Kate McKinnon, who’s been playing Hillary Clinton for years – but will be most familiar from this year’s debates with Alex Baldwin’s Trump – sings Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” In a white pantsuit. [Video]
Tag: 11.12.16
From Internment Camps To Star Trek To Marriage Equality: George Takei’s Museum
The Japanese American National Museum isn’t really Takei’s museum, but he’s donated “300 linear feet of banker’s boxes” worth of relics from his eight decades of life as an actor and activist.
What Does The Election Mean For The Arts? (Hint: It’s Not Good News)
Trump’s tastes run to beauty shows and gold-plated belt buckles. His disinterest in the other arts does not bode well for them. At all.
Two ‘Silicon Valley’ Actors Harassed By Trump Supporters
The two Trump supporters screamed the perjorative “cuck” in the actors’ faces and threatened to “go outside” until bar staff intervened. One of the actors wrote on Twitter, “This happened at a bar in LA surrounded by people. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be someone who looks like me in other parts.”
Sting Reopens The Bataclan In Paris A Year After The Attacks
Security was tight and the tears flowed hard as Sting dedicated the concert – with the opening minute of silence and then the song “Fragile” – to the 90 people who died in the attacks and the many, many musicians who have died in 2016.
Making It Big In Show Biz, But Only With Your BFF
These two guys met as undergrads and wrote the now infamous song “Edges” (the one musical theatre majors sing for every audition). Now they have a potential big hit on Broadway, the festival-awards-sweeping movie “La La Land” (starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, no big), and are – aside from a certain guy known as Lin-Manuel Miranda – “the future of the musical, on stage or screen.”
The Great Fiddling Tradition That Time Forgot (Until Recently)
Masses of dispossessed Scots Highlanders settled on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia in the early 19th century, and they brought their fiddles and bagpipes, their Gaelic songs and step dances with them and kept them alive. Now that telecommunications and transportation have reduced Cape Breton’s isolation, the rest of us are discovering the music – often through the island’s famous fiddlers like Ashley MacIsaac and Natalie MacMaster. (includes video and sound clips)