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Discover Shanghai, China's free gems
renovated.At the Bund's north end is the Peace Hotel, one of Shanghai's most famous buildings, where celebrities such as Cole Porter stayed before World War II . Nearby is a statue of Chen Yi, the city's first communist mayor in the '50s.Farther south, buildings Read more »
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Hutch, Riverside Studios, London
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Grenada-born Leslie Hutchinson was the toast of the cabaret circuit. He was a friend of Cole Porter’s while living in Paris and was an early interpreter of his work. After moving to London, Hutchinson became one of the hig 5:36 AM from The Stage Read more »
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Sarah Dash: 12 May 2013 - New York (Review)
Chameleon (1976) was the last album that Labelle recorded in the ‘70s before group members Sarah Dash, Nona Hendryx, and Patti LaBelle pursued solo careers in 1977. The back cover photograph depicted how, even through a cardboard sleeve, the group radiat 5:09 AM from PopMatters Read more »
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Mattress Ads Wake Up to Human Sexuality
The fact is largely forgotten, but first lady Eleanor Roosevelt used to host a weekly radio show sponsored by the Simmons mattress company—a cultural footnote immortalized by Cole Porter in one of the last stanzas of “Anything Goes”: “So Missus R. with a from Brandweek Read more »
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Performance From Stars of 'Anything Goes'
The national tour of Roundabout Theatre Company's ANYTHING GOES, the new Broadway revival of Cole Porter's timeless classic musical theatre masterpiece, will make its Grand Rapids premiere May 14-19, 2013 at DeVos Performance Hall. Winner of the 2011 Ton from WZZM Grand Rapids Read more »
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'Anything Goes' sets toes to tapping at DeVos Hall
To paraphrase Cole Porter, I get a kick out of “Anything Goes.” And the 2011 revival of Porter’s 1934 classic, which opened Tuesday at DeVos Hall, is every bit as much fun as I remembered. If you could capture time in a bottle - the jaunty fashions, the from MLive.com Read more »
