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Located in a 170-year-old club, the sort of place where a butler might be on standby to hold a drink for a member as he takes a shot in the billiards room, the restaurant La Terraza del Casino in central Madrid reeked of stuffy formality. So it seemed like a daring choice to put the eclectic Spanish artist Jaime Hayon, known for reimagining Lladró's porcelain collectibles, in charge of the redesign. But chef Paco Roncero, who worked at the famed El Bulli, was a fan and wanted Hayon to match the restaurant's décor with...
...College can bring the matter before the Faculty, according to Secretary of the Ad Board John “Jay” Ellison. Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 said that dismissal cases tend to be regarding “the sort of thing for which you could do serious jail time.” Ellison declined to comment on the details of yesterday’s case. That portion of the meeting took place “in camera,” meaning that only Faculty members were allowed to be present. According...
...does not seem dated by the exponential leaps in technology that have occurred since that date. Stoppard frequently uses the computer as an analogue to the themes of entropy and complexity, and in an age when computers have become so thoroughly integrated into every aspect of life, this sort of philosophizing might seem stale or platitudinous. But those involved in this production have taken great care to make sure every moment of Stoppard’s play comes to life, revealing that beneath what might appear as artifice, it is not simply complex for the sake of being complex. Every...
...Diminished Capacity”, with Alan Alda and Matthew Broderick. And in June, I’m starting a four-month stint in the play “August: Osage County” with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company on Broadway—it’s a sort of epic drama about a family in Oklahoma dealing with the disappearance of the father...
...seems to be the only weapon against an inevitable fade into pop-rock homogeny.From the opening chords of the title track, it becomes apparent that something is amiss on “Consolers of the Lonely.” Nearly every song on the album seems to obey a sort of invisible rock template, a self-conscious mechanism that mindlessly plugs in choruses, verses, hooks and solos, but never seems to be aware of what makes any of those things work together. The album plods along on autopilot for six straight tracks of virtually indistinguishable twin-guitar artillery, with doses...