“For better or worse, the Tennessee State Museum would not be where it is without Lois Riggins-Ezzell. She has run the museum since 1981, when it was an afterthought to both the state and the budget, with just six employees, in the basement of James K. Polk building. She has grown the staff and the collections and archives, and she has led the decades-long push for a building of the museum’s own.”
Author: Douglas McLennan
The Dismantling Of The Corcoran, Two Years In
“Critics say that little of the Corcoran has been sustained. Most of the collection remains homeless, and repairs to the iconic Ernest Flagg building on 17th Street have only just begun. Just a third of the faculty who taught at the Corcoran are now employed by GWU, and student enrollment in the Corcoran program is down. Because the deal contains no timeline and little outside oversight, critics say the public can only watch its decline.”
Georgia Attracts Record $2 Billion In Movie Production
“It’s absolutely the highest it’s ever been. It’s double what we did practically the first 25 years of the film office… in one year!”.
Google’s Computers Wrote A Song. Can Human Musicians Make It Good Music?
“The Star asked Canadian musicians to try adapting the melody to a style of their choosing. How does a robo-composed tune sound in human hands?”
Re-salers Attack: Harry Potter Producers Turn Away Large Number Of Resale Ticket Buyers
“The secondary ticket market is an industry-wide plague, and one which we as producers take very seriously,” Friedman and Callender said in a statement. “Our priority is to protect all our customers and we are doing all we can to combat this issue.”
Swed: How Did America Misjudge A Talent Like Riccardo Chailly?
Mark Swed: “These pages have chronicled L.A.’s history of women in classical music for more than a century. We’re on top of that. But our history with Chailly is another matter. We were too quick to write him off.”
NBC’s Lagging Olympic Ratings Illustrates Seismic Shift In TV Audience
“The average audience of 27.8 million viewers through the first 10 nights is down 17% from the 2012 Games in London. With more competition airing live in prime time, NBC counted on the Rio Games’ ratings to be as good or better than London, the most-watched Olympics held outside of the U.S.”
Can The Arts Help Fix California’s Broken Prison System?
“By introducing inmates to everything from dance to drumming to drama, the program’s supporters believe, Arts-in-Corrections can inspire deep and lasting change.”
The Most Physically Demanding Job In America? Dance
“Rounding out the top five of the most physically active jobs in American are fitness trainers and aerobics instructors at No. 2, structural iron and steel workers at No. 3, reinforcing iron and rebar workers at No. 4, and forest firefighters at No. 5. Those four occupations look to be the toughest on earth, yet dancers beat them out.”
How Did This Messy, Illogical, Inconsistent Language Get To Be English?
English is as much of an international language as we have today. But its spelling and syntax and just about everything else about it is inconsistent and capricious. So how did English get to be English?