About the people of Scandinavia, Marian Anderson said, "If these people believed in me as an artist, then I could venture to be a better one."
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by Nathan Krämer
on 1/5/2011
Artists in Residence -- Lost Bohemia
Until very recently, atop Carnegie Hall, there were 133 work-live studios that housed a collection of this city’s forgotten artists, many of whom were elderly, some a little crazy. There resided the Broadway star Jeanne Beauvais; Donald Shirley, an 83-year-old jazz pianist who played with Duke Ellington; Editta Sherman, a 98-year-old portrait photographer; and Star Szarek, an 85-year-old homeless ballerina — she refused to believe she was a day older than 25 — who practiced in the stairwell, using the building’s 19th-century banister as her barre. Another resident was Bill Cunningham, who you know today as the New York Times irrepressible bike-bound documentarian of street style but who got his start as a milliner.
“Lost Bohemia,” which premiered at the Doc NYC film festival in November 2010, is both a portrait of the space and a record of its demise at the hands of the Carnegie Hall Corporation, which announced in 2007 that it would demolish the studios to pave the way for a $200 million educational and rehearsal space. The film, directed by Josef Birdman Astor, himself a resident, feels like a memento mori addressed to the occupants of all the world’s unlikely creative cocoons: Remember, “All good things.”
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by Nathan Krämer
on 1/4/2011
Nanny Photographer
Vivian Maier was an unassuming French-born amateur photographer who worked as a nanny in Chicago during the 50s and 60s. Two years prior to her death in 2009, a young real-estate agent stumbled upon thousands of her negatives at an estate sale, and purchased them for $400. 26-year-old John Maloof soon realized what he had actually paid for: The life’s work of one of the greatest street photographers the world never knew.
Andrew Carnegie built his famous music hall in New York City more than 100 years ago. Above it, he erected more than 170 tower apartments. He said they should be used as studios where artists of all kinds could live cheaply and devote themselves to their work. Choreographer George Balanchine, actor Marlon Brando and many other artists, both famous and little-known, have lived or worked here.
They include 84-year-old Donald Shirley, a Jamaica-born concert pianist who has been here 50 years, and who’s performed several times in the recital hall below his studio. “There's just no place else where I could practice the way I can practice here,” he said in a recent interview, as he played a delicate melody on his Steinway grand piano.
Danish photojournalists Sofia Wraber and Nanna Kreutzmann illustrate the aging process by placing 101 photographs of males, ages 0 to 100, side by side.
Every New Year’s Eve, half of all Germans plunk down in front of their televisions to watch a 1963 English comedy sketch called Dinner for One. Walk into any bar in Bavaria and shout the film’s refrain: “The same procedure as last year, madam?” The whole crowd will shout back in automatic, if stilted, English: “The same procedure as every year, James.” Even though Dinner for One is, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the most frequently repeated TV program ever, it has never been aired in the United Kingdom or the United States, and most of the English-speaking world is ignorant of its existence. When Der Spiegel probed the mystery last New Year’s, it found that the BBC had not only never contemplated broadcasting this veddy British nugget in the United Kingdom, the BBC’s spokesperson had never even heard of it.
Sunday Brunch
Anthonys 72&F
Granet City Westroads
Bonefish Grill Regency Parkway 391-3474
LuCinda's 7920 Harison (next to Ace Hardware) 614-6622
Kolache Korner Cafe (402) 663-4869
308 W Center Ave Prague, NE 68050
Sunday Czech Night Pork & Dumplings 2-10 p.m.
Bistro 121: 12129 West Center Road, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundays. Menu- No buffet. 697-5107.
Cafe Cafe: 1259 S. 120th St. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sundays. Menu & Buffet. 334-7172.
Grisanti's: 10875 West Dodge Road, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays. Buffet available. 330-0440.
The Market Basket: 911 S. 87th Ave., 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Menu No buffet. 397-1100.
McFoster's: 302 S. 38th St., 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundays. No buffet. 345-7477.
Millard American Legion: 4618 S. 139th St., 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday. Menu & Buffet. 895-1324.
Sprigs: 8727 Maple St., 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays. Menu. No buffet. 558-5923.
Taxi's: 1822 N. 120th St., 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays. Menu. 898-1882.
The Underwood Cafe: 4949 Underwood Ave., 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. Live music. Menu. No buffet. 553-5000.
Wheatfields: 1224 S. 103rd St., Breakfast all day, Sunday brunch specials until 4 p.m. menu No buffet. 955-1485.
Las Palmas 2715 N. Belt Highway St.Jo MO
Malaras 21st & Pierce 346-8001
Biaggi's Sunday brunch
Shirley's Diner 5325 S. 139th Plaza
Hausbarn Restaurant Heritage Office 712-655-3131 1-800-292-0252 Manning, Iowa
Nite Hawkes Cafe 4825 N. 16th St
The Green Gateau Cafe 330 S. 10th. Lincoln, NE 402-477-0330
Kim Som Seafood Grill next to the Brazen Head.
Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano 13650 California Street Omaha, NE 402-965-9800
Pachamma's 2161 Quail Creek Dr. Larence (785)841-0990
Dusters 2804 13th , Columbus, NE 564-8338
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Posted
by Nathan Krämer
on 1/1/2011
Director and DP Alex Fischer employs a simple technique to generate a powerfully memorable result in this video for Apollo Run for the single Stars off of their EP Here Be Dragons Vol. 1. Simple and beautiful both in song and image.
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by Nathan Krämer
on 12/30/2010
