Foran, a retired school administrator and Past Venerable Master of the Los Angeles Scottish Rite, began collecting material roughly 15 years ago and was tapped by a representative of the Los Angeles Valley Scottish Rite to plan a museum, which opened to the public in 2002.
A member of the anarchic cultural network the Cacophony Society, known for staging Dadaist happenings for unsuspecting audiences, Ridenour here turns his attention to a rite with a more venerable pedigree: the annual appearance of the Krampus, a hairy, horned, chain-toting biped that resembles a Wookiee on a bender.
Kawakubo has never quite lived down (she has at times played up) that show of audacity, whose fallout is still being absorbed by fashion's young, yet which was much more Parisian than it seemed — a piece of shock theatre in the venerable tradition of "Ubu Roi" and "The Rite of Spring".
Solo roles came quickly; Mr. Askegard was picked out of the corps de ballet by Glen Tetley for his interpretation of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," and by the venerable British dancer Michael Somes for Frederick Ashton's "Symphonic Variations".
The fourth error, according to Peter the Venerable, was that the Petrobrusians denied sacramental grace, rejecting the rite of Communion entirely, let alone the doctrine of the real presence or the nascent Scholastic account of transubstantiation.
Davies became famous in 1999 with his Manchester-set gay rites-of-passage drama Queer As Folk and, later, by reviving the venerable sci-fi franchise Doctor Who after a 16-year hiatus.
His desire to cover pages with occult lore is unabated ("Secretary of the Savonarola Lodge in Florence, Venerable of the Giordano Bruno Lodge of Palmi, Sovereign Grand Inspector-General, thirty-third degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish rite …", and so on and on).
"Here it is, venerable Sir".
Amy Ruth's -- Venerable institution.
