Santos says, “The form has strong roots in Congo, Yoruba and Abakuá societies. It expresses Cuba’s violent colonial history and carries the courage of Africans and Afro-Cubans who dared play the outlawed African rhythms. It continues to evolve as vibrant expression and living resistance.”. During the festival’s second weekend La Tania will give her farewell performance before retiring. Her fluid arm movements, expert flicking of her long ruffled train and the gravity-defying swirling of her shawl are mesmerizing for audiences. If you haven’t seen her lately, do yourself a favor and catch this performance.

Hooking Up With The Second City: Chicago’s legendary sketch and improv comedy theater returns to Montalvo original oil painting ballet. still life with pointe and a peony. gift for loving dance. with a new program, making mirth out of missed connections, girls’ night out adventures and all the crazy things we do for love, Feb, 25, 7:30 p.m, Montalvo Arts Center, 15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga, $45-$50, montalvoarts.org/events, 408-961-5858, XOXO: Mixed-media artist Traeger Di Pietro and painter Mark Roko Jurasin exhibit works, Through Feb, 28, JCO’s Place, 45 N, Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos, jcosplace.com, 408.888.1500..

In conjunction with the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, her institute concluded that from 2006 to 2009, 80.5 percent of all working characters in G-rated family films were male, while 19.5 percent were female. Even in crowd scenes, only 17 percent of the faces were female. Part of the reason Davis rarely appears on screen herself these days is that there aren’t many roles for formidable independent women over 50. “Frankly, I haven’t run out of money yet,” Davis joked. “If you read that I’m playing Sean Connery’s kidnapped wife, you’ll know I’m broke.”.

On the payphone across the original oil painting ballet. still life with pointe and a peony. gift for loving dance. room, diners find a white slip with 1-900-CRUSHED, a wink to when Mark-Paul Gosselaar’s character Zack Morris comes up with a money-making scheme to offer relationship advice for profit, Bayside High principal Mr, Belding’s office, complete with wood paneling, a desk, and bookcase of trophies and textbooks, is in a private dining area just off the main room, “We just tried to pay attention to all those details,” said Derek Berry, the pop-up’s co-partner, and a super fan, “It’s going to intrigue your friends on social media and make you think, Did I see everything?”..

“He is who he is, on camera and off,” says Gideon Evans, the executive producer at the Cooking Channel who first worked with Rocca on “The Daily Show” in 2000. “A complete original. A good conversationalist. We have similar sensibilities in that ‘MGR’ was supposed to be about bringing out characters, not a cooking show about ingredients.”. Neither of them wanted to produce reality television. Rocca makes a serious pruny face when he speaks of “The Real Housewives” of anywhere. “Soul-crushing. They are viragos in the worst sense of that word,” he says. Instead, a casting call went out to find home cooks who didn’t necessarily want to be famous and didn’t know who the heck he was. Some were relatives of friends, some were found through food blogs.