From Jonas Kaufman’s adventures with the Reverse Scalpers to the protests and madness of the Met’s snow day make-up premiere of Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle to our handy dandy Met Online Rush Ticket Walkthrough to a spy in the loving house of the International Opera Awards here are our top four most viewed posts of… [Read More]
General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, Rick Santorum, addressed a crowd of reporters and well-wishers at Lincoln Center Plaza this past week. “My personal late night internet research has revealed to me that the last couple of seasons at the Metropolitan have caused Nathan Gunn and his vocal folds to go off half cocked. This… [Read More]
Actor Jim J Bullock was unavailable for comment after the fictional character he played for 4 years from 1983-1987 on Too Close For Comfort publicly repudiated the actor at a hastily called press conference in an abandoned pool near Tarzana CA. Not since TJ Hooker publicly burned William Shatner’s wig on television in 1992 has… [Read More]
Call me old fashioned, but I’ve always wanted to visit a sex shop in the rural Midwest. So while staying at my mother’s bizarre quasi-plantation like homestead in Northeastern Iowa I felt the opportunity would finally present itself. Now I didn’t want any of those roadside “24 Hour Bookstore and Video Booth” establishments. The kind… [Read More]
This past week we saw Les Troyens at the Met. At just over five hours, it was by far the longest evening at the opera either of us had ever experienced. Shockingly, we both stayed awake the entire time. Les Troyens is the story of the fall of Troy to the Greeks, the escape from… [Read More]
