Wesley Morris breaks the album down, and says it was made for a time when albums meant something. This album still does. “Her going for the max maxes you out. This is what virtuosity should do — leave you knock-kneed, perform the unthinkable.”
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One Powerful Family Creates Dance Spectacles In Spain
The family isn’t new to the club or dance game. “They are the Medicis of raving, with a dynasty spanning back to 1870. Six generations of Arnaus have worked in entertainment, from a 19th-century ancestor who opened Café Josepet, the first social club in Fraga, 95 miles west of Barcelona, through to 50s-era music halls and 80s electro clubs.” And they want to keep expanding.
The Power, And Problems, Of Rereading A Certain Series And Realizing You’re Ron, Not Harry
Two friends in very different circumstances try to reread together, but it’s not the same – especially when it comes to the magic mirror that shows someone’s deepest desires. “This shift in her life’s longing was so obviously different from mine that we could no longer avoid the fact of our 12-year separation.”
Taking A ‘Concept’ Show On Tour Is Totally Acceptable, Critic Says
Lyn Gardner: Consider the issue that “many British artists and companies cannot hope to make a living in the UK and desperately need international touring fees” – but that Brexit is taking those international opportunities away. Perhaps the ‘concept’ show can fill in, at least if companies work together.
Netflix Deletes Ten Years Of User Reviews
Netflix is like, oh, people aren’t using the reviews! But actually … there were a lot of reviews, including a lot of negative reviews, of its original content. Oh.
Boots Riley, Director Of ‘Sorry To Bother You,’ Is Not Joining The Celebratory Reviews Of The New Spike Lee Movie
Riley says that despite his deep love and appreciation for Lee, the new movie BlackkKlansman is not what African Americans need right now. Riley: “This is being pushed as a true story, and it is precisely its untrue elements that make a cop a hero against racism. … For Spike to come out with a movie where a story points are fabricated in order to make Black cop and his counterparts look like allies in the fight against racism is really disappointing, to put it very mildly.”
Artists Get A New, Huge Canvas: The Tennis Court
The pictures from above are truly amazing – but how do the players know where they are? “This project, ‘Art Courts,’ was spearheaded by the United States Tennis Association as part of a 50th anniversary celebration of the U.S. Open. Organizers hope to inject a dash of enthusiasm and color into community tennis courts in underserved neighborhoods — as well as enliven a sport that, to some, possesses a reputation for stuffiness and adherence to rules.”
Excavate, Reassemble, Create
What? My name listed in the Jacob’s Pillow program among the twenty-four people whom Netta Jerushalmy was gracious enough to thank for the “insights” they contributed to her Paramodernities?
Can we call someone “pretty”?
The seventeenth episode of Three on the Aisle, the twice-monthly podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on line for listening or downloading.
Controversial: Where Our Speech Patterns Come From
Tracing the linguistic path of mmhmm, and many other words commonly used today, from West Africa to the U.S. South is difficult, is riddled with controversy — and experts say it has lingering effects on how the speech of African-Americans is perceived.