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Monthly Archives: September 2017
The Arts Seen in NYC (‘Modigliani Unmasked’ Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town last weekend to see what we could see and, say, it was swell. We hit the city Friday afternoon and headed right over to the Fashion Institute of Technology … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrián Villar Rojas, American Airlines Theatre, Christopher Benfey, Elizabeth McGovern, Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical, Expedition: Fashion from the Extreme, FASHION AND SATIRE: The Drawings Of Orson Byron Lowell And Charles Dana Gibson, Fashion Institute of Technology, FIT, Florine Stettheimer, Force of Nature, Jewish Museum, Met Roof Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Modigliani Unmasked, NYRB, Olivetti Valentine typewriter, Red Flame Diner, Roundabout Theatre Company, Sara Berman's Closet, Society of Illustrators, The Bruegel of Bendel's, The Met Breuer, The Theater of Disappearance, Time and the Conways
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Johnny Damon Is Now Fox & Friends’ Idiot
In today’s Morning Mediawire, Poynter Institute hall monitor James Warren examines ESPN’s failure to cover itself with, well, coverage. The Undefeated is a terrific ESPN-created site on sports, race, culture and politics. If you’ve missed it, start checking it out. … Continue reading
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Tagged ESPN, Fox & Friends, idiots, James Warren, Jemele Hill, Johnny Damon, Morning Mediawire, MTV, Poynter Institute, Red Sox, The Undefeated
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Quote o’ the Day (Name That President Edition)
During our post-prandial reading last night, the hardworking staff came across this passage: He put, aides noticed, more more concentration into watching the news than into almost anything else, you could watch with him but you could not talk. He … Continue reading
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Tagged David Halberstam, Donald Trump, John F. Kennedy, The Powers That Be
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NYT Still Can’t Find 50 People for Its $135K Worldwind Tour
As the hardworking staff noted several months ago, the New York Times Journeys travel agency has faced an uphill battle selling out its Around the World by Private Jet: Cultures in Transformation. Full-page from yesterday’s Times. The 26-day, $135,000 … Continue reading
Dead Blogging ‘Ideation’ & ‘Constellations’ at Area Playhouses
Well the Missus and I trundled out to Watertown last week to catch Ideation (through September 24) at the New Repertory Theatre and say, it was swell. Playwright Aaron Loeb has created “a darkly comic psychological thriller” that starts out as … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Loeb, Central Squ, Christine Hamel, Constellations, Ed Hoopman, Elliot Norton Award, Ideation, Intimate Apparel, Jake Murphy, Jeff Adelberg, Jim Petosa, Lewis D. Wheeler, Lyric Stage, Marianna Bassham, Matt Ketai, Nael Nacer, New Repertory Theatre, Nick Payne, Russian Nesting Dolls, Ryan Bates, Susan Zeeman Rogers
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What the Hell Was Caroline Kennedy Thinking With This Dress?
From our Whiskey Tango Foxtrot desk This item by Meredith Goldstein ran in yesterday’s Boston Globe Names column. JFK’s grandson named to Vanity Fair’s Best-Dressed List Jack Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy’s grandson, has made Vanity Fair’s 2017 International Best-Dressed List, which … Continue reading
How the Walter Becker Obits Got Steely Dan All Wrong
Sad to see that Walter Becker, the great guitarist and songwriting partner of Donald Fagen in the redoubtable Steely Dan, died last week at the age of 67. Sadder yet, most obituaries wrote off the Becker/Fagen lyrics as (in the … Continue reading
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