“It’s a trend that seems to be gathering momentum, with the number of book apps outnumbering games almost two to one over the past month. Next month’s launch of the iPad, Apple’s new tablet reader, alongside a dedicated book store, is set to accelerate the shift to electronic reading still further.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Panel Names Fifty UK Women To Watch In The Arts
“The list includes directors, producers and curators who make a contribution to cultural life across the UK. … The women to watch are expected to lead the way in design, libraries, literature, museums, heritage, music, performing and visual arts, the historic environment and creative businesses.”
B’way’s God of Carnage Seeks Starry, All-Black Cast
“Yasmina Reza, zee French lady who wrote zee play, has OK’d the idea, and so the search is on for four major stars. … Broadway shows with black stars can be box-office gold — and, in many cases, the productions are critic-proof.”
The Boston Public Objects, Loudly, To Library-Closing Plan
“One man said that he was a prison librarian while serving time in Walpole and that closing any library branches would be far worse than any of his crimes. ‘I may have robbed a bank, but I have never burned a book,’ said the man, John McGrath. ‘And that’s what you do when you close a library branch, because they are never going to reopen.'”
NYT’s Bruce Graham Obit Pictures Wrong Hancock Building
Chicago architect, Chicago skyscraper — but the Times’ national edition “runs a picture of Boston’s John Hancock Tower … not Chicago’s John Hancock Center, which was Graham’s greatest skyscraper.”
Back In Samuel Barber’s Day, He Was No Critics’ Favorite
“In particular, critic and composer Virgil Thomson dismissed Barber as a composer for ‘high middlebrow taste.’ And Barber’s music does sound conservative next to the atonal, modernist style in vogue in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s. If the scathing reviews bothered Barber, he tried not to show it.”
After Shooting, Israeli Teens Find Their Way Back To Dance
Wounded in an attack on a Tel Aviv center for LGBT youth, a pair of teenagers “had studied dance, concentrating on ballroom and hip-hop, but their gunshot injuries left them without sensation or mobility below their ribs. Confined to wheelchairs, they believed their dancing days were over. Enter Daniel Banks and Adam McKinney of New York-based DNAWORKS.”
Iron Cross Makers Sue, Say Variety Review Damaged Film
“The suit says that the paper lured the film’s producer into last year’s awards race with the offer of an expensive promotional package, then savaged the film in a review.”
How To Get Filmmakers To Work In LA? Throw A Film Fest
The makers of a short film, “a cross between ‘Goodfellas’ and the ‘Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,'” hope to use it to “build support for stronger incentives to keep filmmaking centered in Southern California.” They also hope it “will be featured in a festival they’re planning that would showcase short films that are shot in California.”
There Are 8 Million Sketches In The Naked City
Or there will be, if a 27-year-old artist completes his self-appointed “mission to sketch every person in New York City, all 8,363,710.” He “had only just dropped anchor in a studio apartment the size of a city bus when he began the dogged pursuit of his expansive goal with nothing more than a black pen and a notebook the size of a DVD box.”