“In contrast to looking down at a smartphone’s screen, one can be more continuously present and engaged during a live conversation with carbon-based creatures, even if the urge to tap and slide at one’s touch pad [situated at the right temple] and make circular motions with one’s head can be overwhelming.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Borges Vs. “Borges”
“For someone who hated being interviewed, Borges was a prolific and garrulous interviewee (although it was perhaps ‘Borges’ who handled that side of things). And yet, to point this out is to risk missing the substance of what he is saying here, which is not simply that he feels himself at odds with his own public persona but that he feels himself profoundly at odds with how little he is at odds with it. (Such paradoxes are an occupational hazard in any encounter with Borges.)”
Strad Stolen From London Train Station Recovered After Three Years
The £1.2 million violin “was snatched after Min-Jin Kym placed it on the floor while she ate a sandwich in a Pret a Manger at Euston station. Now, almost three years later, the 300-year-old instrument has been found and temporarily placed in a secure location in London.”
New York’s 92nd Street Y Fires Executive Director
Sol Adler, who had led the busy cultural center since 1988, was removed by the board of directors because of his “undisclosed long-term personal relationship” with staffer Cathy Marto. Marto’s son-in-law, a former stockbroker who had served prison time for fraud, is under criminal investigation for extorting kickbacks while he worked as the Y’s head of facilities.
Man Pleads Guilty In Plot To Defraud Producers Of Broadway Rebecca
“A former Long Island stockbroker … pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges on Monday, admitting that he had conjured up fictitious overseas investors and a phantom loan as part of a sham effort to rescue the financially troubled show.”
The Curious (And Impressive) Story Of BodyTraffic
“Co-founders Lillian Barbeito and Tina Finkelman Berkett ignored well-meant advice about what they ‘must’ do to launch a dance troupe in their adopted hometown [of Los Angeles].” For example, they enlisted a rabbi to fundraise for one of their first projects, which they presented at his synagogue’s social hall. (It was a sold-out run.)
NYPD Tried To Censor Park Avenue Tunnel Installation
“Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is turning the Park Avenue tunnel in New York into a reverberating sound and light installation that celebrates free speech. … The NYPD asked the artist to install a time delay so messages could be regulated.” (He balked.)
Can A New Cable Channel Get 18-To-24-Year-Olds To Sit Still And Watch TV?
Pivot TV will become available in 40 million U.S. homes this week. “So why start a channel for the so-called millennial generation, besides the obvious answers involving advertisers who pay a premium for younger demographics?”
In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Is Now An App
“More than 500 years after Gutenberg, the Bible is having its i-moment. For millions of readers around the world, a wildly successful free Bible app, YouVersion, is changing how, where and when they read the Bible.”
Johnny Depp Says He’s Ready To Retire From Acting
“I wouldn’t say I’m dropping out any second, but I would say it’s probably not too far away. When you add up the amount of dialogue that you say per year and you realise that you’ve said written words more than you’ve had a chance to say your own words, you start thinking about that as an insane option for a human being.”