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• Wanted: Twelve Pregnant Women for Ballet

  The artistic director of a British ballet company is looking for a dozen knocked-up ladies for a new work called "MaEternal". The ballet will feature six pro dancers as well, but the pregnant women don't even need dance experience--the audition ads say this is "a chance to share with an audience the beauty of what it means to carry the life of another within you." All I can say is there better be at least two intermissions for offstage pee breaks.  Director Liv Lorent, who is pregnant herself, says...   Read More... Posted Mar 14 2008, 01:44 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, mothers, diversity, body image, dance, performance, stage, expectant moms, arts, ballet

• Get This Kid a Recording Contract

  Wait, does anyone do recording contracts anymore? Okay, someone get this kid a website with downloads that goes viral and a fawning review on Pitchfork. Wait, that's old-fashioned now too? Oh whatever. I want to let you know this is not the artist's original material here, but this is Too. Freakin'. Cute. Your head may just explode from the cuteness. Look, I am warning you, don't peek after the jump if you prefer an intact head.   Read More... Posted Feb 21 2008, 12:31 PM by Kelly Mills with | with no comments Filed under: music, video, Beatles, classics, performance, hey jude, stage, pitchfork, college humor, funny stuff