Cole Porter

Making Fresh Ricotta Cheese

Rosie DeQuattro | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Cole Porter, Nancy Silverton, Fresh Cheese, Mozzarella, Raw Milk, Mozza, Ricotta, Recipes, KitchenDaily News

Fresh ricotta is delicious on bread, in cannoli, lasagna, on veggies, or as part of an antipasto platter -- wherever a creamy, cheesy addition would be good.

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Anything Goes on Broadway: Baby, You're the Top!

E. Nina Rothe | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Joel Grey, Sutton Foster, Cole Porter, Kathleen Marshall, Broadway, Martin Pakledinaz, Anything Goes, Roundabout Theater Company, Arts News

You may be asking yourself, so how relevant can a 1930s show taking place aboard a cruise ship, starring a gangster and a plucky cabaret singer and featuring a couple of crisscrossed lovers really be in 2012 NYC? The short answer is very.

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Lindi Ortega Video Exclusive, Plus Chatting With Yo-Yo Ma and Mason Jennings

Mike Ragogna | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Cole Porter, The Colbert Report, Prince, Coconut Records, Stuart Duncan, Jeremy Messersmith, The Pines, Star Trek, Chad VanGaalen, Fleet Foxes, Haley Bonar, Christian Bale, Glenn Gould, The Bad Plus, Chris Osgood, I'm Not There, Aoife O'Donovan, Jason Schwartzman, Arthur, Yo-Yo Ma, Suicide Commandos, Chris Thile, Modest Mouse, Bon Iver, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Alexi Murdoch, Arif Mardin, The Simpsons, Andy Pratt, Atmosphere, Edgar Meyer, Katy Perry, Todd Haynes, Regina Spektor, Joanna Newsom, John Lennon, Crooked Still, Randy Newman, Master and Commander, Lady GaGa, James Taylor, Video, Boneclouds, Entertainment News

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Stars of a Golden Age

George Heymont | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Cole Porter, The Artist, Bérénice Bejo, Star!, Film, Jean Dujardin, Daniel Massey, Gertrude Lawrence, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Michel Hazanavicius, Noel Coward, Malcolm MacDowell, John Goodman, Julie Andrews, Video, Arts News

In many ways, The Artist resembles A Star Is Born. One film star's career begins to crash and burn while another's takes wing against a background of tremendous churn in the film industry.

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First Nighter: Genius Jazz Violinist Aaron Weinstein Meets Brilliant Jazz Singer Christine Ebersole in Dual Birdland Triumph

David Finkle | Posted 01.29.2012

It's high time someone employs several hundred words to sing the praises of jazz violinist Aaron Weinstein for the widest audience possible.

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The Wonderful World of Irony

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Alison Mosshart, Brill Building, Cole Porter, Alanis Morissette, Bob Thiele, Bob Thiele Jr., Sons of Anarchy, Bob Dylan, Sons of Anarchy Tv Show, Bob Thiele Jr Sons of Anarchy, Entertainment News

The 50-year journey of "What a Wonderful World" shows the versatility of pop songs that encourage interpretations far afield from whatever the writers might have had in mind, if indeed they had anything particular in mind.

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Mark Murphy at Birdland -- Heavenly Creature

Melody Breyer-Grell | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Cole Porter, Jazz Singer, Mark Murphy, Alchemy, Birdland, Impressionistic, Body and Soul, Culture News

I rarely review people I interview (and know personally), but with Mark Murphy, breaking the rules is the name of the game. I did not know what to e...

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Today In History: June 9

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: American Revolution, Today in History, June 6, June 6 History, Cole Porter, June 6 Today in History, This Day in History, Heidi Fleiss, Home News

There's no denying it: the digital age is unforgivingly fast-paced. But how can we move forward if we never take a moment to reflect on where we've...

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First Nighter: Cy Coleman's Best is Yet to Come is Here Now at 59E59 Theaters

David Finkle | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Rachel York, City of Angels, Douglas W. Schmidt, Frank Loesser, Ira Gershwin, Dorothy Fields, Betty Comden, Stephen Sondheim, Napoleon and Josephine, Lorin Lattarro, Joe A. McCarthy, Lillias White, Sally Mayes, Feinstein's at Loews Regency, Jerome Kern, Like Jazz, Cy Coleman, Irving Berlin, Marilyn and Alan Bergman, Oscar Hammerstein II, George Gershwin, Jonathan Burke, Tony Bennett, Little Me, Michael Stewart, Carolyn Leigh, Mabel Mercer, The Best Is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman, Adolph Green, Michael Gilliam, David Zippel, The Great American Songbook, Downstairs at the Upstairs, Howard McGillin, Billy Stritch, Cole Porter, Ava Gardner, Frank Sinatra, Ira Gasman, Richard Rodgers, Sweet Charity, 59E59 Theaters, David Burnham, Arts News

The best is yet to come? Not this time. It's already here as it deliciously unfolds by way of singers Sally Mayes, Lillias White and Rachel York.

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Sing It Loud: Chatting with k.d. lang, JD Souther and Bobby Long, Plus a Beginners Audio Exclusive

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Jelly Roll Morton, Bonnie Raitt, Guster, Linda Ronstadt, The Eagles, Eric Roberts, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Fred Eltringham, Chris Walters, Joe, Georges Delarues, Laura Nyro, Dave Palmer, Mike Mills, Ornette Coleman, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Chuck Mitchell, Kruu-Fm, Tim Hardin, The White Stripes, Cole Porter, Roger Niell, Barry Mann, Leonard Cohen, Duke Ellington, Eye of the Beholder, Joni Mitchell, Frank Sinatra, American Idol, Roy Orbison, Glenn Frey, Elliott Smith, Mélanie Laurent, Judee Sill, Count Basie, Henry Mancini, Lex Price, k.d. Lang, Neil Young, Gilbert and Sullivan, Ewan MacGregor, The Kinks, Glen Campbell, Miles Davis, Daniel Clark, Rogers & Hammerstein, The Beatles, Jeff Coffin, John Coltrane, Longbranch Pennywhistle, Rob McGaha, Carly Simon, Gus Van Sant, Elton John, Don Henley, Christopher Plumber, Brian Reitzell, Bing Crosby, Quincy Jones, Tony Bennett, The Rolling Stones, Sam Shepard, Joe Pisapia, Carole King, Gershwin, Nona Hendryx, Harold Arlen, Viktor Krauss, Bob Dylan, Peggy Lee, Tom Waits, Liam Watson, Brian Sutton, Mark Ethridge, Meryl Streep, Waddy Wachtel, Randy Newman, Jackson Browne, Fats Waller, JD Souther, Gene Clark, The Band, Jimmy Webb, James Taylor, The Wallflowers, Josh Grange, Bruce Springsteen, Salmonberries, Entertainment News

One of my favorite tracks on k.d. lang's new album is the opener, "I Confess," which sounds like Brill Building meets country, meets...okay, I'll shut up now, k.d. lang has the rest.

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Stage Door: Anything Goes

Fern Siegel | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Cole Porter, Kathleen Marshall, Musicals, Joel Grey, Theater, Sutton Foster, Broadway, Entertainment, Arts, Jessica Walter, New York News

The current revival of Anything Goes is a big, beautiful Broadway joy. The production is so fresh and jaunty, it feels like an original debut.

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When It Comes to Song and Dance, "Anything Goes" for Adam Godley

Jon Chattman | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Rain Man, Joel Grey, Broadway, Cole Porter, Anything Goes, Stephen Sondheim, Colin Firth, Private Lives, Adam Godley, London, Love Actually, Glenda Jackson, New York News

In Anything Goes, Adam Godley portrays the hilarious, and, yes, singing and dancing Lord Evelyn Oakleigh opposite Broadway royalty Sutton Foster and Joel Grey.

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Theater: Seaworthy "Anything Goes;" Heavenly "Divine Sister"

Michael Giltz | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Joel Grey, Sutton Foster, Cole Porter, Off Broadway, Broadway, Charles Busch, Musicals, Comedy, Entertainment News

ANYTHING GOES ** 1/2 out of **** STEPHEN SONDHEIM THEATRE It's hard to go wrong with a sturdy musical theater vessel like the Cole Porter classic Any...

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The Music and Its Message: Songs of Protest and Cultural Identity

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune, Phil Ochs, One Voice, King Kamehameha III, Christopher Hitchens, Betty Comden, Pete Seeger, San Francisco Asian America International Film Festival, Kumu Hulas, Sean Penn, Herbert Mahelona, Joan Baez, Stephen Sondheim, Hawaiian Language, Frederick Loewe, Irving Berlin, Jule Styne, Yiddish Book Center, Peter Yarrow, Fred Ebb, John Kander, Bob Dylan, Lisette Marie Flanary, Hallelujah Baby!, Cole Porter, Punana Leo, Glee Club, Tom Hayden, Ka Hinano O Puna, Aaron Lansky, Richard Rodgers, Victor Jara, Arts News

Two thrilling new musical documentaries place great emphasis on the importance of a song's lyrics while paying homage to their creators.

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Interview With Brad Mehldau on the Art of Solo Piano

Joseph Vella | Posted 05.25.2011

I have interviewed the virtuosic pianist Brad Melhdau many times over the years. But this is the first time we focus exclusively on his approach to his solo work.

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Sondheim's Lyrics: Rhymes, Reasons and Religion

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oscar Hammerstein, Ira Gershwin, Stevie Wonder, Lorenz Hart, Lyrics, Irving Berlin, Noel Coward, Alan Jay Lerner, Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, Carl Sigman, Great American Songbook, Saturday Night, Sunday in the Park With George, Company, West Side Story, Follies, Arts News

Though I grew up in an agnostic household, I was rarely in doubt that a spiritual force was afoot. Music, specifically what's come to be called "The Great American Songbook," was our religion.

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Michael Feinstein: Top-of-the-Heap Singer, Equally Important Music Archivist-Historian

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Center for the Performing Arts, Ethel Waters, Al Jolson, Ira Gershwin, Christmas, Hollywood, Columbus, Carmel, The Library of Congress, New York City, The Great American Songbook, Cole Porter, Feinstein's at Loews Regency, Ohio, Hannukah, Michael Feinstein's American Songbook, Swing in the Holidays, Rosemary Clooney, Frank Sinatra, The Great American Songbook Archive & Museum, Michael Feinstein, George Gershwin, Indiana, Palladium, Entertainment News

If Michael Feinstein's American Songbook accomplishes anything -- it indisputably does -- it's that his commitment to the task of perpetuating the music is at least equal to his devotion to performing.

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China Wants Power and Respect

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al Qaeda, Mao, The End of History, Martin Jacques, U.S. Liu Xiaobo, Tito, Mecantilism, John Darwin, Hitler, China, Mussolini, Cole Porter, Fascism, Iran, West, Mark Mazower, Afghanistan, Nixon, Stefan Halper, Communisn, World News

Chinese foreign policy is focused not on achieving global preeminence, but on maintaining access to energy resources and on creating a regional sphere of influence in East Asia.

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Brush up Your Shakespeare! (VIDEOS)

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Romeo and Juliet, Undead, Hamlet, The Tempest, Mafia, Julius Caesar, Shylock, Othello, Kiss Me Kate, The Boys From Syracuse, The Comedy of Errors, West Side Story, The Merchant of Venice, 10 Things I Hate About You, King Lear, Jew, The Dresser, Romeo Must Die, Albert Finney, Klingon, Orson Welles, A Midsummer Night?S Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Slings and Arrows, Cole Porter, Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare, Were the World Mine, The Taming of the Shrew, Falstaff, Rosencrantz, Burbage, Guildenstern, Elderhostel, Iago, Arts News

Shakespeare's plays have been the stuff of inspiration for playwrights, composers, and film directors. Here are a few of the best and worst attempts to re-imagine the Bard.

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America's Cheesiest Charttoppers (Part 2)

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

A carton of Maalox later, l submit the following tracks for induction into the Worst Hits Hall of Fame.

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Ms. Kagan Regrets

Jerry Weissman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elena Kagan, Supreme Court, Cole Porter, Jon Stewart, Miss Otis Regrets, Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings, Murder Boards, Linda Greenhouse, Elena Kagan Supreme Court, Politics News

Because of the public's low expectations of integrity in the political world, politicians often get away with ducking tough questions.

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First-Nighter: Tammy Grimes Remains Unsinkable at The Metropolitan Room

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bob Hope, The Metropolitan Room, Harry Warren, Noel Coward, Winter Garden, Cole Porter, Tammy Grimes, Harve Presnell, Truman Capote, Look After Lulu, Private Lives, Roddy McDowell, Entertainment News

It's important for me to keep things in perspective when writing about Tammy Grimes, who's just finishing up a week-long engagement at Manhattan's Metropolitan Room. After all, she's 76 now. And yet, and yet: She's still enchanting.

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Sutton Foster To Star In Cole Porter Broadway Revival "Anything Goes"

AP | JOHN CARUCCI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Broadway, Sutton Foster, Broadway Musicals, Cole Porter, Kathleen Marshall, Todd Haimes, Anything Goes, Cole Porter Broadway Revival, New York News

NEW YORK — Composer and songwriter Cole Porter returns to Broadway next season with the Roundabout Theater Company's revival of "Anything Goes."...

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Homo-Harlem: Learning How to be Gay from Movies

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, James Baldwin, Alain-Leroy-Locke, Carol Brice, Kenneth Mcpherson, Homo Harlem Film Series, The Motion of Light in Water, State Senator Bill Perkins, Henry Van Dyke, Wesley Tann, Nora Holt, Earle Hyman, Jimmy Daniels, Museum of the City of New York, Richard Bruce Nugent, Bricktop, Willard Winter, Gerrie Major, George Platt Lynes, Cecil Beaton, Walter Nicks, Langston Hughes, Marvin and Morgan Smith, Samuel R. Delany, Oaks Bluff, Paul Meers, David Willson, Althea Gibson, Edward Perry, Adelaide Hall, Countee Cullen, Inter State Tattler, Philip Johnson, Dr. Godfrey Nurse, Duncan Grant, Billy Dee Williams, Nella Larsen, Times Square, Tallulah Bankhead, Sex in the City, Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Dorothy West, Johnathan Brice, J. Fredrick Lohman, Elsa Maxwell, Billy Strayhorn, Wallace Thurman, Charles Leslie, Truman Capote, Tom of Findland, Archie Savage, Marlon Brando, New York Amsterdam News, Carl Van Vechten, Maysles Cinema, Arthur Mitchell, Alvin Ailey, Martha's Vineyard, Jimmy Donahue, Clifton-Webb, Agustus Granville Dill, Monty Wooley, Cole Porter, Cary Grant, Joey Coleman, William Waefieldgeorge Platt Lynes, John Leapheart, Christopher Isherwood, Impact News

Yesterday, I saw the season's gay hit move of the summer, Sex in the City II, which has received such bad reviews, but my friends and I quite enjoyed ...

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Dog Ears Music: Born In June Playlist

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cole Porter, Prince (and the Revolution), Michael Cera, Brandon Flowers (the Killers), mp3s, Phil Ramone, Danielle Evin, Nancy Sinatra, Boz Scaggs, Music, Gretchen Wilson, Dog Ears, Entertainment News

This week, we feature music by Prince (and The Revolution), Nancy Sinatra, Brandon Flowers (The Killers), Michael Cera, and others.

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