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• Stream for Your Supper: After-Dinner Treats with Met Opera on Demand (Part Seven...

  

  The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Wrapping It Up As the old saying goes, "We've come a long way, baby." But, then, so has... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2021 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• The Next Move is Yours: Tragedy Defines Strategy in ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ (Part...

  

  Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) loves to play chess in Netflix's limited series 'The Queen's Gambit Thinking Five Moves Ahead Beth speaks very little. She is... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2021 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Stream for Your Supper: After-Dinner Treats with Met Opera on Demand (Part Six) ...

  

  The Met Opera's production of Britten's 'Billy Budd' (Photo: Metropolitan Opera) Opera's Recurring Themes Scorching obsessions, mad love interests, infidelity,... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2021 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Stream for Your Supper: After-Dinner Treats with Met Opera on Demand (Part...

  

  Russian soprano Anna Netrebko as Elvira in Bellini's I Puritani at the Met Opera (2007) What is the current state of opera in the music and theater world?... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2021 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘I Will Face My Fear’ — The Mind-Killing Little Deaths of ‘Dune’ (Part Four)

  Poster art for the Sci-Fi Channels' 2000 miniseries based on Frank Herbert's 'Dune' The Look, the Sound, the Tone In the commentary section of Artisan's 3-Disc... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2021 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• The Next Move is Yours: Tragedy Defines Strategy in ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ (Part...

  Beth Harmon's life is determined in the first five minutes of Netflix's 7-episode limited series The Queen's Gambit. The opening "moves," by writer-director... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2021 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Animated Brazil — Part Four: Two for the Price of One (Conclusion)

  

  Olive tries to drag poor Popeye onto the dance floor, while Bluto looks on in delight Everyone Does the "Broadway Samba" Near the conclusion of "Samba Lelê,"... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2021 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Stream for Your Supper: After-Dinner Treats with Met Opera on Demand (Part...

  

  After a brief hiatus to finish work on my book about Brazil's Fat Lady, I'm back in business and more than willing to discuss the slimmed-down Metropolitan Oper... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2021 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• The Drummer Speaks — Memoirs by William “Buddy” Deppenschmidt III

  On Thursday, March 25, I read, with heavy heart, guitarist and bandleader Ken Avis' sad notice and jazz writer David Adler's detailed obituary about my close... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2021 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Animated Brazil — Part Three: Samba Your Cares Away!

  In the next sequence, Popeye and Bluto stride brazenly towards a nameless establishment - with the word CAFÉ (sans l'accent aigu) blazoned prominently above... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2021 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Stream for Your Supper: After-Dinner Treats with Met Opera on Demand (Part Three...

  It's been a long time for listeners to go without live opera. And it may get longer still. Depending on how successful (or not) the United States, the European... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2021 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Family Time — A Change of Scenery

  The month was mid-July, the year 1971. I had just turned seventeen, still thirteen months shy of my high school graduation. Unsure of what to do, unclear as to... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2021 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Animated Brazil — Part Two: Won’t You Be My Good Neighbor?

  Our first post of the New Year picks up where we left off, in that this article is a continuation of my research into animated films and cartoons that depict... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2021 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Animated Brazil — Part One: Kickin’ the Country Around

  I'm strong to the fin-ich / Cause I eats me spin-ach I'm Popeye the Sailor Man Written in 1933 by Samuel "Sammy" Lerner for a seven-minute and thirty-seven... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘I Will Face My Fear’ — The Mind-Killing Little Deaths of ‘Dune’ (Part Three)

  Powerful female figures are the themes of the day in the Dune stories. Indeed, the women are the grand plotters and instigators of the winding storyline. To... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘I Will Face My Fear’ — The Mind-Killing Little Deaths of ‘Dune’ (Part Two)

  The premise for the science-fiction novel Dune revolves around the manufacture and exploitation of melange. A kind of hallucinatory and highly addictive... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘I Will Face My Fear’ — The Mind-Killing Little Deaths of ‘Dune’ (Part One)

  There are many kinds of fear in this world. Fear of failure. Fear of the unknown. Fear of dying, fear of living, fear of making a fool of oneself. Fear of makin... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Mussorgsky in the Raw: The Met’s ‘Boris Godunov’ — An Opera for Our Time

  Watching the online streaming of Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov (given at the Metropolitan Opera on October 23, 2010), I was reminded... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Stream for Your Supper: After-Dinner Treats with Met Opera on Demand (Part Two) ...

  Continuing from where we left previously off, below are my opinions and reviews of various Metropolitan Opera productions. All are available online via the Met... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘Let It All Go to Hell’: The Brazilian Stars That Brought Sunshine to My Cloudy...

  

  Elis Regina (Photo: last.fm) There are billions of stars in the evening sky But only one can be viewed with the naked eye - The Author The month was mid-July,... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA