OK, take a breather. You have words in your head, but you must get them onto the page. You ponder some more, but the words don’t make it to the page. Frustration sets in — quickly. You know what you want to write, but you can’t get the ideas in written form. I’m right there ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Next year’s Met Gala will be downright campy. No, seriously: The Metropolitan Museum announced Tuesday that “Camp: Notes on Fashion” will be the title of its next blockbuster spring Costume Institute exhibit. The exhibit is launched each year by the star-studded Met Gala, where attendees are encouraged to dress according to the prescribed theme. The museum said in a statement that the exhibit will get its framework from a 1964 essay by Susan Sontag, “Notes on ‘Camp.’” The show “will examine how fashion designers have used their mÈtier as a vehicle ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — More women are being hired to direct TV episodes, but the numbers remain stagnant for directors of color, according to an industry guild study. Women directed a record 25 percent of episodic television in the 2017-18 season, an increase of 4 percent from the previous season, according to the Directors Guild of America study released Wednesday. African-Americans directed 13 percent of series TV in 2017-18, unchanged from the previous season, the study found. Asian-Americans at 6 percent and Latinos at 5 percent were up one percentage point each from ...
If you’re looking for a delightful evening of theatre, join the “Chubby and Proud” support group at the Savannah Hilton, a.k.a. the parlors at the First Lutheran Church on Chandler Street, tonight at 7:30 p.m. “Ain’t Missin’ Dinner” is presented by Chautauqua Hospice and Palliative Care as a fundraiser. The play, by Jamestown native Tom Andolora, with original music by Andolora and Paul Sportelli, pokes gentle fun at the cult of the diet and, while Inga Lundquist (JoAnn Liffner) dreams of “The Girl I Will Be” when she loses weight, Bill Heywood (Adam Owens) gives ...
I have always liked the electric bass guitar. Since I was young, I could always hear the bass part in a song. For reasons unknown to me, the part just stood out. I didn’t know any better. I thought that’s what I was supposed to hear. So, I had been already playing drums for about five ...
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — The phone call telling Cher she was a Kennedy Center honoree was certainly welcome — but she admits she wanted to get it earlier. The Grammy, Emmy and Oscar winner, whose ABBA-tribute album “Dancing Queen” was just released, acknowledged she’d long hoped for that call. She said she “wanted to get it so badly” during the Obama administration. Now she will, at age 72, during the Donald Trump administration, which might make for an awkward gathering. A regular at anti-Trump rallies and marches, Cher ranks among the most outspoken celebrities ...
