'Rocky' is a Broadway Knockout
Rocky's got me hanging on the ropes. There's an old Hollywood taboo that says movies about boxing are box-office suicide. On the stage, where money is tight, space limitations prevent a third wall...
View ArticleAisle View: Rock 'em Sock 'em
Taking a blockbuster audience-pleasing motion picture phenomenon, adding songs, and transforming the thing into a big, spectacular Broadway musical capable of pulling in every rabid or incidental fan...
View ArticleCorrecting the Rumors
Four years ago, I chose to primarily ignore a cycle of Internet gossip and false accusations against me. At that time, I felt that to dignify them with a response was a betrayal of my work and my...
View ArticleWATCH: This Woman With Cerebral Palsy Wants You To Laugh At Her (No...Seriously)
If thinking of cerebral palsy makes you think of someone sad or helpless, then watch this talk and let comedian Maysoon Zayid blow your mind. She's fierce, she's funny, and she refuses to let you feel...
View ArticleDrama Kid Stereotypes Busted!
Drama kids are heavily stereotyped. People tend to see us as crazy, loud, sometimes annoying people with an obnoxious love for the arts. We are sometimes criticized for liking Anne Hathaway too much...
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If You Ain't a Reflection, You're a Wave: Interview With Matthew Fisher
Matthew Fisher was Born in Boston, grew up in Three Rivers, Michigan, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design, and an MFA from VCU. He was a...
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Joyce Kozloff's Cradles to Conquests: Mapping American Military History
In her 1989 review of feminist philosopher Sara Ruddick's book Maternal Thinking, Towards a Politics of Peace, Maureen Quilligan considers the link between motherhood and world peace. The duress of...
View ArticleSticky Dates and Wanderlust
This story is the second installment of a three-part series on the Riyadh Writing Club, a group of young female writers in Saudi Arabia. Read the first part and second part here. "At 3:54 flight number...
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New Classical Sounds: Bach and Lully
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos.1-6 Freiburger Barockorchester Harmonia Mundi 2 CDs Brandenburg Concertos may come and go, but when one of exceptional merit shows up, it is time to remember the many...
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Scott Diament: From Bagel Boy to Emperor of the Fair
McCall Fine Art at the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show William Cook Antiques at the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show "There's never been a company like this company, built like...
View ArticleWorking With Ideas and Making Them Realized
Blinded by skepticism, doubt and fear, people quickly give up on their dreams and don't take risks. Now, for me, what started out as a spontaneous idea became one of my biggest accomplishments. Sure,...
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Rock 'n' Roll, the '70s and a Camera
DOG DANCE. Upper-case, not lower-case. That's an important take-away from the front cover. Bold, sexual and candid. The book immediately tells you what you're about to witness. Full disclosure: I did...
View ArticleSXSW Film: Damnation, a Documentary That's Testing the Waters of Corporate...
In 1935, FDR promoted the building of dams and this grew to include over 75,000 dams standing more than 3 feet tall throughout the United States. Many of these dams have outlived their usefulness, and...
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Notes From the Road: Las Vegas and Beyond
Don Bacigalupi, President of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and Chad Alligood, Assistant Curator of Special Projects, have been traveling around the United States for the better part of the...
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About Motivation
The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing before a performance. Photo Courtesy of MMA. Fear is a great motivator. It gets us out of bed in the morning, it bathes us in adrenaline, and helps keep us on...
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Kandinsky on Creativity
In 1916, in an essay vaguely titled "On the Artist," the painter Wassily Kandinsky provided a precise and thorough analysis of the difference between conceptual and experimental artists. Proposing to...
View ArticleTheater LBJ (Almost) All The Way; Hand To God It's Funny
ALL THE WAY **1/2 out of **** HAND TO GOD *** out of **** ALL THE WAY **1/2 out of **** NEIL SIMON THEATRE Bryan Cranston should have been showered with Emmys for his hilarious turn as the dim-witted...
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Memorable One-Night Stands
In rare moments of nostalgia, I miss the good old days of gay bathhouses. The sheer randomness of who you might meet, grope, kiss, or fuck was a never-ending game of chance. Wandering through a...
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30 SXSW Acts About to Break
One of the points of South By Southwest is to try and tell who the next superstar will be. Many a famous name got their start at the Austin, TX festival, and if you're lucky enough and paying...
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"Frida Kahlo, Her Photos," The Museum of Latin American Art
Photo by Anonymous. Wouldn't you love to peek inside Frida Kahlo's personal photo album? To see the images that have special meaning for the artist, images that paint a picture that varies greatly from...
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