Tuesday - September 04, 2007NBC TV shows no longer on iTunes StoreApple announced on Friday that the iTunes Store
will no longer carry NBC TV shows. This includes the loss of
Heroes,
Law and
Order,
Scrubs,
Stargate
SG-1 and
Battlestar
Galactica.
Wednesday - March 22, 2006My Name is Rachel Corrie cancelled by New York theaterThe play
My Name is Rachel
Corrie was supposed to open at the New York
Theater Workshop tonight, until the theater cancelled the opening because of
concern over the political context.
Monday - March 20, 20061500 people photographed in the nude in VenezuelaMore than 1500 Venezuelans posed nude in front of
the Simon Bolivar monument in Caracas yesterday for a photograph by American
photographer Spencer Tunick.
Sunday - March 05, 2006Brokeback Mountain got 3 OscarsBrokeback
Mountain, and the people who made it, won
awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 3 categories:
music, adapted screenplay, and directing.
Thursday - March 02, 2006Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging QueensThere will be a special benefit performance of
stories of the AIDS Quilt in song and monologue on Friday, March 3, at Carnegie
Mellon University. Here are the details:
Wednesday - March 01, 2006G. E. Lessing's play Nathan the Wise to be simulcast in Pittsburgh and QatarG. E. Lessing's play
Nathan the
Wise is currently on-stage (through this
Saturday) in the Chosky Theater at the Purnell Center for the Arts at Carnegie
Mellon University. The production is excellent.
Thursday - February 23, 2006Brokeback Mountain got four BAFTA awards on SundayBrokeback
Mountain got four awards at Sunday's Orange
British Academy Film Awards ceremony, including the award for Best
Film.
Tuesday - January 31, 2006Brokeback Mountain gets eight Oscar nominationsBrokeback
Mountain has been nominated for awards in eight categories by the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Saturday - January 21, 2006Why would Gene Shalit interpret Brokeback Mountain homophobically?The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
(GLAAD) praised Gene Shalit for his response to
Today
show viewers who were angry and upset by his comments on
Brokeback
Mountain. The trouble is that he didn't
retract the comments that hurt. He is entitled to his opinion, but in this case
his opinion is based on an objectively erroneous view of the film.
Friday - January 20, 2006Brokeback Mountain gets nine BAFTA nominationsBrokeback
Mountain has been nominated for awards in nine categories by the
British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Monday - January 16, 2006Four Golden Globes for Brokeback MountainThe Hollywood Foreign Press Association awarded
Golden Globes to Brokeback
Mountain for Best (Dramatic) Motion Picture,
Best Director (Ang Lee), Best Screenplay (Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana), and
Best Original Song (Gustavo Santaolalla and Bernie Taupin, "A love that will
never grow old").
Thursday - January 12, 2006Brokeback Mountain finally opens in PittsburghBrokeback
Mountain will finally be showing in
Pittsburgh, opening tomorrow (Fri.) at Loews Waterfront Theatre and at the Manor
Theatre in Squirrel Hill.
Tuesday - January 10, 2006The Phantom of the Opera beats CatsNational Public Radio reported that Andrew Lloyd Webber's
The Phantom of the
Opera "became the longest-running show in
Broadway history" yesterday.
Saturday - January 07, 2006Metropolitan Opera auditions to be held in PittsburghThe Metropolitan Opera National Council district
auditions will be held in Pittsburgh on Jan. 14 (Sat.) at 10:00 a.m. in the
Kresge Theater at Carnegie Mellon University. It's free and open to the
public.
Saturday - November 26, 2005Film: Good Night, and Good LuckGood Night, and Good
Luck is the story about the conflict between
anti-communist crusader Sen. Joe McCarthy and the famous CBS newsman Edward R.
Murrow and about how McCarthy's attack on Murrow helped the public understand
what an irrational fanatic McCarthy was.
Tuesday - October 25, 2005"Gay Pioneers" will be screened on Thursday at Carnegie MellonGay
Pioneers will be screened in the
Adamson Wing of Baker Hall at Carnegie Mellon University on Thursday at 4:30
p.m.
Tuesday - July 05, 2005People say they want family entertainment, but porn is where the big money isThe Los
Angeles Times reported that porn is so popular that it pays to
put out an R-rated movie that will not do well at the box office in order to get
it into DVD sales.
Sunday - April 24, 2005Leonard Bernstein's CandideCarnegie Mellon's Schools of Drama and Music are
currently presenting Leonard Bernstein's
Candide
(the Royal National Theatre version) in the Philip Chosky Theater at Carnegie
Mellon University.
Tuesday - April 12, 2005Imax films threatened by creationistsThe
Observer reported that in the U.S. some "Imax cinemas
— including some at science museums — are refusing to show movies
that mention the subject [of evolution] or suggest that Earth's origins do not
conform with biblical descriptions." The targeted films include
Cosmic
Voyage,
Galapagos,
and Volcanoes of the Deep
Sea.
Friday - April 08, 2005Play: José Rivera's "Marisol" is currently onstage at Carnegie MellonMarisol
is a fantasy play about homeless people and violence on the street. It is
premised on the idea that the cause of the decline of order and civilization is
the waning of the influence of God in the world. It promotes the view that the
appropriate response is for people to start standing up for themselves and stop
being dependent on divine intervention to save them.
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