“When you click on any of the site’s tabs … the screen launches visitors on an in-your-face, Alice-down-the-rabbit-hole journey … Along the way, you are also treated to views of Carrey’s eyeball, a giant squid, and the actor posed as Adam from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling. The site is also filled with Easter Eggs.”
Tag: 11.07.09
Abandoning Albéniz: Liona Boyd Reinvents Herself
Once the most glamorous of classical guitarists (and a former belle of Pierre Trudeau), Boyd has come through a painful divorce, a vida loca in Miami and a battle with focal dystonia to arrive at a new career as a singer-songwriter.
Pittsburgh Ballet Theater Buys A Rectory For Its Students
“St. John the Baptist Church in Lawrenceville may be no more, but its buildings live on in new ways – the historic main church has been a popular brewpub and restaurant since 1996, and now its former rectory will become a residence for teenage students at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School.”
Britain Wonders If Its Comedians Have Gone Beyond The Pale
“After decades of standing close to the edge, pushing the envelope and tearing down barriers, Britain’s comedians find themselves … [facing] a surge of online outrage that can have broadcast executives fearful for their jobs and theatre managers pulling out of contracts.”
Out Of Cash, Honolulu Symphony Cancels All 2009 Concerts
“Citing mounting debts and lackluster revenues, the Honolulu Symphony said it will file for bankruptcy protection and may lay off half of its musicians. … [The orchestra] will cancel all of its November and December concerts and made no guarantees that the rest of its 2009-10 season would go on.”