Mysterious and Wild: Life According to Saki The life of Saki is a story unto itself story. Much like the characters the iconic British writer created in his later years, Saki—the [...] February 23, 2017
Georges Seurat’s Sideshow at The Met Taking as its focus one of its more engaging masterpieces, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has organized a thematic exhibition that offers a [...] February 22, 2017
Escaped Alone – Just Below the Surface… “I am terrified by this dark thing/That sleeps in me;/All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.” Sylvia Plath [...] February 21, 2017
A Man of Good Hope – An Enduring Refugee While impossible to wrap one’s mind around extremes of worldwide refugee/immigrant suffering, the experience of a single man hits home [...] February 19, 2017
Sunset Boulevard – A Performance Not a Show Twenty-two years ago, Glenn Close won the best actress Tony Award as silent screen star Norma Desmond. She’s back and better. That’s [...] February 18, 2017
A United Kingdom – An Interracial Marriage that Rocked an Empire Their romance begins innocently enough. Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike) and her sister, Muriel (Laura Carmichael, Edith from Downton Abbey), [...] February 17, 2017
Let’s Misbehave: The Sensational Songs of Cole Porter Unlike most of his iconic peers, Cole Albert Porter was neither Jewish nor of immigrant heritage. Born to an extremely wealthy Indiana [...] February 15, 2017
Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2017 As regular readers might know, one of my favorite annual traditions is reviewing the Oscar Nominees in the Category of Best Animated Short. [...] February 15, 2017