AboutEnnis grew up in Cincinnati, the sixth of ten children. In his first life he was an actor and singer; embarking on his second, he completed his BA at Empire State College, where he was a Richard Porter Leach Fellow.
Read moreA salute to the cool that was Robert Culp, a veteran of TV and film, but most notable as the Bill Cosby’s other half on the groundbreaking (ostensibly because it was the first time a black man and a white man shared top billing in a television show, though their relationship and the intelligence Cosby…
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Like the weather, the gloomy words of literature threaten to upend. I’ve been reading Christopher Isherwood’s A Meeting by the River; last night I got to the part where one of the characters commits a heinous act. I was so mad at him I almost threw the book across the room. I tossed…
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He was the 41st Health Commissioner of New York City; now Dr. Thomas R. Frieden is overhauling the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Washington, D.C., are you taking notes?
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“I wanted to sound an alarm. But nothing had happened.” Alfieri, A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller. In the current revival of A View from the Bridge, the alarms ring throughout. The play’s big Greek epiphany centers on a matter of trust: Eddie Carbone, the dockworker, commits a betrayal so huge that…
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He gave the struggle a face…RIP
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Good morning, Mr. Phelps…RIP
Continue readingPublished Attitude: The Dancer’s Magazine Winter 2010 It’s rare that one art form forces you to take the measure of another, but such was the case during the February engagement of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company at the Joyce Theater. It was a question of jazz: Lubovitch presented an evening of pieces set to works…
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Among his many Chicago landmarks–the Sears Tower.
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