November 2014 – Page 9 – ArtsJournal Wayback

Aereo Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

The company that streamed broadcast television over the Web “filed for voluntary bankruptcy on Thursday, a move the company says will allow it to ‘maximize the value of its business and assets’ without being dragged down by ongoing [intellectual property] lawsuits in several states.”

Venerable Music Publisher Starts Its Own Record Label

“The music publisher Edition Peters, which can trace its history back to 1800, is launching a new record label called Edition Peters Sounds. The new record label will focus on recordings made by artists represented by Edition Peters’ artist management company, … usually performing works from the extensive Edition Peters publishing catalogue.”

How Much Can People Really Change After Age 30?

“‘You’re doomed! What you’ve got now – that’s it,’ is the answer [psychology professor] Brian Little … gave me, and he was only half-joking.” And he was half-joking because that answer is about half-true.

Why “Serial” Can Feel So Discomfiting (It’s Not White Privilege)

“It’s not exactly in the racial dynamics, and not only in the way that Koenig tells the story. It has to do instead with the psychological tourism that comes in the aftermath of a crime, the license that everyone (Koenig, her audience, but also the cops and prosecutors and judges and Hae and Adnan’s classmates) feels to gaze into the lives of both victims and the accused and to wonder about the extent of what people are capable.”

Being Satisfied Is Not Necessarily The Same As Being Happy (So Just Because New Yorkers Kvetch Doesn’t Mean They’re Miserable)

“A person (even a New Yorker) could be both dissatisfied and happy at once, and … the act of complaining was not in fact evidence of unhappiness, but something that could in its own way lead to greater happiness.”

The Nature Of Clickbait Today (And Why We Might As Well Quit Kvetching About It)

By now, most of us have learned to see through, and make fun of, Upworthy-style headlines. “Thus clickbait – or whatever you want to call it – has now, in the manner of a hemorrhagic fever, evolved. It’s finished with its low-hanging-fruit phase, and has attached itself to a new form of curiosity-gap exploitation, one that’s more insidious, but no less irritating.”

The Literary Archives Of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Are Heading To The University Of Texas

Irony: “Gabriel García Márquez, who died in April at 87, was a strong critic of American imperialism who was banned from entry to the United States for decades, even after ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ vaulted him to international celebrity and, in 1982, the Nobel Prize in Literature.”

Ballet Has A Lot Of Rules – Including Precisely How, And To Whom, To Present Flowers Onstage

“At the Royal Opera House, however, there are flowers delivered onstage at almost every ballet performance, most provided by loyal fans who can spend hundreds of dollars each month to keep their favorite ballerinas supplied with floral tributes.”

The Reason You Have To Smuggle In Reasonably Priced Candy Or Drinks To Movie Theatres

“Even with the exorbitantly high prices on food items, only about 4% of a theater’s gross revenue in a given year is profit, despite typically around an 85% profit margin on concession sales themselves,” thanks to a 1938 court case that limits studio monopoly power (really).

Month: November 2014