“A typical ‘Modern Love’ column is no more representative of how the average person falls in love than Romeo and Juliet. … Still, the column can reveal a lot about our cultural attitudes toward romance and heartbreak. As graduate students in economics and computer science, we decided to use statistics to analyze every ‘Modern Love’ column published over the past 10 years – with the goal of identifying patterns in how romantic narratives take shape.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Maestros Of Content Management: A Tech Magazine Gushes Over The NY Phil’s Digitized Archives
“Its archivists are changing the way people engage with the orchestra in the present, not only providing musicians, scholars, researchers, journalists, and fans dynamic access to a living, breathing entity, but also unparalleled, granular insight into the classical repertoire itself. That deepens the orchestra’s engagement with the public until it becomes a symphony of rich data: CDOs take note.”
Dutch Artist Designs Outdoor Tower That Sucks In Smog
Daan Roosegaarde’s Smog Free Tower, which can reportedly clean up to 30,000 cubic meters of air per hour, has been tested in Rotterdam and will be installed in public parks in Beijing.
Fyre Festival Was Guaranteed To Be A Disaster, Writes Someone Who Worked For It
Chloe Gordon: “Festival vendors weren’t in place, no stage had been rented, transportation had not been arranged. Frankly, we were standing on an empty gravel pit and no one had any idea how we were going to build a festival village from scratch.”
2017 Tony Award Nominations: The Complete List
Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 leads the pack with 12 nominations, edging out Hello, Dolly!, which received 10.
U.S. Composer Mohammed Fairouz Detained At JFK For Four Hours With No Explanation
The 31-year-old New Yorker gives a first-person account of his experience being held by Customs and Border Patrol agents after having scanned his passport and fingerprints.
June LeBell, 73, Pioneering Classical Radio Host
“After an early start as a professional singer, she turned her love for classical music into a groundbreaking career on WQXR in New York, where she became the first female announcer for a commercial classical music station in the country. And she carried on as the host of lecture series and radio shows and as an arts leader after she moved to Sarasota in 2002.”
Congress’s Budget Deal Includes Increases (!) For NEA, NEH
Mind you, they’re not big increases – $2 million (1.33%) each for the NEA and NEH, and flat funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. But this is a change from the Trump administration’s proposal to eliminate the agencies entirely. “Like many of Trump’s planned initiatives for his first 100 days in office, however, this plan did not pan out.”
‘National Report Card’ Says U.S. Students Are Stagnating In Music And Art
“The findings come from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, which regularly reports on U.S. student achievement, including math, reading and science. But only three times – in 1997, 2008 and now from 2016 – has it looked at music and visual arts. Overall, the national scores on arts achievement remained flat when compared with 2008, said Peggy Carr, the acting commissioner of NAEP. ‘Granted this is not the best score,” she said, especially when compared with U.S. students’ progress in math.”
Strike Averted: Writers Guild And Producers Strike Last-Minute Deal
“The Writers Guild of America early Tuesday morning reached a tentative deal with the major studios and networks for a new film and TV contract for the union’s nearly 13,000 members.”