Category: people

The artistic director of the Manhattan Theatre Club is suing Continental Airlines, claiming that a vindictive flight attendant had her detained and interrogated by the FBI without cause.

“At the piano, he is a ferocious competitor. Away from it, though, he seems to want to be all things to all men — just ‘one of the guys,’ as impressed by the rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg as by a performance of Enrique Granados’s treacherously beautiful piano suite Goyescas.”

Ryan has advanced to the top rank of American poets while keeping a principled distance from the institutions of the poetry world.

Britain’s Really Terrible Orchestra, “an amateur group of useless musicians,” has developed a cult following online, and now they’re selling out gigs at the Edinburgh Fringe. And their celebrity comes from within as well as without – one of their bassoonists is none other than bestselling novelist Alexander McCall Smith…

Tom Levine said in a statement released by the Boston Symphony Orchestra that his 65-year-old brother’s surgery Tuesday “went exactly as planned and expected, and has been described by the doctors involved as completely successful.”

“A funny Web site or goofy catchphrase can achieve widespread recognition in a matter of hours, complete with comments sections, making it possible for a cult phenomenon like LOLcats to infiltrate yr mainstremz.”

“The question of the artist’s anonymity seized the public – and more importantly the media – since he first started making serious money. And that’s the main issue. The secrecy of Banksy’s identity seems to be much more about the public’s fascination with celebrity and money than anything to do with art.”

Emin’s work always seemed like today’s heat: searing, stripped to the bone. A visual cri de coeur. Why, I ask, is my unmade bed just an unmade bed and hers is art? “Because you didn’t say that yours was art and you didn’t feel that it was. I saw it as art and felt that it was. I said that it was and showed that it was. I have transferred what I feel on to someone else looking at it. That’s the alchemy. That’s the magic. I was the person who had to have the conviction in the first place.”

“More than 50 years ago Tempest Storm was dubbed the ‘Girl with the Fabulous Front’ and told by famous men she had the “Best Two Props in Hollywood.” Since then, Storm saw the art that made her famous on the brink of extinction. Her contemporaries — Blaze Starr, Bettie Page, Lili St. Cyr — have died or hung up the pasties. But not Storm. She kept performing. Las Vegas, Reno, Palm Springs, Miami, Carnegie Hall.”

“Jim has had numerous (standard) tests this week, and several consultations and discussions over the best surgical procedure,” his brother, Tom Levine, said in a statement released Friday by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.