Archive for February, 2008

Judith Jamison Ankles Ailey Job

Judith Jamison, whose name is virtually synonymous with that of the Alvin Ailey company, will step … Read more »

“Indiana Jones” To Debut at Cannes

According to Variety:
Parlez-vous Francais, Indiana Jones?
The long-awaited fourth installment of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg‘s period … Read more »

“Peter Grimes”: A Varied Musical Feast

Ellen Orford, the unhappy schoolteacher in Benjamin Britten’s 1945 opera, “Peter Grimes,” sings of “this unrelenting … Read more »

ScarJo & NatPo Show: How Accurate?

Royal biographer Antonia Fraser asks: “Do the many inaccuracies, not to say travesties, in historical movies … Read more »

New Coldplay CD: “Different”

Rolling Stone magazine’s Evan Serpick recently visited Coldplay in their northern London recording studio where they’re … Read more »

William F. Buckley Dies at 82

To some of us, he will always be remembered as the conservative who recommended that all … Read more »

Last Night’s Snooze Competition

I had to laugh last night as I flipped back and forth between the Clinton-Obama … Read more »