Tag Archives: Performing Arts

Or vice versa.

American Idol season 5 is creeping toward a momentacular finale with only four contestants remaining out the original eleventy-hundred thousand hopefuls who filled the stadiums and soup kitchens of America to audition last summer with hope in their hearts, a gleam in their eyes, and a song in their lungs. …

Concert film reissued after more than 15 years with added features shows even broader range of Leo Kottke's acoustic guitar mastery.

A good, yet not as thorough as it could have been, examination of the work of Syd Barrett

Though the mean-spirited might refer to it as Avoiding Injury With the Vaguely Familiar, the show Skating With Celebrities — not uncoincidentally timed with the Torino Winter Olympics — has found an audience among the skate-crazy and/or sadistic as six figure skating professionals including Nancy Kerrigan and Tai Babilonia attempt …

Our own televised terpsichorean chroniclers Patfish and Beth Gottfried focus like corybantic laser beams on the second season of ABC’s popular stars-go-dancing reality competition show Dancing With the Stars. Voila: TV Review: Dancing with the Stars – Finals – Woo! Hoo! for Drew! Save a Horse and Ride Drew Lachey. …

...they are still Rock and Roll and still damn good music, and in the end isn't that all that matters.

Still buried in the first half of November — heck, I was out mowing the lawn and blowing leaves in a t-shirt and 65-degree breezes Saturday, in Northeast Ohio! — PBS and Nickelodeon have both announced their December holiday programming. I know this stuff is scheduled months in advance – …

Have you ever had your expectations totally stood on their head?

..."promised not much money but “more pussy than Frank Sinatra”