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A Dusty Road to Springfield
(Editor’s Note: Read on for an exclusive interview with American singer and actress Kirsten Holly Smith.)
Dusty Springfield, remember her — that sexy songstress of the swinging 60s and beyond that...
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Hollywood, the CIA’s Deadliest Weapon in ‘Argo’
As tensions between the United States and Iran come to a frothy boil in the present day over the Iranian nuclear program, Argo places viewers into a metaphorical time capsule and brings them back to a time when the...
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Artist of the Week 11/21-11/27: Geraldine Lamanna Captures Powder in Motion alongside Movement through a Camera Lens
While a myriad of artists take a straightforward route to stardom, Geraldine Lamanna took a circuitous one.
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Alina Szapocznikow: The Body Artist
No artist was more aware of the power and pathos of the human body, its ability to evoke the most primal of emotions from us, than Alina Szapocznikow. It’s no surprise then, that the Museum of Modern Art’s expansive... -
Harper Regan: A Song Made Up of a Single Note
In 1960s British cinema, an archetype developed of the frumpy or middle-aged woman who, brought to a dead stop by her boring or chaotic life, decided to change things with neither grace nor guile. In a series of...
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Jakarta Fashion Week Rallies for Fabulous Finish Despite Trouble in Paradise
After an ostensibly precocious debut November 3 from Lie Sang Bong and Sebastian Gunawan that set the bar almost impossibly high, expectations for the rest of the week at the Jakarta Fashion Week 2013 were... -
Don’t Blame the Stars: The Redgraves by Donald Spoto
The Redgraves, Donald Spoto’s newest biography, is described as a “family epic.” And it is an epic story of sorts — a multi-generational band of actors, living out their lives on stage and off, with the fame...
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Jakarta Fashion Week Kicks Off With Tropical Bang
In the pantheon of fashion week coverage, New York, London, Milan and Paris may get the majority of the headlines, but those cities sometimes feel tired after a certain point. Part of the soul of fashion is adventure... -
‘Cloud Atlas’: A Sextet of Shoddy Storytelling
It’s hard enough to make one movie that’s consistently engaging and worthwhile, let alone a half-dozen of them. If nothing else, the makers of the sprawling piece of saccharine Cloud Atlas get credit for having...
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Les Quartiers de Boeuf: European Swing and Sauce Manouche with a Pinch of American Sass
Certain evenings in the mountain-ringed Alpine city of Grenoble, France, one can step away from the cobblestoned street into a narrow establishment called Café Bayard, which seems to have been literally squeezed by its...
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