“After enduring weeks of unflattering attention over the firing of its editor, The Oxford American has hired a successor: Roger D. Hodge, … who was the editor of Harper’s magazine from 2006 to 2010.” Marc Smirnoff, … the literary journal’s founding editor, was fired in July in a sexual harassment scandal.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Metropolitan Museum Considers Opening On Mondays
“The museum started closing on Mondays in 1971 to save money, and the proposal to reopen is partly driven by financial considerations as well. [Director Thomas P.] Campbell said rising tourism had brought so many new potential visitors that the economic balance might have changed.”
China’s Movie Market Begins Growing Up – And Opening Up
“After years when going to the movies meant sitting in a drafty hall or a village square watching a film chosen by a local government committee, the Chinese middle class has embraced the idea of taking in a movie as leisure activity – one in which, increasingly, they want to choose their fare from an array of global offerings.”
China’s Most Famous Contemporary Dancer (And Her Most Unusual Past)
Jin Xing “may be the only acclaimed contemporary dancer capable of blowing up a bridge. Though she is just 43, Jin’s life has spanned numerous roles, two continents and, most famously, both genders.”
Kent Nagano Reportedly In Line To Lead Hamburg Opera
“There is no official announcement, but the highly reliable German newspaper Die Welt reports as a fact that Nagano is in line to succeed Simone Young at the Hamburg State Opera.”
Broadway Director Albert Marre Dead At 87
“[He] directed or staged more than two-dozen Broadway shows during his more than 50 years in theater, among them the musicals Kismet and Milk and Honey. But it was Man of La Mancha … that brought him his greatest acclaim” – he won a Tony for the original Broadway production in 1965 and directed three Broadway revivals and countless regional and overseas productions.
How Are Mormons Reacting To The Book Of Mormon?
“[It’s] easy to wonder: Now that Mormon is a part of the country’s cultural conversation, how do followers feel about a Broadway hit satirizing aspects of their faith? The church apparently approves of the show enough to buy three full page ads in the Playbill program each theatergoer gets.”
UC Berkeley Launches $100K Award For Female Architects
New York architect Deborah Berke is the first winner of the Berkeley-Rupp Prize, “which will be awarded every two years. The winner, a prominent woman architect, gets to teach a term at Cal and also has a show of her work in Wurster Hall,” the university’s architecture school building.
Dick Cavett Remembers Stan Laurel
Cavett recounts his visit, as a star-struck young man in 1960, to the retired screen legend at his three-room apartment overlooking the Pacific in Santa Monica.
‘Sleeping Beauty’ Re-Created In A Kiev Gallery
“A Ukrainian-Canadian artist is presenting an interactive art project called ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ in which five attractive young women take turns sleeping under dim lights in Kiev’s top gallery, each under a pledge to marry the visitor who wakes her with a kiss.”