Tian Justman, 33: Designer’s talent, tenacity touched many

Edit Atlanta Journal 28 Apr 2016
Tian Robin Justman, a fashion designer and stylist who was a key influence at the Goat Farm Arts Center, died Sunday at Emory University Hospital. She was 33. The cause was leukemia, her family said. She had battled cancer since adolescence ... Her sunny studio was full of her favorite things, such as a photo from a trip to Thailand, an antique sewing machine, and Geisha shoes she made with her father ... ....

Bard SummerScape 2016 Presents Rare Staging of Mascagni’s Iris by Fast-Rising Director James Darrah (July 22–31) Plus Short Operas and Excerpts by Puccini, Puccini/Berio, Boito, Busoni, Catalani, and Massenet in Bard Music Festival (21c Media Group Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Apr 2016
(Source. 21c Media Group Inc). April 26, 2016 ... Rus Anson) ... Rounding out the vocal cast are the 'wonderfully appealing' (New York Times) young tenor Samuel Levine, and mezzo-soprano Cecelia Hall, a top prizewinner at the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, while the Dance of the Geishas will be performed by WIFE, the innovative Los Angeles-based dance trio described as 'too badass to ignore' (L.A ... B ... The Geisha ... Three Geishas ... R. B....

The Secrets Behind Season 2's Awesome Songs

Edit Seattle Post-Intelligence 22 Apr 2016
Other times, it was as big of an undertaking as translating a song into Japanese for Titus' past-life geisha or creating fake Broadway tunes for a fake Great American Songbook ... Titus' hilarious, flu-stricken improv audition piece about teeth in Episode 12 was written into the script ... > ....

the hidden politics of underwear

Edit New Statesman 22 Apr 2016
The "Undressed" exhibition at the V&A; reveals a social dimension to bras, pants and corsets ... Take the difference between the Japanese geiko, or geisha, and her more affordable (and more explicitly sex-selling) cousin the oiran. A geisha’s obi (sash) was tied at the back, indicating that she needed help to get undressed; a prostitute wore an obi that closed at the front ... Class plays its part next to gender ... Don’t despair, though ... Details....

May 13, 10am-11:30am–Distinguished Speakers Series Featuring Geisha Williams, President, PG&E; Electric (Latino Business Chamber of Greater Los Angeles)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
(Source. Latino Business Chamber of Greater Los Angeles) February 2016. Juan Borda of Harmonix. Provides creative music and sound design. Maria C. Acosta of ZIPEDTECH ... http.//lalcc.org/may-13-10am-1130am-distinguished-speakers-series-featuring-geisha-williams-president-pge-electric/. (noodl....

Calendula for cool weather gardens

Edit The Examiner 21 Apr 2016
Calendula is a good plant for late spring color in the garden ... Good ornamental varieties of calendula are ‘Citrus Smoothies‘, very double flowers in pastel blends of apricot and lemon with a light outer edge, ‘Orange Porcupine’, which has a quilled look to the bright orange petals, ‘Geisha Girl‘, which is a another deep orange with a very full look, almost like a small mum, and ‘Neon‘, a deep orange edged in burgundy....

Learn about Prince's life and legacy from these 6 great profiles of the artist

Edit Vox 21 Apr 2016
Prince padded into the kitchen, a small fifty-year-old man in yoga pants and a big sweater, wearing platform flip-flops over white socks, like a geisha ... B-side "She's Always in My Hair" — and all three songs provide a bird's-eye view of Prince's skills as an artist and multitasker ... I could only show my ass with my mouth — that is, through language....

Why does Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt keep choosing race as a hill to die on?

Edit Vox 19 Apr 2016
The show tries to take on outrage culture by letting Titus play a geisha ... Titus (Tituss Burgess) faces an internet boycott of his upcoming play, in which he stars as the geisha he believes he was in a past life ... Titus believes he was a geisha in a past life and wants to create a play about it ... Netflix Angry Asians show up and call Titus a "Hitler" for putting on a one-man geisha show....

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and the pushback against 'PC culture'

Edit The Guardian 19 Apr 2016
@EricThurm ... The jokes were snappy ... Related ... (Which, notably, is essentially excised from the show after the season premiere.) In the third episode of the season, Kimmy’s lovable, fabulous friend Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess) puts on a one-man play about his past life as a geisha named Murasaki titled Kimono You Didn’t, only to come under fire for its ostensibly insensitive depiction of Asian people ... Related ... Twitter ... South Park ... ....

Constant Gardener Rakes In Bafta Noms

Edit Empire 18 Apr 2016
Golden Globe winner Brokeback Mountain and Paul Haggis’ multi-focus drama Crash have notched up nine noms each, with Memoirs Of A Geisha, Good Night And Good Luck and Pride And Prejudice scoring six ... ZIYI ZHANG – Memoirs of a Geisha ... DE BATTRE MON COEUR S’EST ARRÊTÉ (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) ... MEMOIRS OF A GEISHAJohn Williams ... MEMOIRS OF A GEISHADion Beebe ... MEMOIRS OF A GEISHAJohn Myhre ... MEMOIRS OF A GEISHAColleen Atwood....

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt season two stops being polite, and starts getting real

Edit Vox 17 Apr 2016
The second season gets more in depth, for better and for worse. When Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt was first announced, I remember feeling deeply nervous ... Rating. 3.5 ... So just like the first season, season two isn't flawless ... You might have already heard about the season's third episode, which has Titus mount a one-man show as his alter ego from a past life, a Japanese geisha, and get a world of shit online from a petulant advocacy group ... ....

Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures "Ghost in The Shell" is in production in New Zealand

Edit Newstrack India 16 Apr 2016
HOLLYWOOD - Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures have announced that production is underway on "GHOST IN THE SHELL," starring Scarlett Johansson (“AVENGERS ... Ouelet, Michael Pitt (“Hannibal,” “Boardwalk Empire”) as Kuze, Pilou Asbæk (“BEN-HUR,” “LUCY”) as Batou, and Kaori Momoi (“MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA,” “HONG KONG CONFIDENTIAL”) ... ....

First Look At Scarlett Johansson Filming ‘Ghost In The Shell’ In New Zealand

Edit Inquisitr 15 Apr 2016
The announcement is officially out that Scarlett Johansson is busy shooting the upcoming film Ghost In The Shell on location in Wellington, New Zealand ... The manga series was written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow ... release on March 31, 2017 ... Ouelet, Pilou Asbæk (who starred with Johansson in Lucy) as Batou, Michael Pitt (Hannibal and Boardwalk Empire) as Kuze and Kaori Momoi (Memoirs Of A Geisha, Hong Kong Confidential)....
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