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Ryan Reynolds awarded 2021 Governor General’s Performing Arts Award
OTTAWA — Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds is the recipient of the 2021 National Arts Centre Award. The award, part of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards, recognizes work of an extraordinary nature and significance in the performing arts by an individual artist and/or company in the past performance year. Recipients are selected by the National Arts Centre. The Vancouver native and Hollywood star tweeted a video of Canadian musician Steven Page singing a song in his honour. “Last night, Canada honoured me with a Governor General’s Award and this video. I’m not crying. It’s just maple syrup,” Reynolds tweeted. “Steven Page is a friend and a legend for wasting this…
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Perfectionist. Genius. Icon. That Was Stephen Sondheim | Entertainment News
By MARK KENNEDY, AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In 2010, the year he turned 80, Stephen Sondheim had to endure a public fuss when a Broadway theater was being renamed in his honor. At a ceremony outside the 1,055-seat auditorium on West 43rd Street, the composer looked sheepish by the time he got to the podium following gushing words from admirers that included Patti LuPone and Nathan Lane. He also offered up a window into his psyche. “I’m thrilled, but deeply embarrassed,” he said, tearing up as a mid-September sun fell over the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. “I’ve always hated my last name. It just doesn’t sing.” The comment…
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Grandview Heights Moment in Time
Fred Behmer was born in 1886 in Columbus, and at an early age he gained access to a camera and quickly developed an eye for photography. At 16 years old he started taking photographs for money, and at 17 he began working at Jeffrey Manufacturing doing corporate photography. He married in 1907, and he and his wife, Sophia, had a son and two daughters. The family later moved to a new home at 1407 Wyandotte Road in Grandview. After about a year, Behmer left Jeffrey to join Baker Art Gallery of Columbus, which was the largest photo studio in the country. After two years he went to work for the Ohio Sun, a…
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Performance artist Hanna Cormick on disability, climate change and why the way we make art needs to change
Interviewing Hanna Cormick requires one to embrace an elastic relationship with time. The performance artist has what she describes as a “trifecta of conditions” — Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome — that affects her joints, organs and ability to stand. She also has severe allergic reactions — including anaphylaxis — to various foods, smells, temperatures, vibrations and chemicals. Since September 2015, Cormick has been living in a positive pressure air-sealed safe room in Canberra. It took a number of tries for ABC RN’s The Stage Show to be able to record an interview with the artist, whether that was due to her experiencing pain,…
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State Theater showcasing several holiday movies | Local News
This holiday season the State Theater has movies featuring Griswolds, golden bells, a grouchy Grinch, guardian angels and the golden age of Hollywood. “We think there is a Christmas movie for everyone in our lineup,” said Beth Pyles, State Theater operations manager. The lineup includes “Christmas Vacation,” “The Polar Express,” “It’s A Wonderful Life,” “The Grinch” and “White Christmas.” Pyles said there are many favorites showing this year. “Christmas Vacation” she said is a film fans enjoy. “We all have a little dysfunction in our families so I think we can relate,” she said. Movies like “The Grinch” and “The Polar Express” are for not only the young but also…
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The Best Music of 2021
Some of my earliest memories involve repeatedly slamming a sticky forefinger onto the Rewind and Play buttons of a two-tone Fisher-Price cassette player. Long before I was able to respond to music as anything other than a sensory stimulus, I was an obsessive listener. I don’t mean “obsessive” in a cavalier, tossed-off way, either. I routinely shredded my favorite tapes via exuberant overuse. I floated off to sleep while attempting to re-create whole songs in my hungry little mind. Music was air. It was omnipresent, necessary, alimental. This past year, for the first time ever, my listening habits shifted. The act itself—putting a record on to fill the room—felt significantly…
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