Sacrificium
On the cover of her new album Sacrificium , Cecilia Bartoli's head has been Photoshopped onto an antique marble torso complete with fissures but lacking tits, whose stone genitals have been knocked off. Hmmm. Cecilia, what are you trying to tell us?
Footloose & fancy free: 10 for 2010 stages
Maybe a new decade doesn't start until 2011, but do you think the people in Year 10 waited around until 11 to start making lists? And we like the roundness of our new year. So, it's 10 for 2010, an easily divisible look at what should help make the coming weeks theatrically memorable.
Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince
In 1974, four-time Best Actress Oscar winner Katherine Hepburn made her sole appearance at an Academy Awards ceremony. She presented the Irving G. Thalberg Award to Lawrence Weingarten. This special Oscar honors an individual whose work embodies "a consistently high quality of motion picture productions."
Children key in Prop 8 trial
The strategic use of children and fears about them being indoctrinated into homosexuality during the 2008 campaign to pass a ban in California against same-sex marriage took center stage during the first two days of a federal lawsuit questioning the constitutionality of the measure known as Proposition 8.
Obama evoked in Prop 8 trial
Just as his non-support of gays and lesbians marrying was used to convince California voters to reject marriage equality in 2008, President Barack Obama's stance on the issue was evoked in court this week during the federal trial over the constitutionality of the state's ban against same-sex marriage.
AIDS program largely protected in governor's proposed budget
AIDS advocates got some good news last week when Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed providing an additional $87.5 million for the state's AIDS Drug Assistance Program in his 2010-11 budget proposal.
Plaintiff couples reject DPs
The couples in the federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the state's ban against same-sex marriage testified this week that they are fighting for the right to marry because they consider domestic partnerships to be of lesser value than marriages.
Parents of dead woman's ex-girlfriend sought
San Jose police are seeking the parents of a woman who has been charged in the death of her ex-girlfriend.
Mining emeralds - Tyne Daly's Second Time Around
There's a directness, a crispness of diction and an intelligent specificity in her language that makes even a simple conversation with Tyne Daly as engaging as a performance. The six-time Emmy winner (four for Cagney & Lacey) is on the cusp of something new, which she brings to the Rrazz Room next Tuesday.
Ring in the new on the lavender tube!
Ah, the new decade has begun. We just love the smell of tabula rasa in the morning. Clean slates all around, please. Of course, there are some things we don't want to see changed, like our favorite TV programs. The Naughties, as BBC calls the first decade of the new millennium, brought us some dramatic shifts in the TV landscape, which opened the door for better and more inclusive programming. Yet there is much on the small screen that could use some tweaking. Or some twinking.
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