Vendors turned one ballroom into a kinky shopping mall, where they sold everything from handmade chain mail to enormous dildos.
Seeing all the authors, publishers, critics, agents, publicists and readers -- the entire ecology of books -- gathered in one ballroom at the November 16th awards night was to feel the heartbeat of American literature.
This article focuses on one "ballroom" style of cha-cha: American-style.
When it comes to his own productions, Mike's ear for catchy hooks and propulsive baselines translates to his own idiosyncratic take on ballroom, one that involves cross-breeding that genre's musical DNA with hip-hop, pop, and industrial club.
In one of ballroom's first breakthrough moments, nightlife impresario Susanne Bartsch organized a celebrity-studded ballroom competition and AIDS research benefit called the Love Ball in 1989, with David Byrne, Iman, and Vogue's editor-at-large Andre Leon Talley among the judges.
ON one half of the ballroom at the W Hotel last Wednesday eve during Art Basel Miami Beach, you had the super-rich and trust-funded — Stavros Niarchos, the Greek shipping heir; Brandon Davis, the oil heir; Peter Brant, the newsprint magnate.
The gist was lost on no one in the ballroom: the Home & Garden Television Network, the channel of "House Hunters" and "Rate My Space," which celebrated the conspicuous consumption of the housing boom, was programming for the Great Recession.
During a speech at a Nashua, New Hampshire, hotel on Friday afternoon, one of the ballroom doors opened and someone whispered to a volunteer standing inside, asking who was on stage speaking.
This is the premise of The Ballroom, one of many video installations by artist Federico Solmi on display at Los Angeles gallery Luis de Jesus.
On television the Late Show looks like it's being filmed in the most glamorous ballroom, one that's somehow both in the middle of Manhattan and on the Hudson river (it has the Brooklyn bridge coming right through its windows).
"Here one can teach ballroom dancing for much more money and can win money in competitions.
