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Month: November 2014
Former Boy Wonder Michael Tilson Thomas Turns 70
“His mission – of boldly presenting diverse repertory; of not being hemmed in by perceived boundaries between styles and eras; of championing living composers, especially Americans, and especially younger ones – [has] had enormous impact on the scene.”
The Amazons Weren’t Just Ancient Greek Tall Tales, They Were Real
Archaeologists have found plenty of evidence of women warriors in the areas where Amazons were said to live. They didn’t cut off breasts or live without men, but they did fight, hunt, smoke pot and get tattoos.
Hasbro Calls Off Purchase Of DreamWorks Animation (So Shrek Will Not Be Marrying Any Little Ponies)
“Hasbro shares on Thursday lost 4 percent [after news of the purchase leaked out], wiping about $300 million from its market capitalization, and the stock fell another 2 percent on Friday, apparently enough to scare the toymaker’s board of directors from further negotiations.”
Orlando School Board Would Rather Have No Religious Materials In Schools At All Than Allow Materials From The Satanic Temple
“Worried about facing national ridicule if a Satanic group is allowed to give out coloring books to children, the Orange County School Board moved Thursday toward preventing any outside group from distributing religious materials on campus.” Said the board chairman, “This really has, frankly, gotten out of hand. I think we’ve seen a group or groups take advantage of the open forum we’ve had.”
Why We Sometimes Laugh At Painful Events Or Want To Smack Adorable Babies (It’s Called Maintaining Emotional Homeostasis)
“If you get into a very high or very low emotion that you’re almost to the point of being overwhelmed, you become incapacitated so you can’t function well. Emotional homeostasis is important for people so they can be in control of their cognitive, social, and psychological functions.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.17.14
The Henry Mollicone underground operas
AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published 2014-11-17
Breaking News: Don Bacigalupi Leaving Crystal Bridges
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-11-17
Scarlett fever
AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2014-11-17
Creating Worlds, Including Liturgical Ones
AJBlog: PostClassic Published 2014-11-17
To Each Her Own With Others
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2014-11-17
Two Big Moves: Bacigalupi to Lucas Museum; Ravenal to deCordova Museum
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2014-11-17
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Playwrights Get A New Venue – The UK’s Guardian Newspaper, Online
The plays “cover topics such as music, fashion, politics, sport and education and are all around five minutes long.”
Going Deep On The Art Of Richard Serra And Martin Puryear
“The experience can be exhilarating, threatening, vertiginous, lonely, isolating, apocalyptic and pleasurable. I remember once thinking this might have been what it felt like to be a lowly Greek foot soldier commanded to approach the impregnable walls of Troy.”
The Obsession With ‘Writers Under 40’ Is Bizarre, At Best (And Flat-Out Stupid To Boot)
“Is writing a beauty contest? Is it a sports competition? Beauty, and sporting achievement might be associated, in our culture, with youth (and, even that’s not a given) but there’s no reason this should go for the written word too.”