirouettes juxtapose self-containment with a...
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Virtually Challenged
In honor of the Grammys this coming weekend, I decided to write about audio. This past week I purchased a MacBook Air to replace my old laptop. It is great -- lightweight and fast. There is no CD slot....
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Inside New York's Art World: An Interview with Hilary Harkness
David Galenson: In our earlier interview, you said that living in New York was very important to you. How long have you lived in New York, and have your reasons for living there changed over time?...
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(R)evolution in Berlin: 'Sontag Revisited'
"Wer war Susan Sontag?" asked "SONTAG REVISITED". Placing the uncategorizable Sontag in a new context on the critic's Berlin Wall. Photo by LPS Perhaps it was inevitable, by design, that Susan Sontag,...
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Flourishing Aboriginal Art
The rock carvings and paintings by Aboriginals in the outback of Australia are considered to be some of the oldest examples of the artistic creativity of man on this continent. Some dating back at...
View ArticleDance to My Measure: Ballet 422
"Is that how I sound?" exclaimed dancer Tiler Peck, reminding everyone around her at the premiere screening of the documentary Ballet 422 that ballerinas are usually seen and not heard. Peck was not...
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Traditions - New Orleans Second Lining
On January 11, 2014 I had the pleasure of participating in a Second Line Parade, back in my home town of New Orleans, Louisiana. Though I'd seen hundreds growing up there, this was the first I've...
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Love is in the Air
Perhaps as a distraction from yet another month of winter weather, turning the calendars to February focuses some of our thoughts on Valentine's Day and romance. While we are all familiar with today's...
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Mommy's Boy: Xavier Dolan Explains Why Women Are Like Gay Men
The former boy wonder, Xavier Dolan, who is now 25, sauntered into New York about a week or so ago with a new movie, Mommy -- his fifth -- for which he won the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: The Gershwins' "Lady Be Good" Gets Tommy Tune'd Up
What's happening at City Center this weekend is what frequently happens when the Encores! series is in swing: The most entrancing musical number to be seen anywhere in Manhattan is right there on the...
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Big Apple Blues Serves an Appetizing List of New York-Inspired Tunes
Artist: Tomás Doncker Band Album: Big Apple Blues Genre: Blues, Soul Release Date: October 21, 2014 Reviewer: Brandi Andres Rating: 8.2 Find it at: Soundcloud From the big-hitting opening of Big Apple...
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This February, Heart Bomb the Historic Place You Love Most
Showing the Colorado County Courthouse in Texas some love, February 2013. "Preservation" can sometimes come across as a complicated or academic process, but the truth is much simpler. At its heart,...
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Janine Ferguson's Romantic Incident at the Café, Some Valentine's Day Ideas,...
"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses." ―Friedrich Nietzsche The philosopher's quote from his novel, Thus...
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Grand Hotel?
In a Times Op-Ed piece Roger Cohen describes the pleasures of anachronism in his description of Berlin's Hotel Savoy ("The Virtue of Redeeming Vice," NYT, 12/26/14). "It has taps and regular light...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: T. Oliver Reid Heats the Met Room, 'Texas in Paris' Warms the...
For some time Broadway has been the place for swellegant black revues, the most recent being last season's superlative After Midnight. One of the many reasons for that entry's standout status was cast...
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Bidness as Usual
Adam Smith (the 18th century Scottish philosopher and author of 1776's "An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations") is famous for coining the term "the invisible hand of the...
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Interview With Miquel Barceló
Both the Island of Mallorca and circumstances have led me to a meeting with Miquel Barceló during which I had the opportunity to discover more about his life and work. The visit began in his ceramics...
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Small Houses With a Huge Sense of Style
Small is better, it seems -- at least in Chapel Hill, N.C. Hitching her wagon to a national trend toward tiny homes, an architect there recently unveiled her designs for the Micropolis. Little Ant, by...
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The Loophole That Denies Fighters Their 72 Virgins
Still from the short doc No Free Steps to Heaven. Itai Anghel, an Isreali Jewish news correspondent and filmmaker with the balls the size of pumpkins, recently wandered into Syria and Iraq with a...
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