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By Marion S. Trikosko Public domain
If you’ve been eyeing the movie ads recently, you may have noticed that ’tis the season for the biopic. You may wonder why this particular time of year is so hot to trot on the entire “life on film” genre.
For the most part, Hollywood adores epic storytelling on real life figures, especially ones that grab the headlines on a regular basis. What’s interesting is …more…
I don’t mean to constantly be plugging the Institute of Contemporary Art, but they just have so many great public programs! And this weekend is no exception: New York City’s KARMA will be hosting a pop-up bookstore in the museum’s Excursus Space. Part bookstore, part gallery, part publisher, KARMA has tons of prints, posters, and books by a whole range of artists including Dash Snow, Richard Prince, and Joseph Beuys!
Open …more…
A Michael Jackson tribute show requires serious dance moves, glittery gloves, 80s fashion, pyrotechnics–preferably without the corresponding scalp burns. Cirque du Soleil’s latest arena offering, Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour, does not disappoint. Whether you memorized the lines to the short-lived Jackson 5 cartoon in the 70s, or you are more a fan of Jackson’s Bad years, Cirque’s music-driven performance takes you back to those years. This show, a …more…
This month, the New Orleans 2011 Fringe Festival will commence.
The NOLA Fringe is in its third year of operation and this year’s festival is offering the city nothing short of awesome greatness.
The festival is housing 70 different performance groups with over 200 shows at a multitude of venues across the city.
The Fringe Festival chooses 24 performances to showcase at 6 different spaces around town. In addition to the …more…
There is still time to catch two gender-bending productions in Portland this month.
The first is Theatre Vertigo’s production of Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill at Theatre! Theater! This play follows the members of a family from Act I in patriarchal, colonial Africa in 1879 to the newly-liberated, “what-now?” 1980s in London. It explores racial, sexual, and personal politics with good humor, sharp wit, and lots of drag. Director Jon Kretzu and …more…
Here’s another upcoming concert that should be well worth a listen. The Octava Chamber Orchestra will be performing on Sunday, November 13th at 6:00pm at Maple Park Church, located at 17620 60th Ave W. in Lynnwood, about fifteen miles north of Seattle. Octava is an interesting group – a chamber orchestra comprised of professionals, teachers and some of the area’s best amateur musicians.
Originally formed by Music Director Johan Louwersheimer and …more…
Running through November 19, Joy Cutler’s Pardon My Invasion continues a rich traditional of fun theater at Plays and Players. Tucked away on the quiet residential Delancey Street a few blocks from Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, Plays and Players was organized by Mrs. Otis Skinner in 1911 as a “Little Theater” to fill the void left when larger productions moved on to the more cosmopolitan allure of New York City. This …more…
Brad Little, a man who made his mark playing the title role of the “Phantom of the Opera” on the national tour returns to New Orleans tonight with the first of two fundraiser events for the Jefferson Performing Arts Society (JPAS). Tonight’s event at Tulane’s Dixon Hall also stars local cabaret and musical theatre star Leslie Castay and nationally prominent operatic tenor Juan Carlos Valls.
Brad Little stars in events tonight, Friday …more…
This month, don’t miss a performance by another northwest musical gem, the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra. This group is part of the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras, or SYSO, which was founded in 1942 and today is the largest youth symphony organization in the United States, operating four orchestras for young musicians, as well as three summer music programs and outreach programs to the public schools. SYSO currently has an enrollment of …more…
Sad Christmas Tree is Sad.
Call me grumpy, call me undeservedly crotchety in spite of my years, call me what you want, but hearing Christmas music on the radio BEFORE Halloween this year was just too much. It could also be that I had a terrible cold and wished I could’ve been out there in the freezing rain impressing people with my witty costume commentary on Occupy Wall Street instead …more…
“Mediating Place,” at UMASS Boston’s Harbor Art Gallery, presents a landmark exhibition of international contemporary new media artists converging on the theme of “place.” Curated by Meredith Hoy and Kevin Benisvy, the artists in the exhibition hail from New York City; Berkeley, California; London, UK; China (exact whereabouts unknown); and our very own Boston, MA. They represent institutions as diverse as Colgate University, University of California Berkeley, University of London, …more…
Acclaimed Israeli violinist virtuosoVadim Gluzman, a performer who has played with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) three times in as many years, is ready to perform the Prokofiev Violin Concert No. 2 tonight for the second time in as many nights. Guzman performed the piece last night as part of the LPO’s Northshore series along with the Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 played last week at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre for the …more…
Trading art buttons at Hot One Inch Action might be the most fun you’ve ever had at an art exhibition.
Designed to promote social exchanges in a gallery setting, the “button show” features artwork by 50 local artists—printed on one-inch buttons. Participants can buy bags of random buttons, then trade with other attendees to snag their favorite pieces. If you’re adept at wheeling and dealing, you could take home the entire show. ...more...
Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Cvalverd
Carefully assembled from the amazing collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of a multi-year collaboration between MOMA and Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, Picasso to Warhol traces the development of modernism as seen through the brush strokes, sculptures, photographs, drawings, collages and silkscreen prints of artists that radically changed the way the world views art.
The exhibition, one of the largest collections …more…
Philadelphia has quite the noir pedigree. It was home to William McGivern, author of the source material to such hard-boiled classics as Rogue Cop and The Big Heat, and David Goodis, whose Philadelphia-set novel Down There was adapted (relocated to Paris) into the seminal French new wave film Tirez sur le pianiste (“Shoot the Piano-Player”) by director Francois Trauffaut. Dashiell Hammett even lived here for a couple years before creating iconic noir characters Nick …more…
Nearly everyone living in the United States during the last fifty years has seen this artist’s work, or at least is familiar with it. That is quite an audience; however, not many people could tell you the artist’s name.
An exhibit spanning the life’s work of animator Chuck Jones, who was born in Spokane, Washington, is now on display at Portland International Airport (PDX) through March 2012. Those of us who …more…
Michael Walsh of Dance Alloy Theater; Photo from website
On October 19th Dance Alloy Theater and the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater officially announced their merger. This comes after months of rumors in the artistic community about the future of Dance Alloy. The Strayhorn will manage all of the dance classes at the Alloy’s school and will use the Alloy’s venue for rehearsals, performances and residencies. The Alloy’s dance company, the longest-established …more…
To the unsuspecting passerby, the cacophony on the first floor of the historic Templar automobile factory in Lakewood signals the work of men in their hard hats and work gloves. But on the two floors above them, more than 30 of Northeast Ohio’s rarely seen visual artists diligently work on their original mosaics, throw rugs and backpacks. “I love coming into my little world,” says Robb Durr, a sculptor who …more…
Seattle jazz heads take note: this Friday, November 4th, the U District Jazz Festival starts its three day run. There are different packages for tickets. The best deals are the early bird tickets: $35 for all three days (including a voucher for a free drink and any of the venues.)The festival is an expanded version of the U District Jazz Walk. Here’s some details from the Facebook page:
The University District’s …more…
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It’s November 1st today, which means it’s time for fall leaves, pumpkin-spice lattes, woolly sweaters, and First Friday Philadelphia. Many of the galleries in Old City will stay open late this Friday, November 4th. Increasingly, though, the area has grown, and now galleries in Fishtown, Northern Liberties and a few south of South St are also open late. Come ready for a mellow night of gallery hopping, …more…
A friend once said to me, “I had no idea that Jim Henson was so brilliant.”
After visiting Jim Henson’s Fantastic World Exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, my friend came to the revelation that many of us have always known — that Jim Henson was indeed one of the most creative minds in America. It may seem like a far reaching statement to make, especially when …more…
Halloween has come and gone, leaving its remnants of un-dead pumpkins. The fall rains are coming and Thanksgiving is looming. It’s November in Seattle and if you’re a lover of “classical” music, there is no shortage of things to tempt your ears this month.
Community Orchestras
Friday Nov. 4th at 7:30PM, LUCO – the Lake Union Civic Orchestra – performs Mahler’s 5th Symphony at Meaney Hall on the University of Washington campus. LUCO is …more…
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