“While these shops might break even, in some cases turn a small profit, it is only because their customers override their instinct to act like consumers and act like good citizens instead.”
Month: January 2013
The Power Of Reticence
Should writers and other artists just back off on the reveal-all memoir? Poet Sharon Olds might say yes.
Race, Gender, And The Sex Lives Of Contemporary Twenty-Somethings
“Sandy’s fight with Hannah reveals a lot about previously unexplored racial tension on Girls, and it does so in a way that’s far more nuanced than a token minority character is usually allowed. He rips her ‘bullshit’–in short, how girls like Hannah fetishize black men, then ditch them when they share their thoughts and feelings.”
Contemporary Opera Is So Dang Hummable, & That’s Why We Need More Of It
“While it’s great that the Royal Opera House intends to put new opera at the heart of its next few seasons, the reasons shouldn’t be the (albeit worthy) ones of doing new opera to safeguard the future of the artform; nor because it makes Covent Garden feel more justified in receiving its proportionally huge grant.”
Philly Stagehands Strike Continues
“Talks between the Philadelphia Theatre Co. and union officials ended Sunday after ‘seven fruitless hours’ according to the union, without reaching a new labor agreement covering 27 stagehands. The strike, which began Friday, goes on.”
Pianos Fill Many Junkyards, But Why?
“‘Our customers sometimes get quite upset,’ says Jon Kelly. ‘Pianos have often been passed through generations of one family and have great sentimental value. We’ve been on jobs where people cry when the piano’s taken away.'”
Reactions to Matisse in 1913: Fainting, Burning, And Dying
“What hovered behind the outrage, what angered the critics and the students, was how Matisse used the canvas. As much as this trial was about modernist aesthetics it was also about a question that has lurked at the edges of modern art for decades: What makes a canvas a painting? “
Far From Killing The Classics, The Internet Makes Them More Accessible Than Ever
Aside from providing free e-books of everything out of copyright, the online world rewrites and re-creates meaning for the authors’ original works.
Remembering Dennis Dennehy, Evangelist of Irish Dance
“He not only championed the rich and famous, but also this shy, pigeon-toed little boy with red hair, who had very little to feel good about until he walked into his school.”
What Happens When We Build Things For Free?
“The idea that unless you create scarcity around intellectual property, creators will stop creating, is just crazy.”