“In what began as a one-year experiment last summer, the New York pubcaster [WNET] carved out regular time slots for fundraising programs on its flagship channel, ending the campaign-style drives that go on for weeks. With pledge confined to a limited number of slots – including Thursday primetime and weekends – the station also changed how it communicated with viewers and members about fundraising.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
This Guy Played His Sax While Undergoing Brain Surgery
Granted, this isn’t truly a first – an opera singer and a violinist have done the same thing – but it’s for a very good reason.
Violinist Dmitri Kogan Dead At 38
“The descendant of a celebrated musical dynasty” – two of his grandparents were Leonid Kogan and Elizabeth Gilels, Emil’s sister – “he was known for curating and supporting innovative music projects in his native country and abroad.”
Crystal Bridges Museum To Open Satellite Venue
The facility, in a former Kraft Foods factory about a mile and a half from the main museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, “will be known as the Momentary and will showcase visual and performing arts. It also will house an art[ist]-in-residency program.”
Canada’s Globe And Mail Kills Its Weekday Arts Section
The country’s national English-language daily “will be consolidating its ‘Life and Arts’ and ‘News’ sections, beginning in December. The reshuffling means that arts reviews will be relegated to the generic ‘News’ section, and that dedicated space for other arts coverage would be found exclusively in the paper’s weekend edition.”
How Houston’s Dance Community Is Holding Up Under Harvey
While the basement and parking garage of the Wortham Theater Center (home venue of Houston Ballet) are flooded, “so far, it seems that the small and mid-size companies came through the storm with minor damage.”
Turning Trucks Into Art And Rolling Them Across Spain
“Jaime Colsa owns a transport company that delivers ordinary consumer goods – computers, food, drinks. The contents of his trucks aren’t eye-catching, but his vehicles certainly are, adorned with paintings showing cartoonlike faces, dogs, brightly colored geometric patterns, spirals and landscapes.”
Truck Drivers Are Addicted To NPR, Even When They Disagree With It
As one trucker told reporter Alan Yu, “Every single driver I’ve ever talked to listens to NPR.” Why? Some of it is that the substance can keep people engaged for mile after mile. But this is also another case where geography is destiny.
New York City To Get European-Style Nightlife Czar
“‘Night mayors,’ as they are commonly known, are popular in Europe, where these figures are chiefly concerned with how people can have a good time after dark in their cities. London, Berlin, Paris and Zurich all have them – and now the initiative is making its way to New York, where night life is in great need of attention.”
She Directs Some Of The Most Searing Theatre Around Today
Yaël Farber: “Directing is basically asking a bunch of people to run full speed at a wall with you, and to believe that you’ll all pass through. And sometimes you won’t. But you have to feel it’s still worth the injury.”