PGH is a City (Free subscription) | yesterday
People often talk about the legacy of Pittsburgh as its long-dead rich benefactors or its old buildings or its steel or even Andy Warhol. My favorite Pittsburgh legend, though, is August Wilson . Until I moved to Pittsburgh, I had no idea who he was. Though I'd walked by the August Wilson Theater on Broadway, I hadn't given its name a thought. Then, I went to see "Two Trains Running" at the...
Edgy Inspirational Author blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Fit to Be Tied Zondervan (November 1, 2009) by Robin Lee Hatcher ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Robin Lee Hatcher discovered her vocation as a novelist after many years of reading everything she could put her hands on, including the backs of cereal boxes and ketchup bottles. The winner of the Christy Award for Excellence in Christian Fiction (Whispers...
accidental rabbit trails . . . (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I went to the Sandpoint, Idaho film festival Friday night, called the Lakedance film festival . What fun! Interesting, fascinating, and funny shorts. Some winners were from my KNIFVES movie networking group, so I for sure had to attend that night in particular. (Hey, I'm on the board.) The funniest film was "The SPAM Job." It was about a guy named Paddy who lost his mojo when someone stole...
Berkshire Review for the Arts (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Williamstheatre announces the third annual Dialogue ONE Solo Theatre Festival, supervised this year by David Eppel. Dialogue ONE is an international theatre festival whose primary aim is to establish a platform for Williams students and professional artists to work together. “We believe that a global range of artists will inspire the artistic dialogue among students, professionals, and audiences,”...
Heaven (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The Azores of Toes On the great flat sheet of the beach almost like a bed flat sheet in fact, the toes disport, comport themselves looking for all the world like waves of headstones in a perhaps military cemetery except with sunglasses, aviators probably, given the military issue. The male toes are cool in their aviators and bare-chested, sporting only swimming trunks. I was never a fan of aviators...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
By Buckaroo Kid Bonfires, what Mark McGowan did next, fireworks, jazz, sparklers, skeptics, explosions, jumble, the Berlin Wall and photography: all available very cheap this week. Tonight: Bonfire Night! Get your gunpowder, treason and plot entirely free at Roundwood Park, Harlesden Road (fireworks 8pm), Brockwell Park, Clapham Common and Streatham Common (fireworks 7.30pm) and at Southwark Park...
New Humanist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
If you're coming to the final night of Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo on Sunday 20 December, then we have some very exciting news – we can now announce that the special guests that night will be Al Murray and Dara O Briain . For me, Dara O Briain's set at Hammersmith was possibly the highlight of last year's shows – if you're a fan of him as host...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Glasgay! arts festival organizers said "Jesus Queen of Heaven," written and performed by transsexual playwright Jo Clifford, "had not intended to incite or offend anyone. The Christian protesters gathered outside the theatre ahead of the opening night of the production on Tuesday."...
Polly Vous Francais? (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Let's face it, folks. We really do love each other, the U.S. and France. Or at least we are endlessly fascinated with each other. And there's no sign of this mutual admiration's waning. Au contraire. Here's a bit of culture news that caught my eye. Opening this week in New York is American filmmaker Frederick Wiseman's documentary of the ballet at the Palais Garnier. La Danse : the Paris Opera Ballet...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Carlos Acosta in Agon. Photo by Bill Cooper If you're not heading out to a fireworks display in London this week, there are still plenty of whizzes and bangs coming from other forms of entertainment in the capital. Here's some recommendations. Let us know if we've missed anything too... Be There First: London Shows Opening The Royal Ballet is staging Agon / Spinx / Limen at the Royal Opera House from...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
"Giant Magnet, formerly known as Seattle International Children's Festival, has let go its executive director of 14 years. ... The 23-year-old organization is known mainly for its nearly weeklong festival featuring performers -- theater artists, puppeteers, dancers, musicians -- from around the world."...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
"Dohee Lee and Jo Kreiter will be honored for outstanding achievement by [January's] 24th annual Isadora Duncan Awards, which recognize contributions to Bay Area dance...." The San Francisco Ballet and the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival received seven nominations apiece....
The Classical Beat (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Web-only review: Boston festival brings Previn, Nyman operas to D.C. by Robert Battey and Joan Reinthaler Boston University is planting a large footprint in the area with its "InCite Arts Festival," an interdisciplinary presentation of music, theater and painting, including an orchestra concert Monday night at the Kennedy Center and two plays this past weekend at the Olney Theater (Jim Petosa,...
Austinist (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Texas Book Festival OH SNAP! So, Austin is considered the Live Music Capital of the world? Well that’s not all that’s crackin’ up and spacklin' in and amongst our cultured ranks. Some of us can read, and certainly do. Which is why Austin is blessed to host the Texas Book Festival again for 2009. Music’s nice and all for listenin’ and whatnot, but BOOKS and WRITERS will...
THE ELLORY JOURNAL (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
A MATTER OF EXTREMES... It is now a week since I returned from the US. Two weeks through New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia, Indianapolis...and before that a couple of weeks in France. I have gone from one extreme to the other. Utter confusion, rushing from one place to another, one event after the other, dozens and dozens of people to see and talk to, and now I am home... All is quiet....
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