American Beauty Team Rocks Shakespeare
We know that when actor Kevin Spacey and director Sam Mendes team up, on-screen excellence is likely. The duo that perfected American Beauty in 1999, both of whom won their respective categories for Best Actor and Best Director, in addition to many other titles and accolades, have teamed up again in London, but this time they are displaying their talents on stage. Their excellent satirical work about the American mindset and lifestyle spills into London’s Old Vic Theatre in Richard III in the form of political satire, but that’s about all that’s similar. Now Spacey, who is also the artistic director of the Old Vic, and Mendes, who has run the trans-Atlantic theatre production company the Bridge Project since its start in New York in 2002, have...
New York Asian Film Festival Always Rouge
After ten years of putting together some of the most renegade Asian films on the outskirts of culture in a slew of high-class New York film festivals, the Asian Film Festival is finally garnering some recognition and respect as one of the better ensembles of a genre of movies. Without the flashy red carpet scene including decked out starlets and elaborate art and food displays that characterize the prominent gatherings like New Directors New Films and the Tribeca Film Festival, the 40 feature program showing at the Walter Reade Theatre and Japan Society this July may seem to come up short in comparison to its peers. However, even without fancy promotions and insider parties, the overall quality and variety of feature presentations is equal to or if not better than...
Let your kids love art
As parents, we try to think of different ways to encourage our kids to be active in almost anything that involves learning and development. As they grow, we teach them new things that would open their mind to great possibilities. Arts and crafts are a fun way to get your kids creative. There is no such thing as the right age to start kids getting involved with arts and crafts. It all starts with a little circle added with a little imagination. My two year old daughter would be doing scribbles and circles all over her piece of paper and tell me she’s drawing her play house with big rooms and her favorite cable bundles in it. Honestly speaking, I’m no artist myself. But that’s no excuse for me not to try. As with anything new that we learn to do,...
