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Faust

Revisiting the Classics

George Heymont | Posted 04.17.2013 | Arts
Read More: Faust, Emil Jannings, Film, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Ferruccio Busoni, Charles Gounod, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Doktor Faust, Pieter De Rooij, F.W. Murnau, Timothy Brock, Christian Elliott, La Damnation De Faust, Gosta Ekman, Arrigo Boito, Hector Berlioz, Marguerite Clark, Snow White, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Mefistofele, Video, Arts News
George Heymont

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival recently offered audiences a chance to wonder just how well they knew two classic tales which, over the years, have acquired so many cultural imprints and branding opportunities that people assume they know these stories upside down and inside out.

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'Faust' For The Atomic Age

Wilborn Hampton | Posted 05.22.2013 | Arts
Read More: Faust Goethe, Des McAnuff, Marina Poplavskaya, Faust Met Opera, John Relyea, Metropolitan Opera, Faust Opera, Opera, Met Opera, Piotr Beczala, Faust, Opera News, Gounad's Faust, Gounod, Arts News
Wilborn Hampton

The Devil certainly gets his due in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Gounod's Faust, which returned for the first time this season Thursday nigh...

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Renowned Photographer Gets A Big Birthday Surprise

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 05.11.2013 | Arts
Read More: Aiko, Nyc, free5, Daze, Houston Wall, Bio, Lady Pink, Brooklyn Street Art, Faust, BrooklynStreetArt.Com, 70th Birthday, Tony Goldman, Street Art, New York City, Jaime Rojo, Cousin Sally, Freedom, Manhattan, Steven P. Harrington, Graffiti, Martha Cooper, Meghan Coleman, Photography, Free Five, Terror, Crash, How & Nosm, terror161, Arts News
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

"I can't believe it. I never expected this, ever." The famed Houston Street Wall was the site of a sidewalk surprise birthday party Saturday for phot...

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Magic on the Screen at Silent Film Festival

Thomas Gladysz | Posted 04.17.2013 | San Francisco
Read More: Faust, Douglas Fairbanks, Castro Theater, San Francisco Around Town, Buster Keaton, Silent Film, Slidepollajax, Mary Pickford, Sf Culture, Snow White Silent Film, Sf Silent Film Festival, Sf Silent Film Festival Winter, San Francisco News
Thomas Gladysz

There is a folk tale / fairy tale feel to this month's San Francisco Silent Film Festival. The festival's upcoming winter event, a now annual day-long series of screenings at the Castro Theater, takes place on Saturday, February 16.

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First Nighter: At the Theater, 'Tis the Season to Be Discerning

David Finkle | Posted 02.13.2013 | Arts
Read More: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Ian Holcombe, Gisli Orn Gardarsson, Kristin Griffith, Frank Capra, Lea Michele, James Stewart, Lynne Shankel, Christmas, Travis Wall, Warren Ellis, Rory Duffy, Bill T. Jones, Lucky Strike Cigarettes, " "Faust: A Love Story, Carl Grose, " Anthony E. Palermo, "Faust, Vikingur Kristjansson, Elizabeth Judd, Max Gordon Moore, Catholic Ideology, Nick Cave, Reykjavik City Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey, Charlotte Moore, " Vesturport Theatre, Gerard Canonico, David Toser, "Spring Awakening, Frances Goodrich, Barrett Wilbert Weed, American Theatre of Actors, Axel Johannesson, L. A.'s Hudson Theatre, " Broadway, Katie Fabel, Unnur Osp Stefansdottir, Thorsteinn Gunnarsson, The Irish Repertory Company, Bjorn Hlynur Filippusdottir, "It' a Wonderful Life, Albert Hackett, Peter Trensch, "Bare, Zachary Williamson, Youtube, Donyale Werle, " "Glee, Christopher Marlowe, " New World Stages, Missi Pyle, Jason Hitt, Peter Maloney, Nina Dogg Filippusdottir, Jerold E. Solomon, Arts News
David Finkle

There are sentimentalists out therehappy to spend much of the Christmas season looking for It's a Wonderful Life screenings. For them, Anthony E. Palermo has adapted the beloved screenplay as a one-hour radio play.

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The Met Season Analysis Part 4: What to Expect From March to May

Opera Teen | Posted 12.01.2012 | Arts
Read More: Faust, Metropolitan Opera, Met Season Analysis, Opera, Ring Cycle, Francesca Da Rimini, Robert Lepage, Otello, Met Season, Season 2012-2013, Giulio Cesare, Opera Teen, La Traviata, Video, Arts News
Opera Teen

Bow to the Met Season! It is your leader!

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UFO Crashes at Brooklyn Academy of Music

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 08.20.2012 | Arts
Read More: Jumbo, Ufo, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Street Art, Sadue 907, Noah Sparkes, BrooklynStreetArt.Com, Diego Guzman, Street Art, Joseph Ahern, Kelsey Womack, Steven P. Harrington, Cassius Fouler, Andrew H Shirley, Ryan C. Doyle, Faust, Adam Void, UFO 907, BAMart: Public, Sculpture, Brooklyn Shelf Life, Joe Ahearn, Jaime Rojo, Leon Reid, Metalworking, Williamsburg, Public Art, Graffiti, Showpaper, Swoon, Woodworking, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Hest One, Dagga Gaines, W. Thomas Porter, Gaia, Arts News
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

UFO 907 & W. Thomas Porter Unveil Giant Wooden and Metal Sculpture With 34 Eyes "I think this is the kind of art work that people can step up to and ...

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Trombone World Record, Sound Scene, Drag Ball Game: HuffPost DC Top 5 For June 1-3

The Huffington Post | Brandon Wetherbee | Posted 06.01.2012 | DC
Read More: Spanish Fest, Comet Ping Pong, First Fruits, Currensy, Improv Comedy, Jerry Butler, Mayzsoul, National Donut Day, Trombone World Record, Video, Natasha Leggero. Sound Scene, Taste of Georgetown, Girls Rock Dc, Drag Ball Game, Strathmore, Faust, Radiohead, DC News

TOP 5 FOR FRIDAY, JUNE 1 1. Trombone World Record At Nationals Park This is the way to promote a show. "The Music Man" is currently being performe...

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

The Huffington Post | Brandon Wetherbee | Posted 05.29.2012 | DC
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 07.08.2012 | Travel
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 | Arts
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 | Home
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, Home 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 | Books
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 | Entertainment
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 | Arts
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 | Comedy
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 | Arts
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

The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Faust, Harper Simon, mp3s, Kandia Kouyaté, Phil Ramone, Danielle Evin, Music, Motel Beds, Red Nichols, Brother Joe May, Dog Ears, Entertainment News
The Everlasting 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 | Politics
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 | Home
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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