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Gays love bow ties! That's why Drama Desk Award winner Jesse Tyler Ferguson (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and his partner, Justin Mikita, founded Tie the Knot, a company that raises mo

Entertainment lawyer and New Dramatists Board Chairman Seth Gelblum was honored with a 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award at the organization's 64th annual spring luncheon, held May 21 at the Marriott M

Tony Award winner Christian Borle (NBC's Smash, Peter and the Starcatcher) will open New York City Center's 2014 Encores! season, starring in Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh's Little Me, directed by Ton

I just finished watching Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, which is, hands down, one of the most whimsical, magical films I've encountered in many moons. An Anderson fan, I hesitated to see this when it was released as mixed reviews (which usually happens in Anderson films anyway) many discounting it as "a series of poses and postures" often singling out the "awful" acting of the two leads discouraged me. Well, I was a silly goose, and those critics, as earnest as they may have been, couldn't have been more wrong in describing this thing if they'd tried. The leading couple, Sam (Jared Gilman) and Suzy (Kara Hayward) are a pair of emotionally challenged 12 year olds who fall in love during a performance of Britten's Noye's Fludde. I couldn't imagine either role cast better than here, nor more nuanced performances coaxed by a director who actually "gets" kids - particularly troubled ones. The story begins when Sam, a highly decorated, though not well liked cadet Sam flees the confines of Camp Ivanhoe and his Khaki Troop (think Boy Scouts of America) to run away with unpredictable and misunderstood Suzy. Their inventory for survival includes a kitten in a basket (with accompanying cans of gourmet cat food), a battery operated record player and a suitcase full of stolen library books. My kind of kids. Living on a remote island (about to be hit by the storm of the century) they can't really escape far . . . or can they? Through (several) ensuing chases, unsuccessful captures, and re-escapes the story grows exponentially, layer by layer as it introduces us to the foibles, quirks and ticks of the residents as our Island Romeo and Juliet explore their burgeoning sexuality (all tastefully within the confines of its PG-13 rating). Speaking of Noye's Fludde, Anderson had me from the start, as any movie that bookends its opening and closing scenes with Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, has already got plenty going for it! And Britten's music (in addition to large chunks of Noye) looms large throughout, as does that of Schubert (An die Musick), Mozart (Cosi's Soave sia il vento) Saint Saëns (Carnival of the Animals) and Hank Williams. So, too, does the score by composer Alexandre Desplat who pays tribute to Britten (remarkably directly in the closing credits, where his own "Guide to the Orchestra" is narrated by the film's hero). Rarely does one find film music these days that is this integrally bound to the storytelling that it's virtually impossible to imagine the story without it. Anderson sets his tale circa 1965 in the fictional New England island town of New Penzance. The nod to Gilbert and Sullivan is here more dramatic than musical, but nonetheless unmistakable. The parallels between Moonrise's young Sam, and Pirates' Frederic are plentiful. While entirely original, Moonrise nonetheless feels punctuated throughout as it evokes gauze-covered memories of other things. It was constantly conjuring fleeting instances causing my mind to race to discover connections between it and Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, The Keystone Cops, Lord of the Flies, and more. Robert D. Yeoman's remarkably nuanced cinematography makes every frame look like a page from an old family photo album, capturing summer camp, skinned knees and emotional secrets barely covered through veils of thin smiles. Moonrise Kingdom, indeed.Though Sam and Suzy are the heart of the film, Moonrise is truly an ensemble piece and Anderson is able to evoke marvelous, sometimes larger than life, performances from an inspired cast of Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, Harvey Keitel and Bob Baliban (who serves as narrator/Greek Chorus), and all of whom create the believable, quirky, characters who populate this magical island town. In my estimation critics who found this "stifling" simply are never going to like films made by the likes of Mr. Anderson, directors who essentially eschew The Hol

I snagged this 2005 ESPN card of Mark Teixiera on Listia for just 8 credits. I don’t know how ESPN got into the card business, but they got out of it pretty quickly. Upper Deck produced these cards, but the ESPN logo is a lot bigger than the Upper Deck logo. Teixiera is currently a Yankee but was a Ranger back in 2005. That was before he became a very rich man. Tex is currently on the shelf with an injury for the Yankees. The Yankees miss him, but Lyle Overbay has been a decent replacement.

LSE Cities and the London Festival of Architecture are delighted to host a lecture by Suzanne Hall on 'Multilingual Streets: London's litmus ...21.05.2013

Opening night: Tuesday, May 28 from 5-9 p.m.The Cooper Union End of Year Show has marked its students' transition from studios, laboratories ...21.05.2013

UCLA A.UD Professor Greg Lynn leads a panel discussion on the new interconnections within high culture, commercialism, art, media, and desig ...21.05.2013

Jo da Silva explores how engineers and built environment professionals need to shift from responding to natural disasters to building everyd ...21.05.2013

I've been working on lots of cards and books and things for a while so I decided it was time for a change of pace. I think it's time for a charm....a mica charm to be exact! Mmmmmm, if you've never worked with mica I highly recommend it. It's one of my favorite things to work with. It comes in many forms...the piece below is a mica tile. The great thing about the tiles is you can peel them apart and get many sheets from one chunk. You'll notice that the thicker or more layers a mica tile has the deeper the sepia color is - single sheets have a transparent, vintage quality to them. Here are a variety of thicknesses so you get the idea. I took two fairly thick sheets of mica which I wanted to use for my charm. I gathered up the goodies I wanted to sandwich between the tiles and my Crystal Lacquer. I applied bit of the CL to the tile then began layering on the flowers & sentiment. Once I had everything where I wanted it, I added more CL and then added the 2nd sheet. Now comes the hard part.... Dry Time! Yuck - LOL!! I'm not very good when it comes to waiting but this will take a while to dry because it's very humid here today and of course it is sandwiched between two non-porous surfaces. So, this is where I'll leave the charm today and we'll pick it up again tomorrow once the tile has dried. Hope to see you then!