Culture… A Night With Anastasia (A Broadway Review) 16 Jun 201816 Jun 2018 Earlier this month my mom and I took a trip to NYC where we met up with two of my fellow Giddy Goats, Air and Gypsy (for the first time…
Culture Culture Up: Music of the 1940’s 10 Jun 20189 Jun 2018 So, this post is a little bit of a cop-out (as if my last culture post wasn't, amiright?). I'm not actually learning and then presenting the information to you. I'm…
Culture… When Mario Met Mozart in the War of 1812 1 Jun 201818 May 2018 Not long ago I was attempting to apply for a blogger position and the hiring company had made a joke that if the applicant could combine Super Mario Brothers, the…
Culture Culture Up: Why? 13 May 201813 May 2018 You must drop your vanity, you are not a child … you will soon be thirty. It is time! I expect you…. We all expect you. Anton Chekhov, 1886, in…
Culture Culture Up: NYC Architecture 8 Apr 20188 Apr 2018 Paintings, sculptures, music, and, yes, even architecture! While New York City's buildings might not be quite the peak of high culture, I think they're still worth appreciating. That, and I…
Culture Culture Up: Foreign Films 11 Mar 20181 Mar 2018 I was a little ambitious when I originally planned my "Culture Up" posts. A surprising amount of work goes into each other (though they probably don't read that way). My…
Culture Culture Up: The Persistence of Memory 18 Feb 201815 Feb 2018 Yep. The melting clocks painting. That's how we uncultured folks refer to it. Painted by surrealist painter Salvador Dali in 1931, it currently resides in the Museum of Modern art…
Culture Culture Up: Winged Victory of Samothrace 4 Feb 201827 Dec 2017 One of my favorite classes in college was Art History. I love history to begin with, and Art History was surprisingly fun, all thanks to my incredible professor, Mark Terry.…
Culture Culture Up: Ride of the Valkyries 21 Jan 201821 Jan 2018 In addition to art, I'll also be exploring classical music. This week? The Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner When I first listened “Ride of the Valkyries” for this project, I…
Culture Culture Up: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte 7 Jan 20187 Jan 2018 What? A Giddy Goat post on a Sunday? What is this madness? I'll tell you what this madness is. One of my goals (which just happens to fall around the new…
