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Stage Door: 'The Bridges of Madison County' and 'Nothing On Earth Can Hold...
The Bridges of Madison County, a successful book and film, has been reimagined as an operatic musical. Now at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, Broadway darling Kelly O'Hara and hunka hunka burning love...
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"The Melville Boys," Little Fish Theatre, San Pedro, CA
Based on past productions, the Little Fish Theatre appears to have been custom made to feature plays set in cabins. Cozy, rustic (viz. pomp-less), and, for the audience (lucky us), accessible. Norman...
View ArticleCreative Age Cities
According to the New Cities Foundation, a new independent non-profit with offices in Geneva and Paris: " Over the next decade, some $ 250 billion will be invested in the creation of new cultural...
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Faces: When Dogs and Culture Collide
The series Faces is on Faith, a female greyhound, both beauty queen and racing dog. An "exceptional" animal which German photographer Julia Christe chose to emphasize in a series of portraits....
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I Ain't Gonna Work on Maggie's Farm No More: 'True Detective' and the Deep...
I'm taking screenwriter Nic Pizzolatto at his word: that there's nothing coming at the end of his superbly crafted and brilliantly acted True Detective (concluding tonight on HBO) that relies on the...
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3 Ways Meditation Will Make You a Better Writer
I walk to my spot and sit down, a mat beneath me and two cushions under my bottom. I'm comfortable now but I know it won't last. Within ten minutes the aches will begin. Dull and annoying to start and...
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'Looking' Season 1 Is Refreshing Despite Some Characterization Flaws
(The following review contains spoilers about the first season of "Looking.") By the time the inaugural season of "Looking" is over, every viewer will have fashioned a hierarchy for the characters. For...
View ArticleGetting the Most From Your Most Potent Board Members
As virtually every arts organization tries to improve their fundraising results, the pressure to get help from board members becomes a priority. And yet, try as they might, I find that many arts...
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Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: Cannes Juror, Exceptional Filmmaker
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun on the set of Grisgris In the last few days, cinematic circles have been all abuzz at the news that the Cannes 2014 Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury will be headed by Abbas...
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Haunted Travel: Illinois' Haunted Insane Asylum
Located west of Peoria in the small town of Bartonville, the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane was originally built in 1897 in the style of a medieval castle, but was never used. Legend says...
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Is the Art Show Becoming the Armory Show?
This was nonstop art week between the opening of the Whitney Biennial and the art shows. The Armory Show is held at Piers 92 and 94 in New York City and is perhaps the best advertised and attended art...
View ArticleWomen's History Month Spotlight: Women Bootleggers
It's Women's History Month, and you'll read about all the usual bright women who helped change the world. Amelia Earhart, Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, yeah, yeah, we know about their...
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A Doll's House at BAM
What about that baby in Carrie Cracknell's Young Vic production of A Doll's House at BAM? You don't see too many live babies on stage these days and this one was remarkably well behaved. However...
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The Armory Show Is Here to Stay
The art world focuses once again on New York as the Armory Show and its satellite fairs open this week. This year, the fair has undergone improvements, new features and a new design to up its ante in...
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Music Making and Motherhood: Sara Evans in Perfect Pitch
If juggling the schedules of seven children, a wildly successful music career, a husband and a huge annual fundraiser for the local Children's Hospital sounds like your "sweet spot" then you and Sara...
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Ballet as Preparation for Life
co-authored by Ellen Dobbyn-Blackmore Angelina Massa performing in Grieg Piano Concerto with Ballet Academy East. Choreography by Rex Wheeler, photo by Rosalie O'Connor. Ballet Academy East is well...
View ArticleWoman Photographing Woman: Tamara P. Cedre's Lived Moments
Tamara P. Cedre has long been concerned that within the photographic experience women have always been portrayed within a male gaze. She felt that doing so objectifies women, and she wondered if her...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Steven Boyer Amazes in Robert Askins's Awe-Inspiring Hand to God
Since it's impossible to stay on top of absolutely everything on view from one year to the next in burgeoning New York City theater, I'm only now catching up with Robert Askins's Hand to God, at the...
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Service With A Snarl
It's hard to avoid the tender and occasionally tasty tentacles of the service industry. For anyone who likes to dine in restaurants, stops to have a drink at a bar, or hangs out at a café, service with...
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A Conversation With Slavs and Tatars, on the Occasion of Their Curation of...
Each year Art Dubai, the leading international art fair in the MENASA (Middle East/North Africa/South Asia), presents its Marker program. The program focuses either on relevant and significant themes...
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