Free Admission to MOCA
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Every Thursday 11 a.m. – 9 p.m., courtesy of Target, you can simply walk free of charge into the Museum of Chinese in America’s brand spanking new digs straddling the border between Chinatown and Soho in Lower Manhattan. Designed by famed Vietnam Veterans Memorial creator Maya Lin, the museum’s interior, once an historic warehouse, still has exposed-brick walls around the sky lighted courtyard. Lin purposely didn’t have everything modernized in order to reflect the sparse interior of...
November 24th, 2009 | Steve Mirsky | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: Announcements, Arts and Entertainment, featuredarticle, museums, The Arts, things to see in NYC
‘Tis the Season for Festive Music: What’s on in Vancouver
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There’s a lot going on in town for those who enjoy Festive music. There’s nothing better to get you into the holiday spirit than he sound of joyful voices raised in song, Baroque music, Christmas carols and performances of favorite ballets and Christmas musicals.
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas the musical.November 12 to December 27 Make your days merry and bright with music from this unforgettable musical based on the classic holiday film. At the Stanley Industrial Alliance...
November 24th, 2009 | thevancouverguide | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Arts and Entertainment, ballet, choirs, christmas, Events, music, Performing Arts - Theater & Dance, symphony, The Arts, theatre
Cascais Jazz is back in December
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After 21 years, the first Jazz festival started by Luís Villas-Boas (also the idealist of Hot Club), is back to Cascais.
In 1970, this festivals first edition received for the first time in Lisbon Miles Davis Septet. From then on, some of the best jazz players were brought to the stages by Cascais Jazz. Names like Ornette Coleman, Dexter Gordon, Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie took part on the line ups.
Next 4th to 6th of December we will be able to hear Cascais Jazz again at the Auditório...
November 22nd, 2009 | Alexandre Kühl Oliveira | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Arts and Entertainment, Events, festival, nightlife, Outdoors & Recreation, The Arts
CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIRS
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The Christmas Craft Fair season opens this weekend at a variety of locations in the Lower Mainland.
It will be difficult to choose which of the 300 studios to visit during the East End Culture Crawl which runs Friday Nov 20 to Sunday Nov 23. You can visit the artists’ studios located in over 50 buildings all around the area bounded by Main St. to Commercial Drive, from First Ave north to the waterfront in Vancouver’s East End. Browse around the studios and see the creations...
November 19th, 2009 | thevancouverguide | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Announcements, Arts and Crafts, Arts and Entertainment, Events, Family Friendly, festival, The Arts
Choosing a chicken house over the mall
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Got plans to get that Christmas shopping done in the after-Thanksgiving weekend? Consider skipping the mall and visiting an old chicken house in just outside of Athens. You will find yourself surrounded by gorgeous, original art, including jewelry, wood, glass, pottery, bath products and fiber.
Loretta Eby with some of her blown glass globes
Happy Valley Pottery, recycled form its hen-house days, is a truly unique venue with the working studios of artists and potters. It has been featured in Southern...
November 18th, 2009 | Linda Erbele | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Events, featuredarticle, Shopping, The Arts
Sesame Street Sails into Washington, DC
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Just in time for the holidays, Sesame Street Live brings it’s 100th tour to the Washington, DC area when “1-2-3 Imagine! with Elmo & Friends” opens for 7 shows at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, Virginia.
“1-2-3 Imagine! takes children on a magical journey after Sam, Sesame Street’s mail carrier, delivers post cards to the Sesame Street gang form around the world. Wanting to visit these far away locations, Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Big Bird and the rest of the Sesame Street friends...
November 18th, 2009 | Jon Rochetti | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Family Friendly, music, play, The Arts
A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre in DC
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Join miserly Ebenezer Scrooge on his personal journey of greed, isolation and transformation in the uplifting holiday tale A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, at at historic Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC this holiday season.
Visits from the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future take the curmudgeonly Scrooge, played by 12-time nominee and four-time Helen Hayes Award winning actor Edward Gero, on the road to redemption over the night of Christmas Eve.
Gero has previously been seen...
November 11th, 2009 | Jon Rochetti | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: christmas, featuredarticle, The Arts, theater
Christ Church Cathedral: An Open Door, Open Heart, Open Mind
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Nestled on the north-east corner of Georgia and Burrard Streets, dwarfed beside the surrounding glass sky-scrapers, is one of Vancouver’s most charming heritage buildings: The Christ Church Cathedral. This stone-built Gothic Revival church was built in 1889 on property purchased from Canadian Pacific Railway. It was originally nicknamed “The Root House” because at first only the lower part of the church was built and services were held in it. But on July 28, 1894 the corner...
November 9th, 2009 | thevancouverguide | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Church, community, Family Friendly, featuredarticle, History & Information, music, The Arts
The Night of the Museums in Buenos Aires
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The Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires presents the 6th edition of La Noche de los Museos (The Night of the Museums), a special event where the museums of Buenos Aires have their night out.
Since 2004, one Saturday a year, the museums are open at night, showing vast wealth and combining different aesthetic tendencies and offering different cultural activities, all free of charge.
During this special night visitors will be able to enjoy free guided visits, as well as conferences,...
November 7th, 2009 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Buenos Aires, museums, The Arts
Funnyman Jeff Dunham & Characters Invade DC
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Ventriloquist, comedian and puppet master Jeff Dunham brings his mostly politically incorrect and ill-tempered characters, such as the grumpy but lovable retiree Walter, redneck Bubba J, and Achmed, (“I will keel you”) the confused skeletal terrorist, plus the rest of his silly gang of puppets to the Verizon Center in Washington, DC in January.
After multiple television appearances on The Tonight Show, Late Night with David Letterman and other comedy shoes plus selling over 4 million DVDs, Comedy...
November 7th, 2009 | Jon Rochetti | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: comedy, The Arts
Folk Art masterpieces to be auctioned this weekend
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Slotin Folk Art, familiar to folk art fans, will auction the lifetime collection of Lynn Ingram, a self-taught art pioneer Saturday and Sunday at Buford Hall in Buford, about 30 minutes north of Atlanta.
The Lion and the Masked Man by Adolf Wolfli
Most people have heard of Howard Finster – there is even a painting of his in this auction, valued at between $4,000 and $6,000. Ingram, a North Carolina native who has lived most of her life in New Jersey, traveled the South extensively and became...
November 6th, 2009 | Linda Erbele | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: free, Just a Bit Weird - Fun & Quirky Places, The Arts
Images of the Louvre in Buenos Aires
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The traveling exhibition “Images of the Louvre: six centuries of European painting”, was presented last Saturday, October 31st. in the streets of the barrio de La Boca and it will be on display until January 31st. of next year.
The exhibition features 122 life size reproductions of paintings from the Louvre Museum in Paris, photographed in high resolution and printed on a quality material with their original frames including “La Gioconda”, of Leonardo da Vinci, and the “Altarpiece...
November 2nd, 2009 | Pablo Juan Augustinowicz | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Buenos Aires, caminito, featuredarticle, la boca, The Arts
Ballroom Dancing with the Stars and a Twist
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If you love the recent explosion of dancing competitions on television, you might just enjoy seeing dancer, choreographer and pro dance coach Louis van Amstel joining together featured performers from the popular So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing With the Stars programs along with High School Muisical performers for a evening of music and dancing entertainment.
The show, Ballroom with a Twist, coming to the Music Center at Strathmore, just outside Washington, DC, features a rotating list of...
November 2nd, 2009 | Jon Rochetti | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: dancing, featuredarticle, The Arts
Yamato Drummers Invade Washington, DC
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Taiko (fat drum) drumming dates back to ancient Japan, and was generally reserved for royalty and temples. But now you can see this classic form of Japanese drumming performed live in Washington, DC.
Reinvented in the 1950s by Daihachi Oguchi, a Taiko drummer and Grand Master of modern Taiko drumming, he assembled a group of other drummers that grew into the famous Taiko group Osuwa Daiko.
Since then, a new generation of Japanese Taiko drummers have popped onto the music scene and one of the best...
October 30th, 2009 | Jon Rochetti | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Family Friendly, The Arts
America’s Singing Poet Bob Dylan Plays Washington, DC
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American blues and folk singer, songwriter and musician, Bob Dylan spoke for the 1960s youth generation. During those turbulent times in America, several of his songs became the anthems for civil rights movement and anti-Vietnam war protests.
And he’s coming to Washington, DC for one night at the GMU Patriot Center.
His croaky vocals paired with meaningful vocals on songs such as “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” and “Blowin’ in the Wind” became coffee house favorites...
October 29th, 2009 | Jon Rochetti | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: music, The Arts
Fish Stalls Give Way to Design Pieces at Le Coq Tuguese
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Mercado da Ribeira (map) is an old market that was responsible to supply the city with goods. This weekend, the stalls that are usually full of fish, vegetables and flowers will be showing the creations of Portuguese designers.
Jewellery, decoration, urban handicraft, clothes and industrial design are just a few of the things you can see. Still, most of the things will not be for sail. Above all, this event is to show the best design made in Portugal. That said, you can make an offer to take the...
October 28th, 2009 | Alexandre Kühl Oliveira | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Announcements, Events, The Arts
Brazilian Bossa-Nova Legend – Gal Costa
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It has been years since Brazilian singer Gal Costa last performed here in Washington, DC.
She’s been a fundamental presence in the Brazilian Tropicália movement as well as a master Bossa Nova vocalist. She is often mentioned along-side with Bossa-legends Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso.
As one of Brazils’ most popular singers, Costa redefined modern Brazilian music within Brazil’s Tropicália art movement that started in the late 1960s.
Tropicalia fused music, theatre and poetry,...
October 23rd, 2009 | Jon Rochetti | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: music, The Arts
Of Mice & Men Kicks Off the Keegan’s 12th Season
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The Keegan Theatre, one of my favorite small theater companies in Washington, DC kicks off its 2009-10 season with John Steinbeck’s tragic Of Mice and Men; the story of two migrant farm workers, George and Lennie, who move from ranch to ranch in California during the Great Depression.
It’s one of Steinbeck’s three works about the common man attempting to survive the hardships of the Great Depression, including In Dubious Battle and The Grapes of Wrath.
The original Steinbeck novella, entitled...
October 20th, 2009 | Jon Rochetti | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: plays, The Arts
A Classic 1930s Melodrama – Night Must Fall
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In the classic and entertaining melodrama Night Must Fall, now playing at the Olney Theater in nearby Olney, Maryland, you end up asking yourself if the slick pretty boy is a murderer or not.
The maid’s new playboy boyfriend Dan, shows up and charms the elderly Mrs. Bramson, a wealthy hypochondria. She can be sweet one minute and a tyrant of the house the next. Dan soon becomes a son-like figure to her as he caters to her every wish and whim. Winning her confidence, the mysterious man starts...
October 19th, 2009 | Jon Rochetti | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: plays, The Arts
The Big Dog – Snoop Dogg Live in Baltimore
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The Dogfather himself, Snoop Dogg, the West Coast hip hop, rapper, record producer, and actor, will be performing at Rams Head Live in nearby Baltimore later this month.
With ten solo records, cameos in over 25 films, and a couple realty TV shows, he’s morphed from a member of the Crips street gang while in high school, to a music and media powerhouse.
As a leader in the ’90s gangsta rap style, he quickly became one of, if not the most recognizable rap artists in the county. His...
October 18th, 2009 | Jon Rochetti | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: featuredarticle, The Arts
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