“The anonymous benefactor who recently paid the entire $142,000 balance in taxes to prevent Detroit’s Masonic Temple from falling into foreclosure was revealed Tuesday to be musician Jack White, who played there as a solo artist and with his former band, the White Stripes.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Jazz Bassist Ben Tucker Dead In Car Crash
The 82-year-old “performed with stars from Quincy Jones to Peggy Lee before he settled in the 1970s in Savannah,” where he became one of the city’s best-known working musicians. He was struck by a motorist while driving a golf cart on Tuesday.
Minneapolis Institute Of Art Gets Major Collection Of Japanese Works
The gift, from California ranchers Libby and Bill Clark, “is among the largest in the MIA’s history, consisting of nearly 1,700 objects – paintings, sculpture, ceramics, woodblock prints, bamboo baskets – spanning more than 1,000 years.”
Backstage At The New Mariinsky 2
“The new Mariinsky Theatre is a site of pilgrimage in St. Petersburg. Ballet and opera enthusiasts are coming in droves to witness first-hand the modern productions and admire the amber onyx encasing the concert hall. But what is going on behind the scenes? We went there to find out.”
Mariinsky 2: Landmark Or Eyesore?
St. Petersburgers are having it out over the new opera/ballet theater designed by Toronto architect Jack Diamond. Have a look at these photos and see what you think.
Upheaval At South Florida’s Symphony Of The Americas After Spending Questioned
“When now-former board president Beth Holland and other symphony officials began questioning what they saw as financial irregularities, they were suddenly voted out in what they say was basically a board coup orchestrated by the symphony’s executive director, Renee LaBonte, and the long-time maestro, James Brooks-Bruzzese.”
Organ Failure: The Great Instruments Of Paris Are Decaying
The French capital has long been a great center for organ music. Just over half of Paris’s 234 organs, including a number of important historic instruments, are the responsibility of the city council – whose entire maintenance budget of €250,000 is enough for the upkeep of about 11 of them.
Decoding How Time And Space Are Perceived In The Brain
“While most people are familiar with the ensuing influence Einstein’s ideas had on both the academic and public conception of the physical universe, few people are aware a similar revolution against space and time is underway in the fields of experimental psychology and neuroscience.”
Hollywood Blockbuster Director Is ‘Disintegrating’ In Prison
“John McTiernan, the director and producer of Predator, Die Hard, The Hunt For Red October and Last Action Hero, is now federal penitentiary prisoner 43029-11,” serving time for perjury. It’s a relatively comfortable minimum-security facility, but McTiernan’s wife says he’s “disintegrating in front of my eyes”.
Seven Reasons Former Child Stars Go Crazy (From Someone Who’s Been There)
Mara Wilson (Mrs. Doubtfire, Matilda, A Simple Wish, Melrose Place) explains it all, in a sensible and very clever run-down.