“Her father, a chemical engineer, used to make her practice the guitar before she was allowed to work on the model rockets that she would construct and send speeding skyward.” She says, “Had we not gone to Italy, I would’ve become a brain surgeon or a scientist, no question about it.”
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A 24-Year Theater Project Begins (And It Includes Naked Dance Parties)
“The spectacle – exhilaration and humiliation all muddled together, on stage as in life – [debuts this week] in the form of The Sincerity Project. Then, if all goes as planned, it will return with the same cast every few years for the next 24 years – like a live-theater version of the Up documentary films that have tracked a dozen British children since 1964 from age 7 to 56.”
Bob Baker, Founder Of Oldest Puppet Theater In U.S., Dead At 90
The Bob Baker Marionette Theater was a hit when he opened it in 1962, in the midst of a career performing with and making puppets for everything from studio feature films to burger joint commercials to the children of Hollywood royalty.
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Jian Ghomeshi Arrested And Charged With Sexual Assault
“Former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi will plead not guilty to charges of sexual assault and choking, his lawyer says. Ghomeshi was released on $100,000 bail after he was arrested and appeared in a downtown courtroom Wednesday. The 47-year-old has been charged with four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcome resistance – choking.”
Sabah, Iconic Arab Singer, Dead At 87
The Lebanese diva, whose career as musician and actress spanned six decades (and at least nine marriages), “was famous across the Arab world for her powerful voice, musical talent and joyful brazenness … Ultimately, she participated in at least 25 plays, four radio musicals, 85 films and sang 3,000 songs.”
Legendary London Cabaret Shut Down After Bouncers’ Baseball Bat Attack
“Madame Jojo’s – home to some of London’s most diverse nightlife for more than half a century” – has had its license revoked by the local council of Westminster. Some activists say that it’s an attempt by the council to gentrify Soho; the council says it’s because of “an organised assault with injury” by the club’s staff.
Venezuela Presents A Hugo Chávez Ballet
“The state-sponsored work, Ballet of the Spider-Seller to Liberator, is to show at a Caracas theater on Saturday in homage to Chávez’s life from poor boy selling homemade spider-shaped sweets in his rural hometown to president for 14 years.”
Shakespeare First Folio Discovered In Small-Town French Library
“The book – one of only 230 believed to still exist – had lain undisturbed in the library at Saint-Omer in the north of France for 200 years.”
Artificial Intelligence, Really, Is Pseudo-Intelligence
“Commentator Alva Noë argues that we don’t need to be alarmed that our machines are rapidly outstripping natural-born human cognitive power: We’ve got a millions-of-years head start.”