During my recent trip to New Orleans, I was fortunate enough to attend a lecture by renowned cocktail historian Jeff “Beachbum” Berry on the fascinating history of the rise and fall of tiki culture, and the rediscovery of tiki drink… Read More ›
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Drawing Down the Lens: The Stanley Kubrick Exhibit at LACMA
After eight months, the Deutsches Filmmuseum’s exhaustive Stanely Kubrick exhibit has closed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in preparation to head to its next stop. The product of more than a year of curation in conjunction with the… Read More ›
The Bones of the Dancers are Heard to Crack: English National Ballet in “Hallowed”
The word “ballet” may immediately evoke images of delicate, precise figures twirling in tutus of white and pink. However, that archetypal costume dates only to the Romantic period, perhaps 200 years ago, a fraction of ballet’s five centuries of history. The Romantic… Read More ›
The Year of Halloween 