Andrew OsborneTX,
I've already discussed my Top 5 favorite films of SXSW 2015 (and five notable shorts), so before we look ahead to 2016, here are some final highlights from (and thoughts on) the festival just past.
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Andrew OsborneLos Angeles,
5:44 PM - Amy's currently predicting that Marion Cotillard will win the Red Carpet...and she also thinks Anna Kendrick's already out of the competition with her pretty dress...pretty boring.
6:15 PM - While we're waiting for the Red Carpet to really start ...
David E. MorenoSan Francisco,
You know right away when a renowned circus troupe is in town, not because elephants have paraded down urban boulevards but because of the buzz it generates among all age groups. After all, a circus is for everyone, for “Ladies ...
This whodunit is more vaudeville tag team with sight gags and slapstick punctuated by music and song.
Lynne FriedmannCA,
“Murder for Two” is a freewheeling, raucous ride not unlike the thrill of a downhill soapbox derby tempered by the sudden realization that your race car really could use a good set of brakes.
A two-person whodunit, there’s murder ...
Nancy S. BishopChicago,
"Second City" didn’t spring full grown from that stage in Chicago’s Old Town in the 1960s. Sketch comedy and improvisational theater has a long and storied history in Chicago, starting with a group of University of Chicago students who began ...
Nancy S. Bishop
How do we look when we’re looking at art? That’s one of the intriguing facets of this gorgeous art tour of London’s National Gallery. Frederick Wiseman’s documentary, "National Gallery", which opened in November, shows us many scenes of faces looking ...
Nancy S. BishopChicago,
Lahr and Martha Lavey, "Steppenwolf" artistic director, were seated on a stage dressed for the cluttered Irish bachelor-hoarder’s apartment for the current Steppenwolf production, Conor McPherson’s "The Night Alive." Lavey was prepared with her own advance copy of the book ...
This traveling exhibit of the treasures of one of England's grandest country homes offers a tempting peek at the real thing.
Emily S. MendelSan Francisco,
Most Americans don’t devote their lives and fortunes to shoring up their titled family’s 300-year old estate the way Lord David Cholmondeley, the current owner of the historic 4,000-acre, 106-room Houghton Hall in Norfolk, England does. So it was with ...
David E. MorenoSan Francisco,
“He’s a good boy…Heeee zzza Goode boooboi…He’s a…” chants and slurs Melecio Estrella at the start of “29 Effeminate Gestures.” Estrella hits this angry mantra over and over as if it were a punching bag, until the sentence turns into ...
A Scavenger Hunt for Visitors, Fans and Obsessives
Nancy S. BishopChicago,
Chicago is known for its iconic classic and contemporary architecture, as well as for its famous and eccentric architects, such as Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Perhaps because of that environment, many Chicagoans are ...
