Category: Culture
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National Opera Center Opens on Seventh Avenue
The National Opera Center, a new hub for opera industry professionals rented by Opera America, opened its doors on Sept. 28.
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“The Sopranos” Creator’s First Feature Debuts at New York Film Festival
The centerpiece movie of the New York Film Festival, David Chase’s “Not Fade Away,” premiered on October 6 at Lincoln Center.
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CUNY’s African Students Discuss Africa’s Future at Second Annual Symposium
The Council for Young African Leaders has held networking events and launched a blog called “The CYAL Digest” since forming last year. On September 22, the organization hosted their second annual leadership symposium to continue building a network of young Africans in New York City.
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Playwrights’ Week Returns to the Lark for its Nineteenth Year
Last week, the Lark Play Development Center gave seven playwrights the chance to workshop a new play in ten hours of rehearsal and one public reading. At the end, the writers walked away having heard their pieces aloud, with a stack of written audience comments.
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Manolo Blahnik Collaborates with Young Designers for Spring
Shoe legend Manolo Blahnik collaborated for the third time with four young designers on a range of shoes for spring 2013.
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Donizetti Comedy Opens New Met Season
The Metropolitan Opera opened its 2012-2013 season with a new production of Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love. The production, directed by Bartlett Sher and starring Anna Netrebko, is a prime example of star power.
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Diego Rivera’s Return to MoMa 80 Years After Rockefeller Destroyed His Mural
The Museum of Modern Art hosts an exhibit of Diego Rivera murals through mid-May. The installation features several of Rivera’s portable frescoes from his 1931 exhibition at MoMA, as well as a sketch of Man at the Crossroads, the controversial mural commissioned by Nelson Rockefeller to adorn the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center before it…
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Koreatown Museum Bridges the Cultural Gap for Americans, Koreans
Karen Madsen leaned over the glass case, peering with great interest at the assortment of colorful knots; clumps of jewel-colored tassels all consisting of a single, long thread. As she considered the traditional Korean knots, called norigae, Robert Turley explained the knots’ incredible value as artifacts that were difficult to come by and owned only…
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For a Week, Chelsea’s Art Scene Shifts to Miami
Many Chelsea galleries packed up and headed to Art Basel Miami Beach last week, widely considered the most important art fair in North America. But some galleries skipped the event this year.
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Rough Times for a Resilient Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall remains a beacon for musical mastery in NewYork City, but are New Yorkers still wondering about “how” to get to Carnegie? Or are they dwelling on the “why”?
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Ticket Promoters Lure Broadway Attendees
Paid ticket promoters stand outside of the TKTS booth at Times Square to sell same-day performance tickets to loyal customers. Their opinion can be easily bought or found on the list of 10 to 16 shows they have been paid to promote.
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Developer Clears Hurdles for Demolition of Historic Building
After a two-year delay, a new office building is set to go up in the Meatpacking District, though no timetable for start of construction has been set.
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Navajo designer returns to NYC for Native American Heritage Month
In addition to Thanksgiving and Black Friday, November is also Native American History Month. Dustin Martin is a young Navajo designer and former New Yorker who is building a clothing brand linking Native artists in his home state of New Mexico to the fashion capital of New York City. He returned from New Mexico to…
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I Saw The Book of Mormon for $28, On The Day I Wanted To Go
I waited over six hours in line to understand the culture of obsessed South Park followers and Broadway fans alike, who put their lives on hold to get tickets to The Book of Mormon, even if it means standing up inside the theater as well.
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Clinton Theater Seeks ‘Legal’ Status
The Emerging Artists Theatre Company has been trying to lease a space on 45th St. since last February. But first, it must change the building’s decades-old certificate of occupancy.
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Harry Potter Comes to New York
Quidditch is an imaginary sport in the Harry Potter books, or is it? The Badassalisks, a New York quidditch team, sees things differently. They, along with a hundred other teams, attended the Quidditch World Cup this past weekend at Randall’s Island.
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Herbie Hancock Performs For Launch of New Canon Product
Jazz legend Herbie Hancock performed a five song set, including the 1973 hit “Chameleon,” for a crowd of Canon executives and photographers, who transformed his classic into a new kind of music video.
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Busting Through the Lavender Ceiling
Everyone knows about Rosie and Ellen. But have you ever heard of an equally successful gay male comedian? Probably not. Here, professors and professional comedians sound off about the issue.
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“Watch The Throne” Takes Over The New Garden
Jay-Z and Kanye West took over the renovated Madison Square Garden for two nights last week to promote their new collaborative album Watch The Throne. The sold-out performances featured an amalgam of songs off the new album and old favorites, over 50 songs in all. The setlist for the November 8 show can be found here.
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The Gold Angel of the Helen Hayes Theater
At 255 West 43rd Street, two cupids and one angel coated in gold paint live in the lobby of the Common Ground Community’s residence, The Times Square. Saved from the façade of the original Helen Hayes Theatre, the figures keep a protective watch over the residents, according to 10-year tenant Jim Davis. Davis arrived some…
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