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

  The interval between our first visit to Brazil and the one our family made in July 1971 was, indeed, an historically turbulent one. Censorship, in the form of... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘Let It All Go to Hell’: Brazilians Who Brought Sunshine to My Cloudy Days...

  This is a story of my youth. More precisely, a story about what I remember of my youth from the limited times I visited Brazil - and how a song (no, several... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

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

  There's still no live opera to speak of, anywhere or anyplace. Of course, the primary cause for this deficiency can be traced to the coronavirus outbreak.... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘The Godfather’ Parts I and II — “Of Mike and Men”

  Today's guest contributor is writer, artist, fanzine publisher, and animator Natalia C. Lopes. A graduate of North Carolina State University's Master's Degree... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• The Deviant and the Profane — Getting a Grip on Handel’s ‘Agrippina’ at the Met

  Baroque opera has little appeal for me. I know, I know. I need to get with the times. And, yes, I am fully aware that those longwinded works from the early 18 t... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ (2014) — Last Bastion of Civility

  The screwball comedies of the 1930s and 40s were benchmarks for generations of Hollywood filmmakers. Such laudable achievements as those of Preston Surges (... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Cancelled! — The Case of the Missing Met Opera Season (Part Three): ‘At-Home...

  When last we left the Metropolitan Opera, America's premier repertory company had cancelled the remainder of its 2019-2020 season. As time went by and the... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ (2013) — A Parable of Class Consciousness

  They are highly educated, obviously literate, poetry and music loving British vampires (well, at least we think they're British - and they have the accents to... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Somethin’s Happenin’ Here — Songs That Celebrate a Turbulent Time (Part Three):...

  We tend to think of life in the 1960s in terms of happier, carefree days. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, they were extraordinarily turbulent... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Cancelled! — The Case of the Missing Met Opera Season (Part Two): And Now, Back...

  

  The new production of Wagner's 'Der Fliegende Hollaender' ('The Flying Dutchman') Something I Missed In writing about the Metropolitan Opera's broadcasts of La... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Nausicaä Awakens: The Influence of Hayao Miyazaki on the ‘Star Wars’ Sequel...

  (Today's guest contributor is The Metaplex film critic Brendan Hodges, who has provided a deeply insightful and exceptionally fitting analysis of Japanese... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Cancelled! — The Case of the Missing Met Opera Season (Part One)

  

  The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center Casualties at the Front Stop what you're doing and take a moment to listen. Did you hear that? It's the... Read more

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

• Plague on Humanity Or Manna for Modern Times? — A Review of the Available Film...

  

  The giving of the Ten Commandments, with Charlton Heston as Moses Today is Good Friday, a day commemorated across the globe as one of tragedy and misfortune... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Kenny Rogers: He Knew When to Fold 'Em

  

  Wynonna Judd with the late Kenny Rogers This morning, I woke up to learn the sad news that Kenny Rogers had passed away at 81. I remember Kenny Rogers in the... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• March Sadness and Humanity’s Hope

  

  Tom Hanks (L.) meets with Astronaut Jim Lovell Today is Sunday, March 15. In poetic terms, it's the ides of March. According to historians (and to William... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Leading Man on Fire — A Denzel Washington Primer (Part Seven): The Law is On...

  Americans love lawyers. Now, before you have a fit or have me committed to Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric ward, let me elaborate. We enjoy watching television... Read more

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

• ‘It Takes a Long Pull to Get There’: ‘Porgy and Bess’ and the Winding Road to th...

  After almost 30 years in limbo (or mothballs, if you prefer), the Metropolitan Opera brought The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess back to its stage with a vibrant,... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• A German Triumvirate: ‘The Magic Flute,’ ‘Der Rosenkavalier,’ and ‘Wozzeck’ at...

  Saturday afternoons can be either marvelous or tedious affairs, depending on the season or the weather. For the past few weekends, however, yours truly has... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• I Saw Them Standing There — How the Fab Four Pleased, Pleased a Budding Fan...

  Ah, to be young again and relive those treasured moments from one's past! One such moment - indeed, one of the more pleasurable experiences I can remember from... Read more

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

• Verdi’s ‘Macbeth’: The ‘Ideal Couple’ and Their Path to Destruction

  Has there ever been a viler, more compelling, or more self-destructive pair than Lady Macbeth and her warlike mate, Macbeth? Indeed, has there ever been an oper... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA