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ARTS REVIEW: CIRQUE DU SOLEIL'S 'ZUMANITY'Elaborate Circus Performance Brings a Sexy Twist to Las VegasIf there’s one show that has a new, sexy twist, it’s 'Zumanity,' located in the big city streets of the New York, New York hotel. |
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ARTS GALLERY: LUCHA VAVOOM - HALLOWEEN 2011Mexican Masked Wrestling + Burlesque + Comedy at The Mayan in Los Angeles 10/27/11Lucha VaVOOM -- a wild mix of Mexican masked wrestling and saucy striptease -- presented their biggest Halloween show ever at The Mayan in downtown Los Angeles, CA. |
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ARTS REVIEW: "GRAPHIC DETAILS: CONFESSIONAL COMICS BY JEWISH WOMEN"Funny Jewish Female Art on Display at Yeshiva University Museum in NY Through 4/12“Just recently, I put up a comic about my meat-loving husband’s juice cleanse. That did not work out too well!” Lauren Weinstein said. |
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ARTS COLUMN: CARIBBEAN SEA JAZZ FESTIVAL 2011The Spirit of Jazz Washes Ashore on a Very Magical IslandBut for now, I do wake up, open my eyes, and look into 2012 and the prospect of a return to the Festival, back to the music and the love of Jazz! |
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ARTS REVIEW: CIRQUE DU SOLEIL 'IRIS'Hollywood Defies Gravity with Triple Delights: The Kodak, the Acrobats, and Danny ElfmanIn Cirque du Soleil, you leave with the sense of the possible -- that man can cleverly twist and fly and climb…the sense that the impossible in life is amazingly doable. |
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ARTS REVIEW: ‘AWAKE’Joe Hernandez-Kolski Shares His Life in an Entertaining, Comedic VoiceBrains, wits, charm, and comedy, the Polish-Mexican-American one-man act that is Joe Hernandez-Kolski recently rocked the Bootleg Theater here in L.A. with his solo show. |
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ARTS REVIEW: SOL LEWITT AND THE WORKERS AT MASS MOCAA Historic Display of Drawings & Paintings, and a Powerful, Unsettling Message of SocietyIt’s a powerful exhibit -- one that is particularly unsettling for the majority of its viewers visiting MASS MoCA on a New England vacation. |
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ARTS REVIEW: ‘PRIVATE LIVES’Humorous Stage Production Essays Trials, Tribulations, Triumphs of MarriageCombining witty dialog with glamorous flair, flamboyant characters, charming sets, and subtly intelligent comedy, 'Private Lives' is well-executed at the ICT. |
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ARTS REVIEW: ROB PRUITT'S 'THE ANDY MONUMENT'Andy Warhol in New York City: A Vision in Chrome“Like so many other artists and performers, and people who don’t fit in because they’re gay or otherwise different, Andy moved here to become who he was..." |
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ARTS REVIEW: 'FANTASIA' AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWLThe Magic of Disney’s 'Fantasia' Recreated by John Mauceri, Hollywood Bowl OrchestraThe evening was full of mesmerizing classical tunes by the likes of Mozart and Tchaikovsky, integrating unused elements of 'Fantasia' to give a fresh perspective. |
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ARTS REVIEW: 'I WATCH, THEREFORE I AM'A Philosophical Study of the Great Mysteries of Life as Explained Through TV IconsAnyone who likes television should like 'I Watch, Therefore I Am.' Anyone who likes 'I Watch, Therefore I Am' should like philosophy... |
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ARTS REVIEW: ANTHONY LISTER JUNK FOOD ART HOUSE AT HVW8Surreal Pop Art Depicting Comic Heroes for a Little Escapism in Our Post-9/11 WorldIf I had to make a guesstimation of Lister's work ... I'd say it's a reflection of the common man today masking ourselves in our escapes. |
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ARTS REVIEW: ALEXANDER MCQUEEN - SAVAGE BEAUTYBritish Fashion Designer Exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Is Weird...and So CoolA model in a white cotton muslin dress is spray-painted black and yellow by two robots. The crowd oohs and ahs in French, Dutch, German, English, Russian, and Hebrew. |
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ARTS COLUMN: COMIC-CON 2011A Complete Round-Up of Some of the Adventures to Be Had at San Diego's Famous ConventionYes, it is busy. There are lines and plenty of waiting, but good things come to those who wait, and I am anxiously awaiting the 2012 convention. |
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ARTS REVIEW: RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY - 'FULLY CHARGED'A Classic Circus to Bring Out the Kid in Adults & Cause the Kids to Laugh ContagiouslyThe second that guy flies out of a cannon on freaking fire? Like, real fire? You kind of forget your ambitions, worries, longings...maybe even the girl next to you. |
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ARTS REVIEW: 'SLEEP NO MORE'Wander Through a "Hotel" in a Creepy, Interactive Telling of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'"It's powerful stuff that ought be experienced by anyone who knows what it feels like to wake up with the sweats..." |
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ARTS REVIEW: LORNA SIMPSONGhostly Photography of Times Past on Display at the Brooklyn Museum in New York“When you tear a photo out, it leaves a ghost behind -- a marker,” said Morris, explaining the inclusion of the gouache images. |
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ARTS INTERVIEW: PAUL PROVENZA & DAN DIONCo-Authors of ‘¡Satiristas! Comedians, Contrarians, Raconteurs and Vulgarians’Paul Provenza: “All the interviews…with the performers are all driven from the openness and the intimacy of your work & I personally have masturbated to the photographs…” |
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ARTS REVIEW: 'UNTOUCHABLE'A Beautifully Written Novel About Y2K, Cults, and a Grieving Family Which Will Touch YouIt is just this wanting that draws the reader right up to the brink of that horizon, where we hover, wait, and, despite ourselves, hope for the best. |
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ARTS GALLERY: 'AI WEIWEI: NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPHS 1983-1993'Photography Exhibit Is on View at Asia Society Museum in New York until August 14, 2011The artist selected 227 images for the New York exhibit, from over 10,000 negatives, and arranged them chronologically, with no photo singled out. |