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My media this week (6-12 Feb 2022)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club #1) (Richard Osman, author; Lesley Manville, narrator) - I found this to be a charming & entertaining mystery with some very delightful characters. Especially Bogdan. The plot was nonsense but no more so than most of cozy mysteries.

😍 Knife Skills (Hark_bananas) - 72K of SHEER PERFECTION in a post-WS divergent AU - "He has an apartment and a routine and a favorite diner and a job that he’s really good at and purple socks with bananas on them, and he knows that all of those things are immaterial in the face of his continuing safety, survival, and freedom. But at the same time, they’re not, actually. They’re the things that make his continuing safety, survival, and freedom worth it. He’s done the nameless assassin thing, the Tour of Vengeance thing, the running and hiding and living out of a duffle bag in shitty motels thing, and it sucks, and it very much does not make life worth living, not if there’s another way to go about it, instead."

😊 Salty Sweet (secondstar) - 46K, Sterek - no werewolves AU - Derek works in a sex shop, Stiles comes in to make some purchases, sex and feelings follow

😊 Heavy Lies the Head (odetteandodile, author; inflomora, art) - 59K, Stucky magical/fantasy AU - Prince Bucky is cursed & in exile with Steve as his bodyguard - there's lots of gardening and, to quote the tags, "tender forest blow jobs"

💖💖 +214K of shorter fic so shorter work shout out to these I really loved💖💖

Welcome Home, Son series (BeaArthurPendragon) - 50K canon-divergent, in which a post-CW Bucky recovers in Wakanda & makes a friend, then reunites with Steve and they live happily ever after in New Asgard.

The Season of the Witch series (emchant3d) - MCU: shrunkyclunks + everyday magic, 31K - absolutely love this pairing of Cap!Steve and nb/gnc kitchenwitch Bucky

Rhapsody in Pink (the1918) - MCU: Stucky, 28K - HYDRA basically kept Bucky chemically castrated as The Winter Soldier and now his body is waking up and trying to recalibrate.

hear your call (silentwalrus) - MCU: Stucky, 6K - just a short, great fic where Bucky wants it rougher and Steve is obliging (and find he really likes it)

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Spectre (2015)

Agatha Raisin - s4,e2: "Love, Lies & Liquor"

The Golden Girls - s1, e14-19

What's Up, Doc? (1972)

Great Art Explained: Nighthawks by Edward Hopper

Becky Chambers with Sarah Gailey — A Psalm for the Wild-Built [Third Place Books Event]

Great Art Explained: Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics - Penelope

Overinvested - Ep. 245: In the Heat of the Night

Endless Thread - Murph

You're Wrong About - Winter Book Club: The Amityville Horror w. Jamie Loftus (Finale)

Grim & Mild Presents - Sideshow 3: The Mother of All Humbugs

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Quarantine at Malta Lazaretto

Lore - REMASTERED – Episode 21: Adrift

Last Seen - Episode 1: '81 Minutes'

Last Seen - Episode 2: 'Inside Job?'

Last Seen - Episode 3: 'Not A Bunch Of Jamokes'

Last Seen - Episode 4: 'Two Bad Men'

Last Seen - Episode 5: 'The Bobbys'

Last Seen - Episode 6: 'Befriend And Betray'

Last Seen - Episode 7: 'I Was The One'

Last Seen - Episode 8: 'Flimflammer'

Last Seen - Episode 9: 'The Big Dig'

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities - Quite a Character

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Leimert Park

Richmond Til We Die: A Ted Lasso Podcast - Ted Lasso S2E5: You Had Me at Coach

99% Invisible #476 - Reaction Offices and the Future of Work

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Theater of Electricity

Fansplaining - Episode 167: Our Secret Identities

Last Seen - Episode 2: Out of Time

Ologies with Alie Ward - Carnivore Ecology (LIONS, TIGERS, & BEARS) with Rae Wynn-Grant

Overinvested - Ep. 244: What's Up, Doc?

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Milky Seas

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities - Songsmith

Song Exploder - Brandi Carlile "You and Me On the Rock (feat. Lucius)"

Shedunnit - The Whodunnit In India

Last Seen - Episode 3: The Lost World

You're Dead To Me - The Witch Craze

You're Dead To Me - The History of Chocolate

Endless Thread - Li Ziqi: China's Quarantine Queen

Strong Songs - Strong Covers, Vol. 2

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

The Very Best of Enya (Deluxe Edition) [Enya]

Essential Skatalites [The Skatalites]

Yacht Rock Classics

Women of '90s Hip Hop

The Best of Hooverphonic

Trip Hop

The World of Lady Gaga

In These Silent Days [Brandi Carlile]

Green [Hiroshi Yoshimura]

90s R&B Girl Groups

Instrumental Pop Covers

Presenting Lindsey Stirling

Presenting Dvořák

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A tour inside a Broadway theatre is the place to geek out - art and culture

Walking into a Broadway theatre at show time is something special — the electricity, the excited murmurs, the shared anticipation. But, it turns out, walking into an empty Broadway theatre can be just as fun.A newly launched tour of the Hudson Theatre offers a rare chance to wander around the interior of Broadway’s oldest theatre and hear some of the fascinating stories that have happened over its 116 years.“I would encourage you to bask in the rare moment of being in a Broadway theatre by yourself with no other audience members,” says tour leader Tim Dolan, moments before opening the Hudson’s inner doors.Over the next 90 minutes, Dolan weaves real stories about Hudson Theatre veterans like Barbra Streisand, Louis Armstrong and Elvis with historical events like the sinking of the Titanic and the Iroquois Theatre fire of 1903 in Chicago.“The stories are crazy. Across all boards — tragedy, American history, TV and film, pop icons, and then Broadway, of course, which I’m obsessed with,” Dolan says after the tour.Dolan, an actor who has performed on Broadway, off-Broadway, cruise ships, national tours — and who had one line on an episode of Boardwalk Empire that he’s happy to deliver when prompted — runs the Broadway Up Close tour company, which prides itself on hiring working actors and stage managers for authenticity.Dolan has partnered with the Hudson’s owner, the Ambassador Theatre Group, to let him bring tours into the theatre during lulls between shows. He uses an iPad filled with period photos and video clips to bring the place alive.While there are other walking tours of Broadway — and one that also can get you inside a theatre — none match Broadway Up Close’s ability to mix history and architectural knowledge and convey it from a performer’s perspective. Whenever he can, Dolan will also get his tour group up onto the Hudson’s stage, a very rare feat.Highlights of the tour include wandering the 100-foot green marble lobby, admiring the turquoise, orange and mauve luminescent mosaic tiles by Louis Comfort Tiffany and spotting the ghost light on the stage. You’ll learn that the best seats cost just $2 when the theatre opened in 1903, and you’ll find out why women’s theatre bathrooms are so crowded today.The tour takes you to the orchestra seats, up into the balcony and into a private bar area. Dolan shows photos of the empty top two floors, which once housed a family and are now sealed off from the rest of the theatre. Dolan’s infectious energy, insight and handle on history makes the tour a Broadway visit must-do.To find his stories, Dolan has scoured the Library of Congress, The Shubert Archive, The Museum of the City of New York, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, memoirs and biographies. He filters it through his own show business life. “I’m going to try and make you understand how I look at a building like this,” he says.The 977-seat Hudson was built by theatre producer Henry Harris, who perished aboard the Titanic. His widow, Rene, who was the last Titanic passenger to be rescued, managed the Hudson for another 20 years, staging more than 90 plays.Among them was the 1929 musical revue Hot Chocolates, noteworthy for music by Thomas “Fats” Waller and for launching the career of a then little-known Louis Armstrong, who stole the show with his singing of Ain’t Misbehavin’.The Hudson operated as a theatre on and off until 1960, with shows starring some of the biggest names in show business, including Ethel Barrymore, Douglas Fairbanks, Sidney Lumet, Mae West, Lena Horne and Maureen Stapleton. The Price Is Right with Bob Barker once originated from the Hudson, and American Idol auditions have been held on its stage.After 1960, it narrowly escaped a wrecking ball four times — the existence of a family in the top floors probably helped — and went through many hands and incarnations, including stints as a radio and TV studio, burlesque theatre and porn movie house.Jack Paar’s variety show was broadcast from the Hudson and it was where Streisand made her first TV appearance. Steve Allen’s show was housed at the Hudson for a time, and he was responsible for an infamous episode in which Elvis sang Hound Dog to a real hound dog. You’ll also see what Jake Gyllenhaal — who reopened the Hudson in a ribbon-cutting ceremony in 2017 — left as a permanent mark: His handwritten notes of a Stephen Sondheim lyric have been turned into a neon sign at one of its bars.As an actor, Dolan can explain technical stage details, from the way backdrops move to the staggering price each production pays to get everything loaded into the theatre. He reveals that actors carefully listen to the number of coughs in the audience — a sure sign of boredom. And if you’re the kind of person who dares to record a show on your phone, he warns you that his fellow actors can spot the tiny red light and will tell an usher.“We see everything,” he jokes. “We pretend we don’t but we’re watching everything you do.”Dolan hopes his tour can demystify Broadway and reveal the rich history of buildings we often enter without much thought. Ultimately, he’s a Broadway fan and wants more people to want to come back and see a show.“We need to make them feel connected and feel a part of it,” he says after his latest customers spill out into Times Square.(This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text. Only the headline has been changed.)Follow more stories on Facebook and Twitter Source link Read the full article

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A tour inside a Broadway theater is the place to geek out

Walking into a Broadway theater at show time is something special — the electricity, the excited murmurs, the shared anticipation. But, it turns out, walking into an empty Broadway theater can be just as fun.

A newly launched tour of the Hudson Theatre offers a rare chance to wander around the interior of Broadway’s oldest theater and hear some of the fascinating stories that have happened over its 116 years.

“I would encourage you to bask in the rare moment of being in a Broadway theater by yourself with no other audience members,” says tour leader Tim Dolan, moments before opening the Hudson’s inner doors.

Over the next 90 minutes, Dolan weaves real stories about Hudson Theatre veterans like Barbra Streisand, Louis Armstrong and Elvis with historical events like the sinking of the Titanic and the Iroquois Theatre fire of 1903 in Chicago.

“The stories are crazy. Across all boards — tragedy, American history, TV and film, pop icons, and then Broadway, of course, which I’m obsessed with,” Dolan says after the tour.

Dolan, an actor who has performed on Broadway, off-Broadway, cruise ships, national tours — and who had one line on an episode of “Boardwalk Empire” that he’s happy to deliver when prompted — runs the Broadway Up Close tour company, which prides itself on hiring working actors and stage managers for authenticity.

Dolan has partnered with the Hudson’s owner, the Ambassador Theatre Group, to let him bring tours into the theater during lulls between shows. He uses an iPad filled with period photos and video clips to bring the place alive.

While there are other walking tours of Broadway — and one that also can get you inside a theater — none match Broadway Up Close’s ability to mix history and architectural knowledge and convey it from a performer’s perspective. Whenever he can, Dolan will also get his tour group up onto the Hudson’s stage, a very rare feat.

Highlights of the tour include wandering the 100-foot green marble lobby, admiring the turquoise, orange and mauve luminescent mosaic tiles by Louis Comfort Tiffany and spotting the ghost light on the stage. You’ll learn that the best seats cost just $2 when the theater opened in 1903, and you’ll find out why women’s theater bathrooms are so crowded today.

The tour takes you to the orchestra seats, up into the balcony and into a private bar area. Dolan shows photos of the empty top two floors, which once housed a family and are now sealed off from the rest of the theater. Dolan’s infectious energy, insight and handle on history makes the tour a Broadway visit must-do.

To find his stories, Dolan has scoured the Library of Congress, The Shubert Archive, The Museum of the City of New York, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, memoirs and biographies. He filters it through his own show business life. “I’m going to try and make you understand how I look at a building like this,” he says.

The 977-seat Hudson was built by theater producer Henry Harris, who perished aboard the Titanic. His widow, Rene, who was the last Titanic passenger to be rescued, managed the Hudson for another 20 years, staging more than 90 plays.

Among them was the 1929 musical revue “Hot Chocolates,” noteworthy for music by Thomas “Fats” Waller and for launching the career of a then little-known Louis Armstrong, who stole the show with his singing of “Ain’t Misbehavin’.”

The Hudson operated as a theater on and off until 1960, with shows starring some of the biggest names in show business, including Ethel Barrymore, Douglas Fairbanks, Sidney Lumet, Mae West, Lena Horne and Maureen Stapleton. “The Price Is Right” with Bob Barker once originated from the Hudson, and “American Idol” auditions have been held on its stage.

After 1960, it narrowly escaped a wrecking ball four times — the existence of a family in the top floors probably helped — and went through many hands and incarnations, including stints as a radio and TV studio, burlesque theater and porn movie house.

Jack Paar’s variety show was broadcast from the Hudson and it was where Streisand made her first TV appearance. Steve Allen’s show was housed at the Hudson for a time, and he was responsible for an infamous episode in which Elvis sang “Hound Dog” to a real hound dog. You’ll also see what Jake Gyllenhaal — who reopened the Hudson in a ribbon-cutting ceremony in 2017 — left as a permanent mark: His handwritten notes of a Stephen Sondheim lyric have been turned into a neon sign at one of its bars.

As an actor, Dolan can explain technical stage details, from the way backdrops move to the staggering price each production pays to get everything loaded into the theater. He reveals that actors carefully listen to the number of coughs in the audience — a sure sign of boredom. And if you’re the kind of person who dares to record a show on your phone, he warns you that his fellow actors can spot the tiny red light and will tell an usher.

“We see everything,” he jokes. “We pretend we don’t but we’re watching everything you do.”

Dolan hopes his tour can demystify Broadway and reveal the rich history of buildings we often enter without much thought. Ultimately, he’s a Broadway fan and wants more people to want to come back and see a show.

“We need to make them feel connected and feel a part of it,” he says after his latest customers spill out into Times Square.

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Online: http://bit.ly/2rmq1kk

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If You Go:

COST: Adults, $52; children (12 and younger) $47

LENGTH: 1 hour and 30 minutes

MAXIMUM GROUP SIZE: 20 people

TOUR TIMES: Tuesday at 2 p.m.; Friday at 2 p.m.; and Sunday at 11 a.m.

MEETING LOCATION: Broadway Up Close Kiosk in Times Square between 43rd and 44th Streets.

CONTACT: info@broadwayupclose.com and (917) 841-0187

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