Brooklyn Bridge Park Hosts DUMBO Family Festival

Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy is the organization that handles programming for the famed 85 acre park along the Brooklyn waterfront. For more than 30 years the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy has strived to bring Brooklyn Bridge Park to life. The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy started out as...

Shelf life: Comic releases for March 2

March is a big month for comics, both on shelves and on screens. DC Comics' fans will get their long-awaited "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice" film March 25. Until then, DC will be providing ample reading materials for fans of the red-caped god and shadow-stalking man. There are a few titles to...

What you need to know for the first Colorado Anime Fest this weekend

Colorado will be getting a brand new anime convention to fall in love with just in time for Valentine’s Day. Colorado Anime Fest will be opening for its very first weekend this Friday Feb. 12 at the Renaissance Denver Stapleton Hotel. Being its first year, the con will be small in comparison to some...

UJINO performs Plywood City at Vancouver Art Gallery

Saturday, February 20, the Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,opens an ambitious show that will fill all four floors of the gallery, the largest exhibit in the museum's history, with 371 works by 156 artists. "MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture" traces the development...

The Righteous Brothers score No.1 with music critics

The Righteous Brothers were at No.1 on the U.S. and U.K. singles music chart in 1965, with the Phil Spector song “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’. The song is considered by some music critics to be the ultimate expression and illustration of Spector’s “Wall of Sound” recording technique. Also a U.S...

'The Bridges of Madison County:' one of the best contemporary scores to date

'The Bridges of Madison County' opened at Fair Park on February 2, 2016. Though a romance set on a farm in Iowa may not sound appealing to some, this musical will surprise you. Based on the novel by Robert James Waller, it is the story of a housewife played by Elizabeth Stanley and her brief...

The Museum Of Neon Art Grand Opening Celebration Saturday Feb 6th, 2016

On February 6th, 2016 from 7:00-10:00 PM The Museum Of Neon Art (MONA) will be opening the doors to it’s new home! After several moves over the years from Universal City Walk, Grand Hope Park and the Historic Core, MONA is making it’s home permanent in the City of Glendale. MONA was originally...

'Dirty Dancing' pure magic

The stage adaptation of ‘Dirty Dancing’ has arrived in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre and is nothing short of pure magic. The energy is explosive and welcome; the dancing is true beauty in motion and the music is nothing less than sensational guaranteeing that this show will truly be...

The Beatles create a No.1 hit with Lady Madonna

In 1968, The Beatles start working on their new single “Lady Madonna” at Abbey Road studios in London. Recording three piano and drum takes with overdub bass, fuzz, guitars, drums and vocals. The song was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon-McCartney. Once the song was released, it...

Political correctness in the art world

Several classical statues of old Rome’s gods and goddesses, including the celebrated Capitoline Venus, were crated to keep them from the eyes of Hassan Rouhani, president of Iran, who was visiting Italy to seal $18 billion in new business for his country. Because the statuary is undraped, the fear...

Nickelodeon announces nominees for 2016 Kids’ Choice Awards

The nominees are in for Nickelodeon's 2016 Kids’ Choice Awards, the ultimate fan celebration of the best of everything kids love in pop culture. The nominees reflect the entertainment that audiences see, play, listen to and read in droves, from movies like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic...

‘Empire’ at La Mirada, Long Beach Opera’s ‘Candide,’ Wooster Group's ‘The Room’

Happy to report “Empire the Musical” (in its world premiere at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts through Feb. 14) is a winner, and not only because it’s rare to see a brand new musical these days. This one’s about the gargantuan can-do effort to build the Empire State Building (then the...

Mesopatamia comes to the Museo Nacional 50 year anniversary

The Museo Nacioanl de las Culturas of Mexico city is celebrating 50 years. Opened in 1966 in the old pre-historic section of the Aztecs in the location known as the "Black House" of Moctezuma II. It was established as a one of five National Museums in 1825 by the first President of Mexico. The 5...

Carlyle Gibbs: First Friday Art Walk and February Exhibit

The Butterfield Garage welcomes back Carlyle Gibbs as February’s featured First Friday Exhibit. The new collection of metal, stone and canvas pieces will first be on display the night of Feb. 5, from 5-9pm during the St. Augustine First Friday Art Walk and continue throughout the month. Come meet...