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Time Out
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Prosperous Fools
Taylor Mac is a Fabergé radical: beautiful, ridiculous and full of hidden tricks. In both cabaret-style performances and more formal plays, the writer-performer—whose pronoun of choice is the puckish judy —pilots audiences through fantastical journeys, guided by the compass of a magnetic individuality. This latest work, very loosely inspired by Molière's The Bourgeois Gentleman, sends up the plight of artists who must prostrate themselves before powerful sources of funding. Mac's character is the choreographer of a ballet about Prometheus and gets ;the play's most outrageously funny running joke, which involves the cuddly character actor and savage playwright Wallace Shawn. But Mac and director Darko Tresnjak generously parcel out the biggest comic scenes to other others: Jason O'Connell as a monstrously rich manchild with an unspeakably terrible name; Sierra Boggess as a glorious beacon of celebrity virtue whose name can only be sung in wonder; and Jennifer Regan as a pitifully abject artistic director. Bedecked in Anita Yavich's witty costumes, they're delightfully larger-than-life. The overall spirit is merrily pedagogical, and as always, Mac provides philophical food for thought; judy bites the hand that feeds judy, then spits the flesh in the audience's mouth like a playfully angry mother bird.
New York Post
5 days ago
- Business
- New York Post
‘Big Ass Fans' entrepreneur has found a buyer for his lovely NYC townhouse — which Malcolm Forbes once owned
A landmarked West Village townhouse once owned by the late magazine publisher Malcolm Forbes — known in part for his extravagant homes, Republican politics and Fabergé egg collection — has found a buyer. The 25-foot-wide, six-story dwelling at 11 W. 12th St. was last asking $27 million before entering contract. The sale has not closed and it's not yet certain how much it's selling for. The seller is Texas-based entrepreneur J. Carey Smith, who paid $19.9 million for the stately home in 2019. 11 The late publisher Malcolm Forbes. Getty Images 11 J. Carey Smith is the current seller of the property. 11 The home's charming red brick exterior. Douglas Elliman 11 The residence benefits from massive exposures. Douglas Elliman 11 A view inside the roomy kitchen. Douglas Elliman 11 There's room for the new owner to have a home office. Douglas Elliman 11 A cheerfully designed bedroom inside the townhouse. Douglas Elliman It was the highest-priced property to enter into contract last week, according to Olshan Realty's luxury market report. The news was first picked up by the Real Deal. Smith sold his company, Big Ass Fans, for $500 million in 2017. He has since founded Unorthodox Ventures, an investment company based in Austin. The townhouse, located along the prime Gold Coast, dates to 1847. 11 A lovely bath retreat. Douglas Elliman 11 The handsome formal dining room. Douglas Elliman 11 The new owner will also get the most supreme New York perk: private outdoor space. Douglas Elliman 11 There's plenty of room for outdoor dining now that summer has arrived. Douglas Elliman The previous owners were Icon developers Todd Cohen and Terrence Lowenberg, who had paid $7.25 million for it in 2012 and then did a gut-renovation. The 9,652-square-foot home comes with five bedrooms, six baths and a two-car garage. Details include an elevator, an 800-bottle wine room, a movie theater, a gym and a great room with ceilings over 22 feet high. There are also 2,423 square feet of outdoor space, from a private garden to two terraces and a rooftop hangout. The listing brokers are Douglas Elliman's Mark Fromm and Claudia Saez-Fromm.
South Wales Guardian
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- South Wales Guardian
Llandovery set for summer markets in the town centre
These events take place monthly in Market Square, running until September. The next market is scheduled for Saturday, July 6, operating from 10am to 2pm. July's market will feature singer-songwriter James Rees from 12pm, providing a mix of folk tunes to entertain shoppers. August's market, taking place on Saturday, August 2, is themed 'Flowers, Food & Rainbows'. This event celebrates Llandovery in Bloom and Llandovery Pride. Mayor Huw Thomas is set to launch the Pride parade at 11am in Market Square. The parade, open to all, will show support for the LGBTQ+ community in the Heart of Wales. It will journey through the town, ending back at the Square where live music awaits. The day continues with the Llandovery in Bloom Awards Ceremony, recognising the town's mood-lifting floral displays. Live music will keep the Square lively until 6pm when the cabaret begins at the King's Head. The Llandovery Pride Cabaret, featuring acts such as Fabergé, Anita Fag, Jorddropper, and Justin Drag, promises an exciting evening.
Spectator
15-05-2025
- Spectator
Which European country has the largest nanny state?
Across Europe, Nanny's influence is growing: there has been a steady erosion of liberty for those of us who like to eat, drink, vape or smoke. Leading the pack in the 2025 Nanny State Index is Turkey where the state's penchant for control borders on fetishistic, banning vapes outright and taxing alcohol off the scale. Its only saving grace is that so many of its little prohibitions are poorly enforced. Hot on its heels is Lithuania, where the war on fun is fought with puritanical zeal. Alcohol is a particular target, with the drinking age raised to 20 a few years ago and all advertising banned. E-cigarettes are not outlawed entirely but are saddled with such a ludicrously high tax – €6.30 (£5.30) per bottle – that they might as well be. Finland, Hungary and Ireland make up the rest of the top five. In Ireland, cigarettes are priced as if they were Fabergé eggs and the state deems its citizens too feeble-minded to navigate a supermarket without state-issued blinkers.
Winnipeg Free Press
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Author tidies Molly Gray's backstory in Maid series
For the better part of 20 years, Nita Prose was part of the publishing industry, working her way up to vice-president and editorial director of Simon & Schuster Canada. Then Molly Gray entered her life. Prose introduced Molly, maid at the Regency Grand Hotel, to the world in her 2022 mystery novel The Maid, which became a runaway international bestseller. Molly returned in 2023's The Mystery Guest and then in Prose's holiday-themed novella The Mistletoe Mystery in December 2024. DAHLIA KATZ PHOTO Nita Prose's The Maid's Secret is the author's last Molly Gray novel for now. Now Molly's back to unpack another puzzle in The Maid's Secret, published in early April by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada. Prose launches the novel today at McNally Robinson Booksellers' Grant Park, where she'll be joined in conversation by Rachel Lagacé of CTV Morning Live. In The Maid's Secret, Molly takes a box of her late Gran's trinkets to a filming of Hidden Treasures, an Antiques Roadshow-like TV show filming at the Regency Grand. Among the items is a decorative golden egg revealed to be a Fabergé prototype worth millions. When Molly decides to auction it off, the precious item goes missing — and handwritten notes threatening Molly's life begin to appear as she tries to crack the case of who poached her egg. 'When the Russian empire fell after the revolution in 1918, most of the Fabergé eggs that were given as Easter gifts (by the czars) made their way to collections all over the world to museums and private collections, but several of them remain missing to this day — and that has always fascinated me,' says Prose from Toronto. For her latest Maid novel, Prose took on a new challenge — incorporating the voice of Molly's grandmother, Gran, into the narrative and providing a dual storyline that converges near the book's end. The Maid's Secret alternates between Molly's exploits and diary entries from Gran that detail her younger years, the egg's origins and some of Molly's backstory. Finding Gran's voice proved more of a challenge for Prose than writing Molly's narrative. 'I think authors always get one gift from the gods, and Molly's voice was my gift — she just descended from the heavens fully formed. I understood her. I didn't have to work hard to find that voice,' Prose says. 'With Gran's voice, it took a bit for me to trust myself at the beginning. The 'Write what you know' adage was really in my mind, and can a 50-something-year-old really write a voice that's much older? As it turns out, I feel like I did her justice.' Fans of the Maid books might be verklempt that Prose says The Maid's Secret is the last Molly Gray book — at least for the foreseeable future. 'I'll never say never, but I kind of do see this as the end. Maybe in 10 years, I'll have an idea for another Molly adventure, but at the moment, I really wanted to draw the series to a close and to give people that sense of finality,' she says. The Maid's Secret 'I don't feel like these characters, and particularly Molly, are mine anymore. I've been so lucky to have readers embrace Molly wholly and completely — she belongs to them now, and they're taking such good care of her.' The good news: a Maid movie is likely in the cards. 'My hope is that we'll see it onscreen in the coming years,' Prose says. Prose is already at work on a new novel — a mystery less cosy than the Molly Gray books, but one she hopes fans will enjoy just as much as her Maid books. During Elections Get campaign news, insight, analysis and commentary delivered to your inbox during Canada's 2025 election. 'It's a novel about landscape and wilderness and how the land and a place can both heal and harm. And it's a novel about the unbreakable bond between sisters,' she says of the book, which is set in Ontario cottage country and features an older protagonist. In the meantime, Prose is excited to get in front of fans and talk about all things Molly Gray. 'Writing is such a lonely, self-consuming activity. It challenges you in so many ways. I love that it's a lonely pursuit,' she says. 'But I also love the inverse — when it comes time to share the book, I'm really eager for feedback, for connection. Stories are, after all, meant to be shared, and for me, it's very meaningful to hear readers' responses.' Ben SigurdsonLiterary editor, drinks writer Ben Sigurdson is the Free Press's literary editor and drinks writer. He graduated with a master of arts degree in English from the University of Manitoba in 2005, the same year he began writing Uncorked, the weekly Free Press drinks column. He joined the Free Press full time in 2013 as a copy editor before being appointed literary editor in 2014. Read more about Ben. In addition to providing opinions and analysis on wine and drinks, Ben oversees a team of freelance book reviewers and produces content for the arts and life section, all of which is reviewed by the Free Press's editing team before being posted online or published in print. It's part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
