“A spokesman for the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority said today that ‘books and magazines were always allowed and still are on U.S.-bound planes.’ Books and magazines, however, weren’t included in a list of 13 ‘items’ that Transport Canada approved Dec. 28 for carry-on purposes.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Drug Co. Teams With Creative Coalition For Obesity Film
“Glaxo, the pharmaceutical giant behind Alli, an over-the-counter weight-loss product, has decided that a good way to educate Americans about obesity — and increase sales of Alli — is to finance a ‘hard-hitting’ documentary about eating. … [A]n Academy Award-winning director will be named on Jan. 25 at the Sundance Film Festival….”
Authors Decry Google Books Settlement To Congress
“[T]hree groups — the National Writers Union, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America — pointed to what they saw as the overly confusing and ultimately unfair rules that would govern what Google could do with the books if the settlement were to be approved in federal court.”
Reemergence Of Dali Curtain Surprises One Who Used It
“‘I thought it was lost or destroyed,’ said [Nicolas] Petrov, founding director of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and the man who transported the [stage] curtain from New York to Pittsburgh in a rented truck in 1976. Five years later,” after it was donated to the Carnegie Museum of Art, “he was told that nobody knew where it was.”
What’s The Truth To The Hype About The West End Boom?
“[W]hy should theatre be immune from the global recession? The curious truth is that no one in the industry really knows. … The problem is that, unlike on Broadway, individual shows in the West End don’t release weekly box office grosses, so it’s impossible to get a picture of what is happening.”
The Surprising Timeliness Of The Princes’ Portrait
“Two youths pose dressed for war – and we are at war. One of them has served in Afghanistan. Beyond advertising the Windsors’ most marketable wares, this is actually a contemporary history painting that alludes in a dignified way to the most important fact about Britain now, that people are dying in uniform.”
How The Classical Field Uses Twitter (And How It Should)
The Leipzig Gewandhaus is “searching for a new director of its concert office and artistic planning. And it’s making this known over Twitter. This is actually a nice sign of institutional transparency — even, arguably, a sounder understanding of the Twitter audience than many groups seem to harbor.”
Fresno Metropolitan Museum Closes
“An anchor in the city’s downtown cultural arts district for more than 25 years, the Met had struggled financially since it reopened in November 2008 after a three-year renovation that went far over budget. Something like the Met ‘will rise again, but it will be years from now,'” the museum’s board president said.
3-D TV Future Comes With A Few Complications
The “sets themselves don’t look terribly different. The thing that’s different, of course, is that you mostly have to wear those funny glasses in order to see 3-D…. There is possibly one set that will come out made by 3M where you don’t have to have the glasses. The problem with that one is that it actually means you have to sit in a certain position in order to see it.”
Philip K. Dick’s Heirs: Google Phone Name An Infringement
“Mr. Dick’s 1968 novel, ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,’ which served as the basis for the 1982 cult film ‘Blade Runner,’ follows a bounty hunter chasing androids known as Nexus-6 models.” The author’s daughter “believes Google referenced that work in coming up with the name for its new phone,” the Nexus One, which “runs Google’s Android operating system.”