The songs may be easy on the ears, but Clint Eastwood’s adaptation of the popular Broadway musical is not easy on the eyes.
Photo courtesy the Four Seasons. Gingerbread houses from kits never look this good. Four Seasons executive pastry chef Charles Froke has created a gingerbread Smithsonian Castle, which you can see at Seasons restaurant. Made with 100 pounds of gingerbread and 50 pounds of icing, the castle took over 100 hours to make and required blueprints. The piece is entirely edible — trees are made of chocolate and windows are made of sugar. In past years,…
Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city’s future as the Live Music Capital of the World, and lamented the possible loss of Texas’s only feminist bookstore. Throughout the week, they interviewed a bunch of indie fashion designers and D-I-Y websites—Etsy, Ornamental Things, 31 Corn Lane, and Aorta Designs—for the upcoming Stitch Fashion Show. They also did…
It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend… Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he’s just a little dirty, and in a completely different way than some NYC kitchens. SFist had its share of misbehave-rs, too, like…
We couldn’t help but ask ourselves a few questions after hearing that Matthew Fox would be in D.C. to promote his new movie, We Are Marshall. Did he finally get off the island for the interview, or were we just going to be in another one of his flashbacks? How would we get answers out of a man who spent days refusing to cooperate with “the others” in an old empty shark tank? Would it…
What if you could live forever? It’s an intriguing question that many filmmakers have attempted to address over the years. Just don’t ask it of Darren Aronofsky, writer/director of the upcoming sci-fi love story, The Fountain. He hates taglines — such as this one for his movie — that narrow the focus of and discourage individual thought on the meaning of his work. Last Tuesday, the man behind the psychological brain bender, Pi, and the…
Anyone living within two miles of Dupont Circle couldn’t have missed the police lockdown last night. Starting shortly after 9 p.m., D.C. police cruisers took positions along Connecticut Avenue up to the intersection with Florida Avenue, eventually shutting down all traffic — pedestrian and vehicular — without giving an explanation as to why. Two helicopters loudly hovered overhead, while overly anxious police officers screamed loudly at anyone who dared cross the street (a man walking…
Sunday night, celebrated coloratura Sumi Jo gave a recital in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. This concert, which should have been a major musical event, was not publicized well — I did what I could by recommending it the previous Sunday — and therefore sadly undersold. Jo is celebrating her 20th anniversary as an opera singer with a recital tour, apparently self-funded. In true diva style, she wore three different gowns, of increasing levels of…
