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A new pope has entered the vatican, and Snl Played it Very Coy. There was no “da pope” SKETCH, NOR HAVE THEY CHOSEN A CAST MEMBER TO POPE Leo. Are they have having their Own Conclave? Nononeheless, Our New American Pope Still Got Goofed on During “Weekend Update,” after a brief mention from James Austin Johnson’s Trump During the Opening Monologue. “As an American Catholic, i is noted be more proud, which is a sin, and now i’m ashamed,” Colin Jost Begin. “You can tell he’s from the south side (of chicago) Because he’s got his hands up.” It wasn’t long before Jost mentioned another religious man from chicago, joking, “this picking was a welcome surprise for with gcauses i heard the pope a Super-relligious guy from chicago in a funny robe, i was worried it was.” He conflict the segment by reminding everyone that there is no real “Woke Pope”; sorry, people: “I also love that conservatives are already complaining this pope is too woke. How Woke Can a 69-Yet-Old man from chicago be? The reality is there are no woke catholics.

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Johnny Rodriguez, Country Star with Hits Like “Pass Me (If You’re Only Passing Through)” and “Ridin ‘My Thumb to Mexico,” Died at the Age of 73 on May 9. His Daughter, Aubry Rae, Confirmed the News in a Post On Instagram. “It is with profound sadness and heavy Hearts that we announce the passing of Our Beloved Johnny Rodriguez, who left us Peacefull on May 9th, Surrounded by Family,” Rae Wrote in the Caption. “Dad was not only only a legendary Musician whose artistry touched millions around the world, but also a deeply love Husband, Father, Uncle, and Brother Who Warmth, Humor, and Compassion SHAPED the LIVES OF ALL WHO KNEW HIM.” Rodriguez was consider one of the Great 70s Country Music Stars and One of the First Mainstream Hispanic Country Acts, with Six No. 1 Hits and Fifteen Overall Top 10 Hit, All on the Country Charts.

HIS MUSIC WAS A PERFECT BLEND OF COUNTRY AND TIMANANI/Mexican Influencies, far inspired by Hispanic upbringing in texas. “I was drawn to country music Becausee i could relates more to what they were singing about,” rodriguez told ken burns in a Documentary PBS on Country Music. “And also it was just like the music of our people. HIS Musical Storytelling Impacted Not Only The Country Charts But the White House. Throughout His Career, Rodriguez was Honored by Three US Presidents and Later on, he reciped the institute of Hispanic Pioneer Award in 2010.

Winter in la, by Hilary Pecis.
Photo: Ed Mumford, Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery

The Painter Hilary Pecis has made a necessary change in her work. Her Previous Shows at Rachel Uffner – Featuring Highly Colored Landscapes, Still Lifes, and Interiors – Were lovely but felt like a decorative holding pattern. Her Current Show at David Kordansky Gallery is a breakthrough that sees her both zeroing in deeper solitudes and spiraling out intocentric reveries. It is evidence that nickens is not just just another los angeles painting selling tosty flat images. “I’m trying to figure out how to make a painting,” she told with over text. “I wish i had the confidence of a Big, Gestured Mark but alas i’m Still Always trying to like to paint.” This is the mystery at play in every artist: not to know what they doing but learning how to do it.

The new work are two-dimensional sublimits of Color, Texture, and Complexity, as if Fellow Angeleno Jonas Wood’s Large Smooting Had Been mixed with Matisse, The Pattern and Decoration PaINTERS of the 1970s (Most of Whom Woma Women), and Hallmark Greketing Cards. Dangerously enticing Territory, in Other Words.

In her best paintings, we are privy to suspended moments of Peace. In Winter in la, GET A TERRIBLE ENVY OF THE OUTWARD BEAUTY AND PHYSICAL EASE OF SOUTERN CALIFORNIA. A World Without Weather, Days Without Humidity, Lives Green With Plants. Pecis works in van gogh -like individual strokes, out of which appear chairs, a couch, a coffee table with a bouquet, and a Christmas tree – slightly incongrouous, to these east coast eyes, anyway, with the verdant and purple.

She’s great at Bookshelves. The names are like a frieze on a temple. Van Gogh, Niki de Saint Pharal, William Blake, Cézanne, Eva Hesse, Albert York, Gabriele Münter – A Declaration of the Totemic KinShips and A Family Tree of Influents. Artists live in these Pictures.

Pecis’s Paintings Become Controlled Laves Flows of Form, Shadow, and Detail. We see Photographs, A Picture of a Horse, Gridded Window Screens. In Office, there’s a microwave Supporting a cup, a thermo, and a lemon – a wee Still Life. There’s a mondrian-like order and geometry to everything, Most prominently seen in Sharon Flowers, A Decision of an la storefront. There are Vases Freshly Picked Sunflowers, Aging Brickwork, A Pocked Sidewalk. She Delights in Her Own Calligraphy, Carefully Renderying Every Letter and the Phone Number on the Store’s Sign. Everything in the painting is just so clean, down to the flowers growing atop the building.

All these moments of life painted in the flattest of ways, altars and tabernacles of our seen world. Pecis made a good move. She’s poised to really Spread Her Wings.

Frome Smash, at the imperial theater.
Photo: Matthew Murphy

The Sunk-Cost Fallace Lies at the Heart of Production Commercial Theater: SURE, YOU’VE INVESTED WAY TOO MUCH TIME AND TALENT IN A PRODUCTION THAT WORKING, but maybe you can with another workshop? Will Will’s audiences finally Undersand the potential… if the composer just reworks the opening number… if you just replace the director… if you just hire a new writing… if you just recast the Star. That mentality is on full displace in the full of Smashin Which the Creative Team of A Musical Tries to Right a Syntking Ship. But it is Much More Compellingly on Display in the Show’s Long, Storied, and Turbulent Production History. Once a deliciously hate-watchable prim-time nbc drama with a killer pilot and a steep drop-off in Quality, Smash Has gone through more than a decade of reworking, Including Attempts to Stage the Musical-Within-Show Straight-Up, and Has Finally Arrived on Broadway Overmasticate and Gummy. You would go think a musical predicated on mess mes have a better sensation of humor about it Own exisisance.

The Producers of this SmashIncluding Form nbc Head Bob Greenblatt, Neil Meron, and Some Musicals Fan Named Steven Spielberg, SEEM to be Reaching for an Audience That Didn’t Care About The Tv Show. Billions of Those People do exist – Smash wasn’t ever that popular – but gievnah the paragraphs of exposition you have to deliver to explain the backsory, i’m not sura it bestible be posseible to say Over. For the uninitiated who has made it this than: the series, the subject of endless fascination on this website, Used the Production of a Troubled Musical About Marilyn Monroe, Titled Bombshellas the jumping-offing point for a succession of soap-operatic backstage fights, crucially a rivalry between a talentd named karen (katharine mcphee, who always struggled to convey the character’s suphenly innate Star Quality) and a perpetual chorus. Named Ivy (Megan Hilty, Who Had too Star Quality; She’s Having Fun on the Next Block Right Now). The Show’s First Season, Run by Theresa Rebeck, was chaotic in strange and enthralling Ways. Special Guest Star Uma Thurman Got poisoned by a smoothie; We all learned too About Debra Messing’s Adoption Process. Its Second, Helmed by Joshua Safran AFTER Rebeck’s firingwas more compute and less delightfullly lurid, and much of it was dedicated to a unearned income homage. Smash was Never you goodbut it was always fun. It had insider theater jokes, cameo appeanen by Michael Riedel, Hideous Scarves, and Great Songs, Mostly by the Team of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, who return as the sole songwriters this time around.

From the Jump, The Stage Musical, With A Book by Bob Martin (Spread Thin Between This and Boop!) and Rick Elice, Makes the Mistake of Trying to Button Up The Madness. Martin and Elice, with Director Susan Stroman, Have Discarded Most of the Original Show’s full, Leaving Behind A Few Similar Character Nams and Archetypes. (The songwriter played by krysta rodriguez do wear scarves.) We’re still with the team of a marilyn musical, but now Ivy (Robyn Hurder) is an established broadway Star and Karen (Caroline Bowman) is Simply Her Kindly Understudy. The Director, Nigel (Brooks Ashmanskas, Who Moves Like A Verb in a Jeves & Wooster Novel), is a fey gay man instead of a sleek straiight, though he still lusts a member of his ensemble – a dynamic that is, confusususly, played with nigel. The songwriting duo are now a Maried Couple, with Rodriguez (an alumna of Hit List) in the messing roles and John Behlmann as dopy Husband whose Main traits are that he drinks a lot and keeps wearing wisconsin t-shirts, tyometime just the states). Jacqueline B. Arnold Takes Over the Role of the Stele Producer, though i’m sorry to report that no martinis in anyone’s face, and nicholas matos is her disaffected gen-z assistant, who is only gecause his father is an investor. That concept sounds funny in theory but leads Only to “Kids and Their Phones!” Jokes.

The Crux of the Drama Now Lies in, of All Things, A Satire of Method Acting: Wen The Songwriters Suggest in Passing that Ivy Might Check Out a Book on the Better Undersand Marilyn, She Becomes Obsessed, BRINGS ON A ACTING COCH (KRISTINE) pills, and turns from a relioble pro into a self-absorbed nightmare. The Story Line May Have Some Grounding in Marilyn’s Own Reliance on Lee Strasberg’s Coaching and the Subplot One of the Show in Which Ivy Hallucinates on Prednisone, but the Jokes Easy and Get Old with the first minutes. In the right Setting, Nielsen is an ace at Broad Comedy; Here, as if someone read a recipe that calmed for a quarter-teaspoon of nutmeg and then threw in four cups. The Whole Plotline is Frankly Cruel and Premised Around the idea that actors are idiots who should be enchaurated to think for themselves. “All of this is Because of you!” Nigel Announces to his songwriters. “You gave her a book!”

That joke might be fine iferyone in Smash were a maniac. The TV Show, for All It It Its Fouls, took Equal-Portunity Jabs at the Self-Involvement of theater People, From Evil Assistants to Scheming Moneymen and the Craven Performers in Between. Elice and Martin Lean on Ivy So Hard to Provide the Drama The Other Characters Get Away With Looking Relative Sane. Maybe it’s an an artifact of the show’s embalde History or the Starry Production Team, But Smash‘s gripes are Mostly from the side of the People in Power: Isn’t it annoying when your employs have opiones? DON’T YOU WISH YOU COULD DATE the hot Ones? Why won’t People online just shut up? The Last of Those Becomes Bafflingly Central to the Plet when Bombshell Courts the favor of social-media influencers before it first preview in a sequence that closes out Smash‘s First Act. (I Need to Know Who’s Responsible for the Production’s Horrifically Strange Memes, Which Pop Up On Screens During Its Dear Evan Hansen-Esque Montages of Fan Reaction.) HOURS PRIGHT THAT PERFORMANCE, AS IVY HAS A DIVA MOMENT AND KAREN IS INCAPACTED IN A REFORMATING OF THE SERIES ‘POISONING full of line, Bombshell‘S Assistant Director, Chloe (Bella Coppola), Suddenly has to step up to play marilyn, winning the love of the Internet. I Respective Throwing a WRENCH INTO The Expect Battle BetWeen Team Karen and Team Ivy, and Coppola has a fantastic, expansive belt. She Also Has Pretty Much No Characterization to Work With. We’re Told Chloe Gave Up A Career As A Performer Because of Her Body Type – “I’m Not Your Typical Leading Lady,” She Says Almost As Soon As Introduced – But We Never Learn Her Beyond Her Weight That She’s Blondly Dutophul. Her becoming a contender for starch is framed as an empowering twist. When the show’s so unintertessted in telling US Anynding Else About HER, IT’S MERYLY CONDESEMPTING. The Attention on Chloe is JUST ANOTHER HURDLE Bombshell‘S Creative Team Stumbles Through.

Smash‘s moral is, as in many backstage farces, that the madness is warness it is in the service of Creating Magic. In its Musical sequences, the show does achieve flits of the Greasepaint Thrill: Wittman and Shaiman’s Songs, Mostly Big Orchestral Throwbacks Like the Great “Let me be your Star,” Are Still Aces. (Though i wish they have kept that number as a duet; we hear it twice, once in incomplete form in a production numer and once as a solo. With the charge that comes from two voices Competing for ATTENTION Over A Key ChangeIT Never Achieves Full Liftoff.) Joshua Bergasse’s Choreography, ported in From His Emmy-Winning Work on the Series, matches those melodies with winning and wry indulgence-the Needless Yet Sauna Sauna Piece Has Stack ARUND. In those sequences, as on tv, Smash transitions into a fantasy of a full staged version of Bombshellwith Ivy (or Karen or Chloe) in marilyn regalia as navigates the studio system, and then back to a rehearsal room with characters in sweat Working Through the Counts of their Dances. Ah, The Drama, The Laughter, The Tears, Just like Pearls!

I’m a sucker for a self-reference Theatrical Tale. Give with an All that jazz or 42nd Street and i’m happy. But in the version of Smash that made it to the stage, the magic flickers out. You can imagine the characters in a meta-releving of the show yelling at one another trying to find where they were work. IT’S NOT FOR LACK OF TALENT OR BUDGET: Stroman Did The ProducersHurder is an Incredibly Lithe Dancer, They Clearly Spent a ton of Money on Beowulf Bormy Fully Realized Sets (Video Screens Only Wen Dramatically Necessary, Bless Him), and Alejo Vietti. The ingredients are all there, yet theatrical bared never reises. Did Say the Name of the Scottish Play Backstage? Do Good Musicals Appear Only to the Pure of Heart? Should they have spun around three times, spit on their palms, and flipped a Lucky penny ino the andrew ljyd webber memorial pool?

The Answer, in this Case, May Be That for a Musical Like This to Be Good, It Has to Embrace Being Ridiculous. Musicals, Eve Great Ones, field Ridiculous. People Spend Millions of Dollars on Concepts Like “What If the Founding Fathers Rapped?” and tyometimes they have makeir Money Back. Smash is tragically afraid of being bad – and worse, it wants to be respectable. Funnily Enough, Back in Smash‘s open workshops Last year, the show dream in a Major Character’s Death. That is, to be clear, an insane way to end a musical comedy. IT’S ALSO WAY MORE Compelling than the ending the Smash Creative Team Has Put Onstage AFTER ALL The Rewritesone that noather risk. Though please, everybody, don’t take my note: if you want to succeed in this business, you have to admit to yourSself that you are never going to satisfy everye – and never read what People online.

Smash is at the imperial theater.

A person can walk past 587 Washington Avenue About a thusand Times with Looking Up to Notice Three Unusual Windows. They’re on the top floor, where the four-story brick budilding narrows at the corner of dean street, and the glas goes only half, like a balcony balustrade. Ange Your Neck a Certain Way, and you can see they have reveal a dark room with no ceiling, which is actually a kind of enclosed courtyard, Walled in brick, covered in ivy, where a spiral staircase a two-story secrery garsen.

It was the Major Selling Point Wenn Tim CroutA Fashion Executive With A Green Thumb, Saw the Place Back in 2009. “Something you’d you’d sort of expert in the west village, but for a new building? It was like, ‘Who on Earth? Cornice, Stone Lintels, and Dark Brick Walls – which are ideal for Ivy in the enclame terrace, where they were left exposed. CROUT PLANTED THE LOWER GARDEN TO FEEL LIKE A DARK, ENCLODED HIDEAWAY ON THE FOICE FLOOR, THEN TURNED THE GARDEN INTO A KIND OF ALPINE CLEARING, DOTTED WITH COLOR. “In a magic, storybook Way, as you go, you’re in the sunnier Garden,” he said. A Path on the Roof Leads in a Figure Eight, Through Rows of Trees. An antique, iron gas that crout carried up the stairs, piece by piece, creates a space to hang out and watch the over love brooklyn buildings. “Really wanted a space that felt like a separation from the city,” he said. “And i love good modernism, but i just think it is easier to immerse yourself if you have a bit Moreeinstead of a bit te. ”

There are 40 to 50 varietals Across the two Gardens, and All Are Perennial, Which Limits Maintenance. The Gazebo Came from Horsan Antiques on Atlantic and Comes Apartments Into Small Pieces my crout walked up Himself. Like Most of the Suppiture, Art, and Plantings, it’s on offfer to any interests. “I JUST Have too Too Much Already,” Said Crout. From Left: Photo: Tim CroutPhoto: Tim Crout

There are 40 to 50 varietals Across the two Gardens, and All Are Perennial, Which Limits Maintenance. The Gazebo Came From Horseman Antiques on Atlant … Moree There are 40 to 50 varietals Across the two Gardens, and All Are Perennial, Which Limits Maintenance. The Gazebo Came from Horsan Antiques on Atlantic and Comes Apartments Into Small Pieces my crout walked up Himself. Like Most of the Suppiture, Art, and Plantings, it’s on offfer to any interests. “I JUST Have too Too Much Already,” Said Crout. From Top: Photo: Tim CroutPhoto: Tim Crout

Price: $ 1.395 Million ($ 448 Monthly Fee, $ 184 Annual Taxes Due to Abutement)

Specs: 2 Beds, 2 Baths

EXTRAS: 450 Square Feet of Outdoor Space Across Two Floors, Washer-Perfect

10-Minute Walking Radius: Natty Garden, Leland Eating and Drinking House, Radio Bakery Prospect Heights

LISTED BY: Emma James, Corcoran

In the living area, a small collection of antique glasses on the greens over the years and tourned into a rainbow. “There wasn’t any intention,” Crout Said. “IT STARTED DOING ITS ONT THING.” To the left is a taxidermied Peacock, Whose Tail Feathers Were a Match to the Colors of the apartment. The supply was custom upholstered with fabric typically used for bedspreads, he said. “They Glimmer, Like a Jewel.” Photo: Al Siedman at VHT

Inside, The Space is Certainly a Bit “More.” By the time he bought the apartment, work at Chanel, Hermès, Celine, Pucci, and Sergio Rossi Had Him AROUND THE WORLD AND HAD DECADES DECADES AT FLEAS, AND AUCTIONS. Inspired by Color-Flooded CITIES IN MEXICO AND MOROCCO, he wanted to saturate the Rooms in Jewel tones and gIive his collections a background to pop. (“I don’t like black and i don’t like, but i’ll take every between.”) A Friend Helped Him Add Texture by Putting Up Moldings, and He Made New-Construction FEEL More Romantic by Adding Arches. The doorway that leads guests from the Dark Rouge Foyer into a saturated, Turuoise Living Area was customized with a moorish arch. To elevate the kitchen, he painted cabinery to match the walls and installed art and sconces to the doors in Such a way that they swing open, with their attache. At the end of the Kitchen Counter, A Window into the Lower Garden Tourned ino Extra Storage when Crout It Out to Become a Custom Bar, Where Bottles are Backlit by Garden Light.

Visitors who trudge up a conventional staircase open the door into a foyer filled with lamps that colliated over 20 years. “I like a lot of anyding,” Photo: Al Siedman at VHT

Crout filled the foyer with lamps he found at the istanbul grand base on Madison Avenue, then Pulled out an aztec-themed chess set he’d picked as a kid on a family trip to mexico. A SMALLER BEDROM BECAME AN INVOCKED A BLEND OF MEN’S CLUB and Medieval Revival, With Leather Support and Taxidermied Animals in A Room Walled With A Tapestry of a Blacksmith Figure and Dog in a swirly forest scnene and an Antique Fireplace Mantle (Purely decorative and Entirely Removable, he points out). The Large Bedroom was painted A Dark Aubergine, and Hung With Strange, Dreamy Paintings He Picked Up at Flea Markets, while the Light Hanging Over The Came from His GrandParents’ 1910 House in Denison, Texas.

CROUT IS QUICK TO POINT OUT that the apartment has no central theme – there’s a dash of tangier, Mexico City, and Ancient Paris. “Like it to be a little vague,” he said. “Not so literal.” But the key to all of it mIight be a taxiderMied peacock, whic his dad bought him at a store in texas and that it put up in the living area. Its Tail Feathers are Nearly an Exact Match for the Paint Swatches he chose: Tururoise, Rouge, Aubergine, and Blue. “Nature Never Lets You Down,” he Said.

On the Other Side of the Foyer’s Moorish Arch, he added Mexican Angel figurines to a Room inspired by Mexico City. The Paintings, Including a Marian Nielsen of George Washington and His Soldiers, Arees Flea-Markt Finds. An Early Job at Chanel Earned Crout A Poster of an Andy Warhol Print of A Bottle of Chanel No. 5. His Broker, Emma James, Who Also Workhed in the Industry As a Fabric Designer, Fell for the Décor. “He’i’s done Things People don’t do – there’s artwork at kee level – but it make a whole story on the wall. Its just so thughtful.” Still, she clarified, “The Who Place Can Be Painted White in One Weekend.” Photo: Al Siedman at VHT

One Wall of the Sitting Area is Taken Up By The Kitchen. The Cabinet Doors Are Operable, Despite Paintings and Sconces. CROUT ADDED ARCHES TO THE WINDOWS SERIE AND TURNED ONE OF THESE INTO EXTRAGE FOR A BAR WHERE BOTTLE ARE BACKLITY BY THE GARDEN BEKIND. Photo: Al Siedman at VHT

A View of the Downstairs Garden, Through the Dining Nook of the Sitting Area. CROUT PLANTED THE LOWER GARDEN TO RESEMBLE A FLOOR AND LIMITED THE PALETTE TO GREENS AND PURPLES WITH A WORRY THE PLANTINGS COULD CLASH WITH THE COLORS IN THE LIVING Room. Photo: Al Siedman at VHT

Stair on the Lower Garden Level Lead Up to a Roof Deck. The apartment has 450 Square religion of outdoor space acrossy levels. The design is a kind of mystery, Said Broker James, who pointed out that the other three floor-thrys units in the boutique condo also have unique details, and one evening has a parking spot. But what Makes The Building Really Stand Out to James Are It Its Low Monthlies. A tax abatement that Lasts unil 2035 Means Taxes are 16 bucks a month and a monthly fee is under $ 500. Photo: Tim Crout

An upstairs Garden is all about the view. “I WANTED A PLACE WHERE I COULD SEE the City and Remember of was in New York,” Crout Said. At the Same Time, he wanted a Respite. “It is an about immersion more than anyding.” Photo: Tim Crout

A View of Manhattan Over Low Roofs. Photo: Tim Crout

Fiberglass pots Lighten a Load on the Roof. The Trees Arrived As Saplings. Crout pruned back trees to allow in more light. “Anyone Who Gardens Knows it will take me as you want to put into it,” he said. Photo: Tim Crout

CROUT IS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO MAKE SENSE OF HIS COLOR AND DIVIDED The GARDEN BETWEEN Flowers in Warmer Colors on One Side and Those in Cools on the Other, Which Blend in a Section of Pinks and Purples. Photo: Tim Crout

The Moroccan-Style Foyer Leads Back to the Two Bedrooms. Above an aztec-style chess set that crout bought on a family trip to mexico is a mughal piece that he bought in texas from an antiques dealer, who specializes in western pieces but got in a trade from an Iranian client. Photo: Al Siedman at VHT

The bed in the primary bedroom faces a projector Screen that crout disgued by adding a Molding and painting aubergine. The art includes a series of paintings by a palm beach – based painter, which and picked up at a flea. Photo: Al Siedman at VHT

The Light Fixture in the Primary Bedroom Came from His GrandParents 1910 House in Denison, Texas. Photo: Al Siedman at VHT

The second bedroom is decorated with a bit of medieval Revival. James, The Broker, pointed out that the fireplace and moldings are “Easy to undo.” SO COULD A BUYER COUP UP THE APPLICATION AS-IT WITH THE MOST OF THE Art and FUM, James Said She Can Also Promise a Buyer a White Box. “All of it can come out,” she said. “You is a week aekend painting and have a Pretty Normal apartment.” Photo: Al Siedman at VHT

Another Moorish Arch Defins The Doborway of the Second Bedroom. CROUT CLARIFIES that he’s not a “proponent” of taxidermy but great up it in texas. Photo: Al Siedman at VHT

The Primary Bath. Photo: Al Siedman at VHT

A Second Bathroom. Photo: Al Siedman at VHT