This concert showcases some of the best talent in jazz, including Brenda Russell, Rick Braun, and Peter White. Leading the pack is Dave Koz. The latest contender for the instrumental pop saxophone throne, Koz came out of nowhere after his self-titled 1990 album made it onto the Billboard charts and stayed there for several weeks. [...]
Entries from January 2010
January 13, 2010
Steps
Spangly pop jamboree from Faye, Lisa and chums. Will H reprise his trapeze act over the crowd as he did on the last tour?
January 12, 2010
The Three Tenors
In their fourth and final North American performance of the year, the Three Tenors celebrate the release of their first-ever holiday recording, ‘The Three Tenors Christmas’. Since they first performed together in Rome in 1990, José Carreras, Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti have performed only 25 live concerts. The three superstar singers reprise songs and [...]
January 11, 2010
www.die-berliner-mauer.de
Most of the Berlin Wall was either dismantled or sold to museums around the globe or simply destroyed and used as building material. A number of stretches have remained intact, but many of these are in remote parts of the city and as such are difficult to find. Designed as an aid to tourists and [...]
January 10, 2010
The Piazza Navona Christmas Market
For Roman kids, Piazza Navona is one of the focal points of the city’s Christmas celebrations with over one hundred stalls selling all the necessary trash – both sacred and profane – to get them through the Festive Season. Neapolitan crib figures rub shoulders with green plastic elephants, amid a swathe of sickly sweets and [...]
January 7, 2010
Diverse Worlds
The title, ‘Mundos Diversos’, aptly sums up this highly diverse show of work by 20 photographers spanning almost the last half-century. The work shown ranges from the classic, neo-realist approach of the now-deceased Juan Dolcet and Gerardo Vielba, to current-day avant-garde pieces from Javier Vallhonrat, Juan Genovés and Daniel Canogar. Between these extremes are the [...]
January 6, 2010
Crispian Mills
The former Kula Shaker frontman gets all mystical on yo’ ass on his first solo tour.
January 4, 2010
Public loos
Florence (indeed, most of Italy) has never been the best place to find a public toilet ‘in extremis’. Either you can’t find one, or when you can, it’s filthy. The city council, however, must have become aware of the problem as they have built new ‘gabinetti’ throughout the city and published a booklet designed to [...]
January 1, 2010
Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th-century, with the eye and imagination of a painter. Being a photographer, of course, he needed a day job and what better avenue to pursue his gloriously stylised portraits than as chief photographer for Conde Nast, publisher of Vanity Fair and Vogue. There he [...]
