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"Almost Famous: The Musical" Rocks On
This Sunday October 27th, “Almost Famous,” the Musical based on the 2000 Cameron Crowe movie will end its run at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego. Tickets for the run have been sold out for a while but I was lucky enough to attend a matinee recently, and am here to report that when […]
Mariinsky's "Jewels" Shine Not as Bright
At the Music Center in Los Angeles, The Mariinsky Ballet of St. Petersburg performed George Balanchine’s “Jewels.”In a very informative pre-performance lecture at the Music Center, journalist and dance historian Elizabeth Kaye explained that Georges Balanchine, born Georgiy Balanchivadze in St. Petersburg to Georgian parents, studied at the Imperial Ballet before joining the Mariinsky (the […]
The Vanishing Point of Cool: Glenn O"Brien's "Intelligence for Dummies"
Glenn O”Brien was an artist, a filmmaker, a musician, editor of Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine, a columnist for Interview, Paper, ArtForum and other publications, and a very successful advertising copywriter and creative director of advertising for Barneys Department Store. For much of his adult life he stood at the cusp of contemporary culture, at the […]
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The Gift of a Great Photo
With the holidays imminent, whether due to the spirit of the season or the constant barrage of advertising and emails, one’s thoughts turn to gift-giving â for others and, even, for oneself.Many gifts are easily consumable or disposable or subject to the whims of trends or fashions. However, there is one gift that in my […]
Four Quartets, A Memorable Dance Performance For Our Times.
Coronavirus has given me the opportunity to catch up-to write about exhibitions, performances, books, that I had meant to address but that slipped by until Coronavirus got in the way. I feel like Larry David who has finally found the perfect excuse for avoiding going out and social interactions â sorry I can”t because it’s […]
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Travel From Home
Star Trek famously called Space the final frontier, referring to the explorations of the space ship Enterprise to distant galaxies and planets. But in light of the current coronavirus pandemic quarantine, any travel right now seems far-fetched.Still, I tried to think if going forward I can”t (or won”t) travel in the foreseeable future, then: What […]