“The last casualty of the devastating Florence flood of 1966 has been reassembled, raising hopes of a full restoration before the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest cultural disasters of modern times.”
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The Year’s Most Pirated TV Show
Fans “are so eager for the murder, villainy, depravity and wedding banquets gone horribly wrong depicted on that series that they don’t mind engaging in a little piracy to see the show.”
We’re In A Golden Age Of Video Games – And Video Game Criticism
Well, the New York Times video game critic would say that, wouldn’t he? But Chris Suellentrop may have a point.
Nicole Kidman With The Real-Life Character She’s Just Played
In The Railway Man, the Oscar-winning actress portrays the wife of Eric Lomax, who wrote a best-selling memoir of his time as a prisoner-of-war in a World War II Japanese labor camp in Thailand. In a three-way phone interview, Kidman and Lomax talk about getting to know each other and what they have in common.
Best Arts Quotes Of 2013
“I have a friend who says there are two problems in this world, and only two: one is how you live with other people; the other is how you live with yourself. What I like about theatre is that it’s the meeting point of those two problems.”
An Orchestra Comprised Of The Mentally Ill
It’s billed as “the world’s only classical music organization for individuals with mental illness and the people who support them.”
Star Ailey Dancer Returns To The Stage At Age 55
A former Alvin Ailey superstar and a current artificial-hip owner, Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish, returns to the stage to perform “Revelations,” the company’s best-known work.