Talented and funny Tyra Banks interviews herself on Good Housekeeping’s YouTube channel.
In homage to her iconic 2008 interview with Beyoncé, Tyra Banks sat down with herself for an in-depth interview where she asks and answers some hard-hitting questions. Find out which type of French fries and pies are Tyra’s favorites along with her secrets to relaxation and self-care. Tyra even shares which of the viral memes she’s helped to create is her favorite.
Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts, part of Marriott International, Inc., along with national real estate developer Charles S. Cohen announced the opening of Le Méridien Dania Beach at Fort Lauderdale Airport.
Located just steps from the city’s famed The Design Center of the Americas, the 12-story hotel, designed by David Ashen of dash design, features 245 thoughtfully designed guest rooms and suites.
Taking cues from the brand’s mid-century design aesthetic, the comprehensive multi-million dollar, top-to-bottom conversion of the property brings to life Le Méridien’s distinctive French heritage and the allure of the Côte d’Azur to South Florida.
“With a nostalgic nod to the glamour of the French Riviera in the 1960s, Le Méridien inspires travelers to explore the world in style, savour the good life and enjoy experiences that offer something more than meets the eye,” said George Fleck, Vice President of Global Brand Marketing & Management. “The debut of this hotel is part of the brand’s significant growth strategy and further reinforces our brand’s commitment to ensuring that guests experience destinations around the globe through the lens of its European spirit”
“It was a true pleasure for us to partner with real estate developer Charles S. Cohen and Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts,” says David Ashen, the founder of dash design, the interior design and brand consulting firm for Le Méridien. “The design we created supported the tenets of Le Méridien brand as well as the lifestyle that is emblematic for South Florida, both for its residents and visitors. Every detail was thought out: form, function, as well as beauty. The concept sets a standard that we are proud to have contributed.”
Guests will have the opportunity to indulge in five culinary outlets throughout the hotel including the brands signature Latitude/Longitude Bar serving light fare at Le Méridien Hub and Cabana, as well as Toro Latin Kitchen, serving up a South American menu, La Bibloteca de Tequila which is an exclusive tequila bar and lounge, Constellation Café serving daily French fare, and the hotel’s outdoor bar offering Caribbean-style fare poolside.
For meetings and events, the hotel offers 25,000 square feet of state-of-the-art flexible meeting space within a prime location, in the epicenter of South Florida. Conveniently located minutes from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) and Fort Lauderdale Everglades Cruise Port, the new hotel also neighbors Las Olas Boulevard, downtown Fort Lauderdale and the evolving Dania Pointe.
THIS RECORD-BREAKING HIT from the award-winning Steppenwolf Theatre follows the inner-workings of a city council meeting in the small town of Big Cherry—and the hypocrisy, greed, ambition and devious doings that ensue.
Written by and Starring Tracy Letts with Armie Hammer, Jessie Mueller, & Blair Brown, this electrically charged and sharply funny play proves that everything you know can change—it’s just a matter of minutes.
The show is in previews now.
The cast of Altered Carbon celebrated the upcoming season 2 premiere with fans at AMC Lincoln Square. Anthony Mackie, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Simone Missick, Lela Loren, Chris Conner, Dina Shiabhi, Jihae, Torben Liebrecht and Will Yun Lee gave attendees a special look at what lies ahead for Takeshi Kovacs as he continues his search for his lost love.
Joining the cast were Showrunner/Executive Producer Alison Schapker, and Executive Producers James Middletonand Rose Lam.
In Altered Carbon, premiereing February 27, society is transformed by new technology: consciousness can be digitized; human bodies are interchangeable; death is no longer permanent.
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Anthony Mackie
Simone Missick, Will Yun Lee, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Anthony Mackie, Chris Conner, Dina Shihabi, Torben Liebrecht and Lela Loren
The New York Center for Children
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The crowd at Rockwood Music Hall’s Stage 2 went wild on Friday night when international reggae sensation Shaggy, made a surprise appearance in celebration of the venue’s 15th Anniversary in NYC.
Mr. Boombastic himself (known for hits like “Angel” and “It Wasn’t Me”) joined Tex-Mex/country/rock band The Last Bandoleros on stage before posing for photos with his friends for excited fans.
Before wrapping-up, Derek James of The Last Bandoleros dedicated a song entitled “The Sweetest Thing” to Rockwood Music Hall founder, Ken Rockwood.
Other celebrities that have graced the stage at Rockwood include Lady Gaga, Neil Patrick Harris, Sting and OAR, among others.
Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) and board member Marcella Hymowitz brought friends to a private tour of Ballerina: Fashion’s Modern Mus, the new exhibition at The Museum at FIT.
FIT Museum Deputy Director Patricia Mears explained, “Today we take for granted that ballerinas have a major impact on modern fashion. However this is a relatively recent phenomenon. For most of ballets long history, professional female dancers may have been lauded for their beauty and their skills but, with very few exceptions, were not viewed as proper ladies in society. Beginning with the Ballet Russe in Paris in1910 and with the rise of great US and UK ballet companies in the 1930’s, this all charged and with a profound impact on fashion”. More than 25 donors to YAGP listened in rapt attention as they were led though 80 objects, including high fashion, ranging from Parisian couture, British custom-made clothing, and American ready-to-wear, as well as costumes and rehearsal clothing all illustrating the rich yet often overlooked connection between classical ballet and fashion.
Following the tour, Net-A-Porter were hosts to an intimate luncheon at The Wilson. Guests included Simon Doonan, Grace Fuller, Judith Hoffman, Susan Gutfreund, Pat Kerr Tigrett, Laura Lobdell, Candice Lupton, Colby Mulgrabi, Daisy Prince, Rene Rothschild, Lesley Thompson, and YAGP Founder (and former Bolshoi dancer) Larissa Saveli.
Youth America Grand Prix is the world’s largest ballet scholarship competition. Over the past 21 years, more than $4 million has been awarded in scholarships to leading dance institutions to over 100,000 young dancers. More than 450 YAGP alumni are now dancing with 80 professional companies around the world, including American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Mariinsky Ballet and many others.
The annual YAGP gala, Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow returns to the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center on April 16th, 2020. This year’s all-star cast includes Diana Vishneva and Marcelo Gomes, Daniil Simkin and Anna Ol of Dutch National Ballet. The performances will include World Premiere choreography by YAGP Alumna Lauren Lovett (NYCB), and a performance by Mariinsky Ballet’s rising star Maria Khoreva and YAGP alum Victor Caixeta.
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Grace Fuller, Marcela Hymowitz
Susan Gutfreund
The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) had a private opening of their new exhibition, 45 Stories in Jewelry: 1947 to Now, where artists, curators, and collectors were invited to preview MAD’s unique, world-class collection of studio and contemporary art jewelry. Selected by an advisory committee to represent significant developments in art jewelry since the mid-century, 45 Stories in Jewelry showcases jewelry artists for whom anything can serve as inspiration—from a material or found object to the pressing social and political issues of our time.
In 2008, MAD created a dedicated jewelry gallery with forty-five open storage drawers. 45 Stories in Jewelry debuts the redesign of these drawers, contextualizing the work within history to deepen viewers’ understanding of the field.
Christopher Scoates, the museum’s Nanette L. Laitman Director said at the reception, “The Museum of Arts and Design has a great track record of experimental exhibitions, and I look forward to building upon its rich history of craft, art, and design. With its dedicated staff and board, I know we can position ourselves as a leading museum in the 21st century.” He introduced Michele Cohen, Museum Chair, who was met with applause as she shared her excitement about 45 Stories in Jewelry: “I love that jewelry has the ability to transcend time, culture, and gender. I am honored to be associated with the only American museum to have a permanent space committed to showcasing its permanent jewelry collection along with contemporary innovators.” Barbara Gifford, MAD curator charged with jewelry selection added, “I hope this exhibition may give emerging artists the confidence to explore what is inside of them and express it through their chosen art medium, no matter the subject matter.”
Guests included MAD board members Jerome Chazen, Marsy Mittlemann, Linda Plattus, and Chairman Emerita Barbara Tober, as well as Hope Byer, Oded Halahmy, LaVon Kellner, Susan Grant Lewin, Aimee Maroney, Janis Gardner Cecil, Lauren La Puma, Melissa Gottesman, Tina Livanos, and Kay Unger. Other notable guests included MAD’s LOOT curator Bryna Pomp, founder of Gem X NYC Jewelry club Jamison Lin, and fashion designer Anna Sui, who’s own exhibit, The World of Anna Sui, continues at MAD through February 23rd.
MAD will continue its celebration of jewelry with the 20th edition of LOOT: MAD About Jewelry on April 20th. LOOT is a week-long show and sale where collectors and jewelry enthusiasts can meet more than 50 creators of spectacular wearable art, learn about their inspiration and processes, and take home their one-of-a-kind works of contemporary art jewelry. The event will include a VIP preview and dinner on April 20th, and the dinner will honor Stellene Volandes, Editor-in-Chief of Town & Country. This season of jewelry will also include the seventh edition of RE:FINE on May 14th. The Store at Mad will present a curated selection of necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and more from artists who offer a refreshing alternative to the conventional world of fine jewelry, and the official opening will be preceded by a press preview on May 13th.
MAD champions contemporary makers across creative fields and presents the work of artists, designers, and artisans who apply the highest level of ingenuity and skill. Today, the Museum’s curatorial program builds upon a rich history of exhibitions that emphasize a cross-disciplinary approach to art and design, and reveals the workmanship behind the objects and environments that shape our everyday lives.
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Chris Scoates, Barbara Gifford, Michele Cohen
Anna Sui, Chris Scoates
In exclusive interview with Parade, the leading man of five Star Wars films, the Indiana Jones franchise and dozens of other hit flicks talks about how he overcame a slow career start to become one of Hollywood’s most durable stars.
Snakes! Working at a Wisconsin summer camp in his youth, he was tasked with building a terrarium—and finding critters to stock it. So he rounded up the required creepy-crawlers, splashers and hopping things. “It served me well,” he says, “when I came to be Indiana Jones and had not developed a fear of snakes.”
He Came, He Saw(ed). In Hollywood, he became frustrated early on with bit parts, so he learned carpentry to supplement his income, remodeling houses and building cabinets and furniture. “Everything I built is still standing today,” he says proudly. As his hammer-and-nail business grew, so did his acting résumé—but he vowed to never take another acting job unless the next role was better than the one before. “The last time I packed up my tools to go do a movie, I had no idea I wouldn’t unpack them again,” he says. “And that was [Han Solo in] Star Wars.”
Going ‘Wild.’ In The Call of the Wild (in theaters now), the latest big-screen adaptation of the classic adventure novel by Jack London, he plays John Thornton, a prospector in the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s who befriends a formerly abused dog, Buck. Together in untamed Alaska, Jack and Buck find how much they both needed “to slough off [their] domestic experience and feel a part of nature,” says Ford, who adds that the movie’s bigger theme is that “nature doesn’t need people; people need nature.”
That secret to his 10-year-marriage to actress Calista Flockhart? “Don’t talk. Nod your head.”
The return of Indy. Ford won’t reveal any details of the 2021 movie with director Steven Spielberg, except to say he’s looking forward to his standard Indy tasks: running, jumping, falling and rolling around. “They’re hard,” he says of the Indiana Jones movies, “but they’re fun.”
For more about Harrison Ford, including what his life is like at home in Wyoming with wife Calista Flockhart, see Sunday’s Parade or go to Parade.com.
Axl Rose and Billy Corgan will finally be together on their upcoming stadium tour.
Never having performed before, Billy Corgan and his group will join GNR for six shows, starting with their July 8th gig in Philadelphia. The two rock bands will also share the bill for shows in Detroit, Toronto, Washington, DC, E. Rutherford, NJ, and Boston.
Before North America, the band will perform shows in Latin America, the UK, and Europe.
Tickets for Guns N’ Roses’ US stadium tour, as well as all their upcoming dates can be found here.
