“RÃkisútvarpið (RÚV) announced the departure of 60 staff on Thursday – 20 per cent of its already-trimmed workforce – and unveiled severe cuts to programming.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Digital Language Death (Yes, It’s A Thing)
In the 21st century, can a language survive for long if no one uses it on the Internet?
The Case For The Serial Comma, Made In One Screenshot
(Slate‘s always-lively commenters are not all convinced, however.)
Hitting That Snooze Button Will Only Make It Worse, You Know
Why? Because it’s unnatural, basically. (Not to mention sleep inertia and social jetlag.)
Glimpses Into Nureyev’s World At A French Museum
“Many of Rudolf Nureyev’s belongings are now on display at a costume museum in Moulins, France, offering a sense of that ballet dancer’s exuberant personality and passion for all that was rare and beautiful.”
Watch The Young Margot Fonteyn Dance
“YouTube does deliver – here with some rare shots of Margot Fonteyn. Could it be the earliest dance footage the BBC ever recorded?”
Richard Nelson’s Apple Family Plays To Be Filmed For Broadcast
“Richard Nelson’s critically acclaimed Apple Family plays, which are running in repertory at the Public Theater through Sunday, will be recorded for television by WNET, the PBS station on Channel 13 in New York, for broadcast at a future date, the Public announced on Wednesday.”
Jazz Guitarist Jim Hall, 83
“His career began in the ’50s as part of the West Coast jazz scene with Jimmy Giuffre and Chico Hamilton, recorded with wealth of jazz royalty over his career, including Ben Webster, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Evans and Sonny Rollins.” Despite his relatively quiet profile, he was considered one of his instrument’s most influential players in all of jazz.
What’s Britain’s Favourite Play?
A new poll by English Touring Theatre finds that it is … one you’ve probably heard of, but it may not leap immediately to mind.
More Drama In Russian Ballet World, This Time In St. Petersburg
Altynai Asylmuratova, the former star ballerina and revered artistic director of the Vaganova Ballet Academy (one of the world’s most prestigious), has resigned – and she’s decamping to another company that has become something of a refuge for Russian dancers.