Of course we do – think of how you’d laugh in an office meeting versus how you’d do it at a bar or a theater. But how much of the switching is based in the situation at hand, and how much in the personal identity of the laugher?
Month: February 2018
Why It’s Important To Study “Useless” Subjects
“As robots take over routine jobs, we will need people who can think creatively, imaginatively, logically and laterally. Acquiring a narrow “skillset” of the kind society increasingly demands will, in fact, leave students not equipped for the future, but vulnerable to it.”
The Fall Of Kings: Henceforth, Only Queens Shall Reign At ‘Medieval Times’
“For the 34 years Medieval Times has been in business, [its] monarch has been a man. But the show, which draws an estimated 2.5 million customers each year, is replacing all of its kings with queens. And its peculiar brand of dinner theater – a sort of G-rated Game of Thrones – is taking on an unlikely resonance amid the national jousting over gender equality provoked by the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements.”
Actual One-Star TripAdvisor Reviews Of Paris
Only go if you are interested in art history. I love history, but I couldn’t stay here for more than an hour, as its pictures doesn’t make sense to me.
Michael Haneke Is Making An English-Language Miniseries (Yikes!)
The Oscar- and Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker (The Piano Teacher, Amour) is working on a ten-part miniseries titled Kelvin’s Book, “a dystopian story set in the near future.”
Why Did The Met Opera Fire Director John Copley? Here’s What Really Happened
In a rehearsal, male choristers they were told to show different reactions to the ‘ghost’ of Assur (sung by Ildar Abdrazakov, who was not present). They are for a range of ideas. John Copley jokingly said ‘if it were me I’d like to see him naked.’ One chorus member reported this joke upward. Peter Gelb fired John Copley. He caught the next plane home. The vast majority of the chorus, we are told, are horrified and upset at his dismissal. Other singers are posting sympathy messages and photographs of Uncle John.
So What Was Manhattan’s Lincoln Plaza Cinema *Really* Like? This. (And Maybe This Is Why It’s Closing)
“Irritated cross talk and loud quarrels, whether between couples or random filmgoers, was such a mainstay of the Lincoln Plaza experience that last fall, my wife and I made a point of going there to see The Meyerowitz Stories, with Dustin Hoffman playing an ill-tempered sculptor and bad father, because we knew it would be like seeing the film in Sensurround.” And, found Bruce Handy, it was – even at a weekday matinee.
Wendell Castle, Who Made Furniture Art (And Vice Versa), Dead At 85
“Over more than a half-century, Mr. Castle helped establish a creative genre, the studio crafts, that blended furniture-making and sculpture. He was a designer whose chairs, tables and coat racks were works of art, and an artist whose oeuvre could be used as well as admired.”
How A Small Appalachian Town Made Itself Into An Arts Destination – By Raising Its Taxes
“City officials [in Berea, Kentucky] count 40 galleries in total, and three new restaurants and a gallery-cafe have opened in the past two years – not a bad showing of entrepreneurship in a city of fewer than 20,000 people. … But it wasn’t always like this.” Ivy Brashear reports on how it got to be like this.
Portland’s Small Theatres Band Together To Cope With Soaring Rents
As with just about any cool city these days, real estate costs in the City of Roses have been rising faster than cash-strapped arts organizations can keep up with – especially for the clear-space buildings that theatres need. As several of Portland’s smaller companies lost their spaces at around the same time, they got creative.