Three Berkshire-based artists will discuss their work featured in the exhibition, "Landscapes, Portraits, and Still Lifes" on Friday, Dec. 29, at the Center for Peace through Culture in Housatonic.
As iconic “celebutante” Cornelia Guest returns to New York for her friend Dennis Basso’s Fashion Week show, she talks Studio 54, Capote, acting, animals and where the party is now.
that ever actually came out of studio 54, was that song. [ chuckles ] wild: disco was a revolutionary force. funk marries disco, and it leads to hip-hop. questlove: it s 1979. i heard chic s good times come on, and i just kept hearing someone talk over the song. i said a hip hop, the hippie, the hippie to the hip hip hop and you don t stop rock it out, baby bubbah, to the boogie, the bang bang the boogie to the boogie the beat now what you hear is not a test i m rappin to the beat and me, the groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet what s great about this song is that s where hip-hop gets its name from. questlove: we didn t know the name of the song was called rapper s delight. the next day i went to the record store, like, yo, y all got hip hop ? hm? graham: so when people talk about the song, they go, what s that hip-hop song? and it was the first hip-hop song to crack the top 40. it changed everything.