“It’s an informal party setting for ages 21 and older, with the audience seated on faux leather benches set up between two stages. A half dozen well-attended bars serve exotic drinks: Mad Monk (Dolin Dry Vermouth, Benedictine, St. George Absinthe, orange peel) and dubious snacks (truffle-scented popcorn).”
Tag: 01.07.15
Selma, Alabama, Doesn’t Have A Movie House Anymore, So ‘Selma’ Is Showing In An Auditorium
“While the Walton thrived as a community playhouse, it stopped showing movies, which created a kind of cultural segregation for the city: for two decades, to see a first-run blockbuster, Selma residents were forced to drive nearly 40 miles to Prattville, a Montgomery suburb that, unlike Selma, was majority white and affluent. For many, the drive was not just costly and time-consuming, but often dangerous.”
Grant Park Festival In Chicago The Very Model Of A Modern Major Summer Classical Music Fest
“One hot-weather classical enterprise that remains impervious to change, justifiably so, is the Grant Park Music Festival.”
House Of The Artist Now Known As ‘Mr. Turner’ Saved For Restoration By A Last-Minute Grant
“Turner, one of Britain’s greatest painters, designed the building as a retreat from his central London studio and as a permanent home for his elderly father, a retired wigmaker and barber, who looked after the house and garden.”
Gunmen Storm Satirical French Newspaper And Kill 12 People, Including Cartoonists
“A number of prominent editors and cartoonists [were] killed on Wednesday, including the cartoonists Stéphane Charbonnier, known as ‘Charb,’ and Jean Cabut, who signs his work ‘Cabu.’ He said that the cartoonists Georges Wolinski and Bernard Verlhac were also among the victims.”
Where Are The Greatest Dancers In The World Today? Some Of Them Are In India
Alastair Macaulay: “Who are the greatest dancers in the world today? Most of the contenders considered in the West for this category are the roving international stars of ballet. But many of today’s finest dance artists have been performing here [in Chennai] … Some – all women – have touched on the sublime.”
Is “Birdman” The Best Movie About Theater Ever Made?
Matt Trueman: “Theatre – and I write this with admiration and awe – is full of freaks and weirdos. Brilliant freaks and weirdos, yes, but freaks and weirdos nonetheless. Birdman totally gets that. … It nails that slippage between on- and off-stage, between fiction and reality; the way a play can bleed into an actor’s life … and appreciates the catatonic terror of stepping out in front of an audience.”