#Lauren Baez

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You know, the last time I took a trip was probably...it was ’65. Or—’66? Just a few years before the incident. The last time I took a vacation, I mean—

[click, static] Not that this is a vacation, but, you know, it’s not a work trip, it’s uh— [click, static]

I had this...um, friend—a writer I’d met at a club in New York—who had a house upstate. She technically lived in the Village, but she was hardly ever there—I guess writers really like their solitude.

So I’d go up there sometimes, just for a weekend. Take the metro-north to the last stop—she’d pick me up in this old Ford pick-up she had and we’d go straight to the grocery store before heading back to the house. She’d ask me what I wanted to cook that weekend, like I ever had any idea. I’ve got about five dishes I can make with any kind of proficiency, but she loved to cook and she wanted to include me, I guess.

Which was nice.

I’d usually pick out the wine and then we’d take our haul back to the house and put on a record—Joan Baez or James Brown—and we’d drink and cook and eat and talk about books or what she was working on at that moment.

She knew what I did, but she knew not to ask too much about it. So mostly I’d tell her about the weird people I’d met, or the shows I’d seen recently.

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I loved going to see shows on Broadway. Maybe that’s surprising to you —it’s surprising to a lot of people who’ve met me. But I loved it. Loved any kind of live performance, whether it was Broadway, off-Broadway, music concerts, beat poetry, whatever. Just seeing people get up on a stage and open themselves up to strangers in that way...there’s something extraordinary in it. And my friend, she didn’t get to the city much by that point, like I said, so she liked hearing about all the shows I went to go see.

And, uh, if I had enough wine by that point in the evening, I might even get up and act out some of the more dramatic bits of what I’d seen on her living room carpet. She would laugh so hard at that.

[click, static] She had a great laugh. [click, static]

There were so many times in the last six years that I wished I’d been trapped with her in her cabin in the woods instead of in Pennsylvania with Harry. I’m sure there would’ve been things about each other that drove the other insane, but at least there would have been... compensations.

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She was a good friend. A really good friend, you know? It wasn’t...um, it wasn’t committed or anything, but...yeah, she was a really good friend.

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[thesiouxzy]

The Year Ahead

Forecast for January 2023 to January 2024

If You Were Born Today, January 9:

Although you can be impatient when things are not turning out according to plan, you are very patient with people overall. Forever curious about how others “tick,” you are a natural psychologist and highly observant. At times, you are restless and certainly thrive on change more than the typical Capricorn. However, you are incredibly committed to what you do, and you can most certainly be counted on. You are able to look at the big picture, which is very comforting to others.

Famous people born today: Simone de Beauvoir, Richard M. Nixon, Dave Matthews, Bob Denver, Joan Baez, Jimmy Page, Joey Lauren Adams, Nicola Coughlan, Imelda Staunton, Nina Dobrev, J.K. Simmons, Nicola Peltz.

Your Birthday Year Forecast:

Your birthday follows a Full Moon this year, and you can frequently find yourself guiding and sharing during this period. Others frequently turn to you for advice, and you are especially willing to offer your help. It’s a strong year for publicity and any other endeavors that involve spreading the word. As well, your ability to be objective–or to see the “big picture”–is in the spotlight and rewarding this year.

You project a warmer, more confident manner during this period of your life, and you could very well attract romance or more play and entertainment into your life. You seek more opportunities to enjoy yourself. This can be a highly creative year, and whatever you do is colored by at least a little bit of drama.

You can be doing quite a bit of thinking, and discussions or mental connections with others are especially notable, standing out this year. Nevertheless, the pace of your life is a little quicker than usual. You can be especially productive in various types of communications–writing, speaking, learning, teaching, and so forth–as long as you focus on a few important projects and pursuits.

You have a stronger focus on, and dedication to, work in the period ahead. You can make significant headway in specific areas this year, and you are likely to feel a stronger sense of direction and purpose.

Pleasing circumstances surrounding your love life, finances, and creative pursuits are in store this year. You are especially generous, and others often return the favor. You might receive financial backing or special gifts in the period ahead. You seek a little more from your love life and you are likely to receive it. It can be a time of falling in love or enhancing an existing relationship. You’re a little more open with your heart and ready to share your creativity.

This is a good period for putting in the effort towards progressive causes and projects, and to bring new, unique, and exciting elements to your work. New techniques or options can emerge, and they can be quite exciting.

Certain relationships or connections in your life further your growth this year, or events take place in which you feel like you are moving forward and growing into a new phase of your life. People in authority regard you more favorably at this time.

Wonderfully creative ideas can fill your head this year. Your mind is open to new methods and styles that work well for you. This can be a good time for updating your electronics and technology in ways that open up new avenues for communication or ease.

Relationships get a boost. You’re likely to feel pleasantly attached, finding it natural and easy to nurture and support people in your life. You’re strongly motivated to bring harmony, balance, and peace into your environment and relationships during this period.

A stronger focus on sharing power effectively in your relationships can elevate your connections. More commitment and intensity or passion can figure strongly.

You often draw on your inner wisdom or sixth sense and intuition to understand what’s happening around you this year. Previously hidden or unacknowledged talents may emerge.

This can be a generally a good period for understanding one another in your relationships, as well as for feeling good about giving others the benefit of the doubt. You can feel empowered by your charitable qualities. It’s a potentially amazing year for helping people, teaching, and growing through your connections. A relationship may develop that feels like a soul connection.

Summary:

The year is especially strong for connecting with others, learning, and reaching new levels in personal projects. It’s a time to shine as you pursue your joy and pour more energy into what makes you happy. Your interests are plenty, and you’re ready to apply yourself to pet projects.

8 in Numerology

2023 is a Number Eight year for you. Ruled by Saturn. This is a year of power and accomplishment. Actively seeking to expand, taking educated risks, and moving forward are highlighted. This is a year of opportunity, particularly in the material and business world, and opportunities need to be seized. It's generally not a year to find a new love partner, simply because the focus is on the material world and your place in the world. This is a problem-solving year in which you can expect real, tangible results. Advice - take action, plan ahead, and seize opportunities.

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Lori Loughlin is returning to Blue Bloods for the final season. CBS announced the details of Loughlin’s return on Monday, November 4, after her presence was teased in a promo for Season 14 Episode 14, which aired after the November 1 episode.

Loughlin is reprising her role as Grace Edwards in the episode, set to air on Friday, November 8. The last time the Full House alum appeared on Blue Bloods was in 2016, four years before serving two months in prison for her conviction in a college admissions bribery case.

Tony winner Lauren Patten will also return as Rachel Witten in the episode, Eddie’s (Vanessa Ray) former partner turned social worker.

The last time fans saw Grace, it was the Season 7 premiere and she was already widowed. Grace begged Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck) not to let her son join the police force, fearing what could happen to him after her husband was killed on the job. In the promo above, it’s now Frank who’s asking Grace not to affect his son’s life, as she has blocked Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) from getting an award for his work.

Here’s the official description for Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 14, “New York Minute”: “Danny and Baez [Marisa Ramirez] scrutinize an art gallery suspected of selling counterfeit pieces after a detective investigating the establishment is murdered. Also, Eddie is conflicted when she discovers her former partner turned social worker, Rachel Witten (Lauren Patten), crossed the line to get a mentally ill client much-needed help; and Frank is upset when an award Danny was to be honored with is rescinded by Grace Edwards (Lori Loughlin), the widow of an NYPD officer killed in the line of duty.”

CBS

“My son is a decorated cop and fine family man,” Selleck firmly says in the video promo, as Loughlin shoots back, “He’s also from New York’s most visible cop family and enjoys a reputation as a very loose cannon.” Wahlberg gets emotional when saying, “It’s just getting really personal now,” in a separate scene in the teaser.

As for Rachel, who is not seen in the promo, Eddie will learn that she has gone to morally questionable lengths to help a client. Get a look at Patten in her Blue Bloods return in the photo above.

Patten has played Rachel in 19 total episodes across six seasons. She debuted in Season 8 Episode 15, and her last appearance was in Season 13 Episode 14.

There are only five episodes left of Blue Bloods‘ final season. What former guest stars are you hoping to see come back before the show’s time is up? Let us know in the comments, below.

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Birthdays 1.9

Beer Birthdays

Mark Dorber (1957)

Marty Velas (1961)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Bob Denver; actor, "Gilligan" (1935)

Karel Capek; writer (1890)

Jimmy Page; rock musician,, gitarist (1944)

Les Paul; guitarist, guitar maker (1915)

Bart Starr; Green Bay Packers QB (1934)

Famous Birthdays

Joey Lauren Adams; actor (1971)

George Balanchine; dancer (1904)

Arthur Baer; writer (1886)

Joan Baez; folk singer (1941)

Simone de Beauvoir; French writer (1908)

Hayyim Nahman Bialik; poet, publisher (1873)

Dick Enberg; sportscaster (1935)

Gracie Fields; actor, comedian (1898)

Crystal Gayle; country singer (1951)

Steve Harwell; rock singer (1967)

David Johansen; singer, actor (1950)

Judith Krantz; novelist (1928)

Fernando Lamas; actor (1915)

Dave Matthews; pop musician (1967)

Kate Middleton; British royalty (1982)

Richard M. Nixon; 36th U.S. President (1913)

Jonathan Kimble "J.K." Simmons; actor (1955)

Imelda Staunton; actor (1956)

Lee Van Cleef; actor (1925)

Scott Walker, a.k.a. Engel; musician (1943)

John B. Watson; psychologist (1878)

Susannah York; actor (1941)

Chic Young; cartoonist (1901)

[larryland]

REVIEW: "The Skin of Our Teeth" at the Berkshire Theatre Group

REVIEW: “The Skin of Our Teeth” at the Berkshire Theatre Group

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Return to Return to Nuke’em High AKA Volume 2 (2017) A quick did you Know Stan Lee was the Narrator of this film

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My Top 25 Senior (16+) Solos of 2016/2017

(I just couldn’t cut it down anymore!)

In no particular order...

1. Samantha Falk - Sinking 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO_2UDNRuxY&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9&index=26

2. Erica Grabowski - Body Language 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w_ilVVP3QI&index=2&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9

3. Sidney Ramsey - La Mama Morta 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoVEaNKyTck&index=3&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9

4. Ali Stevens - Dim My Mind 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd89PkrEUlQ&index=5&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9

5. Ariana McClure - Pas Oublie 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uom7lQCJ6Us&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9&index=6

6. Lauren Herb - Painting Greys 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDA6Mj2Ut1w&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9&index=8

7. Simrin Player - Good Girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvi4jVCsEdw&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9&index=9

8. Addison Moffett - Foolish Games 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4_soGmQqkE&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9&index=10

9. Michelle Quiner - Lost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tZKdKmWJ5s&index=11&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9

10. Nina Choi - Become Your Fantasy 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uizzyRIfc_g&index=12&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9

11. Paulina Macias - Cross The Line 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aORqsv7qECU&index=14&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9

12. Jessy Lipke - One in Ten 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nenmcaXBm4&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9&index=15

13. Amanda Baez - Only Fault 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_O_ON4RsyM&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9&index=16

14. Hannahlei Cabanilla - Sink Back Into the Ocean 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwf_RPLxMNc&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9&index=18

15. Taylor Sieve - Le Sacre 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL-wyZn5dAM&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9&index=20

16. Kaylin Maggard - Because An Illusion Is An Illusion 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_nS5oS-NV0&index=21&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9

17. Isabella Halek - Below 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_r8v_qH808&index=23&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9

18. Elise Monson - Order 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jAJ1g4lZLE&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9&index=24

19. Emily Slader - I Lost You 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o4KIHZyDpI&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9&index=25

20. Ridge McGinley - Wind Beneath My Wings 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEiLJiAHZrs&index=22&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9

21. Lex Ishimoto - Location 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6ie3-rfO5c&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9&index=19

22. Dangelo Castro - (Performance as Best Dancer) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T1HK3K-l8c&index=17&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9

23. Michael Novitski - Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv0XdrM35Eo&index=13&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9

24.Logan Hernandez - Untitled 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ9p4jiqbfg&index=7&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9

25. Brendon Moran - Harmonic Dissonance 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SzqiC1Yi-E&index=4&list=PLYKVRaQBwyDqeLRLAp2kDghqwPk_Ecpg9

Let me know your faves :)

[writemarcus]

Prospect Announces Full Line-up For 11/17 RULE OF THREE Musical Theater Lab, In Concert

The performance takes place on Wednesday, November 17th @ 7:30pm.

by Stephi Wild

Nov. 11, 2021  

Prospect Theater Company has announced the full cast for a special one-night-only concert performance at NYC's Symphony Space (2537 Broadway @ 95th Street). On Wednesday, November 17th @ 7:30pm the company will present RULE OF THREE, a concert evening featuring hot-off-the-presses offerings generated in its annual Musical Theater Lab.

Three is the magic number. Three strikes and you're out. Third time's the charm...

Prospect's annual Musical Theater Lab returns with a line-up of original short musicals created by a cadre of up-and-coming artists. This year, the lab brings together writers to investigate the "rule of three": a writing principle that suggests a trio of events or characters is more humorous, satisfying, or effective than other numbers.

The writing teams selected for the 2021 Musical Theater Lab are: Laura Barati & Danny Ursetti; Danny K Bernstein; é Boylan; Dorie Clark & Marie Incontrera; Dante Green; Durra Leung; Angela Sclafani; Marcus Scott, Charles Turner & Sean Mason; Dani Shoulman & Erin Hoerchler; and Kate Thomas & Joey Contreras. A full list of writer bios are available at https://www.prospecttheater.org/rule-of-three-writer-bios.

The cast for RULE OF THREE will feature a line-up including Broadway and Prospect alumni artists and new comers: Niki Afsar, Shannon Amiry, Gina Naomi Baez, Genesis Adelia Collado, Alexandra de Suze, Jovan E'Sean, Hillary Fisher, Mia Gerachis, Kat Griffin, Sarah Hamaty, Dickie Hearts, Amy Jo Jackson, Travis Kent, MinJi Kim, Austin Ku, Margaret J. Leisenheimer, Rosemary Loar, Sharaé Moultrie, Toren Nakamura, Jay Paranada, Allison Posner, Luis Ramos, Brian Charles Rooney, David Rowen, Logan Rozos, Tonilyn A. Sideco, Lauren Singerman, Martín Solá, LaDawn Taylor and Tatiana Wechsler.

The concert evening is directed by Dev Bondarin, Prospect's Associate Artistic Director. Music Directors are John Bronston and Anessa Marie. The Stage Manager is Michelle Navis, the Assistant Stage Manager is Allison Spann, and the COVID Safety Manager is Meghan McVann. Samuel Norman is the Production Associate, and ASL Interpretation is provided by Tim Smith. The musical theater lab is curated by Dev Bondarin & Cara Reichel.

Tickets are $25 and are available at www.ProspectTheater.org or by calling Symphony Space's box office, 212-864-5400. Audience members must be fully vaccinated and masks are required. To access Symphony Space's full COVID Safety protocols, visit: https://www.symphonyspace.org/your-visit/what-you-need-to-know.

The performance will be open captioned. Anticipated running time: 95 minutes, no intermission.

[norashelley]

tagged by the lovely @hildy-dont-be-hasty & @joanleslies Thank you so much!

10 movies - this time I’ll list 10 I haven’t talked about much before

Sparrows (1926)

Lucky Star (1929)

One More Spring (1935)

Captain January (1936)

Born to Dance (1936)

You’re a Sweetheart (1937)

The Young in Heart (1938)

To Be or Not to Be  (1942)

A Stolen Life  (1946)

The Egg and I  (1947)

10 books

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken

Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones

Rasmus and the Vagabond, Astrid Lindgren

Ronia the Robbers Daughter, Astrid Lindgren

The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Traveling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa

Liesl and Po, Lauren Olivier

The Clockwork Three, Mathew J Kirby

Handbook For Dragon Slayers - Merrie Haskell

An Old Fashioned Girl - Louisa May Alcott

10 musicians

Ella Fitzgerald 

Mildred Baily

Billie Holiday

Dodie Stevens

The Supremes

Joan Baez

Blondie

Emilie Simon

Cecile Corbel

Julie Fowlis 10  songs

They Can’t Take That Away From Me - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Lilacs in the Rain - Mildred Baily

All Of Me - Billie Holiday 

Pink Shoelaces - Dodie Stevens

Baby Love - The Supremes

Donna Donna - Joan Baez

Rapture - Blondie

Quand vient le jour - Emilie Simon

Jardin Secret - Cecile Corbel

Dh’èirich mi moch madainn cheòthar - Julie Fowlis

10 tv shows

Larkrise to Candleford

Batman (1960s live action)

The Great British Baking Show

The Avengers

I Dream of Jeannie

Get Smart

Bewitched

Doc. Martin

Keeping Up Appearances

Call the Midwife

I’ll tag @nitrateglow @nataliawoods @olivethomas @classic-flicks-chick @filminghere @noplacelikethesilverscreen @mothgirlwings @daniellesdarrieux Only if you feel like it of course! Please let me know if you would rather not be tagged in things or  if you would like to be tagged I will happily tag you in things!

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Not Alone: Famous Bisexual People

A couple of years ago I posted this little thing thinking it would get a few likes and then vanish into the inter webs. Thank you all so much for the overwhelming support for this little piece! I’ve taken your suggestions and have done some research. Some names have been taken off and some have been added. As before, please let me know if some if you see a misspelled name or a name that shouldn’t be there or don’t see a name that should be there. I will take your input and do some research and update it as needed!

Names included:
|Frank Ocean |Demi Lovato |Lady GaGa |Nina Simone |John Maynard Keynes |Giorgio Armani |Megan Fox |Janis Joplin |Edna St. Vincent Millay |Rebecca Sugar |Lord Byron |John Forbes Nash |Nathaniel Hawthorne |Marilyn Monroe |Malcolm X | Fred Rogers |Walt Whitman |Oscar Wilde |Daphne Du Maurier |Sir Alec Guinness |Zoe Saldana |Margaret Cho |Ke$ha |Alexander Hamilton |Oscar de la Renta |Frida Kahlo |Jessie J |Ezra Miller |Billie Holliday |Josephine Baker |Ethel Waters |Shailene Woodley |Freddie Mercury |Joan Crawford |Alice Walker |Aubrey Plaza |Raúl Esparza |Bella Thorne |Billie Joe Armstrong |Sharon Osborne |Nicola Adams |Tamara de Lempicka |Angelina Jolie |Cynthia Nixon |Evelyn Mantilla |El Hedi ben Salem |Bessie Smith |John Lennon |Fergie |Kate Brown |Gina Rodriguez |Virginia Woolf |Alan Cumming |Sia |David Bowie |Ani DiFranco |Azealia Banks |Alfred Kinsey |Sister Rosetta Tharpe |Michael Chabon |Farley Granger |Orlando Jordan |Rebecca Walker |Bai Ling |Dorothy Thompson |Mike White |Christian Lacroix |Conner Mertens |James Dean |Fritz Klein, MD |Marielle Franco |Amy Winehouse |Lou Reed |Rabbi Debra Kolodny |Kyrsten Sinema |Nicholas Ray |Katherine Mansfield |Michael Stipe |Dusty Springfield |Dolores del Rio |Kristen Stewart |Amber Heard |Gillian Anderson |Anna Paquin |Evan Rachel Wood |Michelle Rodriguez |Andy Dick |Jillian Michaels |Joan Baez |Kathy Najimy |Carrie Brownstein |Jane Wiedlin |Amanda Palmer |Vanessa Carlton |Clive Davis |Sapphire |Meshell Ndegeocello |Frenchie Davis |Sara Ramirez |Charles M. Blow |Amandla Stenberg |Halsey |Monica Raymund |Bryan Singer |Lauren Jauregui |JoCasta Zamarripa |Roxane Gay |Cara Delevingne |Megan Mullally

Names added to the list:

Fred Rogers

Alexander Hamilton

Names removed from the list:

Brendon Urie

Janelle Monae

You can find the original post here.

[douxreviews]

Lucifer - ‘Super Bad Boyfriend' Review

"Why do I hate myself so much?"

This episode made me think about why Lucifer is a difficult show to define.

Yes, it's fantasy; it's based on a comic about the Devil solving crimes in Los Angeles, after all. And yes, it's definitely funny, but it's not exactly a comedy. It's not a drama, either. The linchpin is a character study of Lucifer, and his struggle to define himself. Lucifer wants to be better than what he is. While strongly pulled toward hedonism and pleasure, Lucifer wants to right wrongs, to administer justice, which is what he does with Chloe.

Yet, much of this episode (that wasn't about Amenadiel, whom I'll address later) was about Lucifer finally realizing that he hates himself. It was never that he didn't like himself when he was with Eve – that was just a symptom. Throughout this episode, Lucifer kept expressing self-loathing. He finally admitted to Linda that God wasn't manipulating him; that he, Lucifer, brought it all on himself. I actually teared up when he asked Linda, "Why do I hate myself so much?" We all know his wings and his devil face are under his own subconscious control after all, a manifestation of Lucifer's self-hated.

At least this realization is progress. I want Lucifer to realize what we all know he really wants, which is to fight crime with Chloe, and to be worthy of her love. I don't think we're going to get that this season, though, because then the main emotional arc of the show would be over. Right?

Speaking of emotional arcs, Amenadiel's impending fatherhood made him realize that he's not just an ex-angel, he's an African American ex-angel. While DB Woodside did an absolutely marvelous job, it almost felt like this plot was too heavy and serious for a show like Lucifer, although I'd argue that it went well with Lucifer's realization.

That said, it was just like Amenadiel to try on fatherhood for size by helping Caleb, a young man who came to Lucifer for a huge favor – to get out from under a drug dealer named Tahir. Amenadiel is powerful and good, but he is still way too naïve about life on Earth, and he got Caleb killed. When Caleb told Amenadiel that he was going to crush being a dad, I could just feel the end coming. That scene at the morgue set to the powerful song "Take Me to the River" made me cry – especially when with a simple gesture, putting his priceless pendant around Caleb's neck, Amenadiel rejected God. I also really loved the moment when Amenadiel went after Tahir, and Lucifer knew immediately what Amenadiel intended, and backed him up. They don't always feel like brothers, but they did at that moment.

Eve had some wonderful moments this time. When Lucifer went all "bad boyfriend" in an attempt to get her to break up with him – beer and snack food, fantasy football, bingeing bad TV, kissing other women – she out-Lucifered Lucifer and did the same, right down to kissing the very same woman. The problem is, after all that, Lucifer still didn't want Eve. We're also getting the interesting message that Maze does.

Maze's little dating vignettes were really amusing and said a lot about what she really desires. Maze outright rejected the woman who looked and sounded exactly like herself, and then blew off a really hot guy with flowers to keep talking with Eve and telling her how awesome Eve is. It's clear as day that Maze is strongly attracted to Eve, while Eve is aware that Lucifer isn't good for her but isn't ready to let him go. Eve and Maze would make an interesting couple, wouldn't they?

And so would Ella and Dan. They had a couple of cute scenes together, the best of which was the two of them awkwardly reciting case details practically in unison. Will this turn out to be more than an awkward sexual encounter at work? I'm not sure how I feel about Ella and Dan as a couple, especially since I get this weird incest vibe because I can't help seeing Ella as a grown-up Trixie.

As usual, the case of the week complemented what was going on with the main characters. It was obvious from the beginning that Lexy "I got into Harvard" was the one to murder Ms. Baez. The point was that, like Lucifer, Lexy's boyfriend Nate allowed evil to happen because he wasn't being true to himself. Instead, he did what his super bad girlfriend wanted him to do.

Bits:

— The opener was really funny with a touch of sad, as Lucifer called in a favor with a doctor but couldn't tell him the truth about exactly what Lucifer wanted removed from his back.

— One of the strengths in this series is watching the unique female characters connect. It wasn't just Eve and Maze this time; Linda and Eve in couples therapy was great, especially since they connected around and despite Lucifer.

— Chloe always wears her hair confined at work, but leaves it loose when she tries to connect with Lucifer personally. Maybe this is where I should mention that I think Lauren German is stunning, even on television where everyone is gorgeous. Especially when her hair is out of the way and isn't softening the angles of her face, her eyes, eyebrows and cheekbones.

— Dan is feeling guilty about outing Lucifer to Tiernan, so he picked a fight with Maze so that she would hurt him, but she didn't. Another continuation of the self-loathing theme.

— Gold acting stars for both DB Woodside and Tom Ellis. They were both outstanding.

Quotes:

Chloe: "He told me about... a prophecy." Lucifer: "Right. What is it this time? Are frogs about to start falling from the sky or... perhaps winter is coming?"

Lucifer: "How does one specifically say nay to YEA?"

Linda: (to Eve) "You're the first woman ever. It's like meeting a dinosaur."

Amenadiel: "I know who did this." Lucifer: "I'll drive."

Four out of four celestial pendants.

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Billie Doux loves good television and spends way too much time writing about it.

[bongaboi]

Grammy Awards 2019: The List, Part 3

Latin

Best Latin Pop Album

Sincera – Claudia Brant

Prometo – Pablo Alborán

Musas, Vol. 2 – Natalia Lafourcade

2:00 AM – Raquel Sofía

Vives – Carlos Vives

Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album

Aztlán – Zoé

Claroscura – Aterciopelados

COASTCITY – COASTCITY

Encanto Tropical – Monsieur Periné

Gourmet – Orishas

Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)

¡México Por Siempre! – Luis Miguel

Primero Soy Mexicana – Ángela Aguilar

Mitad Y Mitad – Calibre 50

Totalmente Juan Gabriel Vol. II – Aida Cuevas

Cruzando Borders – Los Texmaniacs

Leyendas de Mi Pueblo – Mariachi Sol de Mexico

Best Tropical Latin Album

Anniversary – Spanish Harlem Orchestra

Pa' Mi Gente – Charlie Aponte

Legado – Formell y Los Van Van

Orquesta Akokán – Orquesta Akokán

Ponle Actitud – Felipe Peláez

American Roots Music

Best American Roots Performance

"The Joke" – Brandi Carlile

"Kick Rocks" – Sean Ardoin

"St. James Infirmary Blues" – Jon Batiste

"All on My Mind" – Anderson East

"Last Man Standing" – Willie Nelson

Best American Roots Song

"The Joke"

"All the Trouble"

"Build a Bridge"

"Knockin' on Your Screen Door"

"Summer's End"

Brandi Carlile, Dave Cobb, Phil Hanseroth & Tim Hanseroth, songwriters (Brandi Carlile)

Waylon Payne, Lee Ann Womack & Adam Wright, songwriters (Lee Ann Womack)

Jeff Tweedy, songwriter (Mavis Staples)

Pat McLaughlin & John Prine, songwriters (John Prine)

Pat McLaughlin & John Prine, songwriters (John Prine)

Best Americana Album

By the Way, I Forgive You – Brandi Carlile

Things Have Changed – Bettye LaVette

The Tree of Forgiveness – John Prine

The Lonely, the Lonesome & the Gone – Lee Ann Womack

One Drop of Truth – The Wood Brothers

Best Bluegrass Album

The Travelin' McCourys – The Travelin' McCourys

Portraits in Fiddles – Mike Barnett

Sister Sadie II – Sister Sadie

Rivers and Roads – The Special Consensus

North of Despair – Wood & Wire

Best Traditional Blues Album

The Blues Is Alive and Well – Buddy Guy

Something Smells Funky 'Round Here – Elvis Bishop's Big Fun Trio

Benton County Relic – Cedric Burnside

No Mercy in This Land – Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite

Don't You Feel My Leg (The Naughty Bawdy Blues of Blue Lu Barker) – Maria Muldaur

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Please Don't Be Dead – Fantastic Negrito

Here in Babylon – Teresa James and the Rhythm Tramps

Cry No More – Danielle Nicole

Out of the Blues – Boz Scaggs

Victor Wainwright and the Train – Victor Wainwright and the Train

Best Folk Album

All Ashore – Punch Brothers

Whistle Down the Wind – Joan Baez

Black Cowboys – Dom Flemons

Rifles & Rosary Beads – Mary Gauthier

Weed Garden – Iron & Wine

Best Regional Roots Music Album

No 'Ane'i – Kalani Pe'a

Kreole Rock and Soul – Sean Ardoin

Spyboy – Cha Wa

Aloha from Na Hoa – Na Hoa

Mewasinsational: Cree Round Dance Songs – Young Spirit

Reggae

Best Reggae Album

44/876 – Sting & Shaggy

As the World Turns – Black Uhuru

Reggae Forever – Etana

Rebellion Rises – Ziggy Marley

A Matter of Time – Protoje

World Music

Best World Music Album

Freedom – Soweto Gospel Choir

Deran – Bombino

Fenfo – Fatoumata Diawara

Black Times – Seun Kuti & Egypt 80

Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II, various artists

Children's

Best Children's Album

All the Sounds – Lucy Kalantari & The Jazz Cats

Building Blocks – Tim Kubart

Falu's Bazaar – Falu

Giants of Science – The Pop Ups

The Nation of Imagine – Frank & Deane

Spoken Word

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling)

Faith: A Journey for All – Jimmy Carter

Accessory to War – Courtney B. Vance

Calypso – David Sedaris

Creative Quest – Questlove

The Last Black Unicorn – Tiffany Haddish

Comedy

Best Comedy Album

Equanimity & The Bird Revelation – Dave Chappelle

Annihilation – Patton Oswalt

Noble Ape – Jim Gaffigan

Standup for Drummers – Fred Armisen

Tamborine – Chris Rock

Musical Theater

Best Musical Theater Album

The Band's Visit – Etai Benson, Adam Kantor, Katrina Lenk & Ari'el Stachel, principal soloists; Dean Sharenow & David Yazbek, producers; David Yazbek, composer & lyricist (Original Broadway Cast)

Carousel – Renée Fleming, Alexander Gemignani, Joshua Henry, Lindsay Mendez & Jessie Mueller, principal soloists; Steven Epstein, producer (Richard Rodgers, composer; Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist) (2018 Broadway Cast)

Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert – Sara Bareilles, Alice Cooper, Ben Daniels, Brandon Victor Dixon, Erik Grönwall, Jin Ha, John Legend, Norm Lewis & Jason Tam, principal soloists; Harvey Mason Jr., producer (Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer; Tim Rice, lyricist) (Original Television Cast)

My Fair Lady – Lauren Ambrose, Norbert Leo Butz & Harry Hadden-Paton, principal soloists; Andre Bishop, Van Dean, Hattie K. Jutagir, David Lai, Adam Siegel & Ted Sperling, producers (Frederick Loewe, composer; Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist) (2018 Broadway Cast)

Once on This Island – Phillip Boykin, Merle Dandridge, Quentin Earl Darrington, Hailey Kilgore, Kenita R. Miller, Alex Newell, Isaac Powell & Lea Salonga, principal soloists; Lynn Ahrens, Hunter Arnold, Ken Davenport, Stephen Flaherty & Elliot Scheiner, producers (Stephen Flaherty, composer; Lynn Ahrens, lyricist) (New Broadway Cast)

Music for Visual Media

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

The Greatest Showman – Hugh Jackman (& Various Artists)

Call Me by Your Name – (Various Artists)

Deadpool 2 – (Various Artists)

Lady Bird – (Various Artists)

Stranger Things – (Various Artists)

Alex Lacamoire, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul & Greg Wells, compilation producers

Luca Guadagnino, compilation producer; Robin Urdang, music supervisor

David Leitch & Ryan Reynolds, compilation producers; John Houlihan, music supervisor

Timothy J. Smith, compilation producer; Michael Hill & Brian Ross, music supervisors

Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Timothy J. Smith, compilation producer; Nora Felder, music supervisor

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

Black Panther – Ludwig Göransson, composer

Blade Runner 2049 – Benjamin Wallfisch & Hans Zimmer, composers

Coco – Michael Giacchino, composer

The Shape of Water – Alexandre Desplat, composer

Star Wars: The Last Jedi – John Williams, composer

Best Song Written for Visual Media

"Shallow" (from A Star Is Born)

"All the Stars" (from Black Panther)

"Mystery of Love" (from Call Me by Your Name)

"Remember Me" (from Coco)

"This Is Me" (from The Greatest Showman)

Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt, songwriters (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper)

Kendrick Duckworth, Solána Rowe, Alexander William Shuckburgh, Mark Anthony Spears & Anthony Tiffith, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar & SZA)

Sufjan Stevens, songwriter (Sufjan Stevens)

Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez, songwriters (Miguel featuring Natalia Lafourcade)

Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, songwriters (Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble)

Composing

Best Instrumental Composition

"Blut Und Boden (Blood and Soil)"

"Chrysalis"

"Infinity War"

"Mine Mission"

"The Shape of Water"

Terence Blanchard, composer (Terence Blanchard)

Jeremy Kittel, composer (Kittel & Co.)

Alan Silvestri, composer (Alan Silvestri)

John Powell & John Williams, composers (John Powell & John Williams)

Alexandre Desplat, composer (Alexandre Desplat)

Arranging

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

"Stars and Stripes Forever"

"Batman Theme (TV)"

"Change the World"

"Madrid Finale"

"The Shape of Water"

John Daversa, arranger (John Daversa Big Band featuring DACA Artists)

Randy Waldman & Justin Wilson, arrangers (Randy Waldman featuring Wynton Marsalis)

Mark Kibble, arranger (Take 6)

John Powell, arranger (John Powell)

Alexandre Desplat, arranger (Alexandre Desplat)

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

"Spiderman Theme"

"It Was a Very Good Year"

"Jolene"

"Mona Lisa"

"Niña"

Mark Kibble, Randy Waldman & Justin Wilson, arrangers (Randy Waldman featuring Take 6 & Chris Potter)

Matt Rollings & Kristin Wilkinson, arrangers (Willie Nelson)

Dan Pugach & Nicole Zuraitis, arrangers (Dan Pugach)

Vince Mendoza, arranger (Gregory Porter)

Gonzalo Grau, arranger (Magos Herrera & Brooklyn Rider)

Packaging

Best Recording Package

Masseduction

Be the Cowboy

Love Yourself: Tear

The Offering

Well Kept Thing

Willo Perron, art director (St. Vincent)

Mary Banas, art director (Mitski)

HuskyFox, art director (BTS)

Qing-Yang Xiao, art director (The Chairman)

Adam Moore, art director (Foxhole)

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of "Weird Al" Yankovic

Appetite For Destruction (Locked N' Loaded Box)

I'll Be Your Girl

Pacific Northwest '73–'74: The Complete Recordings

Too Many Bad Habits

Meghan Foley, Annie Stoll & Al Yankovic, art directors ("Weird Al" Yankovic)

Arian Buhler, Charles Dooher, Jeff Fura, Scott Sandler & Matt Taylor, art directors (Guns N' Roses)

Carson Ellis, Jeri Heiden & Glen Nakasako, art directors (The Decemberists)

Lisa Glines, Doran Tyson & Roy Henry Vickers, art directors (Grateful Dead)

Sarah Dodds & Shauna Dodds, art directors (Johnny Nicholas)

Notes

Best Album Notes

Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris

Alpine Dreaming: The Helvetia Records Story, 1920-1924

4 Banjo Songs, 1891-1897: Foundational Recordings of America's Iconic Instrument

The 1960 Time Sessions

The Product of Our Souls: The Sound and Sway of James Reese Europe's Society Orchestra

Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series Vol. 13/1979-1981 (Deluxe Edition)

David Evans, album notes writer (Various artists)

James P. Leary, album notes writer (Various artists)

Richard Martin & Ted Olson, album notes writer (Charles A. Asbury)

Ben Ratliff, album notes writer (Sonny Clark Trio)

David Gilbert, album notes writer (Various artists)

Amanda Petrusich, album notes writer (Bob Dylan)

Historical

Best Historical Album

Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris

Any Other Way

At the Louisiana Hayride Tonight...

Battleground Korea: Songs and Sounds of America's Forgotten War

A Rhapsody in Blue: The Extraordinary Life of Oscar Levant

William Ferris, April Ledbetter & Steven Lance Ledbetter, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Various artists)

Rob Bowman, Douglas McGowan, Rob Sevier & Ken Shipley, compilation producers; Jeff Lipton, mastering engineer (Jackie Shane)

Martin Hawkins, compilation producer; Christian Zwarg, mastering engineer (Various artists)

Hugo Keesing, compilation producer; Christian Zwarg, mastering engineer (Various artists)

Robert Russ, compilation producer; Andreas K. Meyer & Rebekah Wineman, mastering engineers (Oscar Levant)

Production, Non-Classical

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

Colors

All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn't Do

Earthtones

Head Over Heels

Voicenotes

Julian Burg, Serban Ghenea, David "Elevator" Greenbaum, John Hanes, Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin, Florian Lagatta, Cole M.G.N., Alex Pasco, Jesse Shatkin, Darrell Thorp & Cassidy Turbin, engineers; Chris Bellman, Tom Coyne, Emily Lazar & Randy Merrill, mastering engineers (Beck)

Ryan Freeland & Kenneth Pattengale, engineers; Kim Rosen, mastering engineer (The Milk Carton Kids)

Robbie Lackritz, engineer; Philip Shaw Bova, mastering engineer (Bahamas)

Nathaniel Alford, Jason Evigan, Chris Galland, Tom Gardner, Patrick "P-Thugg" Gemayel, Serban Ghenea, John Hanes, Tony Hoffer, Derek Keota, Ian Kirkpatrick, David Macklovitch, Amber Mark, Manny Marroquin, Vaughn Oliver, Chris "TEK" O'Ryan, Morgan Taylor Reid & Gian Stone, engineers; Chris Gehringer & Michelle Mancini, mastering engineers (Chromeo)

Manny Marroquin & Charlie Puth, engineers; Dave Kutch, mastering engineer (Charlie Puth)

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

Pharrell Williams

Boi-1da

Larry Klein

Linda Perry

Kanye West

"Apeshit" (The Carters)

Man of the Woods (Justin Timberlake)

No One Ever Really Dies (N.E.R.D)

"Stir Fry" (Migos)

Sweetener (Ariana Grande)

"Be Careful" (Cardi B)

"Diplomatic Immunity" (Drake)

"Friends" (The Carters)

"God's Plan" (Drake)

"Heard About Us" (The Carters)

"Lucky You" (Eminem featuring Joyner Lucas)

"Mob Ties" (Drake)

"No Limit" (G-Eazy featuring ASAP Rocky & Cardi B)

"All These Things" (Thomas Dybdahl)

Anthem (Madeleine Peyroux)

The Book of Longing (Luciana Souza)

"Can I Have It All" (Thomas Dybdahl)

Junk (Hailey Tuck)

"Look At What We've Done" (Thomas Dybdahl)

Meaning to Tell Ya (Molly Johnson)

"Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" (Willa Amai)

Served Like a Girl (Various artists)

28 Days in the Valley (Dorothy)

Daytona (Pusha T)

Kids See Ghosts (Kids See Ghosts)

K.T.S.E. (Teyana Taylor)

Nasir (Nas)

Ye (Kanye West)

Best Remixed Recording

"Walking Away" (Mura Masa Remix)

"Audio" (CID Remix)

"How Long" (EDX's Dubai Skyline Remix)

"Only Road" (Cosmic Gate Remix)

"Stargazing" (Kaskade Remix)

Alex Crossan, remixer (Haim)

CID, remixer (LSD)

Maurizio Colella, remixer (Charlie Puth)

Stefan Bossems & Claus Terhoeven, remixers (Gabriel & Dresden featuring Sub Teal)

Kaskade, remixer (Kygo featuring Justin Jesso)

Production, Immersive Audio

Best Immersive Audio Album

Eye in the Sky: 35th Anniversary Edition

Folketoner

Seven Words from the Cross

Sommerro: Ujamaa & The Iceberg

Symbol

Alan Parsons, surround mix engineer; Dave Donnelly, PJ Olsson & Alan Parsons, surround mastering engineers; Alan Parsons, surround producer (The Alan Parsons Project)

Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer (Anne Karin Sundal-Ask & Det Norske Jentekor)

Daniel Shores, surround mix engineer; Daniel Shores, surround mastering engineer; Dan Merceruio, surround producer (Matthew Guard & Skylark)

Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer (Ingar Heine Bergby, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra & Choir)

Prashant Mistry & Ronald Prent, surround mix engineers; Darcy Proper, surround mastering engineer; Prashant Mistry & Ronald Prent, surround producers (Engine-Earz Experiment)

Production, Classical

Best Engineered Album, Classical

Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11

Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3; Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1

John Williams at the Movies

Liquid Melancholy: Clarinet Music of James M. Stephenson

Visions and Variations

Shawn Murphy & Nick Squire, engineers; Tim Martyn, mastering engineer (Andris Nelsons & Boston Symphony Orchestra)

Mark Donahue & Dirk Sobotka, engineers; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer (Michael Christie, Garrett Sorenson, Wei Wu, Sasha Cooke, Edwards Parks, Jessica E. Jones & Santa Fe Opera Orchestra)

Mark Donahue, engineer; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)

Keith O. Johnson & Sean Royce Martin, engineers; Keith O. Johnson, mastering engineer (Jerry Junkin & Dallas Winds)

Bill Maylone & Mary Mazurek, engineers; Bill Maylone, mastering engineer (John Bruce Yeh)

Tom Caulfield, engineer; Jesse Lewis, mastering engineer (A Far Cry)

Producer of the Year, Classical

Blanton Alspaugh

David Frost

Elizabeth Ostrow

Judith Sherman

Dirk Sobotka

Arnesen: Infinity - Choral Works (Joel Rinsema & Kantorei)

Aspects of America (Carlos Kalmar & Oregon Symphony)

Chesnokov: Teach Me Thy Statutes (Vladimir Gorbik & PaTRAM Institute Male Choir)

Gordon, R.: The House Without a Christmas Tree (Bradley Moore, Elisabeth Leone, Maximillian Macias, Megan Mikailovna Samarin, Patricia Schuman, Lauren Snouffer, Heidi Stober, Daniel Belcher, Houston Gran Opera Juvenile Chorus & Houston Grand OperaOrchestra)

Haydn: The Creation (Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Betsy Cook Weber, Houston Symphony & Houston Symphony Chorus)

Heggie: Great Scott (Patrick Summers, Manuel Palazzo, Mark Hancock, Michael Mayes, Rodell Rosel, Kevin Burdette, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Nathan Gunn, Frederica von Stade, Ailyn Pérez, Joyce DiDonato, Dallas Opera Chorus & Orchestra)

Music of Fauré, Buide & Zemlinsky (Trio Séléné)

Paterson: Three Way - A Trio of One-Act Operas (Dean Williamson, Daniele Pastin, Courtney Ruckman, Eliza Bonet, Melisa Bonetti, Jordan Rutter, Samuel Levine, Wes Mason, Matthew Treviño & Nashville Opera Orchestra)

Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto; Oboe Concerto; Serenade to Music; Flos Campi (Peter Oundjian & Toronto Symphony Orchestra)

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Volume 7 (Jonathan Biss)

Mirror in Mirror (Anne Akiko Meyers, Kristjan Järvi & Philharmonia Orchestra)

Mozart: Idomeneo (James Levine, Alan Opie, Matthew Polenzani, Alice Coote, Nadine Sierra, Elza van den Heever, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus)

Presentiment (Orion Weiss)

Strauss, R.: Der Rosenkavalier (Sebastian Weigle, Renée Fleming, Elīna Garanča, Erin Morley, Günther Groissböck, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus)

Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (Michael Christie, Garrett Sorenson, Wei Wu, Sasha Cooke, Edwards Parks, Jessica E. Jones & Santa Fe Opera Orchestra)

The Road Home (Joshua Habermann & Santa Fe Desert Chorale)

Beethoven Unbound (Llŷr Williams)

Black Manhattan Volume 3 (Rick Benjamin & Paragon Ragtime Orchestra)

Bolcom: Piano Music (Various Artists)

Del Tredici: March to Tonality (Mark Peskanov & Various Artists)

Love Comes in at the Eye (Timothy Jones, Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio, Jeffrey Sykes, Anthony Ross, Carol Cook, Beth Rapier & Stephanie Jutt)

Meltzer: Variations on a Summer Day & Piano Quartet (Abigail Fischer, Jayce Ogren & Sequitur)

Mendelssohn: Complete Works for Cello and Piano (Marcy Rosen & Lydia Artymiw)

New Music for Violin and Piano (Julie Rosenfeld & Peter Miyamoto)

Reich: Pulse/Quartet (Colin Currie Group & International Contemporary Ensemble)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3; Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1 (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)

Lippencott: Frontier Symphony (Jeff Lippencott & Ligonier Festival Orchestra)

Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (Thierry Fischer, Mormon Tabernacle Choir & Utah Symphony)

Music of the Americas (Andrés Orozco-Estrada & Houston Symphony)

Classical

Best Orchestral Performance

Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3; Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1

Nielsen: Symphony No. 3 & Symphony No. 4

Ruggles, Stucky & Harbison: Orchestral Works

Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1-4

Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)

Manfred Honeck, conductor (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor (Seattle Symphony)

David Alan Miller, conductor (National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic)

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)

Best Opera Recording

Bates: The (R)evolution Of Steve Jobs

Adams: Doctor Atomic

Lully: Alceste

Strauss, R.: Der Rosenkavalier

Verdi: Rigoletto

Michael Christie, conductor; Sasha Cooke, Jessica E. Jones, Edward Parks, Garrett Sorenson & Wei Wu; Elizabeth Ostrow, producer (The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra)

John Adams, conductor; Aubrey Allicock, Julia Bullock, Gerald Finley & Brindley Sherratt; Friedemann Engelbrecht, producer (The BBC Symphony Orchestra; BBC Singers)

Christophe Rousset, conductor; Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro & Judith Van Wanroij; Maximilien Ciup, producer (Les Talens Lyriques; Choeur De Chambre De Namur)

Sebastian Weigle, conductor; Renée Fleming, Elīna Garanča, Günther Groissböck & Erin Morley; David Frost, producer (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)

Constantine Orbelian, conductor; Francesco Demuro, Dmitri Hvorostovsky & Nadine Sierra; Vilius Keras & Aleksandra Keriene, producers (Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra; Men Of The Kaunas State Choir)

Best Choral Performance

McLoskey: Zealot Canticles

Chesnokov: Teach Me Thy Statutes

Kastalsky: Memory Eternal

Rachmaninov: The Bells

Seven Words From The Cross

Donald Nally, conductor (Doris Hall-Gulati, Rebecca Harris, Arlen Hlusko, Lorenzo Raval & Mandy Wolman; The Crossing)

Vladimir Gorbik, conductor (Mikhail Davydov & Vladimir Krasov; PaTRAM Institute Male Choir)

Steven Fox, conductor (The Clarion Choir)

Mariss Jansons, conductor; Peter Dijkstra, chorus master (Oleg Dolgov, Alexey Markov & Tatiana Pavlovskaya; Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks)

Matthew Guard, conductor (Skylark)

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

Anderson, Laurie: Landfall – Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet

Beethoven, Shostakovich & Bach – The Danish String Quartet

Blueprinting – Aizuri Quartet

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring Concerto for Two Pianos – Leif Ove Andsnes & Marc-André Hamelin

Visions And Variations – A Far Cry

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

Kernis: Violin Concerto – James Ehnes

Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2 – Yuja Wang

Biber: The Mystery Sonatas – Christina Day Martinson

Bruch: Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46; Violin Concerto No. 1 In G Minor, Op. 26

Glass: Three Pieces In The Shape of A Square

Ludovic Morlot, conductor (Seattle Symphony)

Simon Rattle, conductor (Berliner Philharmoniker)

Martin Pearlman, conductor (Boston Baroque)

Joshua Bell (The Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields)

Craig Morris

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

Songs of Orpheus: Monteverdi, Caccini, d'India & Landi – Karim Sulayman

ARC – Anthony Roth Costanzo

The Handel Album – Philippe Jaroussky

Mirages – Sabine Devieilhe

Schubert: Winterreise – Randall Scarlata

Jeannette Sorrell, conductor; Apollo's Fire, ensembles

Jonathan Cohen, conductor (Les Violons Du Roy)

Artaserse, ensemble

François-Xavier Roth, conductor (Alexandre Tharaud; Marianne Crebassa & Jodie Devos; Les Siècles)

Gilbert Kalish, accompanist

Best Classical Compendium

Fuchs: Piano Concerto 'Spiritualist'; Poems Of Life; Glacier; Rush

Gold

The John Adams Edition

John Williams at the Movies

Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto; Oboe Concerto; Serenade To Music; Flos Campi

JoAnn Falletta, conductor; Tim Handley, producer

The King's Singers; Nigel Short, producer

Simon Rattle, conductor; Christoph Franke, producer

Jerry Junkin, conductor; Donald J. McKinney, producer

Peter Oundjian, conductor; Blanton Alspaugh, producer

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Kernis: Violin Concerto

Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs

Du Yun: Air Glow

Heggie: Great Scott

Mazzoli: Vespers for Violin

Aaron Jay Kernis, composer (James Ehnes, Ludovic Morlot & Seattle Symphony)

Mason Bates, composer; Mark Campbell, librettist (Michael Christie, Garrett Sorenson, Wei Wu, Sasha Cooke, Edward Parks, Jessica E. Jones & Santa Fe Opera Orchestra)

Du Yun, composer (International Contemporary Ensemble)

Jake Heggie, composer; Terrence McNally, librettist (Patrick Summers, Manuel Palazzo, Mark Hancock, Michael Mayes, Rodell Rosel, Kevin Burdette, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Nathan Gunn, Frederica von Stade, Ailyn Pérez, Joyce DiDonato, Dallas Opera Chorus & Orchestra)

Missy Mazzoli, composer (Olivia De Prato)

Music Video/Film

Best Music Video

"This Is America" – Childish Gambino

"Apeshit" – The Carters

"I'm Not Racist" – Joyner Lucas

"Pynk" – Janelle Monáe

"Mumbo Jumbo" – Tierra Whack

Hiro Murai, video directors; Ibra Ake, Jason Cole & Fam Rothstein, video producers

Ricky Saiz, video director; Mélodie Buchris, Natan Schottenfels & Erinn Williams, video producers

Joyner Lucas & Ben Proulx, video directors; Joyner Lucas, video producer

Emma Westenburg, video director; Justin Benoliel & Whitney Jackson, video producers

Marco Prestini, video director; Sara Nassim, video producer

Best Music Film

Quincy – Quincy Jones

Life in 12 Bars – Eric Clapton

Whitney – (Whitney Houston)

Itzhak – Itzhak Perlman

The King – (Elvis Presley)

Alan Hicks & Rashida Jones, video directors; Paula DuPré Pesmen, video producer

Lili Fini Zanuck, video director; John Battsek, Scooter Weintraub, Larry Yelen & Lili Fini Zanuck, video producers

Kevin Macdonald, video director; Jonathan Chinn, Simon Chinn & Lisa Erspamer, video producers

Alison Chernick, video director; Alison Chernick, video producer

Eugene Jarecki, video director; Christopher Frierson, Georgina Hill, David Kuhn & Christopher St. John, video producers

[joannalannister]

I'm glad you enjoyed the con and hope you're doing well rn. I've been thinking of ways to expand on Westerosi culture and wished to ask if you had suggestions regarding songs and stories in the West? As in, what events in Westerlands history/folklore could you see being adapted into song, poetry, and theater? What would be the format? Royal/Lordly policy re content and sponsorship? Also, is your Westerosi name Loryn or Lauryn and how would Lady Joanna feel about her husband's hidden tunnel?

Oh what a fun question! There’s a wealth of material to inspire songs and stories in the westerlands; I don’t even know where to start. 

Lann the Clever (I guess one simply must start with him)

Corlos

Disparaging songs about Tytos Lannister / House Lannister (these songs are rarely, if ever, sung anymore, for obvious reasons)

Bawdy songs / pantomimes featuring milkmaids

Sailor’s sea shanty type songs in Lannisport, mixing with songs from all over the world

I imagine that the Westerlands is a very rigid, repressed society – more so than the Reach, and much much more so than Dorne - like, Robert comments in AGOT about women in the Crownlands / Stormlands / Reach swimming naked & wearing immodest clothing in the heat – I think that would be a no-no in the westerlands (and tbh I think the westerlands is cooler than other southron regions – it’s a theme ok!! “the real enemy is the cold” – dorne is warm, the westerlands is not warm) 

and the more repressed a society is, the more important inversion festivals are. (Think Halloween in the US.) In material that was cut from the world book, Tytos was called the Lord of Misrule, which would have been a title normally reserved for someone of low status, to preside over a Feast of Fools. So I think the Feast of Fools is an annual inversion festival in the westerlands, with songs to go along with it.

You know how there are fairy tales from our own world told in Westeros? 

I think some of these fairy tale stories are popular in the westerlands

Rapunzel (it’s a self-referential, meta moment)

Obviously educated people in the westerlands don’t believe in merlings, but the fisherfolk claim to see them. (Those merlings exist and this is a hill I will die on.) Hence,

The Little Mermaid (not the Disney version. something closer to the HCA version, with modifications. I would imagine the westerlands version is more classist)

“Dark as a Dungeon” by Joan Baez (about the terrible conditions down in a mine, but about gold, not coal) to be popular on the streets of Lannisport. I’ve stolen this quote from Wheel of Time: 

“They sang as they marched, the massed voices enough to punch through the rest of the noise. […] A fat knot of [people] trailed along behind, townsmen and refugees mingled, young men all, watching curiously and listening. It never ceased to amaze Mat. The worse the song made [conditions] seem— this was far from the worst— the larger the crowd. Sure as water was wet, some of those men would be talking to a bannerman before the day was out, and most who did would sign their names or make their mark. They must think the song was an attempt to scare them off"

Are you familiar with Lovecraft’s creatures inhabiting the hills of Vermont in “The Whisperer in Darkness”? Yeah, those. Horror stories about those, but more medieval

Songs about idealized women

Creation myths about giants in the hills

“The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr” 

“In the Lost Lands” - a queen hires a trader to obtain the gift of shapeshifting (again, a self referential moment)

Lots of songs dissing the Gardeners and celebrating Lannister victories against the Reach

It’s midnight, and I haven’t even talked about HALF. I haven’t mentioned Alan the Blind Bowman, or Crake the Boarkiller, or the Hooded Man, or Pate the Plowman, or Spotted Pate (AFFC Pate was originally from the westerlands!!). But I’m sure there are songs and stories about all those famous guys in the world book, doing stuff like expanding the kingdom, trickster stories, battle stories, that kind of thing. 

I’m not sure what you mean by format. Like, you mean the type of word rhythm Shakespeare used or ?? I’m not sure I’m the person to ask about that. Like, I think there are mummers and minstrels and bards in the westerlands, if that’s what you mean. 

In terms of content / censorship, I think the general rule is “Keep your betters happy.” 

In terms of my Lannister name - I think it would still be Lauren. Like Daven. 

If you want, could you please send me a separate ask with your Joanna question? 

I don’t even think I really got to talk about everything i might like to about songs and stories in the westerlands, but i have to go to sleep now, so maybe I will add to this more later. 

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 1.9

Beer Birthdays

Mark Dorber (1957)

Marty Velas (1961)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Bob Denver; actor, "Gilligan" (1935)

Karel Capek; writer (1890)

Jimmy Page; rock musician,, gitarist (1944)

Les Paul; guitarist, guitar maker (1915)

Bart Starr; Green Bay Packers QB (1934)

Famous Birthdays

Joey Lauren Adams; actor (1971)

George Balanchine; dancer (1904)

Arthur Baer; writer (1886)

Joan Baez; folk singer (1941)

Simone de Beauvoir; French writer (1908)

Hayyim Nahman Bialik; poet, publisher (1873)

Dick Enberg; sportscaster (1935)

Gracie Fields; actor, comedian (1898)

Crystal Gayle; country singer (1951)

Steve Harwell; rock singer (1967)

David Johansen; singer, actor (1950)

Judith Krantz; novelist (1928)

Fernando Lamas; actor (1915)

Dave Matthews; pop musician (1967)

Kate Middleton; British royalty (1982)

Richard M. Nixon; 36th U.S. President (1913)

Jonathan Kimble "J.K." Simmons; actor (1955)

Imelda Staunton; actor (1956)

Lee Van Cleef; actor (1925)

Scott Walker, a.k.a. Engel; musician (1943)

John B. Watson; psychologist (1878)

Susannah York; actor (1941)

Chic Young; cartoonist (1901)

[larryland]

by Macey Levin

Through history humanity has escaped extinction numerous times but total destruction is still a distinct possibility.  There was, of course, the flood that Noah and his ark overcame after forty-something days.  The Black Plague.  The atomic bombs that closed World War Two, and today who knows what will happen with a narcissistic finger on the red button that would send devastation throughout the world.   This eternal possibility is key to Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth receiving a problematic production at Berkshire Theatre Group‘s Fitzpatrick Main Stage in Stockbridge, MA.

  Wilder won three Pulitzer Prizes for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth.  His works explore the connection between mankind’s everyday experiences and its place in the universe.  His characters. whether from Peru, Grovers Corners, New Hampshire, or Excelsior, New Jersey, are ordinary people living simple lives.

  In The Skin of Our Teeth we meet George (Danny Johnson,) who has just invented the wheel, and Maggie (Harriet Harris) Antrobus (from the Greek word for “human”,) their children Henry (whose name used to be Cain – Marcus Gladney, Jr.,) Gladys (Claire Saunders,) and Sabina (a la the rape of the Sabine women) the maid.  There are myriad Biblical, historical and mythological references throughout the play.  Though set in 1942, the year it was written, there are many anachronisms. The first act has Excelsior’s citizens waiting for an oncoming ice age as mountains of ice are covering the land. The Antrobus’s pet dinosaur and mammoth come into the house to stay warm; weary and frightened travelers, including Homer, Moses, three Muses and others are invited into the house. In the second act, a monster rainstorm is about to occur. There are contemporary references to Berkshire Medical Center and Outside Mullingar which is running at the Unicorn Theatre.  A present-day thematic note is that the Antrobuses are racially mixed.

  A conceit that occurs several times has actors breaking out of character mid-scene and addressing the audience.  In the first act Sabina, (Ariana Venturi) playing the actress Miss Somerset, tells us she doesn’t understand the play, hates it and maybe we should leave.  Act two is on the Atlantic City boardwalk where the populace awaits the impending storm.  A fortune teller addresses the audience.  In the third act Mr. Antrobus informs the audience that a few of the actors haven’t arrived and some of the designers, a janitor and the head usher will take over those parts, but first the stage manager will run a rehearsal.  The company hopes the audience will forgive them and be patient.

  The subject matter, the end of civilization, is very dark but the first two acts could be played lighter; the darkness of the production is the director’s (David Auburn) choice.  In these acts there are whimsical moments that effectively contrast with the dire circumstances.  Act three, other than the break for “rehearsal,” is heavier; it takes place after a seven-year war when Maggie and Gladys, who has a baby, have been living in a bunker under the house while Henry and George are fighting in the war.  Sabina, who has been a camp-follower, re-joins them.  Father and son argue as to whether the human race can ever stop annihilating itself and do they deserve to survive?

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Johnson and Harris have control of their respective roles as the Antrobuses.  They skillfully mine the humor and sentimental moments while giving depth to the more powerful scenes as does Gladney Jr.’s Henry, especially in the last act when he challenges his father’s optimistic desire to rebuild civilization.  Saunders’ transition from a somewhat ditzy teen-ager to a world-weary mother is touching.  Sabina is the most animated character and Venturi throws out her laugh lines with aplomb.  There are times, however, when her projection could be stronger.

  Auburn’s direction keeps the play moving as he touches Wilder’s thematic intentions.  As mentioned above, however, the tones of the three acts could be more effectively accomplished to enhance these issues.  Act two’s Atlantic City boardwalk uses many actors in addition to the principals.  Some of the staging, along with the set and props, appears haphazard when it should be controlled chaos. Otherwise, Bill Clarke’s sets for the first and third acts  – the Antrobus home before and after the war – accommodate the staging and the surrounding environment.  Daniel J. Kotlowitz’s lighting, like the sets, is too dark except when it functions dramatically for the third act.  The costumes by Hunter Kaczorowski identify the characters’ stations as well as reflecting their personalities.

  The Skin of Our Teeth is not an easy play to produce.  BTG should be congratulated for daring to mount this seventy-seven-year-old play that speaks to our troubled times.

  The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder; Director: David Auburn; Cast: Lauren Baez (Muse, Conveneer, Chair Pusher, Usher Bailey) Lynnette R. Freeman (Homer, Fortune Teller, Ivy) Marcus Gladney Jr. (Henry) Harriet Harris (Mrs. Antrobus) Danny Johnson (Mr. Antrobus) Ralph Petillo (Moses, Bingo Caller, Mr. Tremayne) Claire Saunders (Gladys) Marjie Shrimpton (Muse, Telegraph Boy, Hester) Matt Sullivan (Stage Manager, Broadcast Official) Ariana Venturi (Sabina) Kennedy Haygood, Isabel Jordan, Hanna Koczela, Alex O’Shea, Tony Reimonenq, Julian Tushabe (Acting Interns); Scenic Designer: Bill Clarke; Costume Designer: Hunter Kazorowski; Lighting Designer: Daniel J. Kotlowitz; Resident Composer, Sound Designer: Scott Killian; Wig, Hair and Makeup Designer: J. Jared Janas; Movement Director: Isadora Wolfe; Stage Manager: Abigail Gandy; Running time: two hours, forty five minutes, two intermissions; 7/11/19 – 8/3/19; Berkshire Theatre Group, Fitzpatrick Main Stage, Stockbridge, MA , www.BerkshireTheatreGroup.org; 413-997-4444

REVIEW: “The Skin of Our Teeth” at the Berkshire Theatre Group by Macey Levin Through history humanity has escaped extinction numerous times but total destruction is still a distinct possibility.