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(02/20/15 7:30am)
One brisk day in the winter of 1997, a holiday — or, rather, anti-holiday — was born. The sitcom “Seinfeld” aired an episode in which George Costanza reveals his family celebrates “Festivus,” invented by his father as a way to counter “the commercialism of the December holidays.” Festivus upends conventional holiday customs such as colorful decorations and merriment by including as a centerpiece a bare metal “Festivus pole” and, more importantly, encouraging an “airing of grievances” where “each person lashes out at others and the world about how they have been disappointed in the past year.”
(11/06/14 5:24pm)
Many in New York City have made fortunes with quick fingers, a keyboard piano and a devotion to jazz music. Scott Bradlee has not been so lucky.
(10/02/14 6:07pm)
In a moving and poignant exhibit, Russell Lord — curator at the New Orleans Museum of Art — brings a different artistic angle to the Fralin Museum of Art as he curates “Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument,” an exhibit open until Dec. 21.
(09/26/14 5:40pm)
Two boys sitting in a beat-up sedan, drinking out of liquor bottles as marijuana smoke hangs suspended in the air around them.
(09/24/14 7:11pm)
Ever since 1987's “Dirty Dancing" left movie theaters, there has been a serious slowdown in the number of romantic movies with dancing backdrops. But in 2006, director Anne Fletcher enlisted heartthrob Channing Tatum and renowned backup dancer Jenna Dewan-Tatum — an on-screen pair who later continued their love affair off-screen in 2009 — to make one of the first films addressing the phenomenon of urban street dancing: “Step Up”.