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Dance Feature: THE SKY WAS DIFFERENT (A film by Jonathan Fredrickson; Hubbard Street Dance Chicago)
REACH FOR THE SKY Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, which began its 23rd season with a virtual new work from Rena Butler’s propulsive, truly lovely 25-minute work A Tale of Two (watch here), now presents Jonathan Fredrickson‘s The Sky Was Different, a premiere 50-minute surrealist film debuting on Thursday, December 3. 2020 on HSDC’s site. Hubbard…
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Music Review: 2AM CHRISTMAS EVE (White Owl Red)
ALL ABOUT 2AM CHRISTMAS EVE Sometimes with new Christmas music, I feel stuck between the old-fashioned, the gloopy and the irritating (anything that sounds like Disney Radio). We’ll always have the greats (Ella, Frank, Bing, Bette, Babs) singing the greats (the most popular Christmas music was written by Jewish men), but as with so much…
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Album Review: REAL ME (Brit Taylor)
IT DOESN’T GET MORE REAL THAN THIS It’s not often that an album comes out that is instantly likeable. And Brit Taylor’s just-released debut album, Real Me, is also drenched in honesty, soulfulness and non-saccharine sweetness. And she goes deeper than just country; her ten songs are flavored with blues and rock. And she writes…
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Music: APPALACHIAN SPRING (Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra)
SPRING INTO LACO Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra continues its digital season with Aaron Copeland’s masterwork Appalachian Spring. The chamber version, originally commissioned by choreographer Martha Graham as a ballet, provides a superb showcase for LACO’s artistry. Conducted by Music Director Jaime Martín with LACO Conductor Laureate Jeffrey Kahane on piano in their first joint appearance,…
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Album Review: DAVID KOREVAAR: (Luigi Perrachio’s Nine Little Poems and 25 Preludi)
CAPRICIOUS CHROMATICS FROM KOREVAAR CATAPULT TO CLOUD NINE What a find this new album is — and the composer had better be a household name after this. The prolific David Korevaar’s world premiere recording of piano music by Italian impressionist composer Luigi Perrachio (1883-1966) is now available. The two works on the album, recorded for…
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Theater/Film: MUSICAL COMEDY WHORE! (Breaking Glass)
EXTRA! EXTRA! MUSICAL COMEDY WHORE CAUGHT ON FILM! David Pevsner’s solo musical show Musical Comedy Whore! is about sex, love : and musicals. Whether acting in stage hits When Pigs Fly and Fucking Men, or co-writing Naked Boys Singing — and in his work as an erotic model — Pevsner has never shied away from sensitive, risqué,…
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Film Preview: OBAMA DREAM (directed by Francesco Paravati)
NEW DOCUMENTARY OBAMA DREAM NOW AVAILABLE AT AMAZON PRIME A road trip through the United States that voted the first African-American President into the White House In 2008, Francesco Paravati, a freelance journalist from Italy, followed Barack Obama during his historic and victorious presidential campaign in the United States. The journey starts in Denver and…
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Opera Preview: RIMSKY REBOOTED (Chicago Opera Theater)
RIMSKY TO THE RESCUE As COVID-19 restrictions continue to evolve, Chicago Opera Theater is pivoting its November show digitally in order to honor commitments to artists while protecting the community. Instead of the previously announced Kashchej the Immortal, COT will now offer Rimsky Rebooted on Saturday November 21, at 7:30pm CST. a recital featuring singers from…
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Film: HOLLYWOOD HOME MOVIES: TREASURES FROM THE ACADEMY FILM ARCHIVE (Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences)
HOLLYWOOD HOME MOVIES FROM THE ACADEMY NOW AVAILABLE! Hoo-boy, is this ever fun! Unique home movies from the 30s through the 60s of not just stars but the famous folks behind the camera. This annual event is streaming online for the first time. Whether black and white or in color, these pristine moving pictures curated…
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Film: ADAM SANDLER: FUNNY GUY (Amazon)
FUNNY IS AS FUNNY DOES The feature-length biography Adam Sandler: Funny Guy is now available on Amazon Prime.Critics may not always love Sandler, but fans sure do. The boy from Brooklyn did not need showbiz connections to become a global superstar. Sandler has left his comedic mark on three decades of stage, screen, and song….
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Album Review: SOUL OF THE SPANISH GUITAR (Pablo Sáinz-Villegas)
THE SOUL OF A NATION So, at first I thought “another Andrés Segovia for Brunch-like album”? Not that that’s a bad thing, but Pablo Sáinz-Villegas truly surprised me. He makes his guitar sing like an orchestra. Even the plucks go from a tinkle to a pounding. When supreme virtuosity is coupled with lightness of touch,…
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Film Review: RONNIE’S (directed by Oliver Murray)
GREAT RONNIE SCOTT Ronnie Scott (1927-96) was the top British tenor-saxophonist of the late 1940s/early ‘50s before Tubby Hayes emerged on the scene, and he was one of the first British beboppers. His big tone and swinging style (influenced a little by Lester Young and Stan Getz) was featured on many fine recordings during the…
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Improvisation Show: THE GROUNDLINGS COOKIN’ WITH GAS (with Lisa Kudrow)
LEAVE THE GAS RUNNING Groundlings alum Lisa Kudrow will join The Groundlings Theatre’s upcoming Online Edition of Cookin’ With GAS – the critically acclaimed short-form improv show — on Thursday November 19, 2020 at 7pm PST. Based entirely on audience suggestions, the comic daredevils invent custom-made fun that will have you falling out of your virtual seat….
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Album Review: DRUNK TANK PINK (shame)
PUNK FOR ALL For those who know the band shame, then you know the UK members spent their entire adult life touring as riotous post-punkers (they’re first album 2018’s Songs Of Praise is a hoot). But what of those who like their punk adventurous, but without the feeling that an overripe drunk is distorting the…
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Concert Preview: THE SORTING ROOM SESSIONS (Six-Event series from The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
EASY TO SORT THIS ONE OUT One of the benefits of events being streamed during COVID is that we get to partake in film festivals and events from around the world. And then there are programs that ARE local, but always sell-out. Such is the case with The Sorting Room Sessions, a nightclub series presented…
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Dance Feature: TURNING POINTE: THE BALLET DANCER’S ROADMAP TO AUDITIONING SUCCESSFULLY (Theresa Farrell)
MAKING HER POINTE Serious ballet dancers who are ready to get to the next level, here’s your chance to shine. The lovely Theresa Farrell, who as executive director and principal dancer of American Contemporary Ballet I have been observing for ten years, is the embodiment of professionalism, hard work, and glorious belief in ballet. Now, Ballerina…
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Book Review: HE BROUGHT HER HEART BACK IN A BOX AND OTHER PLAYS (Adrienne Kennedy)
NEW VOLUME OF KENNEDY PLAYS ARRIVES TODAY He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and Other Plays by Adrienne Kennedy is now available. The titular play, which received its world premiere at Theatre for a New Audience in New York in the winter of 2018, is joined in this volume by Etta and Ella on…
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Film Review: CRYPTO (directed by John Stalberg Jr.)
CRYPTO IS A DECENT ATTEMPT AT INCLUDING CRYPTOCURRENCIES IN MOVIES One way to gauge the popularity of any new fad, invention or development that has been around for a while is to see how quickly it is picked up by popular culture. Movies and TV shows using them as plot devices are a sure sign…
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Theater Feature: DECOMPOSED THEATRE, OR THE HUMAN TRASHCAN (Trap Door Theatre in Chicago)
CALLING ALL HUMAN TRASHCANS!! (THAT’S YOU, BY THE WAY) Chicago’s amazing avant-garde company Trap Door Theatre is presenting a series of eight episodes adapted from Matei Vişniec’s Decomposed Theatre, or the Human Trashcan. This Romanian playwright and philosopher saw his plays banned under Romanian Communism in the 70s and 80s (gee with titles like How…
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Album Review: ON THE ROCK (Ofra Harnoy)
ON THE ROCK SOLID North America’s only known Viking settlement is also the place on our continent where the sun first rises. I’ve heard about the Canadian Province Newfoundland and Labrador mostly from cruise and land package ads. It is sold as having a reputation for people who are warm, welcoming, fun loving and “funny…
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