“The CSO on Monday stopped selling tickets to the high-profile series in response to a letter from the city of Denver warning that the events could run afoul of regulations forbidding marijuana consumption ‘openly and publicly in a manner that endangers others.’
Author: Matthew Westphal
Oscar-Winning Director Of ‘Searching For Sugar Man’ Found Dead At 36
Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul won multiple awards in 2013 for his documentary about a Mexican-American folk-rocker who unknowingly became a star in South Africa. Stockholm police say no foul play is suspected in Bendjelloul’s death.
H.R. Giger, 74, Surrealist Designer Made Famous Via Hollywood
Known for creating images melding humans and machines in a style he called “biomechanical”, Giger was primarily a painter and sculptor. Yet he reached millions of people worldwide through his designs for the films Dune, Prometheus, and Alien, for which he won an Oscar.
David Henry Hwang Fesses Up About ‘Miss Saigon’ Controversy
In an essay, the playwright revisits the outcry in the U.S. over the “yellowface” casting of Jonathan Pryce as a Eurasian character in the hit musical, explains how his thoughts about cross-racial casting have evolved, and confesses to the lie he told Cameron Mackintosh.
Vandalized Rothko Back On View At Tate Modern
“It has been a deliberately slow, painstaking process, but 18 months after Mark Rothko’s Black on Maroon was vandalised with quick drying and theoretically indelible graffiti ink, Tate Modern has revealed the successful results of one of its most difficult restoration projects.”
Hong Kong Cancels Anthony Gormley’s Men-On-Rooftops Piece Because It Hits Too Close To Home
Event Horizon, which features statues of the sculptor standing near the edge of rooftops, has already inspired emergency calls from people who thought they were seeing a suicide in London, New York, and São Paulo. But the lead sponsor of the installation in Hong Kong withdrew after one of its own employees threw himself from the offices’ rooftop earlier this year.
Prisoners In Italy Could Get Time Off For Reading Books
The regional government of Calabria (the toe of the boot) has passed a law allowing a prisoner to have his sentence reduced by three days for each book he reads, up to 16 books per year.
Why Can’t Lit In French Span The Globe as English- And Spanish-Language Books Do?
“French publishers seem to have assumed that the market in the French-speaking world [beyond the hexagon] would never develop, so they’ve done little to explore its potential. … Paris imports talent and exports books, but neither trade names nor rights.”
We Live In A Sea Of Carefully Designed Beeps
Even the word barely existed until 60 years ago. Now electronic tones are everywhere from heart monitors to smartphones to supermarket scanners, alerting us to everything from the truck backing up toward us to the train doors closing behind us to the Lean Cuisine in the microwave being ready. And those sounds aren’t chosen casually: psychoacousticians work hard to match the beep to the job.
Japan’s Coming Mascot Bloodbath
“[The country’s] eclectic, and often bizarre, mascots – known as yuru-kyara (laidback characters) – are put to work promoting everything from local cuisine and sightseeing spots to tax offices, the police and military, and even prisons.” Osaka prefecture is home to 45 of them, and the authorities want to cull the least productive ones.