Michael Carnahan
@mike_carnahan
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Tony & Emmy nominated set designer for Broadway & Television *Dog Dad* east coast bias/Chicago tavern style enthusiast https://t.co/Fi4kw0qRqV
Kings County-Brooklyn, NY
Joined June 2012
Essential Tony Bennett albums for your listening pleasure…a 🧵
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Little known fact, but he was standing in a field of cocaine.
Hunter S. Thompson aims at his IBM Selectric typewriter, Woody Creek, 1989
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To the Chicago restaurants refusing to feed ICE, to the businesses locking their doors as ICE arrives, to the tow truck drivers taking away their vehicles... THANK YOU.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The ‘85 #Bears were the best football team of all time. They only did it once so they don’t go with the Steel Curtain or any of the dynasties. But for one year? They’d have beaten any of them.
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“We love what you’ve done to the place!” - Uday & Qusay Hussein
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Sam & Dave - Hold On, I’m Comin’ A dynamite double act, backed by Booker T. & the M.G.’s and the Memphis Horns, bringing that Stax/Volt soul sound to Europe. It doesn’t get much better than this. 1967.
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Otis Rush at Pepper’s Lounge, 1963. West Side fire on the South Side: small stage, low ceiling, stars on the beams, crowd pressed against the bandstand. A man who would soon to be famous can be seen in the crowd (more in thread). Photo: Ray Flerlage. Source: Flerlage notes. 1/🧵
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On this day in 1958, Art Kane gathered 57 of the greatest jazz musicians in front of a Harlem brownstone for what became one of the most iconic images in music history. Originally titled “Harlem, 1958”, the photo was published as the centerfold of Esquire’s January 1959 issue,
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Sitting in a Jiffy Lube and a 90 year old man has been listening to juicy fart sounds on his cell at the highest volume for 20 minutes. #GreatestGeneration
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I love a story with a happy ending.
A millionaire big game hunter has been killed by a buffalo he was stalking while on safari in South Africa. https://t.co/sWCt2t2nXP
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RIP to the great (and very sweet) John Conklin. May he be resting on a pile of soft goods listening to his favorite sopranos for eternity.
John Conklin, who realized a childhood dream by creating highly conceptual (but also playful) sets for the Glimmerglass Festival, New York City Opera and other companies, has died at 88.
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The Broadway costume designer Martin Izquierdo, who created the wings for “Angels in America” and the Victoria’s Secret runway models, as well as inventive outfits for Oprah Winfrey, Heidi Klum and Marc Jacobs, has died at 83.
nytimes.com
His work was seen in “Angels in America” and Victoria’s Secret runway shows. He also made outlandish ensembles for Heidi Klum and Marc Jacobs.
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I’m telling my kids this is Bob Fosse.
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