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 ...
Michelle Alexandria
In an evil Green Goblin Broadway voice, sing with me, Spider-Man, Spider-Man, radioactive Spider-Man. After receiving lukewarm reviews from most and a downright hateful one from yours truly, The Amazing Spider-Man didn’t exactly set the world on fire. They ...
Emily S. Mendel
With the new year comes “Downton Abbey, Season 4,” the continuation of the spellbinding costume drama created and written by Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes. It’s another season of fascinating “must see” television (usually an oxymoron).
PBS, taking full advantage ...
Emily S. Mendel
Foyle’s War’ (Series VII)
PBS Masterpiece MysteryCreated and written by Anthony HorowitzStarring: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle WeeksPBS stations, Sundays, Sept. 15-29, 2013, 9 p.m. ET/PT
A fabulous new seventh season of the applauded British series, “Foyle’s ...
Emily S. Mendel
'The Lady Vanishes'
Directed by Diarmuid Lawrence
Starring Tuppence Middleton, Tom Hughes, Selina Cadell
Adapted by Fiona Seres (based on the 1936 novel “The Wheel Spins,” by Ethel Lina White)
Masterpiece Mystery! on PBS stations
Aug. ...
Emily S. Mendel
In 1909 London, American Harry Selfridge (Jeremy Piven, “Entourage”) arrives with his family from Chicago determined to modernize the London shopping experience as he did in Chicago at Marshall Field’s.
The brash, bold and self-assured Selfridge finds that traditional retailers ...
Lewis WhittingtonPhiladelphia,
Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano, led the LyricsFest performance'Journey Toward Freedom'
LyricFestFirst Presbyterian Church, PhiladelphiaMarch 3, 2013
LyricFest designs concerts with scope and historical significance so well that it often results in uniquely vital programming. Earlier this year, their single ...
Lewis Whittington
A Master Interprets Debussy’s ‘Preludes’
Pierre-Laurent AimardClaude Debussy, “Preludes” Books 1 & IIDeutsche GrammophonCD 477 9983
The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presented pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s concert of Claude Debussy’s "Préludes" (Book II) at the Perelman Theater late ...
Emily S. Mendel
'Downton Abbey' Season 3
Written and created by Julian Fellowes Directed by Brian Percival, Ashley Pearce, Jeremy Webb and David Evans Starring Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern, Dan Stevens Masterpiece on PBS stationsSundays, Jan. 6 through Feb. ...
