This beleaguered company has learned that it's a losing battle to go head to head with the Met in terms of repertory and production style, and smarter to compete with the city's smaller, more nimble companies.
To get that Florida feel while sticking close to home, try Ocean Drive in South Norwalk, whose cool, white nautical interior evokes the style and smarts of South Beach, the hip hangout in Miami.
It's quite hard now to recall with any sort of completeness the context of her advent in 1978, at the height of disco and punk and at the tail end of the English art-rock sensibility, which favoured style, performance and smart ideas over the American pop verities of personal authenticity, songwriting and musical discipline.
Red Karaoke, free on iOS and Android, has a slick and easy-to-use interface, with clear navigation thanks to its icon-style buttons and smart graphics.
The warm-toned rooms are decked out with contemporary lounge-style furniture and smart modern bathrooms, but the architecture retains its period detailing.
The Brighton band's self-titled debut topped the charts and their combination of thunderous Led Zeppelin-style riffs and smart songwriting has seen them rise up the bill at Summer festivals.
Mr. Dorfman has grown steadily from a downtown or experimentalist choreographer who specialized in knockabout sports-style movement and smart verbal gags to one with a gift for luscious dance that incorporates that earlier self.
Luckily there are also old-style diehards and smart innovators at work.Green Linnet Records has been recording many of the best of them, particularly the fiddlers, and its latest collection, "Green Linnet Records: 25 Years of Celtic Music," earns its straightforwardly self-congratulatory title with tracks from Altan, Lunasa, Kevin Burke, Liz Carroll and Patrick Street.
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They also enriched his unique style: rich, strong, intimate and smart.
