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Film Review: NO ORDINARY MAN — THE BILLY TIPTON DOCUMENTARY (directed by Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt)
BUT WHAT ABOUT TIPTON’S LIFE AND TIMES? Billy Tipton (1914-89) had an unusual life, to say the least. Born as Dorothy Lucille Tipton, she developed into a professional pianist and occasional saxophonist. Feeling that her career could only go so far as a female, she reinvented herself as a male by the mid-1930s, using the…
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Album Review: JONI MITCHELL ARCHIVES VOL. 1: THE EARLY YEARS (1963-1967)
A BRAND NEW TREASURE TROVE OF JONI Today is quite a special day. Not only did a new President get elected, but it is also Joni Mitchell’s Birthday. How lucky is today? Joni turned 77 on November 7. The slot machine of life also comes up 777 for you. This is one of the greatest…
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Film/Blu-ray: THE VAMPIRE BAT (1933, directed by Frank Strayer, restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive)
PRE-CODE BATTINESS Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive from a 35mm composite acetate fine grain master and a 35mm nitrate print, here’s your chance to see the American Pre-Code horror film The Vampire Bat (1933). Director Frank R. Strayer spins a thrilling tale from Hugo nominated screenwriter Edward T. Lowe (House of Frankenstein,…
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Theater Preview: WHAT IS LEFT, BURNS (Steppenwolf)
STEPPENWOLF BEGINS 2020-21 SEASON Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre begins its NOW virtual stage season with What Is Left, Burns, which “opens” for streaming on November 11, 2020. This world premiere play has been recorded with a spectacular production design, including stunning video and photography by Lowell Thomas and Joel Moorman and an original soundtrack composed by Justin Ellington….
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Theater & Music: 50 YEARS IN THE GROOVE (A Rhythm Revue Salute to Woodie King, Jr.’s New Federal Theatre)
SALUTING FIVE DECADES OF NEW AMERICAN THEATER WITH GROOVIN’ MUSIC New York’s beloved radio hosts Felix Hernandez (WBGO’s Rhythm Revue Dance Party) and G. Keith Alexander (WBLS from 1973-2017) are teaming up to bring you 50 Years in the Groove, a Rhythm Revue salute to Woodie King, Jr.’s New Federal Theatre (NFT). It’ll be an…
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Film Review: DARK CIRCLE (Newly Restored; directed by Judy Irving, Christopher Beaver & Ruth Landy)
WHAT GOES AROUND… It’s been 75 years this month since the start of the Atomic Age, with the U.S. nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, but its trail of destruction has never ended. Dark Circle covers both the period’s beginnings and its aftermath, providing a scientific primer on the…
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Theater Review: THE PROJECT(S) (Stage Left Theater, Chicago)
THIS YEAR MORE THAN EVER, THE PROJECT(S) MUST BE SEEN It’s a continuing crisis seen from the inside out, fleshed out with warmth and truth. In The Project(s), the late, great American Theater Company artistic director PJ Paparelli and documentarian Joshua Jaeger created a crash course and action meditation on Chicago’s infam0us housing projects. Inspired…
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Film Review: MONSOON (directed by Hong Khaou)
REFLECTIONS OF CULTURAL IDENTITY IN A BEAUTIFUL, GRACEFUL FILM An affecting and sturdy Henry Golding (who made his feature debut with Crazy Rich Asians), plays Kit, who hasn’t been to Ho Chi Minh City since he was six, when he was taken to England with his family so they could escape the brutal Vietnam War….
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Film Review: BARE (directed by Aleksandr M. Vinogradov)
THE TITLE SAYS IT ALL More prurient than incisive, Bare documents the creation of an all-male, all-naked modern dance piece by Belgian dancemaker Thierry Smits. From audition to opening night, there are so many wondrous money shots here, artful in a Robert Mapplethorpe style, that we are almost willing to forgive the fact we never…
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Theater: WILLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL (2020 Season)
PRICK UP YOUR EARS It’s been said that radio is the invisible medium that has the greatest effect in stimulating the imagination of listeners, especially when it is a dramatization (versus narration). The imagination is aroused such that the listener becomes involved. The potential afforded to you by listening to a play stems from the…
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Film Review: CRUTCH (directed by Sachi Cunningham and Chandler Evans | DOC NYC Film Festival)
TOUCHED BY CRUTCH If you’re looking for inspiration (and who isn’t these days?), check out the documentary Crutch, which is having its world premiere at the DOC NYC festival from November 11-19. I confess I knew little about Bill Shannon, an almost uncategorizable performance artist who break dances and skates on crutches. Diagnosed in childhood…
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Music Preview: CELLIST DAVID FINCKEL AND PIANIST WU HAN (Beethoven/The Five Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Cal Performances)
A GIFT TO YOURSELF Get ready for cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han’s marathon program of the complete Beethoven sonatas for cello and piano — monumental works in the repertoire but also significant artistic touchstones for these amazingly gifted interpreters, a husband-and-wife duo who have been playing them together for more than 25 years….
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Extras: MUST-SEE INSTAGRAM WEB DESIGN
MUST-SEE INSTAGRAM WEB DESIGN Any web designer knows they need the inspiration to generate ideas. Essentially, ideas for designing sites originate from somewhere. Luckily, almost everything that web designers see influences them. Artsy magazines, streets, and blogs are just some of the things that can inspire a designer. But, the internet is a great source…
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Film Review: DROWNING (directed by Melora Walters)
DROWNING UNDER TOO MANY HATS It’s unimaginable to think what parents go through when their child has been deployed to war. The wait, the worry, the hand-wringing. For Rose (Melora Walters), her son’s deployment has put her in an implacable funk. She found heroin in his room, and told him if he’s gonna die it…
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Theater: THE GREEK TRILOGY OF LUIS ALFARO (The Getty Museum and Center Theatre Group)
IT’S ALL GREEK ACTIVE TO YOU Getty Museum and Center Theatre Group have joined forces to premiere Luis Alfaro’s Chicano adaptations of Electricidad, Oedipus El Rey, and Mojada in virtually produced, multi-camera readings filmed at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City (Los Angeles), and premiering over three Fridays in November. All performances Alfaro’s fascinating trilogy of…
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Extras: BEST SAD MOVIES ON NETFLIX FOR YOU TO WATCH
Best Sad Movies on Netflix for You to Watch At times, all you need is a good cry. From sad cry to the happy cry, a surprised cry, or anticipated tears, we have got you covered. Here, we have come up with a list of some tear-jerkers that can accommodate all your moods. So, let…
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Feature: OFF-BROADWAY THEATERS SUE GOVERNOR CUOMO; ASKING FOR A REOPENING DATE
OFF BROADWAY THEATERS AND COMEDY CLUB OWNERS WILL TAKE THEIR CASE TO COURT ON NOVEMBER 12 Catherine Russell, owner of New York’s Theater Center at 50th and Broadway does pose an interesting query: “If churches, schools, restaurants, salons, stores, gyms and yes, even bowling alleys can open [in New York], why are the small theaters…
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Theater Review: THE SPIN (Interrobang Theatre Project, Chicago)
THE SPIN IS A SPECTACULAR SPARKLING SPUNKY EXPLOIT Satisfying, enriching, entertaining and proof that Chicago contains some of this country’s greatest actors and theater, The Spin is writer/director Spenser Davis’s brilliant blend of theatric sensibilities in a digital format. This offering from Interrobang Theatre Project in Chicago “opened” last night and it is hands down…
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Theater Review: RUSSIAN TROLL FARM: A WORKPLACE COMEDY (TheaterWorks Hartford, TheatreSquared, The Civilians)
TRENCHANT TROLLS TRIUMPH BY TRANSMOGRIFYING TRUTH Somewhere in the bowels of Saint Petersburg, Russia, there is an agency made up of both Americans and Russians that trolls the internet, creating hashtags and Facebook posts and memes from people who do not exist, and hurl them around the internet so that gullible Americans become so divisive…
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Concert Preview: THE SETH CONCERT SERIES (November 2020)
THE SETH CONCERT SERIES CONTINUES WITH A STUNNING LINE-UP IN NOVEMBER Time and again these live-streamed concerts with the gregarious, giving, gadfly Seth Rudetsky have been uplifting, charming, funny and down-to-earth. Each week, Seth — accompanying Broadway greats on the piano from his New York flat — extemporaneously chats it up with they of the…
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