For seven years, the “Dancing in the Street” festival in Grand Center not only opened the entertainment district’s fall season, but also served as a showcase for local companies.
Tag: 02.23.14
Casting Up – When Actors Leave Shows For Better Gigs
“Actors sometimes chase a better deal — whether that means more money, the role of a lifetime or a longer run. Producers and directors sometimes grumble about loyalty and sometimes accept it on the terms of a free market.”
“Intervention” At The Guggenheim To Protest Abu Dhabi Guggenheim Working Conditions
“Staged in the midst of the museum’s newly opened Italian Futurism exhibition, the intervention, a term used by some members of the group to describe the action, received both applause from visitors who seemed excited by the commotion and reactions of confusion from others unsure what was going on.”
Top AJBlog Posts 02.23.14
SOS: An American Poet Is Waiting to Be Rescued
Source: Straight|Up | Published on 2014-02-22
The Anti-Corruption Drive Hits Classical Music
Source: The Great Flourishing | Published on 2014-02-22
‘My mother was a friend of Mahler’s’
Source: Slipped Disc | Published on 2014-02-23
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The Last Of The Original Von Trapp Family Singers Dies At Age 99
“Ms. von Trapp was the reason the governess came to work for the family — she needed a tutor at home because she also had scarlet fever and was too ill to walk to school.”
So It Begins: Netflix Pays Comcast To Keep Streaming Speeds Up
“For Netflix users who are Comcast subscribers, the pact should mean better quality. Customers have been complaining about problems streaming Netflix videos. The online video service’s monthly tracking of Internet speeds shows a deterioration in recent months for Comcast and Verizon subscribers, though the reasons for slow-down are a matter of dispute.”
Alec Baldwin Explains Just How Horrible The World Has Become
“Now I loathe and despise the media in a way I did not think possible. I used to engage with the media knowing that some of it would be adversarial, but now it’s superfluous at best and toxic at its worst.”
The Best Directing Talent Is Coming From The Art World. Why?
“There’s a wee bit of a gap that has closed down. I remember seeing Billy Wilder being led around this exhibition of conceptual film. He was being really dismissive and saying ‘A 12-year-old could do that.’ You wouldn’t get that attitude from George Clooney, Brad Pitt or James Franco.”
An Artist Discovers The Performance Perils (And Promise) Of Dogshows
“The show was initially going to be just about all the dog contests Major was entered in – including the one where he wins biggest ears in a show in south-east England – until Melody started to feel a growing sense of guilt. If she was going to force him to compete, and subject him to a judging panel, shouldn’t she put herself through a similar experience?”
Hollywood Has Some Issues Around Sex And Middle-Aged Women
“Really? Why is she wearing that? Is that what astronauts wear under their spacesuits?”