“They are hidden from the main street, accessible usually by a gate-covered break in the larger, more impressive townhouses that front the main street. Go through those gates and you’ll find yourself in a secret pocket of the city, in which there are tiny alleys with tiny houses and tiny courtyards.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Binge-Watching Makes Us Depressed, Says (Depressing) Study
“[The study] found that, of 408 participants, 35 percent qualified as binge-watchers, and those binge-watchers reported higher levels of stress, anxiety, and depression than their non-binge-watching counterparts.”
Thomas Adès On His New Partnership With Boston Symphony
“There’s the feeling that if you can focus these activities in one place, then instead of making just a little pile of sand that blows away, you can build something more. For five or six years I had the Aldeburgh Festival, and then it became time to close that chapter, and I’ve been affiliated with nobody since that time. Now there is a place where I can build something with bricks again, instead of with sand!”
Edifice Complex: Hungary’s Leader Wants To Restore Imperial Buildings To Their Old Glory – And Displace The Museums In Them
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wants to return the seat of government to the old royal palace (tough luck for the National Gallery of Art), move the country’s highest court to its pre-war site across from Parliament, and turn Budapest’s largest park into a version of Berlin’s Museum Island.
My Lover, Robert Mapplethorpe
Jack Fritscher: “We became bi-coastal lovers for more than two years and remained friends for ever. We fricated our edginess together. We were both re-quivering Catholics mixing the sacred and the profane. … It was sex, love, art, letters, phone calls and business. It was life.”
Can’t Score A Ticket To ‘Hamilton’? Try The Audiobook
“Hamilton fans looking for another way to feed their obsession, or simply hungry to read more about the musical’s origins, will be able to get their hands on Hamilton: The Revolution (or as creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda calls it, the ‘Hamiltome’) on April 12, in hardcover and audiobook.”
How To Spot A Plagiarized Crossword
“As a professional crossword constructor, it is extremely hard for me to believe that what happened here is a mere coincidence.” (includes Crossword Suspicion Scale)
Now Even J.K. Rowling Has Been Accused Of Cultural Appropriation
“The Harry Potter author … has been accused of appropriating the ‘living tradition of a marginalised people’ by writing about the Navajo legend of the skinwalker in a new story” on her Pottermore website.
The Naked Pharoah: Countertenor Buffs Up And Bares It All
Anthony Roth Costanzo recounts how – from diets to workouts to (ouch!) full waxing – he prepared for the new production of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten at English National Opera. (includes video and audio)
A Black Dancer’s Frustrating Search For Ballet Shoes
“Eric Underwood was on tour last summer in the south of Italy when he had finally had enough.” In store after store, he couldn’t find ballet shoes to match his skin, and he was tired of buying beige shoes and covering them with pancake makeup.