“On a macro level, Tokyo isn’t a beautiful city. It encompasses a riot of architectural styles in full embrace of kitsch. A postwar wooden yakitori joint might be shoehorned between a newly poured mansion of exposed concrete and a megawatt pachinko parlor of mirror chrome. Add to this lexicon vast forests of neon, fluorescent and LED signs, overlay a spaghetti canopy of power lines, crisscross it all with railways, ring roads and cramped lanes, and you get an idea of the city’s built environment. And don’t forget the people: 13.7 million of them, living in the heart of a greater metropolitan area of 38 million.”
Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit
An ongoing digital archive of 1,376 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.
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Curtain call at We Live in Cairo -
The ensemble takes a bow -
Curtain call at Pirates of Penzance -
Curtain call at School Girls -
The preset for Indecent -
Cher performs for an army of gay men -
Laura Benanti takes her curtain call -
“The evening of Wednesday, November 28, 1973, as guests began arriving at Versailles, the palace glowed under a full moon and through a scrim of light snow—the first dusting of the season. Red uniformed, saber-wielding gendarmes flanked the gilded palace gates, along with some four hundred footmen in eighteenth-century white powdered wigs and livery. Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, dressed in green, ostrich-trimmed gown by Yves Saint Laurent and with solitary diamonds pinned in her thick hair greeted guests; brushing kisses on the cheeks of the French and offering handshakes to the Americans.”
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The ensemble performs -
Curtain call at An Inspector Calls -
“If you do start crying at a bad time, say on a first date at the movies, you might be left with no choice but to go all in: Burst into tears, pretending it’s laughter, and pray it’s your lucky night—and that your date catches a hit of the leucine-enkephalin–induced high as the tears trickle down your face.”
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Curtain call at Once -
Dan Levy and the cast enter the stage -
Curtain call at The Little Foxes -
Money can’t buy you class
