All the hot stuff from Broadway to MOMA
International companies regularly swing by Symphony Space on the Upper West Side to perform in events such as "Haiti! The Spirit of Freedom," presented this week by the Pangea Theatre Company, or the World Music Institute’s varied programs, which this season include Indian, Scottish and Judeo-Andalusian music and begin tonight with Omar Bashir in a […]
An Internet search for Istvan Szabo’s films on the Reel.com Web database brings up the Hungarian director’s Academy Award-winning "Mephisto" and the other installments in his 1980s trilogy about characters compromised by war. Like those films, "Colonel Redl" and "Hanussen," Szabo’s newest release, "Taking Sides," returns to the battleground between conscience and collaboration. The film, […]
Want to create an instant community? Just add cotton. That’s what one San Francisco-based entrepreneur says she’s doing with a line of T-shirts silk-screened with the slogans "Yo Semite" (a play on the national park’s name) and "Jews for Jeter": in support of the Yankees’ star shortstop. Undeniably clever, the shirts ($15 to $20) are […]