“The free title, which is normally distributed across the capital on a Tuesday, … will fail to publish on time for the first time in more than 44 years, after a warehouse fire destroyed more than 200,000 copies of this week’s edition.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Watching An American Play About Press Freedom – In China
Geoffrey Cowan’s Top Secret: Battle for the Pentagon Papers debuted in China in late 2011. Now it’s touring the country again, including a stop at Beijing’s National Center for the Performing Arts (a/k/a The Egg), the country’s most prestigious venue.
There Could Be Devices To Let Us Communicate With Animals: Researcher
Says animal behaviorist Con Slobodchikoff, who has successfully decoded some of the language (yes, it seems to be a language) used by prairie dogs, “It’s probably five to 10 years out. But I think we can get to the point where we can actually communicate back and forth in basic animal languages to dogs, cats, maybe farm animals.”
Up From Inner-City Poverty To Ballet Stardom
“When Misty Copeland was discovered at age 13 by a ballet instructor at her local Boys & Girls Club in San Pedro, Calif., she was so poor that she’d never seen a ballet, heard of ballet or knew what a ballerina looked like. … Today, at 30 years old, Misty Copeland is the first black female in two decades to be a soloist at the American Ballet Theatre.”
Cities Behind Stalled Arts Center Of North Texas Can’t Even Agree To Dissolve It
“More than seven months after plans to dissolve the Arts Center of North Texas were put into motion, the three owner cities have still not come to an agreement over how to best carry out that task. … The project is jointly owned by Plano, Frisco, and Allen [in metro Dallas-Ft. Worth], but all momentum stopped in May 2011 when Frisco voters decided to pull out of the project.”
Scientific Research Publishing Meets Online Video
In JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, the first peer-reviewed scientific journal published in video, “the experimental portions of technical scientific papers, instead of being laid out in a couple of dense paragraphs, [are] videotaped and [move] from a necessary if clumsy part of the narrative to center stage.”
Nashville Symphony Revenue Down By Half
“The Nashville Symphony Orchestra suffered an $11.7 million loss in the fiscal year ending July 31, 2012, as its revenue plunged by more than 50 percent to $21.5 million.”
Krystian Zimerman Storms Out Of Recital Over Smartphone Recording
“He noticed someone up in the choir seats filming the concert on their smartphone. We think it was probably an iPhone,” said Ruhr Piano Festival spokeswoman Anke Demirsoy. “He asked them to stop, but they didn’t. So he interrupted the recital and walked off stage.”
The Problem With French Children’s Fiction
“A browse through the children’s section of a French bookshop will uncover beautifully illustrated, expensively produced books -including a baffling number about wolves – but to an English reader, their content rarely lives up to the creativity of the presentation, nor are they much fun to read aloud.” Yet the children’s non-fiction is excellent. Mais pourquoi?
The Theater Company That’s ‘Gertrude Stein Meets MTV’
New York’s the TEAM – Theatre of the Emerging American Moment (they only figured that part out later) – has created shows that “looked at neo-conservatism through the lens of The Wizard of Oz“, that “contemplated the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina via … Gone With the Wind“, and that examine “the pioneer spirit” through Dutch immigrants who end up in Vegas.