“That [would be] a bit like saying that eating is a phenomenon of the stomach. The stomach is an important part of the story. But don’t forget the mouth, the intestines, the blood, and don’t forget the hunger, and also the whole socially-sustained practice of producing, shopping for and cooking food.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
One-Sentence Letter By J.D. Salinger For Sale On eBay
“Owners of a handwritten one-sentence letter by reclusive writer J.D. Salinger hope to sell the document for $50,000.”
UK’s Ambassador Theatre Group Screening Liquor Ads Before Shows
“Ambassador Theatre Group has announced a new partnership with cinema advertising firm Pearl & Dean that will see ads for Gordon’s Gin projected onto safety curtains … immediately prior to performances across ATG’s portfolio of 39 theatres in London and across the UK.”
On ‘Ruin Porn’ Images Of Decaying Cities
“These photos … are not created so much out of the need to raise consciousness as out of the need to stand before these ruins in awe. It isn’t clear what you do next, after awe. … We are not ready, perhaps, to think about visiting Detroit in the same way that we would visit the Palais des Papes in Avignon. But what, really, is the difference?”
Who Says Humans Are The Smartest Being On Earth?
“We have always considered ourselves the gold standard of intelligence, but it’s time to give up the notion that our brains are the benchmark.” Some researchers are working on a “universal intelligence test” that would correct for a pro-human bias.
Montreal’s Dance Boot Camp For Boys – Televised
Dancer/choreographer/producer Nico Archambault “selected these 10 male dancers – who have fair-to-middlin’ dance training and charisma to burn – out of 120 who showed up to audition for his television show Ils Dansent, which … focuses on the intense training required to create a versatile male dancer.”
Gay Marriage Gets (And Goes Beyond) The Mad About You Treatment
The new Web video series Husbands “trusts that its audience won’t judge a gay couple for treating marriage as cavalierly as straight couples have been allowed to for decades. By going small on the Web, Husbands can raise bigger questions about the future of gay relationships than its longer and better-financed network counterparts.”
Joanna Trollope To Rework Sense And Sensibility
“The pairing is the first in a what [HarperCollins] has dubbed a ‘major’ new series, in which it will team modern authors with Austen’s six novels, asking them to reimagine the books in a contemporary setting.”
The Korean Pop That Ate Japan
“In Japan – a country that has prided itself on producing and exporting its own fantastical pop culture – Korean entertainment has come to gobble up massive portions of melodrama and musical market share. … Korean media, especially pop music, has exploded in the Land of the Rising Sun because the K-Pop architects have embraced everything that the Japanese music industry has shunned for years.”
Where Did Mark Morris Get The Urge To Conduct?
“From getting what I want.”