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This Dark and Gripping Time-Lapse Captures San Francisco Like You've Never...
Perhaps the best word to describe Toby Harriman's new time-lapse, Gotham City SF, is "Intense." Dark, moody, gripping, and unlike any big city time-lapse we've seen before, Toby's latest creation...
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UNHEARD Stories: An Upcoming Theater Festival About Sexual Violence
"There's something bizarrely liberating about being able to stand up on stage, as a character, and say 'I was raped.'" Perhaps not many actors would agree with this statement, but Gemma is telling me...
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When Photography Becomes More Than Just Taking Pictures
We wanted to take the best photograph ever taken in Myanmar. My guide, MM, and I were tired of the same stale images being photographed of his country over and over. We felt we could do something...
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An Existence: On Kawara -- Silence at the Guggenheim
On Kawara, Telegram to Sol LeWitt, February 5, 1970, From I Am Still Alive, 1970-2000. LeWitt Collection, Chester, Connecticut. February 6, 2015. This date marks the opening of the exhibition On...
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Finding Your Family History on the Printed Page
I am stuck finding more information about my grandfather, Leland Wright. From a 1930 U.S. Census I know he lived in Florida and was born in Ohio about 1883. Can you help me? ~ Edmund ________________...
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Dance competition season is here! Right now across America, millions of young dancers are hastily sewing on last minute rhinestones, finalizing rehearsal details and buying enough hairspray to freeze...
View ArticleHow the Fifty Shades Movie Is Better Than the Book
Yes, the movie was better than the book. Of course, if you've read the book, then you know that's not saying much. The bar was pretty low to begin with. And one would hope that with a 40 million dollar...
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A Community Copes With Hydraulic Fracturing
Play Grounds, depicts Montrose, Pennsylvania, a rural community on the front lines of the natural gas revolution, and the local residents who have been transformed by the industry. In Montrose,...
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Ron Arad in Reverse
A heated topic of the last couple of years has been that which brings to the surface the dichotomy of where the line of art and design merges and how we are finding an increasing group of fearless...
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Fifty Shades of White, and More...
In spite of less-than-positive reviews, Fifty Shades of Grey has become a box office hit. I haven't read the book, and I'm not planning to see the movie, but I have to admit, I do like the title. Last...
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Lessons From the Spring Festival
Chinese New Year 2015 ushers in the Year of the Sheep. The American evening news will be full of quaint references to the new year mascot along with more serious news of China's growing economic might....
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Seattle Musical Theatre's 'Sweet Charity' Entertaining and Fun
Sometimes when I go to see live theater, I'm not looking to leave after the final curtain, deeply engrossed in conversation or thought about the content of the play. At times, I want live theatre to...
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Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
One of America's foremost photographers, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), has too often been viewed through the narrow prism of her best-known work. The groundbreaking photos that she took during the Great...
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5 European Design Fairs and Architecture Exhibits To See
By Ann Binlot, February 17, 2015 1. All Design Istanbul, Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Center, Istanbul February 18-24 Istanbul is quickly becoming the design epicenter of Eurasia, and this...
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When Jerome Kern announced he was going to compose a score for a show based on Marco Polo, an enthusiastic reporter asked, "Mr. Kern, your new musical is based on an Italian who crossed the Alps and...
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Loris Gréaud Acts Out at the Dallas Contemporary and Calls it Art
If you're lucky enough to live in Dallas, you will also find yourself unlucky enough to not be able to make it to every opening and every show. I missed Loris Gréaud's show, The Unplayed Notes Museum,...
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Why Does London Need a New Concert Hall?
There is a debate raging in London surrounding Sir Simon Rattle's apparent stipulation that he will only consider the London Symphony Orchestra's invitation to become their new Principal Conductor if...
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HUMAN: A New Film by Yann Arthus Bertrand
Yann Arthus Bertrand is mostly known throughout the world by his aerial photographies, as well as for his environmental activism. Creator of the "Earth from Above" photo series, of which he sold more...
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Body Talk: African Sexuality & Womanism
Brussels--Six African women artists talk about bodies, sexuality and gender: it's not your everyday show--gathered together in the heart of the bureaucratic capital of Europe--under the rubric Body...
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Gergiev in Philly
It was not without irony that Russian maestro Valery Gergiev was conducting Russian classics by Sergei Prokofiev and Dimitri Shostakovich for his two concert evenings in front of the Philadelphia...
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