Dan MacIvor’s “Communion” is now up at Urban Stages, 259 West 30 Street, through October 30. Tickets available here. [caption id="attachment_61918" align="aligncenter" width="226"] Writer-Director Daniel MacIvor[/caption] Blame it on a Blythe spirit. Actress Blythe Danner had seen and admired Daniel MacIvor’s ‘Marion Bridge” and asked if he might be...
Picasso famously said "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." Paul Klee had no such problem: when he grew up, the iconic artist managed to hold on to a child-like vision and yet, and still, be...
“The Encounter” a techno trip and tour de force is now up at the John Golden Theatre,” 252 West 45, between 7th & 8th Avenues. Runs through January 8, 2017. Tickets here. Since the company was founded in 1983, Complicite has performed worldwide, winning over 50 major awards...
A funny thing happened on our way to view porn – 16th and 17th century-style eye-poppers. Never made it to a show at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, 28 paintings of bodacious goddesses and nymphs, heroines and victims, most sporting heaving breasts and generous thighs, all painted by the A-team of late Renaissance/early Baroque,...
Move over George Stubbs. A dark horse named Nancy B. Frank is closing in on your lead and really feeling her, ahem, oats. The path she took was winding, but once this gifted artist hit her stride, she was – and remains – unstoppable. Frank’s horses are powerful...
Let me start by saying that serendipity often reveals itself through our mistakes. I'll explain later. [caption id="attachment_60698" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Our Stalwart Crew[/caption] Our adventure with the family officially ended with a Friday morning breakfast in Columbia Falls. Kimm, Mike and Matthew detoured into the Park for...
Wednesday morning dawned gray and cool. Our intrepid group was in the car by 0730 for the drive up to Glacier Guides' headquarters just outside the Park's West Entrance. We soon loaded two vans, and headed up Going-to-the-Sun Road, the clouds increasing as we climbed,...
One could say Susan and I are empty nesters once removed: with one grandson out of college and on his own, two others out of the house and in college, our grand-daughter not far behind, family get-togethers require a little more planning. [caption id="attachment_60639" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Peaks, Logan...
In a recently resurfaced 1985 interview, famed astronomer Carl Sagan finds common ground between science and spirituality. Writing in the Huff Post, Carolyn Gregoire explains. Watch the talk on video too. When you imagine an alien, what do you think of? A green, slimy creature with jagged...
Last week, Cleo Abram talked about the ripples in the water across the pond: Brits are split about whether to stay or exit the European Union. This week the big issue is closer to home: contraception is once again – or still– making waves. Check out Cleo’s incisive summary in "The Short...
