How Michael Ian Black and Meghan McCain Blurred Party Lines in New Book

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McCain_Black_SexyB_mech.indd By Angela Barbuti In the lobby of WYNC’s offices on Varick Street, Michael Ian Black is chatting with Meghan McCain. It seems as though they are old friends catching up between sips of iced coffee. They’re not. Actually, they only met in person less than a year ago, but in this short time they have
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The Puzzle: Marble’s Theater Festival

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Ashley Gorham Johnson and Brian Hampton. Photo by Greg Lum. By Rebecca Harris On Monday, June 25, one West Side church will transform into a live theater for a week of never-before-seen plays performed in front of an audience. Monday marks the beginning of production week for The Puzzle Festival of New Work, a theater festival that will showcase the unfinished plays and musicals of
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The CityArts Interview: Mathieu Demy

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CA-Interview mathieu.demy Americano Out of Paris The son of the late French filmmaker Jacques Demy (Lola, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and his formerly estranged wife Agnes Varda (Far from Vietnam, The Gleaners and I), Mathieu Demy sees his first directorial feature Americano as a riposte to his mother’s 1981 film Documenteur: An Emotion Picture. One of Varda’s
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Legendary Russian Dancers Featured In “Treasures Of The Russian Ballet”

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legacy Bolshoi and Kirov vitality preserved  Legendary Russian dancers show why they are legends in the new DVD Treasures of the Russian Ballet (ICA Classics/Naxos). It contains performances by Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet and (then) Leningrad’s Kirov filmed by the BBC in London from 1956 to 1963, some on stage, some in the television studio. The longest excerpt in
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The MET Features Ellsworth Kelly’s Plant Drawings

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plant Ellsworth Kelly’s plane beauty  At the Lexington Avenue and 53rd Street subway station, I was recently reminded of Ellsworth Kelly’s excellence in the realm of public art. Even with stacks of newspapers piled against the left panel of a green/blue arc and Service Changes taped to companion panels, his work seemed oblivious to the intrusion
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The Jazz Journalists Association Honor the Finest in Jazz Entertainment

Written by Howard Mandel on . Posted in Arts & Film, Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Music, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

jazz5 Bestowing awards on what matters If you were to have walked into the Blue Note at 4 p.m. on June 20, you’d have heard guitar wiz Gabriel Marin improvising microtonal figures with a Middle Eastern tinge on double-necked guitar, electric bassist John Ferrara by his side. You could have grabbed a bottle of Brother Thelonious
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Armond White: For Mathieu Demy, Art Is a Family Saga

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Salma Hayek and Mathieu Demy in Americano. In tabloid parlance, Mathieu Demy is cinema royalty. Son of the late, great French new wave director Jacques Demy (Lola, Bay of Angels, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), he is also the son of Agnès Varda, the pioneering female director of the Left Bank who excels in fiction and nonfiction films (Vagabond, The Gleaners and I).
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Ugly Chic: Schiaparelli and Prada’s Catwalk Catfight

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CA-Museum schiaparelli By Mona Molarsky As celebrities trouped up the red carpet to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute gala on May 7th, it was hard to imagine anything subversive could be happening anywhere in the museum. Paparazzi clicked and video cameras live-streamed, while Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, led a parade of stars who showed off
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Tribute to Marvin Gutin, Restaurant Impresario and Impressionist Artist

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West Siders remember owner of Marvin’s Garden By Amanda Woods When Marvin Gutin’s family and friends think of him, they remember a man who got to know everyone, always listened, cracked jokes often and helped anyone who needed it. Gutin, 85, who passed away on Wednesday due to lung cancer, had lived on West End
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All The World’s a Stage: Alt Shakespeare in the Park

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Hudson Warehouse graces the Upper West Side with Shakespeare     It’s that time of year again, where people are filled with joy, the trees are covered in a shine of green, bottles (and people) are covered in sweat, and Riverside Park is filled with tragedy. This tragedy, though, is the re-arrival of The Bard
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