Oh, by about 1300%, to judge from the sale price of empty office buildings in 1993 (the year the Avenue was launched) and this year.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Now That The Avenue Of The Arts Is Built, How Does Philly Keep It Running?
“Philadelphia has opened most of the new concert halls, theaters, and other arts spaces it set out to build in the culture boom of the past two decades. Now, who pays the piper?”
After The Avenue Of The Arts, What Next For Philly?
Inga Saffron: “The challenge today isn’t to cajole suburbanites to come downtown for an evening; it’s making the city more livable for the thousands of new residents who are putting down roots in Philadelphia’s reviving neighborhoods. No one anticipated that population surge when the avenue was created.”
Defectors From Cuba’s National Ballet Land On Their Feet
Last spring, six dancers “defected from the National Ballet while it was on tour in Mexico. The group arrived in Miami in April with no jobs, no money and no real knowledge of American life or command of colloquial English. … And in a remarkable success story, all of them have landed positions,” (Pun intended, we presume.)
New York City Ballet Makes Its Own Web Series
“What does it really take to be a dancer in New York City Ballet? In city.ballet., a new web series to be released on Monday by AOL On Originals, key ingredients are strength, grit, talent and perseverance. Having a life outside ballet is not a bad idea. And when all else fails, reach for the wine.”
Why Students Cheat
“When a student sits down at a test, he knows how to cheat, in principle. But how does he decide whether or not he’ll actually do it? Is it logic? An impulse? A subconscious reaction to the adrenaline in his blood and the dopamine in his brain? People cheat all the time. But why, exactly, do they decide to do it in the first place?” Maria Konnikova goes looking for some answers.
Is Blackface Racist Even In A Place Like Thailand? Are Thais Racist?
The questions arise out of a Bangkok advertising campaign earlier this year for, of all things, doughnuts.
Gay Rights Activists To Picket Valery Gergiev Concerts In London
“The demonstration is scheduled to take place outside the Barbican, where Gergiev will lead the London Symphony Orchestra in a performance of The Damnation of Faust by Berlioz – about a scholar who gets too close to the devil.” Picketers are objecting to Russia’s new anti-gay laws and Gergiev’s failure to speak out against them to his longtime friend Vladimir Putin.
The Poet Who Had A Spread In Sports Illustrated
Marianne Moore spent her earlier career as a difficult Modernist poet and fearsome editor. (Hart Crane complained about her as “the Rt. Rev. Miss Mountjoy”.) By the end of her life she was famous enough to be in a Cecil Beaton shoot for Vogue and appear on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show.
When Tony Kushner Speaks To Writers About Writing
“At fifty-seven years of age, having made my living as a playwright, I feel I ought to be able to write about writing. I’ve tried on several previous occasions and I’ve always failed, sometimes at great length. I’m about to fail again. Here goes.”