Entries from Dante Today (Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin) tagged with 'United States'
"The Standard Hotel's Stunning Video Collage of Heaven and Hell" (2009)
"Guests at the swank new Standard Hotel, on the western edge of Manhattan, are treated to an otherworldly piece of eye candy: "Civilization," a depiction of heaven, hell, and purgatory created by video artist Marco Brambilla. Inspired by Dante's...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Mezzo Cammin" (1842) and "Divina Commedia" (1867)
The title, "Mezzo Cammin," takes its name from the first line of the Inferno. Longfellow, the first American to translate Dante's Commedia into English, "was 35 when he wrote this poem, halfway through the scriptural lifespan of 70 years."...
"Dante's Inferno Documented" (2009)
From the film's website: "Dante's Inferno Documented, now in final stages of post-production, started filming in Italy (Rome, Florence and Bellagio) in February, 2008 and continued in Los Angeles, United States in March, August, December 2008, January 2009 (including...
Roberto Benigni, "TuttoDante" in the US
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/theater/23dant.html?emc=eta1 "...Next week he will begin a short North American tour of TuttoDante, a monologue about Dante's Divine Comedy that mixes literary insights with off-the-cuff political jokes. In Italy, where he has been doing the show regularly for three...
Yale Cabaret, "Funny as Hell" (2009)
http://www.yalecabaret.org/what.html "Dante's Divine Comedy is a staple of the so-called western canon. Aged and distinguished--though mostly just age--like fine wine and pungent cheese, it's the classic man's classic. Roughly seven centuries later (incidentally, a divine number of completion), Russell...
Synetic Theater, "Dante," Washington, D.C. (2009)
In an unprecedented, ambitious production, Synetic Theater takes on the entirety of Dante Alighieri's epic masterpiece, the tale of a lost traveler's visionary journey through the torments of Hell and up the slopes of Purgatory, before the final attainment...
Robert Talpin, "Everthing Imagined is Real (After Dante)" (2009)
Robert Talpin, "VIII. Get Back! (The River Styx)" (2008) http://www.winstonwachter.com/exhibitions_ny.php "Winston Wachter Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of Robert Taplin's new show entitled Everything Imagined is Real (After Dante), on exhibit from January 8 - February...
"Smoking Ban Hits Home. Truly."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/us/27belmont.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y "BELMONT, Calif. -- During her 50 years of smoking, Edith Frederickson says, she has lit up in restaurants and bars, airplanes and trains, and indoors and out, all as part of a two-pack-a-day habit that she regrets not...
Image from Dante's View, Death Valley, California
http://www.schweich.com/imagehtml/IMGP2523sm.html...
Dante Park, Columbus Ave and W 63rd St., NYC
(photo by Steven Maginnis) "The New York branch of the Dante Alighieri Society had intended to erect a Dante monument on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Italian unification in 1912. Carlo Barsotti, editor of Il Progresso (the...
Dante Hall Theater, Atlantic City, NJ
http://dantehall.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8&Itemid=25 14 North Mississippi Ave. Atlantic City, NJ 08401 (609) 344.8877 http://dantehall.org/...
Purgatory Pizza, Chicago, IL
http://www.timeout.com/chicago/articles/restaurants-bars/28135/purgatory-pizza 3415 N Clark St between Roscoe St and Newport Ave (773-975-6677) "A LITTLE SLICE OF HEAVEN Is there pizza in the afterlife? Chris Peckat doesn't pretend to know. But he does have a pretty strong hunch there's pizza...
Dante in Cambridge, MA (with CT plates and driving a Honda Civic)
(Photo by Dien Ho, 2008)...
Cafe Dante, 79-81 Macdougal Street, NY, NY
http://www.caffe-dante.com/index.html Contributed by Guy Raffa...
Hell Bar, Chapel Hill, NC
entrance to Hell, photo by Sara Washington http://www.chapelhell.com/index2.html Contributed by Sara Washington...
"Sex and the City" film (2008)
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Sex-And-The-City-Posters_i1629475_.htm Samantha's handsome neighbor "Dante" inspires her to think she's going to hell just for looking at him....
Dante detective?
http://www.domenicstansberry.com/ The third installment of the Dominic Stansberry's San Francisco mystery series featuring Dante Mancuso, AKA The Pelican. Forthcoming, 2008 with St. Martin's Minotaur. "THE ANCIENT RAIN, the third novel in a habit-forming series about Dante Mancuso, a private...
Frasier
http://www.insidepulsemedia.com/columnImages2006/image26335.jpg In the fourth episode of the eighth season of Frasier (November 14, 2000), Frasier offers to tutor his boss on the finer things in life saying that he will be the Virgil to his boss's Dante. Contributed by...
Auditions for Romeo Castellucci's "Divina Commedia" (2008)
http://select.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?emc=tnt&tntget=2008/02/03/theater/03sell.html&tntemail0=y http://klp.splinder.com/post/15424774...
Studio Dante, Chelsea, NYC
http://www.studiodante.com/about/...
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