I remember when I was very young curling up on the couch, in my princess dress, watching the Oscars. None of the movies that I would have picked to win Best Picture won, to be fair the only one I had seen was Beauty and the Beast, and I had never heard of most of the films that were nominated but it seemed so glamorous to me. Read More
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I used to think that I was on top of pop-culture trends. I read Vanity Fair and watch E News from time to time, but I’ve discovered that I have missed a whole pop culture phenomenon, the YouTube celebrities. When I was a teenager, we had the Hilton sister, Britney Spears, the Spice Girls and other “party girls” in short dresses dancing on tables, today the girls have Miranda Sings! and Grace Helbig wearing jeans and t-shirts broadcasting on YouTube. Never heard of them? Me either.Read More
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Thérèse LaGamma, Deputy Director of Programming & Performing Arts Curator, talks with Content Editor Regina Baraban about the extraordinary international artists coming to the Loft this season, as a part of the Live at the Loft series.Read More
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I’ll never forget when I first read about The Black and White Ball. It was in a caption of a picture of Jackie Kennedy’s sister Lee, in one of the many biographies that I had devoured on the First Lady. I wondered what exactly a Black and White Ball was and who could throw such a fabulous party so I decided to find out. This was the early days of the internet and many years before google, so I made my way over to the library where I discovered Truman Capote, Katherine Graham, Babe Paley, and the Society Swans.Read More
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While it’s true that January has thrown a bit of snow into the mix, many New Englanders are still a little uneasy at the relative tolerability of winter thus far. There’s a suspicion that we’re just being toyed with, and that the Killer January Storm is still in Winter’s pocket, just waiting to be thrown at us.Read More
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This week, I opened up my mailbox and found a letter from The Music Hall that didn’t come from my department. It was my yearly reminder to renew my membership. As I wrote my check, I got to thinking about what it means to me to be a member.Read More
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Anyone who has ever recommended a movie to a friend knows the dilemma: You can be calm and judicious in your praise and risk sounding unenthusiastic (which means they won’t want to see it); or you can jump up and down and use every superlative at your disposal (which, for many young people is confined to “Awesome!”) and risk raising their expectations so high that they’re disappointed with the movie and will never watch another movie you recommend.Read More
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