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Author: Matthew Westphal
The Science Fiction Novel That Changed The World: ‘Dune’ At 50
“Though [it] won the Nebula and Hugo awards, the two most prestigious science fiction prizes, it was not an overnight commercial success. … Fifty years later it is considered by many to be the greatest novel in the SF canon, and has sold in millions around the world.”
Figure Skating On Wheels – At Championship Level
“In a land where winter sports rule, Kailah Macri’s double axels – on roller skates – haven’t exactly made her a household name.” (includes video)
Patti LuPone Confiscates Audience Member’s Cell Phone Mid-Performance
See? It’s not just music critics doing it. “It’s a lesson that audiences have yet to learn. … Patti LuPone will not tolerate your foolery in a Broadway theatre. Or off-Broadway. Or in a Las Vegas concert hall.”
‘I Don’t Know What To Do Anymore. I Was Hired As An Actor, Not A Policeman Of The Audience’: Patti LuPone Talks About Snatching That Phone
“We could see her text. She was so uninterested. She showed her husband what she was texting. … When we went out for the second act I was very close to her, and she was still texting. I watched her and thought, ‘What am I going to do?'”
Meet The Guy Who Tried To Charge His Phone On A Broadway Stage Set
“He said the incident was not a dare. It was not intended as a joke. His iPhone 6 was just low on juice. Why did he do it? What was the emergency? ‘Girls were calling all day. What would you do?'”
Man Booker International And Independent Foreign Fiction Prizes Merge To Create Super-Award
Instead of being biennial, it will be annual. And instead of rewarding a body of work, it will be awarded on the basis of a single book translated into English and published in the UK. Novels and short story collections will be eligible. The prize money will also be increased with a top prize of £50,000.
Why Do We Need To Spend So Much Time Valuable Sleeping, Anyway?
Not so long ago, even a leading sleep scientist could joke that the only known function of sleep was to cure sleepiness. Over the past decade, researchers have been pinpointing the important purposes sleep serves – and the bad things that happen when you don’t get enough of it.
We’re The Walking Dead: Most Of Us Are Sleep-Deprived Much Of The Time
Think you’re okay on five or six hours a night? Don’t be so sure. Not only does lack of sufficient sleep impair us cognitively, but we’re also bad at telling when we’re impaired.
Creative Freedom And State Control At Moscow’s Film Festival
Says Russia’s culture minister, “Let all flowers bloom, but we will only water those we like, or those we consider necessary. … State support for culture won’t be going to projects which portray Russia in a negative light.”