I look forward to Halloween because I feel like a kid again and have an excuse to dress up, eat candy, and watch old scary movies.
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’Tis the Season: How to Incorporate Nature into Holiday Decorations
By using plants, you can create the cheer without calling to mind a loaded holiday tradition.
Read More »New Software Spotlight: Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites 2015 Ultimate: Part II
The big shining spot in the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites 2015 Ultimate is still 3ds Max with its speed improvements and new features
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Lying’ by Matt Opatrny, Based on Lauren Slater’s Memoir
Blessed Unrest's adaptation of the controversial psychologist's "metaphorical memoir" delivers a powerful punch to both lobes of the brain.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War’ by Carol J. Oja
Just in time for the new Broadway revival of 'On the Town' comes a new book showing how the show, with music by Leonard Bernstein, was as groundbreaking socially and politically as it was artistically.
Read More »Mo’ne Davis Throws Out First Pitch in World Series – A Glimpse of Things to Come?
Thank you, Mo’Ne Davis, because of you the meaning of the words “You throw like a girl” will never be the same again.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me’ – An Award Winning Documentary
If you are a celebrity, should you go public that you have Alzheimer's or quietly retire from the spotlight and cope with the coming darkness and silence? Glen Campbell in keeping with his maverick and legendary career took on another momentous career bending move. He was the first celebrity to publicly reveal the Alzheimer's diagnosis. What he and his family decided to do next is nothing short of extraordinary. Their decision and their actions in the subsequent months to maintain their joy and richness of life is captured in James Keach's amazing and award winning documentary of Glen Campbell's. You will walk away uplifted from this authentic portrait of a family bonded together through a time of crisis. As for Glenn Campbell, the truism may remain that that one's waning years may actually hold more power and wonder than one's youth.
Read More »Theater Review (Broadway): ‘It’s Only a Play’ by Terrence McNally
There are plenty of laughs in the show, and laughs have to be enough because there is little else.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Pumpkin Pie Show: Seasick’ by Clay McLeod Chapman
In a nation where media hype is stirring anxiety about a very difficult-to-catch virus into near-panic, it's good to laugh, and especially good to laugh at our own fears.
Read More »New York Film Festival: ‘Inherent Vice’ Starring Joaquin Phoenix
Thomas Pynchon and Paul Thomas Anderson's characterizations are a reflection of us; they intimate future sinister developments of a broader cultural scope.
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