Rock Creek Lee at Kramerbooks Spinning Locals Only Music
Earlier last month on April 9, I had the unique opportunity to sit on a panel discussing gentrification in Washington, D.C. and how it has affected the D.C. Hip-Hop scene. The panel, at first consisted...
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Street Photography in Stockholm
It's been a while. As I read through my last articles, I can see how much my photographic preferences have changed. I am different. My world is different. How I view life is different. My photography...
View ArticleTheater: Here Lies Love Parties On; August Wilson Lives On
HERE LIES LOVE *** 1/2 out of **** 6TH ANNUAL AUGUST WILSON MONOLOGUE COMPETITION SEA MARKS ** out of **** SELECTED SHORTS: NEIL GAIMAN *** out of **** A TIME TRAVELER'S TRIP TO NIAGARA * 1/2 out of...
View ArticleThe Walk to Fisterra - a Cellist's Journey
Bach's Suites for Solo Cello represent the beginning and end of my relationship with music. They were among the first pieces I played as a child and the rest of my life will be spent working toward...
View ArticleMark Nilsson: Banging on the Art World's Door With a Brush (VIDEO)
Museums are an odd business they make a star by hanging a painting on a wall or installing a sculpture in a gallery. We often accept a work is worthy simply because it is exhibited within a coveted...
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Success Triumphs All: Dr. Dre, Diddy and Jay-Z
Success is the best maestro to perception. I can't say it much simpler other than affluence and influence are two attributes that can undoubtedly change public opinion. How is it that the man once...
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Fabulous Fictional Females Once Framed in Retail Window Find Permanent Home...
Many decorators have a list of dream clients. Some are lucky enough to work with those people, while some ... just keep dreaming. Painter, Designer, Curator and Bon Vivant Deborah Buck didn't sit...
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Reach Out and Touch Someone
When people think about artistic achievement, many focus on an individual's triumph in winning an award, a trophy, or some honor to recognize his talent, effort, and skill. The truth, however, is that...
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The Edge of Stardom: Secundaria Premieres in San Francisco
San Francisco may boast more Cuban ballet stars per square mile than any other dance capital outside Havana, but then tiny San Francisco boasts more than its fair share of a lot of cool things. So, on...
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The Business of Arab Cinema: Gianluca Chakra of Front Row Filmed Entertainment
"All games have morals and the game of Snakes and Ladders captures as no other activity can hope to do the eternal truth that for every ladder you climb a snake is waiting just around the corner and...
View ArticleFirst Nighter: Encores! Irma La Douce Isn't So Sweet
Irma La Douce, starring Elizabeth Seal and Keith Michell, opened on Broadway in 1960, and when the Tonys awards for the season were handed around in 1961, Seal won over Julie Andrews for Camelot, Carol...
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'The Cannes Diaries': A Pre-Festival, Last-Minute Checklist
I've promised myself to write each and every day of the Festival de Cannes, at least a short wrap-up of the day, if not a more in-depth kind of "review" of a movie I like. Even if I don't really do...
View ArticleA Valedictory
When I left the Royal Opera House in 2000, I made a series of speeches about my time in London and what I hoped would happen in the arts world after my departure. I spoke extensively about two areas:...
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No Lollapalooza Tickets? No Problem -- These Chicago Festivals Rock Just as Hard
By Kati Heng for Where So you didn't get tickets to Lollapalooza. It wasn't even a "you snooze, you lose," situation -- those passes sold out in minutes, not hours. Thankfully, Chicago has so much more...
View ArticleWho Is Renee Neufville: From R&B to Jazz an Icon in the Making
I drag my overly worked body out of the bed at 7:40 p.m. to try to make a music showcase, which is a mere 10-minute walk from my home. I'm going to see one of our gifted interns, Benjiman Poston,...
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Rock and Roll in Algeria
Quick: North Africa and the Middle East -- what comes to mind? Is it the Arab Spring? Civil war? Islamists? Does rock and roll factor into your equation at all? Recently, I had the opportunity to meet...
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The Statue of David Solution
Check out Tom Falco's cartoons and comic blog daily at Tomversation.com or at the iPhone app Comic Chameleon.
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The Manly Pursuit of Desire: Three Timely Awakenings at the Outsider Art Fair
Henry Darger, from "In the Realm of the Unreal." I had three very timely awakenings at this year's Outsider Art Fair, sponsored by the Museum of American Folk Art, in Chelsea, for five days ending on...
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Michael Berryhill: Bright Lights, No Sweat
Tabernacle Trapple (2014), 58 x 50 inches, oil on linen I dropped by Kansas Gallery to see Beggars Blanket, Michael Berryhill's show of recent paintings, and was greeted by a four foot long glass...
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