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‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’ Review: Mangy Malaise
It doesn’t bode well for any film, let alone “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,” a fantasy adventure that cost at least $200 million to produce, when its opening salvo—the scene that’s supposed to grab you, pull you in and prepare you for further delights—finds two grim-faced gents at a restaurant table staring at a …
The Northerner | How NKU’s SOTA design and technology program is preparing students for lifelong careers in the arts
For many SOTA students, faculty and staff, room FA 203 is a place considered to be a home. Inside this room is SOTA’s costume shop, full of sewing machines, fabrics and other technology used to create costumes seen in the many shows NKU’s theater and dance department produces each year. Some students spend 20 hours …
‘Healing’ Review: More Help for Mental Health, Please
It may be surprising to learn that serious mental illness—such as schizophrenia, bipolar disease and severe depression—afflicts about one in 20 Americans. Some of us have encountered these conditions in the experience of family members. Others see it routinely on display on city streets. By now, as Thomas Insel notes in “Healing: Our Path From …
Report: Wisconsin Students Feel Disconnected, Want More Mental Health Services
After attending school virtually or semi-virtually for the past year, students in communities across Wisconsin said they found ways to cope with being away from teachers and friends but looked forward to getting back to regular in-person classes. Students also spoke in favor of more mental health services and mental health literacy. Feedback from 160 middle …
Dance company moves — and brings technology along with it | Arts and Theater
Kanopy Center for Modern and Contemporary Dance co-artistic director Robert Cleary carries a piece of flooring designed to absorb weight and pressure inside the dance company’s new location at 329 W. Mifflin St. The special flooring for dancers was removed from Kanopy’s former studios on State Street. JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL The technology piece is …
Houston home sales rocket to record-breaking pace in ‘buying bonanza’
In news that comes as no shock to anyone watching local real estate, the Houston market is scorching, with a shortage of available homes priced at $250,000 and below and the area again seeing record sales. Sales of single-family homes leaped 24.4 percent in March, with 9,347 units sold versus 7,511 a year …
Robert Colescott’s ‘George Washington Carver’ Poised to Break Artist’s Price Record
Robert Colescott’s George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook Courtesy of Sotheby’s Text size Robert Colescott’s George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook will be offered at Sotheby’s contemporary art sales in New York this May. With an estimate of between US$9 million and US$12 …
West Michigan Center for the Arts & Technology is enrolling now for its tuition-free Adult Career Training Program
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – Soaring Eagle has a great lineup started for their shows with 6 concerts announced at their outdoor venue already. Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa are performing on July 15th – tickets just went on sale! There are also still tickets available for Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert and Megadeath. You can …
Break for a Breakthrough: Canadian hosts international martial arts demonstration
EDMONTON — Whether he’s breaking a wooden board, a clay tile, cement bricks or stacks of cinder blocks in half, Kevin Olsen says every chop requires the same four skills. “You have to hit it with speed, perfect accuracy, focus and strength,” says the Canadian master of taekwondo with a sixth-degree black belt. “You have …
‘Legislative Bootcamp’ bill aimed at arts and technology economic development
Divisive cultural issues have been the hallmark of this year’s legislative session, but Arkansas lawmakers may have found common culture on arts and technology as an economic engine this past week. SB 531 unanimously passed the Senate Transportation, Technology and Legislative Affairs committee on Wednesday (March 17) and now awaits consideration in the Senate. The …
