Faust

Chuck Brown Viewing At Howard Theatre: HuffPost DC Top 5 For May 29, 2012

The Huffington Post | Brandon Wetherbee | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Dandy Warhols, Robert Siegel, Video, Howard Theatre, National Cathedral, Curren$Y, Colin Powell, Natasha Leggero, Chuck Brown Viewing, Mr Burns a Post-Electric Play, The Kid With a Bike, Faust, Jon Langford, DC News

TOP 5 FOR TUESDAY, MAY 29 1. Chuck Brown Viewing At Howard Theatre Give your respects to the Godfather of Go-Go. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., all ages, ple...

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PHOTOS: Germany's Fairy Tale Railroad

Jim Calio | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Faust, Germany Railroads, Goethe, Blizzard, Railroads, East Germany Spy Station, Steam-Engines, Vintage Trains, Cold War, Brocken Railway, Harz Mountains, Slideexpand, Travel News
Jim Calio

In fact, every year on April 30, local villagers get dressed up like witches and devils and ride the rails from town to town in celebration of Walpurgis Night.

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The Met's New Faust

Howard Kissel | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Metropolitan Opera, Faust, Opera, Arts News
Howard Kissel

For a star-studded -- Jonas Kaufman, Marina Poplovskaya and Rene Pape -- new production of Charles Gounod's Faust, Met managing director Peter Gelb continues his habit of bringing directors from the contemporary theater. In this case it's Des MacAnuff.

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Venice Results Are In: And The Golden Lion Goes To...

AP | SHERI JENNINGS | Posted 11.10.2011

Read More: Faust Film, Shame, Venice Film Festival 2011, Venice Film Festival, Venice Film Festival Faust, Venice Michael Fassbender, Shame Michael Fassbender, Venice, Michael Fassbender, Shame Film, Golden Lion, Michael Fassbender Best Actor, Faust, Venice Film Festival Golden Lion, Culture News

VENICE, Italy — Russian director Aleksander Sokurov's "Faust," a new take on the German legend about the quest for knowledge at all cost, won th...

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A Pound Of Flesh: Extraordinary Literary Debts

flavorwire.com | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: David Graeber, Debt, Crime and Punishment, Canterbury Tales, Literary Debt, Merchant of Venice, Charles Dickens, Faust, Shakespeare, History of Debt, Chaucer, Books News

Today marks the release of David Graeber’s new book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years. In this red-bound tome, Graeber explains the concept of debt and c...

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Movie review: The Social Network

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Faust, Andrew Garfield, Eduardo Saverin, Jesse Eisenberg, Orson Welles, Winklevoss, Twitter, Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Facebook, Sean Parker, Beatles, Harvard, Napster, The Social Network Movie Review, Aaron Sorkin, Mark Zuckerberg, Justin Timberlake, David Fincher, Rooney Mara, Mephistopheles, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

The Social Network satisfies in ways great and small, as it tells a small story with big implications.

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Two Operas You'll Never See Performed at the Met!

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Strauss, Faust, Puccini, Madama Butterfly, Rigoletto, Manon, Verdi, Ray of Light Theatre, Where's Dick?, Othello, Houston Grand Opera, La Traviata, Salome, Mozart, Child Abuse, Gounod, Don Giovanni, Santa Claus, Nixon in China, Jerry Springer, Arts News
George Heymont

Whether deploying a chorus line of Ku Klux Klansmen, mocking every symbol of Christianity, or filling the theatre with nonstop profanity, Jerry Springer:The Opera has something to offend everyone.

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Obama Takes a Meeting With Mephistopheles

MP Nunan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Catholic Church, Faust, Vice President, House of Representatives, Democratic Party, Financial Reform, President Obama, Cheney, Pedophile Priest, Gulf Oil Spill, Pedophilia, Barack Obama, Pope Benedict XVI, Comedy News
MP Nunan

"You've probably already gathered why I called this meeting," Obama says. "I've spent 18 months in office, and I can't help but notice -- you're not holding up your end of the bargain."

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OPERA: Teatro Colon's Operatic Drama Offstage

nytimes.com | ROBERT TURNBULL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Faust, Buenos Aires, Gounod, Opera, Teatro Colon, Arts News

BUENOS AIRES -- An Argentine poem tells of an unsophisticated gaucho named El Pollo stumbling into an opulent production of Gounod's opera "Faust" in ...

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Dog Ears Music: Volume 116

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Faust, Harper Simon, mp3s, Kandia Kouyaté, Phil Ramone, Danielle Evin, Music, Motel Beds, Red Nichols, Brother Joe May, Dog Ears, Entertainment News
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

This week's column includes songs by Red Nichols, Harper Simon, Motel Bed, Brother Joe May, and more.

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Sen. Roy Ashburn Is the Latest to Succumb to Faustian Legend

Byron Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Devil, Faust, Mark Foley, Mephistopheles, Roy Ashburn Gay, Ted Haggard, Roy Ashburn, Politics News
Byron Williams

Ashburn's public acknowledgment this week that he is gay gives him the tragic distinction of being added to the cocktail party punch line of public officials guilty of the vilest hypocrisy.

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The Return of Dr. Feelgood

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Insurance Industry, Obama, Health Insurance, Faust, Medical Malpractice, Robert Mueller, Dr. Feelgood, Home News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

While this administration is still in its infancy, one can't help but think that what we are seeing is more of a massage than a substantive, and bold move in a new direction.

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