Top Aussie comedian Eric Bana plays Australia’s most notorious criminal Mark ‘Chopper’ Read in this blackly comic, horribly violent controversial film biography.
Voci Bianche
Unbroken children’s voices have always attracted composers of choral music. And this university concert of ‘voci bianche’ (literally, white voices) presents some of the most beautiful examples of the genre. Claire Gibault conducts the Rome Voci Bianche Choir in a programme that includes music by Rossini, Milhaud, and Benjamin Britten, whose ‘Ceremony of Carols for Treble Voices and Harp’ became an instant classic and a fitting inclusion on any pre-Christmas bill.
Family Art Workshop
It’s not a Christmas event, but the New Orleans Museum of Art’s last Family Workshop of 2000 offers a marvellous opportunity for parents and children to dabble in a bit of art history. If the tots are not told beforehand that this is an educational outing, they’ll never guess. First, the participants have a walk-through of some of the museum’s medieval altarpieces. Then all retire to a studio and make altarpieces for their own lives, working with paint, fabric, cardboard and other 21st-century quickie-collage materials.
The Magic Flute
The renowned San Francisco Opera presents a special holiday production of Mozart’s beloved ‘The Magic Flute’ (‘Die Zauberflote’). The classic tale of good versus evil was Mozart’s last opera. Containing musical numbers as well as spoken dialogue, the work became an enormous success shortly after its première two centuries ago. Mozart would enjoy the success for only a couple months before his untimely death but ‘The Magic Flute’ lives on, and has become a staple with the world’s opera companies, especially during the holidays. In German with English supertitles.
Noh and Kyogen
Noh and Kyogen are two of Japan’s traditional theatrical forms. Noh, the most ancient of them, is religious and usually centres on the sin of killing and the joy of Buddhism. Kyogen is intended as the light relief in between. Despite the language barrier – even Japanese people have difficulty understanding the florid language – there is much to admire in these performances. As with much that is Japanese, their appeal rests as much with aesthetics as with content. Noh actors never rehearse together before performing and the spontaneity of the performance is one of the form’s main attractions. Two separate plays are rendered during each performance
Grab your bib for Kansas City Ribs
True to convention, barbeque in Kansas Town is dry rub-spiced, smoked with hickory and lined with a KC style sauce. For Kansas Town sauce means a thick, rich and sour tomato based sauce with molasses and occasionally a touch of vinegar. The beef is sealed, slow cooked and mop basted with sauce until the beef is tender and a pleasant crust has formed on the outside.
Roll up your sleeves and prepare for sauce that you like getting under your nails. Kansas Town’s first recorded barbequer was Henry Perry back in 1908. Perry converted an old trolley barn into a restaurant and would serve is ribs on paper for twenty-five cents a slab. Old Man Perry’s cafe was found at 19th & Highland and was later sold to George Gates and Charlie Bryant. It become known as Arthur Bryant’s and is still today regarded as one of America’s best rib joints. Today Kansas Town boast over ninety rib cafes. As with any rib, first start by removing the surface on the back of the rib. This could turn out to be difficult with wet finger. Uniformly coat the ribs with the dry rub, wrap with plastic wrap and then foil. Thirty mins before you are prepared to prepare the ribs, remove them from the chiller and permit to come to room temperature. Kansas Town Style Dry Rub : one C sugar C paprika C kosher salt C celery salt three large spoons onion powder 3 big spoons chili powder two big spoons cumin two spoons black pepper two small spoons dried mustard powder one big spoon cayenne pepper Classic Kansas Town Style Sauce : one little spoon seasoned salt one small spoon chili powder one spoon cumin one small spoon mild curry powder one spoon paprika spoon ground allspice spoon ground cinnamon small spoon mace small spoon freshly cracked black pepper small spoon cayenne pepper 2 C ketchup C dark unsulphered molasses C white wine vinegar.
Malediva
This unusual male cabaret duo has caused quite a furore over the last year. Both strikingly beautiful with shaved heads and stunning make-up, the two are known as much for their flowing, sequinned dresses as for their quirky blend of songs and anecdotes – most of which deal with the surreal nature of daily life and human relationships. After a string of TV appearances, they perform this month in Berlin at the polysexual Sunday afternoon tea dance Cafe Fatal, which is quite an event in itself.
A private tour of Wine Country
t is an essential part of many cultures today and is held holy by some. As a consequence, it has an effect on countless individuals’ lives.
Naturally, each individual wine drinker has their preferences as far as taste is troubled to and some wine connoisseurs ay not agree with others. This is what makes us people and what makes wine tasting and wine country tours generally so much fun! there is far more to wine country tours than meets the eyes.
You can go on wine tours through California, France, New Zealand, Australia, Spain – there is almost no limit to where you can travel.
By looking round the grounds on wine country tours, you’ll get to see precisely the way in which the grapes are inclined and what conditions they’re grown under. You will without doubt be shown around by your guide while taking in all of the processes before essentially mooching around on your own. Wine country tours give the perfect forum to try this as you can raise questions as you go and get a degree of education from the people that have a private understanding of wine making generally.
