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Fashion lovers and Michelle’s fans simply could not get over her inauguration look, which deserved a round of applause when she walked down the steps hand-in-hand with former president Barack Obama. And for good reason. Not only did it ooze sophisticated - and effortless glam - the ensemble also had a special meaning behind it. It was a style statement that made a statement in so many other ways as well.  … [Read more...] about Michelle Obama‘s inauguration outfit was incredibly meaningful – find out why

This does not seem so far-fetched when you consider Mamet’s real-world politics; formerly a “brain-dead liberal,” he at some point around the turn of the century came out as a pro-gun, free-market, hard-line conservative, plumping for Romney in 2012. His plays during the period underwent a similar change, switching focus from the powerless underclass desperados of early masterpieces like American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross to the petit bourgeois spinners, political correctniks, and vindictive relativists of November, Race, and The Anarchist. (None of that sour trio lasted a year on Broadway.) Now, with China Doll, he appears at 68 to have completed a transition, bringing his dramaturgy fully in line with his outlook. Mickey, whatever his flaws, is after all the hero, and Pacino plays him as such, with great good spirits and glamour. (In Jess Goldstein’s black duds and his own parted-curtains hairstyle, he looks like a chic undertaker.) The villains here are … [Read more...] about Theater Review: Pacino As a Stressed-Out Billionaire in David Mamet’s

This conflict is treated lightheartedly at first, in much the same bantering tone as their argument over when to fry the chilies and whether to use her cheap Parmesan cheese (which he calls a “greasy lump of crud”) for the spaghetti sauce she is preparing. (If you sit close enough, you will smell the garlic.) But Hare is offering these trappings of domestic comedy as bait; the moment their love is fully rekindled in the warmth of old familiarity it is blown out like a pilot light. For both Tom and Kyra, the idea of personal preference, whether about cookery or economics, turns out to be a cover for absolutes and refutations. We are not surprised to see Tom’s free-market realpolitik punctured in this way: Kyra nails him and his ilk as self-indulgent fat cats who, no longer content with just their wealth, now also require the pity of the poor. But we may be surprised — and if we are honest lefties, stung — by how evenhanded Hare is, letting Tom puncture … [Read more...] about Theater Review: An Illuminating

The visuals are also in counterpoint. Lights and sounds frequently flare up in what seem like random eruptions, then recede as if embarrassed. (If there has ever been a lighting design you could describe as uproarious, Wendy Rich Stetson’s is it.) Actors fiddle endlessly with their props, or twirl in their hoop skirts in experiments that become demented. This will not be to everyone’s taste, any more than Washburn’s earlier plays, which frequently involve a severe compositional constraint, have been. (The Internationalist employed an invented language; Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play imagined an apocalyptic world in which the only surviving text was an episode of The Simpsons.) But I found 10 out of 12 exceptionally funny and moving, the more so for the mystery of how either reaction was produced. Perhaps it was the result of Washburn’s patience in sticking with her perversity; the payoff came when, eventually — and, some people apparently felt, not a … [Read more...] about Theater Review: Once More, Please, for

The only problem with the ordering experience was the part where it told me the Shawn Mendes Bowl was $15.40 CAD. This is around five Canadian dollars more than a comparable item at Chipotle. If you’re going to make your item the most expensive thing on the menu, dare we say two dollars from every purchase should go toward hoodies for youth a cappella groups? The reason for the price bump is that the full Shawn Mendes experience includes both guac and Chipotle’s newest menu item: cauliflower rice. Chipotle launched it as an option on January 4, and it’s not entirely inconceivable that the Shawn Mendes Bowl doubles as a promotion for it. Chipotle makes a point of advertising that this cilantro-lime cauliflower rice is “compliant with Keto, Whole30®, Paleo, Vegan, and Vegetarian diets,” with only four carbs per serving. You could imagine Mendes’s personal trainer baby-birding this keto-paleo concoction into his mouth for energy before a workout. … [Read more...] about I Ate the Shawn Mendes Bowl the Way Shawn Intended