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An Impassioned Look at the Lives of Teens with the New Show 'One Day'
"Growing up," as Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie once said, "is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples." But how quickly adults forget. It can be hard to really understand...
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Aural Fixation: RIP Mixtape
"Isn't this cool?" I said to him, holding up the t-shirt. It had come as part of singer/songwriter Martin Sexton's pre-order bundle for his new CD, Mixtape Of The Open Road. A list of tour dates skated...
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Wesley Kimler: "I Never See Beauty"
I never see beauty. It is foreign to me and if even I could glimpse it, it would only be in recognition of a struggle gone cold, soon to be discarded as I move on. No satisfaction taken: a corpse...
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Wesley Kimler: 'I Never See Beauty'
I never see beauty. It is foreign to me and if even I could glimpse it, it would only be in recognition of a struggle gone cold, soon to be discarded as I move on. No satisfaction taken: a corpse...
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9 Surprisingly Feminist Classic Films, Because Strong Women Have Always Existed
This post originally appeared on Bustle By JR Thorpe We tend to think of classic black-and-white films as pretty bad ground for women's equality. The ladies in them look fantastic, sure, but the gender...
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A Heavenly Match: Jerome Robbins and Liam Scarlett at San Francisco Ballet
Daredevil Maria Kochetkova and the passionate Joseph Walsh in Jerome Robbins' Dances at a Gathering (Photo: Erik Tomasson) At 6:32 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on Thursday night, Ballet to the People...
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Hand. Cannot. Erase. -- An Interview With Steven Wilson
Steven Wilson is at it again. The critically acclaimed and über-prolific musician and producer has released his fourth proper solo album. His body of work is beyond impressive, especially when you...
View ArticleEverything Is Possible While Dancin' in the Kitchen
In 1992, my musical partner and I -- now my wife as well -- released a kids/family recording called Nobody Else Like Me: Celebrating the Diversity of Children. It was our dream to have a beautiful...
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'The Real Thing', Long Beach Playhouse Mainstage Theatre at Long Beach,...
Mostly well done, Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, directed by Sean Gray for the Long Beach Playhouse Mainstage Theatre, recounts the story of Henry (Noah Wagner), a brilliant and celebrated playwright....
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Struck by the Street Art of Stickers. From the Streets...
Co-authored by Catherine Tedford who directs the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University and writes about street art stickers on her research blog Stickerkitty. On behalf of the NY6...
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Stage Door: 'Lives of the Saints', 'The Nomad', 'The Light Princess'
David Ives' is best known for his scintillating Venus in Fur, thought-provoking New Jerusalem and comic gems All In The Timing. But Lives of the Saints revived off-Broadway at The Duke, is a...
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Subversive Thrills
Have you ever felt ecstatically lucky when you found a coin or a dollar bill? When the supermarket cashier forgot to charge you for an item? Or when you treated yourself to a calorie-laden dessert and...
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Susan Beallor Snyder: Stories in Rope
Susan Beallor Snyder -- whose work is now on view in the group exhibition "GATHERED" at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia -- makes ambitious and compelling Manila rope reliefs that represent...
View ArticleAiley in Opelika
My favorite memory of my 30-year arts management career was attending a performance by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Opelika, Alabama, in the early 1990s. I was the Executive Director of...
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Paul Taylor's Legacy Plan Champions Modern Dance
Paul Taylor Dance Company in "Esplanade." Photo by Paul B. Goode. What is the life of a painting? In an artist's hands, a previously anonymous canvas and a random assortment of paint suddenly becomes...
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The Extraordinary Liana Yaroslavsky
A rare woman is very difficult to describe-therefore I prefer to do an interview of Liana Yaroslavsky. I met Liana several years ago in Paris and now she is planning to come and work in the U.S,...
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The Entrepreneurial Pianist
Julian Gargiulo may be a classical pianist entrepreneur but he has the hair of a rock star. He likes to joke about this on stage. He says, "When I was a child I wanted to learn how to play the guitar...
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Carlos Núñez Concert Honoring Alan Lomax's Spanish Fieldwork
Carlos Núñez band (Carlos Núñez, Pancho Álvarez, Stephanie Cadman, and Xurxo Núñez) in concert at the Library of Congress, August 19, 2014. Photo by Valda Morris for the American Folklife Center. The...
View Article13 Food Tattoos You'll Want to Steal
Who knew art could be so delicious? When it comes to tattoos, no piece is "just OK." They are either mind-blowing works of art, or they are the worst thing you have ever seen. Tattoos are a way to...
View ArticleWhy Anastasia Steele Is A Great Role Model
I am not a film critic, not by any stretch of the imagination. Nor am I an expert on BDSM. Although after seeing Fifty Shades of Grey, I kinda want to be... And I haven't read the book, so any...
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