A.D. Amorosi | The Smart Set https://www.thesmartset.com A magazine of arts & culture from Drexel University Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:20:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 The Holy Spirit of Alice Coltrane https://www.thesmartset.com/the-holy-spirit-of-alice-coltrane/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-holy-spirit-of-alice-coltrane https://www.thesmartset.com/the-holy-spirit-of-alice-coltrane/#respond Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:22:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=64809 Alice Coltrane has been lionized for her light and her loving devotion to God and the spirits since her first collaborations (on albums with Terry Gibbs and her husband, John Coltrane), and her earliest band-leader albums on “Impulse!” such as 1971’s “Journey in Satchidananda” and “Universal Consciousness.” With her newest work, however, the posthumously released […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/the-holy-spirit-of-alice-coltrane/feed/ 0 The Un-Making of Made in America https://www.thesmartset.com/the-un-making-of-made-in-america/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-un-making-of-made-in-america https://www.thesmartset.com/the-un-making-of-made-in-america/#respond Thu, 16 May 2024 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=64585 As far as popular music goes, 2024 will be remembered for Beyoncé’s reach into her Houston country roots for Cowboy Carter, the return of Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band to stadium rocking, the continuing bad beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, and the multi-billion-dollar streaming sales of Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets. For better […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/the-un-making-of-made-in-america/feed/ 0 Cutting Up https://www.thesmartset.com/cutting-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cutting-up https://www.thesmartset.com/cutting-up/#respond Mon, 08 Apr 2024 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=64328 “A friend, Brion Gysin, an American poet and painter, who has lived in Europe for thirty years, was, as far as I know, the first to create cut-ups. His cut-up poem, Minutes to Go, was broadcast by the BBC and later published in a pamphlet. I was in Paris in the summer of 1960; this […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/cutting-up/feed/ 0 Brilliant Zingers and Vodka Stingers https://www.thesmartset.com/brilliant-zingers-and-vodka-stingers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brilliant-zingers-and-vodka-stingers https://www.thesmartset.com/brilliant-zingers-and-vodka-stingers/#respond Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=64204 During the second episode of Feud: Capote vs. the Swans — producer Ryan Murphy’s streaming series based on author Truman Capote’s lived-in-and-laughed-over 1960s among Manhattan’s “ladies who lunch” — titular actor Tom Hollander truly has his way with spite. Leaning with persnickety dread into a line that all but explains the raison d’etre of biting […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/brilliant-zingers-and-vodka-stingers/feed/ 0 The Children of Julia Child https://www.thesmartset.com/the-children-of-julia-child/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-children-of-julia-child https://www.thesmartset.com/the-children-of-julia-child/#comments Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=63080 For two streaming seasons at HBO, the vividly colorful life, innovative culinary skills and cultural change-making of the late Julia Child (1912-2004) have been on display for all to enjoy as much as they would a fine bouillabaisse or cassoulet. As an American-born chef and author who taught the world an approachable way into worldly […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/the-children-of-julia-child/feed/ 1 Sondheim. Now. https://www.thesmartset.com/sondheim-now/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sondheim-now https://www.thesmartset.com/sondheim-now/#respond Thu, 25 Jan 2024 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=62662 “Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.”    Stephen Sondheim  Heading into 2024, one of the most noticeable things about the ties that unite the live theater-scape, from the Great White Way through to touring houses around the country, is how it is happily riddled with all that is Stephen Sondheim. Beyond […]

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