Students Learn Much More Than Ballroom Dancing By Aaron Blevils As it turns out, young people can achieve maturity by simply following a couple steps — such as a heel turn or lock step. Edwin Reyes Gonzalez and Anna Payton demonstrated the rhumba during the program at West Hollywood […]

Dance Dance Evolution

Sold-Out Gourmet Pop-Up Series Continues as SVMOW Marks 35th Anniversary  Montage Exec Pastry Chef & Food Network’s Last Cake Standing Winner Richard Ruskell Presented a V.I.P. Baking Class at SVMOW Birthday Celebration Reprising one of its epicurean initiatives from 2011, St. Vincent Meals on Wheels launched its 2012 Culinary Cause […]

ST. VINCENT MEALS ON WHEELS LAUNCHES 2012 CULINARY CAUSE SERIES ...

  Dancing Classrooms Los Angeles, the classroom-based social development arts-in-education program that was featured in the critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated documentary, Mad Hot Ballroom has finally arrived in Los Angeles!   With the support of community leaders, local politicians and LAUSD officials, Dancing Classrooms LA provides a ten-week, twenty-session social development […]

Dancing Classrooms Featured on NBC Nightly News

by Steve Ramos A gay riff on Cher’s dance melodrama Burlesque, House of Boys trades Cher and Christina Aguilera for audience friendly hunks Frank (Layke Anderson) and Jake (Benn Northover). Cher (in spirit) makes a fleeting appearance in co-writer/director Jean-Claude Schlim’s sweet natured and showy go-go boys drama. (Cher would […]

Handsome leads will draw audiences to House of Boys

  Girls Having Fun and Raising Money for St. Vincent Meals on Wheels. Saks Fifth Avenue and Chanel teamed up to host a Pre-Valentine makeover at their famed Beverly Hills location. RC Stephens, celebrated Chanel make-up artist, flew in from NYC to participate in the fun and fundraising. Much love […]

Saks & SVMOW Team up For Pre-Valentine Makeovers With Chanel

‘Raju’ Director on Going to Great Lengths to Film a Short Max Zaehle (left) directing Wotan Mohring and Julia Richter in ‘Raju.’ Barbara Chai, Wall Street Journal Although his short film, “Raju,” deals with the weighty subject of illegal child-trafficking, director Max Zaehle is ebullient when discussing his work. Perhaps […]

Angelus Winner Talks Oscar With WSJ

Mark Gold’s Potato Parmesan Soup for National Homemade Soup Day By, Lesley Balla For National Homemade Soup Day, which for some unknown reason is always February 4, the first thing that comes to mind is the story of stone soup. Some travelers go to a village carrying nothing more than […]

St. Vincent Meals on Wheels

  By Benjamin Sutton The 2012 Academy Award-Nominated Live-Action Shorts, Animated Shorts, and Documentary Shorts  Opening February 10 at IFC Center Attempting to find a unifying theme to one year’s 15 Oscar-nominated short films is a necessarily (and happily) impossible task, but if nothing else the strongest contenders in the […]

Film Reviews Meet the Family and Fate in 2012’s Oscar-Nominated ...