The musical sets a record for youngest awardee and wins seven of the ten awards for which it was nominated.
Month: April 2012
Nobel Laureate Orhan Panuk Wrote About A Museum – And Now He’s Built It
Panuk published The Museum of Innocence in 2008. Since then, he’s built it: “The small museum mainly comprises a sequence of little cabinets, each corresponding to one of the novel’s 83 chapters: 10 are missing and will be added later.”
How Different Were Race Relations In 1959? Clybourne Park Says Things Have Changed
Both black and white actors in the play Clybourne Park had to deal with the shock of rehearsing scenes from 1959 Chicago – the time (and characters) of A Raisin in the Sun. As the play transfers to Broadway, the actors recall the ways they dealt with the pain and revelation of that somewhat different past.
Want To Create A Start-Up? Learn From The Not-So-Humble Food Truck
Get partners, develop a team, do your research – and be ready for a ton of hard work. So says the woman who founded the first nationally branded gourmet food truck.
Critiquing The Critics Of NY Public Library’s Renovation
The New York Public Library has instituted a public relations blitz to respond to its critics (including literary and scholarly luminaries), who “question how users of the libraries to be sold will fit inside the main building (its number of annual visitors — 1.6 million — is expected to more than double) and whether books moved to New Jersey really will be available within 24 hours, as the library has promised.”
Go In With Low Expectations, Emerge An Underground Cult School
“In five years [Bodyelectric] dance school has built an underground cult following in Melbourne, with waiting lists for classes and hype around the shows. And their audience continues to expand.” Why? Because architects have inner dancers – or so says the school’s founder.
Time For American Movie Stars To Go Bollywood?
Julia Roberts thinks so – as long as the audience could handle her accent.
As Kraftwerk Wraps Up Its MoMA Residency, What Does It All Mean?
“By now Mr. Hütter is used to Kraftwerk being acknowledged as a prototype. Its riffs are foundations of songs by performers from the rapper Afrika Bambaataa to Coldplay. ‘We’re not so interested in possession. We are more interested in participating,’ Mr. Hütter said. ‘We’re sending out. Certain of these ideas are radio waves. We’re the antenna catching information, the transmitter giving information, back and forth.'”
Is The Lecture Dead – And If Not, Should We Kill It?
“Is the transfer of information mediated by a teacher the same thing as learning? Learning is about the long-lasting acquisition of information, it is about remembering the information and being able to retrieve it and apply it at the appropriate time in the appropriate circumstances. Lectures can ensure the short-term memorization of information, as teachers who give quizzes at the end of their presentations have certainly proven. However, it is highly questionable if lectures can deliver this kind of long-lasting knowledge.”
A Titanic Battle Of Unimaginable Force … Over The Future Of Archie
“Like Betty and Veronica, the two are feuding over Archie’s future, but there is nothing comic — or friendly — about their rivalry. Each accuses the other of endangering the family legacy, Mr. Goldwater by wanting to expand Archie into a megabrand with help from outside investors and the Hollywood uber-agent Ari Emanuel, Ms. Silberkleit by vowing to keep the company’s traditions intact and preserve family ownership, ostensibly leading to stagnation.”