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A post shared by Joe Henry (@joehenrymusic)Ciccone was known to have a tumultuous personal life, and his struggles with addiction and homelessness were well-documented. In a 2011 interview with the Daily Mail, he spoke about his estrangement from his family, saying, “I’m a zero in their eyes; a non-person. I’m an embarrassment.

Miigis: Underwater Panther from Canada’s leading company of contemporary Indigenous performance. Although typically categorized in the genre of dance and as a dance company, Red Sky Performance, as its tagline makes plain, is “More than Dance, we are a Movement.”The work is touted as merging elements from dance, music, film, and theatrical innovation to create a fusion that accentuates the dancers’ athleticism, helps shed light on “the power of nature,” and also touches on the Anishinaabe, or Ojibwe, people’s history and folklore, including references to the mystery beings, the rise of matriarchy, and the ancestral pull of the subsequent seven generations after the great migration.

Macbeth. As the program’s official description put it, “MDLO’s presentation at Strathmore puts the MDLO Orchestra center stage, while dramatic lighting, captivating projections, and enhanced visual supervision by David Gately takes the audience directly to Macbeth’s castle for an unforgettable performance.”This weekend, MDLO returns to Strathmore for the conclusion of its 2022/23 season devoted to Giuseppe Verdi, and the Italian master’s three Shakespearean operas in particular.“The ‘Season of Verdi’ is a celebration of grand works,” Woorman says.

NBC News.Staysniak’s son claimed his father displayed a firearm and told him and the boyfriend “that they’re lucky he saw who it was,” according to the affidavit. The boyfriend told deputies that Staysniak had “flashed a gun” and “had it against the side of his face at one point during the incident.”Staysniak told sheriff’s deputies that his neighbor had called him to report a suspicious car in their front yard, prompting him to investigate, gun in hand, to confront a potential threat.When he approached the car, he saw who was inside and told his son’s boyfriend that he could never return to his property.Staysniak denied hitting the boyfriend and said that his son “came after him.” He said he shoved his son with an “open hand,” and that his son began to bleed at the mouth. He said that he and his son “got into it” and that “he tried to attack him,” according to the affidavit. Staysniak further claimed he had to physically restrain his son and that his wife had to separate the two men.

The Banshees of Inisherin already capturing a fair share of the major awards and with possibly a decent shot at some Oscar love, the focus on Irish cinema is hotter than ever.Of course, Solas Nua, Washington, D.C.’s hub for contemporary Irish culture and performing arts, has been training its eye on films emerging from the Emerald Isle for quite some time now.This is the 17th year they’ve curated the Capital Irish Film Festival (CIFF), and this year’s four-day festival, held March 2 to 5 at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland, is arguably the largest in the group’s history.The festival opens with a massive get — The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin), which is up for an Oscar in the Best International Film category.Director Colm Bairéad’s coming-of-age drama, is set in rural Ireland in the early ’80s, as a young girl struggles with a dysfunctional, impoverished homelife and finds new life when sent to live with relatives for the summer. Bairéad will participate in a Q&A following the screening.

Black Broadway: A Proud History, A Limitless Future is the latest program produced for PBS by the American Pops Orchestra and its founding Music Director Luke Frazier, this time also featuring members of the Howard University and Morgan State University choirs as performed and recorded last October at Howard’s Cramton Auditorium.The program focuses on iconic songs made famous on Broadway by Black artists, and among the many standout performances, Payton gets to shine twice, including closing the show with “And I’m Telling You” from Dreamgirls.Earlier in the program, she sings “I’m Here,” the anthem she sang every night last fall as Miss Celie in Signature’s phenomenal The Color Purple, which earned her one of two nominations as Outstanding Lead Performer in a Musical at this year’s Helen Hayes Awards, set for May 22 at the Anthem.Her second nomination came from her starring turn in Grace, a world premiere presented last year at Ford’s Theatre.After winning a 2012 Helen Hayes Award her first time at bat, when she played Motormouth Maybelle in Signature’s Hairspray, Payton had racked up five more nominations prior to this year, but is still waiting to scoop up a much-deserved second trophy. Here’s hoping Mars might serve as a kind of good luck charm for her this year.Wednesday, March 1.

Party Down (★★★★★) even better.First airing on Starz in 2009, the comedy follows the Party Down catering crew as they try to make it big in Hollywood while also just trying to make ends meet. Packed with a cast that most comedies would literally kill for, the show quickly grew a small cult following — emphasis on “small,” as the comedy never caught a big enough audience to warrant more than two seasons.After its cancelation, Party Down quickly joined the likes of Firefly and Freaks and Geeks on “shows canceled too soon” lists for years to come.

She’s a Millennium BabySpice was born Isis Gaston in the Bronx, New York, in the dawn of the new millennium – January 1, 2000, to be exact – to a Nigerian father and Dominican mother.As the eldest of five siblings, her interest in a rap career reportedly began when she was just seven and was introduced to hip-hop musicians such as Lil’ Kim.Throughout her high school years, she worked on her writing skills by penning poetry and refining her rap talents, but it was not until she attended college that she started making strides toward an actual career in the music industry.Her Collaborator Bought Her a $150,000 Watch as a GiftThe rising star’s Valentine’s Day celebration this year was made very special by fellow rapper Lil Tjay, who surprised her with a $150,000 Richard Mille watch as a present.While the extravagant gift may lead some to jump to conclusions about the nature of their relationship, both hip-hop artists have been quick to clarify that they are just friends.Sources close to Spice revealed to TMZ that the two are not romantically involved. Tjay apparently just wanted to do something meaningful to commemorate their “Gangsta Boo” collaboration’s success in reaching the Billboard Hot 100 chart.She Modeled for Beyoncé’s Ivy Park Fashion BrandIn January 2023, Spice took to Twitter to reveal photos from her modeling moment, as she is one of the select few people featured in the latest Ivy Park campaign, known primarily as Beyoncé’s Adidas collection.The range, named Park Trail, will be available in Adidas stores in February 2023.

Determined Women: Collectors, Artists, and Designers at Hillwood features nearly 100 items from the permanent collection, dating from the 1700s all the way up to today.The exhibition builds on The Houses and Collections of Marjorie Merriweather Post: The Joy of It, a glossy book published last fall and written by Hillwood’s curatorial team led by Chief Curator Wilfried Zeisler, who curated Determined Women.The exhibition is grouped into four sections, opening with a look at the Post family women — including Post and her three daughters — viewed through photographs, portraits, and other memorabilia.That’s followed by a section that focuses on more than twenty influential women as seen through their objects and portraits — a wide-ranging grouping including proto-feminist women from the Age of Enlightenment as well as both ancient and modern rulers — ending with one of Hillwood’s newest acquisitions, a contemporary ceramic piece with images of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kamala Harris, and Stacey Abrams.Additional contemporary pieces from the museum’s collection, works by Isabelle de Borchgrave and Cindy Sherman inspired by historic pieces collected by Post, will also be on display for the purpose of juxtaposition as well as demonstration of the continued talent of women artists today.A short section focused on historic awards honoring women, such as the Order of St.

 seven methods of killing kylie jenner (★★★☆☆) holds serious grievances against the “self-made” billionaire baby mogul of the Kardashian-Jenner clan. It might be playwright Jasmine Lee-Jones, who voices myriad beefs through Cleo (Leanne Henlon), the brassy, riled-up Black British teenager who sparks a social media uproar in the audacious comedy making its U.S.

Incognito (★★★☆☆) enter dancing — or, rather, they enter arranging themselves into dancerly poses around an elegantly minimal set. The effect definitely is mystifying, if awkward-looking, whatever impact is intended by director Allison Arkell Stockman and movement director Emma Jaster.The brief movement prelude to this intricate puzzle of interconnecting stories, written by Nick Payne, makes for a shaky start in a production that, at times, seems taxed by the effort to tie together the play’s disparate threads and timelines.The four-person ensemble, playing 20 characters total, perform admirably in distinguishing the main figures featured, including Dr.

Dove Cameron is preparing to release her debut album, hopefully at some point in 2023, and in anticipation of the drop, she’s shared a new single.That romantic ballad, “We Go Down Together,” is a duet with R&B/pop powerhouse Khalid.As she begins promoting the tune, the actor and singer wasn’t shy as she spoke to People about her successes, how her life has changed, and how her music is largely aimed at the queer community.During the recently published chat, Cameron revealed that her aspiration is to make music that everyone can enjoy — “except for straight men,” in her words.She clarified, however, that “You don’t have to be a part of the queer community to come and enjoy my music.” Clearly her aim is to create music that is accessible to everyone, regardless of their orientation — though she obviously has a sweet spot for one subset of her following.The singer also opened up about her newfound freedom to express herself at concerts, now that she is out and part of the queer community. “I’m allowing myself to be more human on stage rather than having it be the place that I feel the least safe,” she said.

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Cotton: The Soft Dangerous Beauty of the Past.The series of 35 large-scale photographs was presented as an exhibition in 2018 at the African American Museum in Philadelphia.Dowell’s haunting and often surreal images situate cotton both in the past and in the present of the African-American experience, and evoke the journey from rural Southern fields to the North, specifically the concrete canyons of New York City.Five years later, Dowell’s photography has inspired a new musical work by rising classical composer Damien Geter, one that was imagined, curated, and commissioned by Philadelphia’s Lyric Fest recital series to commemorate its 20th anniversary.Cotton is an intensely moving song cycle by the openly gay, Black composer that responds to Dowell’s imagery but also to original lyrics from eight luminary poets, “nationally renowned voices of the 21st century” also commissioned by Lyric Fest for Cotton: Charlotte Blake Alston, Nikki Giovanni, Afaa Michael Weaver, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Lauren Alleyne, Alora Young, Glenis Redmond, and Trapeta Mayson.Three days after its world premiere later this month in Philadelphia, Washington Performing Arts presents the D.C. premiere of Cotton at the Kennedy Center as the organization’s inaugural Ruth Bader Ginsburg Memorial Recital.Legendary mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, a favorite artist of the late Supreme Court Justice who performed at her funeral, will be joined by up-and-coming baritone Justin Austin and accompanied by pianist and Lyric Fest director Laura Ward, for a multimedia performance enhanced with projections of Dowell’s images, plus video readings from the commissioned poets reading their works during the performance.One night only.

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Pictures From Home (★★☆☆☆), Broadway’s lethargic family drama based on a book of photos.Between 1982 and 1992 photographer and college professor Larry Sultan took a bounty of photographs of his parents, Irving and Jean. He captured them in both candid, unrehearsed moments and in staged poses.The process was painstaking, both for him and his subjects, but it ultimately launched them all to a sort of stardom within the photography world. Sultan released the book to numerous accolades and, according to the New York Times, it has “become a definitive guide to narrative photography.”Playwright Sharr White was apparently so moved by the project, he decided to adapt the photos into a play.

Vern Yip told Metro Weekly in 2018 in a cover story interview. “Similarly, if something just functions and it’s not aesthetically pleasing, it’s also a failure.”The interview coincided with Yip’s appearance at the fall 2018 Capital Home Show presented by Marketplace Events.

Metro Weekly before the 2022 event.Organizers also kept the lineup focused on performances, largely forgoing “the other types of programs and workshops and free events that take place throughout.” By “other types of programs,” Yeuell was referring to the dozen or so supplemental activities offered most of the first 11 years of the festival — pre-pandemic programming that made for a more vibrant and bustling experience, as festival-goers lingered longer throughout the center in between shows.Now, as the Atlas gears up to host its second in-person festival since the pandemic, organizers have, by and large, stuck to the same blueprint. As a result, Intersections 2023 has grown to a rather significant degree, in both quantity and duration, with a total of 35 distinct shows, all but two scheduled over five consecutive weekends.

Trustfall (★★★☆☆), Pink declared that it is the most fun she’s ever had. Before she can get there, though, she needs to take a moment to pay homage to her late father with the piano ballad “When I Get There.” Wistful and full of the particular sort of hope that the dark times can be waited out, the song is an unconventional opener — an honest, ungratuitous reckoning with the grief of losing a loved one and a window into Pink’s emotional state in creating the album.Opening the album with that moving tribute underscores Pink’s admirable determination to take the bad times as well as the good.

Less than a year after revealing she was in her first same-sex relationship, Rebel Wilson has announced her engagement to her girlfriend Ramona Agruma.The couple, who made their relationship public back in June 2022 after a newspaper in Australia was about to “out” the Hollywood bigwig, are clearly head over heels for each other, and for months they have not been shy about showing the world their love.Wilson shared the exciting, romantic news with her fans on Instagram, posting two adorable photos of herself and her new fiancée in matching pink and white striped sweaters, each with a black heart emblazoned in the center. The images featured the couple kissing in front of Sleeping Beauty’s castle at Disneyland with flowers raining down on them.

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders and Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer’s Guide. Atlas Obscura has also expanded into the world of events, including organizing tours and presenting lectures and seminars.Three years ago, the pandemic forced the company to overhaul its events and experiences division, first and foremost by entering the virtual world and creating a whole new slew of events and experiences offered online, whether as scheduled livestreams or available on demand.The organization’s current lineup of online programming is divided into the categories Experiences and Courses.

Intangible Forms is a series of luminescent installations, with nine currently filling the entire underground gallery space in D.CAside from the lights and lasers, the exhibition is intended as “a meditative soundscape” inspired by the powerful quietude of Shinto shrines in the mountains of Japan.Set up in ARTECHOUSE’s main room, the centerpiece installation, simply titled “intangible #form,” is a continuous light show of kinetic red lasers that alternately move in wavelike unison and then splinter off to form distinct geometric shapes — all in a manner, to quote the official description, “[that] invites visitors to pause, reflect, and feel a connection to all living beings of the past, present, and future.”“I’ve been trying to generate virtual consciousness and, in extension, virtual life in this work, triggering a deeper sense of humanity in ourselves,” the artist is quoted as saying in the release.Highlights among the other installations include:“intangible #umbra” in which “the absence of light and shadows acts as a dimensional extension of the visuals that are seen here.”“dynamic light statics,” set up with five monitors displaying various lines of light that obey physical constraints.“power of one #empty” shows how a line and bright light can create and define space, and also “aims to re-create emptiness in two-dimensions.”“power of one #surface” plays up the effect of light on one-way mirrors, or those used for police lineups and in interrogation rooms, as seen when two lasers hit two rotating as well as two stationary one-way mirrors.“power of #extrude” explores the interplay between a single laser projector and a motorized apparatus with 10 individual strips of one-way mirrors.In addition, ARTECHOUSE’s XR Bar

Queen of Me (★★★☆☆) marks her second comeback in recent years, this time after coming down with COVID so badly she feared she would lose her voice for good.Twain’s joy and relief at being on the other side of all that are palpable. Right out of the gate, she seems eager to make up for lost time.

Rihanna fans have been eagerly waiting for the release of her next album, which has been many years in the making. Now, following her show-stopping performance at the Super Bowl, the singer has finally given them an update on the much-anticipated project.“I want it to be this year,” Rihanna said during a cover story interview with British Vogue.

Uncoupled, which premiered on Netflix last year, has been given another chance after it was canceled by the streaming service a month ago.The show has been “saved” by Showtime, which has picked up the show for a second season.Uncoupled, created by Darren Star and Jeffrey Richman, features a star-studded cast that includes Neil Patrick Harris, Tuc Watkins, Tisha Campbell, Marcia Gay Harden, Emerson Brooks, and Brooks Ashmanskas.The show follows Michael (Harris), who must find his way in the world as a newly-single gay man after his partner of many years, Colin (Watkins), leaves him suddenly.It sees the middle-aged Harris trying to date, learning what’s changed since he was last on the market, and even investigating dating apps such as Grindr.The good news is that the series has now been picked up by Showtime as part of the network’s new content strategy, which seems to include a renewed focus on diverse groups of people, including the LGBTQ community. According to Deadline, the move to Showtime might also see the show become “edgier and racier” than its Netflix counterpart.One of the series’ stars, Tisha Campbell, had hinted to People recently that the show might not be gone for good.

five people were killed and dozens injured in a mass shooting last November, has announced plans to reopen in the fall of 2023. Prior to its reopening, the club will build a permanent memorial on its site, honoring the five victims of the shooting — Daniel Aston, Raymond Green Vance, Kelly Loving, Ashley Paugh, and Derrick Rump — and install enhanced security measures, such as new screening technology and a “hardened space.”In architecture parlance, a “hardened space” could potentially include armed checkpoints, safe rooms, or structures and features, such as additional doors or automatic locks, that would make it harder for a person to gain entry to the club.More information on what those enhanced security measures will entail will be released in the coming weeks, in the hope that other LGBTQ venues may follow Club Q’s lead by also installing such measures.To carry out and install the additional security features, as well as design the memorial, Club Q has partnered with HB&A, a Colorado Springs-based, women-owned architecture and planning firm.The club’s owners hope to gut the club’s interior in April 2023, later rebuilding it in time to open for the fall. The club’s management team has also hired two survivors of the shooting as staff and plan to add at least one new staff role in the next month.Those new hires will serve as administrators, helping management with rebuilding efforts, community relations, and other projects needed to ensure the club can reopen on schedule.In November, Club Q management supported the Colorado Healing Fund and the Compassion Fund as two ways to raise funds to support victims — defined as those injured in the shooting, patrons who were inside the club at the time of the shooting, or

Respect for Marriage Act, which would require the federal government and states to recognize same-sex marriage licenses issued in states with laws that allow same-sex nuptials. The Act is a safeguard in case the conservative-leaning Supreme Court reverses its own decision legalizing marriage equality nationwide.She also attacked Democrats for their support of a bill to guarantee a right to an abortion, falsely repeating a Republican talking point that the bill would allow abortions up until the moment of birth (in fact, the bill would only allow such extreme cases to occur in cases where the mother’s life is at risk). “The truth has to be told. And we’re down to a point in America where the truth is being canceled.

pic.twitter.com/zzt0H4CsE1— CONSEQUENCE (@consequence) February 13, 2023Videos of Adele made the rounds on the internet as the Super Bowl was taking place, but she wasn’t the only one who was living their life to RiRi’s performance.Billie Eilish was also spotted dancing and lip-syncing along from her box as well.Adele and Billie Eilish’s reaction to Rihanna’s performance pic.twitter.com/nbSINSSEjY— Fer ³⁰ (@adeleisbaee) February 13, 2023Rihanna took the stage for the first time in seven years and immediately revealed that she was pregnant with her second child.During her 13-minute performance, the Grammy winner and current Oscar nominee delivered some of her biggest hits, including “Bitch Better Have My Money,” “Work,” “Diamonds,” “Only Girl (In the World),” “We Found Love,” “Rude Boy,” and “Umbrella,” all while sporting her baby bump in a bright red outfit.Adele’s support of Rihanna is not surprising given their close friendship. In 2018, Adele wrote a profile of the Barbadian pop chart-topper for Time, calling her a “gracious, loyal and funny goofball of an icon.”The “Rolling in the Deep” talent also described Rihanna as fearless and full of the right kind of attitude.Adele’s appearance at Super Bowl 2023 is the latest that saw her having a good time thanks to another well-known musician.

Bars and Measures (★★★★☆), in a gripping Mosaic Theater production, metes out its clues and secrets with well-measured slowness, as Bilal, in solitary confinement, awaits his next court hearing.He stays loose and lucid by practicing his bass in his head, his hands running up and down the imaginary fingerboard. We hear the music as he plays, while, behind him, light strips lacing the cracks in the concrete walls pulse in time to the tune.His abject physical confinement and resilient creative mind are vividly captured in the blend of scenic design by Paige Hathaway, spry lighting by John D.

The Guardian.In response to Stobary’s question, Bishop Michael Ipgrave, the vice chairman of the church’s liturgical commission, said the question was already being studied, referring to the upcoming commission examining the use of gender-specific language when referring to God.To no one’s surprise, social conservatives have become enraged and pushed back against the very idea of changes, seeing it as an attempt to appeal to “woke” secular culture.The Rev. Dr.

Violin Concerto No. 2, which up until then had never been published and was considered lost forever.Rachel Barton Pine, who has dedicated her career to highlighting the work of Black composers, joins as featured soloist with the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, led by Music Director Christopher Zimmerman, to perform the work as the Black History Month centerpiece of a program also featuring Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy and Dvorák’s Symphony No.

Janelle Monáe – “Make Me Feel”“Make Me Feel” served as the flagship single from Janelle Monáe’s third album Dirty Computer, and what an opener it is. Both the music video and lyrics, with alternating male and female love interests and phrases such as “It’s like I’m powerful with a little bit of tender / An emotional, sexual bender,” make “Make Me Feel” a celebration of loving anyone of any gender.Oh, and that Prince guitar lick automatically makes it sexy as hell. k.d. lang – “Constant Craving”“Constant Craving,” a bewitching Grammy-winning soft rock ballad released by the talented Canadian singer-songwriter k.d.

Instagram post showing him in a neck brace with bruises and dried blood all over his face, Barry Miles wrote that he was jumped by two unknown men after leaving Powerhouse, a popular LGBTQ bar on Folsom Street in the city’s SoMa neighborhood.Miles wrote that his wallet was stolen, and that he suffered a heart attack during the assault due to high cholesterol, requiring doctors to put in two stents.“My face hit the sidewalk,” he wrote. “Also a front tooth was knocked out, and a small fracture in my neck.

“The thing about monuments,” says Paul Farber, “is that there is no coherent set of monuments.”Farber knows. As one of the country’s foremost experts on the subject of America’s monuments, great and small, and the co-founder and director of the Philadelphia-based Monument Lab, he has a deeper, more complex worldview of the statues and structures that the rest of us sometimes take for granted.“It is a common misconception that there is some government agency out there in charge of all the monuments and they greenlight them and take the bad ones away,” says the youthful 40-year-old.

My 21st Century Blues (★★★★☆).Her first full-length album is an impressive debut that not only shows off the strengths we already knew she possessed, but shows what she’s capable of when she has free rein.The first indication that Raye was really onto something came with “Escapism,” Raye’s first single to chart internationally. The song’s trip-hoppy beat clips along at a brisk, tense pace, underscoring the feeling of running away toward better things.The rest of the album is just as meticulously crafted and has a sense of timelessness about it, helped along by the way she bookends the album with a cabaret-like intro and outro.Raye’s songwriting is as edgy and fresh as any R&B-inflected pop, but its instrumentation and production is deeply indebted to the best of British jazz and soul.

Dayton Daily News.Glines had been scheduled to appear for trial on Tuesday, Feb. 6, at which point Xenia Municipal Court Judge David McNamee was expected to resolve the issue of whether the third charge against her would be dropped.