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Danish urban planner Bent Flyvbjerg has a love-hate relationship with the Sydney Opera House. “It’s my favorite building,” he said. “But at the same time, I hate the project. The Sydney Opera House is a megaproject disaster.” Flyvbjerg, a professor at Aalborg University, discussed the budget overruns that are common to large infrastructure projects, or megaprojects, at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design last night. According to Flyvbjerg, nine out of every 10 infrastructure projects have these fiscal problems...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Danish Prof Talks at GSD | 10/21/2008 | See Source »

...overture to Carl Maria von Weber’s opera “Der Freischütz” (“The Marksman”) calls up the dusky shadows and sylvan aromas of the German hinterland. It trumpets the glory of an autumn day spent pursuing the hides of harts and the hearts of women—sometimes both at once. It is a piece of extraordinary vigor that makes one understand why John McCain would choose a backwoods Alaskan huntress as his running mate. Or at least it should do all of this.But in Opera Boston?...

Author: By Michael A. Yashinsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Opera Boston Misses Its Mark with ‘Der Freischütz’ | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

...years Eileen Herlie played boutique owner Myrtle Fargate on ABC's All My Children. Herlie joined the soap opera in 1976 after a successful run on Broadway, where she appeared in shows like Take Me Along--based on Eugene O'Neill's play Ah, Wilderness!--and the Richard Burton production of Hamlet. For her turn as Lily, an old-maid schoolteacher in Take Me Along, Herlie received a Tony nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...sounds of ABBA, Vanessa Mae, and Phantom of the Opera filled the Bright Hockey Center as champion figure skaters dazzled and twirled at the 39th “An Evening with Champions” performances on Friday and Saturday...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Champions Skate For Cancer Cure | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

...artist cited an irreconcilable vision of his work with the public as responsible for his isolation: “I felt that the art world was going wrong… I was starting to receive commissions. I was being asked to paint the ceiling of the Paris Opera House. Society seemed to be preparing to paint my work for me. I could have obeyed; many, perhaps most, painters do. The prospect did not coincide with my desire.”Hantaï’s thought process, that of the artist’s struggle against commercialization, represents...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From the Street to the Web | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

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