Compared to her home country, Saudi Arabia, singer-songwriter Rutaba Yaqub is freer: she can legally perform in public. And that’s what she’s doing. (includes audio)
Author: Matthew Westphal
Yes, The Acid-Attack Instigator Is Back At The Bolshoi, Says Management, But He’s Not Going To Dance Onstage (yet)
The Bolshoi’s spokesperson stressed that Pavel Dmitrichenko, now out of jail, requested and was given a building pass only so he could take classes. “But that does not mean that he will join the company later. This question is not even under discussion for now.”
Democratic Thought In China Isn’t A Western Import – It Arose From The Cultural Revolution, Argues (Now-Exiled) Editor
Hu Ping, author of the now-seminal 1979 essay “On Freedom of Speech,” and once an enthusiastic young Maoist: “The Cultural Revolution gave rise to a widespread and deep-seated horror that led a few people” – Chinese who’d never read John Locke, John Stuart Mill, or the American Founding Fathers – “to formulate an explicit concept of freedom and gave the majority the desire and basis to accept this concept.”
Your Boss Has To Give You Time Off To Read, According To United Arab Emirates’ New Literacy Law
What’s more, every newborn’s family will get a “knowledge briefcase,” taxes will be eliminated on publishing, and it will be illegal to destroy books. (So now we know where to send all those copies of Fifty Shades of Grey that secondhand bookstores won’t take.)
After Months Of Turmoil, Sydney Theatre Company Names Permanent Artistic Director (And He’s Only 30)
Kip Williams stepped up as interim AD in May, when Jonathan Church resigned and went home to his projects in England after nine months of attempting to commute to Australia. Williams has been with STC for five years and directed his first show there at age 25.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.02.16
Instead of publicity
There are new things you have to do now to publicize your work. This is something that most publicists, I fear, may not understand. But one of my former Juilliard students provides a good example of … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-11-02
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It Is Harder To Write Funny Stuff Than Serious Stuff? (Of Course)
James Parker: “Oh, much. Much! … My thoughts do not have wings. They are auk-like.”
Rivka Galchen: “I’m naturally inclined to see comic writing as not only more difficult, but also more ethical, more honest, more essential and even more serious.”
A Brief History Of Deep Time
The concept of time on a geological or astronomical scale wasn’t articulated until 1788, and the term “deep time” didn’t appear until two centuries later. Yet now, with planet-altering changes happening within a few generations, we’re in the Anthropocene Era (the era of the human) – an era that began with what’s now called the Great Acceleration.
‘The Most Influential Philosopher In World History Whom You Have Probably Never Heard Of’
“Although Mengzi” – or Mencius, as the Jesuits Latinized his name – “was born long after Confucius died, he is referred to as the ‘Second Sage’ because he shaped the form that Confucianism would take for the next two millennia, not just in China, but also in Korea, Japan and Vietnam.”
Here’s A First: A Pre-Broadway Tryout In Newfoundland – And In This Case, It Make Sense
After all, the new musical, Come From Away, is set there – at Gander airport, to which 38 flights were diverted on 9-11-01, leaving an out-of-the-way little town to host several thousand confused and scared passengers for five days.