“On the topic of digital, a surprising shift back to print was seen since spring 2012, and for the year e-book adoption growth was flat among teens, with some evidence that teens liked print more in the fall than they did in the spring.”
Month: January 2013
Houston’s Menil Collection Decides To Divorce A Controversial Tree
“The Menil Collection has decided to remove “The Art Guys Marry A Plant” from their collection.”
How Self-Help Books Have Overrun Publishing
“Whatever you thought of self-help–godsend, guilty pleasure, snake oil–the genre was safely contained on one eclectic bookstore shelf. Today, every section of the store (or web page) overflows with instructions, anecdotes, and homilies.”
Does Chick Lit Mess With Your Mind?
Reading “chick lit” may lead women to think of themselves as less attractive and express more concern about their weight. That’s the conclusion of new research from Virginia Tech, published in the journal Body Image.
Excavating A 3,000-Year-Old City At The Edge Of Syria’s Civil War
“The Syrian civil war is not the first conflict to complicate Professor Nicolò Marchetti’s efforts to turn Karkemish, an ancient city site on the banks of the Euphrates, on Turkey’s southern border and inside a restricted military zone, into a public archaeology park.”
Cirque Du Soleil To Cut 400 Jobs
“Surging production costs, the strong Canadian dollar, and the worldwide economic downturn were blamed Wednesday by the Cirque du soleil for its decision to cut 400 employees. Most of the layoffs will be at the artistic giant’s headquarters in Montreal.”
Where Cirque Du Soleil Went Wrong
J. Kelly Nestruck: “Cirque has taken a serious hit to its artistic reputation along with its profits … and become a hit-or-miss company. Worse, Cirque has become the kind of organization that would produce a mediocrity like Banana Shpeel – and keep trying to foist it on its fans even when it was clear it wasn’t working.”
Islamist Rebels In Mail Are ‘Crushing Culture’
The militias are trying “to impose their authority, so there’s nothing to threaten them. That’s why they are attacking the traditional chiefs and musicians. And they’re using concepts of Islam that are 14 centuries old and have never been applied.”
Houston Symphony Selects Rising Young Colombian As Music Director
Says the orchestra’s CEO of 35-year-old Andrés Orozco-Estrada, “From the moment he made his debut with us in October, there was an instantaneous chemistry that we hadn’t yet felt or seen between a conductor and an orchestra.”
Remember The Saturday Evening Post? It’s Still Here
Not only did your great-grandparents’ favorite magazine “survive the shakeout of a few years past (and numerous other shakeouts before that), it actually turns a profit. The Post, as it prefers to be known these days, still reaches 350,000 subscribers … and is fat with advertising, hokey though some of it is.”