In this adaptation from her Robert B. Silvers Lecture, the National Book Award-winning journalist uses the seven words that Centers for Disease Control researchers were warned to avoid to shape an examination of her own life and her moves across oceans, cultures, and gender boundaries.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Jazz And Classical Pianists Use Their Brains Differently: Study
“While neuroscience has largely debunked the left-right brain divide, new research from the Max Planck Institute … shows that a similar binary might apply to pianists.”
Agnès Varda Is The Oldest Oscar Nominee In History, News She Greets With A Shrug
“Reached in Paris hours after receiving the Academy nod, [the 89-year-old] Varda, for her part, seemed cheery but basically unconcerned. She brushed off the notion the Oscar nomination is any kind of crowning achievement – even if [the documentary] Faces Places will stand as her final film.”
Nan Goldin Survived An OxyContin Addiction, And Now She’s Going After The Drug’s Makers
“Now she has been clean for a year. [the photographer] … decided that she was strong enough for a new battle. That began recently when, in her most personal project yet, she publicly confronted OxyContin’s manufacturer, Purdue Pharma, and that company’s longtime owners, who are also prominent art patrons: the descendants of Mortimer and Raymond Sackler, two of three physician brothers who built Purdue Pharma into a pharmaceutical behemoth.”
Robert Spano To Depart From Atlanta Symphony After 20 Years As Music Director
Spano, only the fourth music director of the ASO in its 73-year history, will step down at the end of the 2020-21 season.
What Did Garrison Keillor Really Do? Minnesota Public Radio Does Deep-Dive Report On Misconduct Allegations
“An investigation by MPR News” – which included interviews with more than 60 people who had dealt professionally with Keillor – “has learned of a years-long pattern of behavior that left several women who worked for Keillor feeling mistreated, sexualized or belittled.”
Long Wharf Theatre Fires Artistic Director One Day After Report Of Sexual Misconduct Accusations
The New Haven theatre’s board of trustees voted to fire Gordon Edelstein, effective immediately, after The New York Times reported detailed allegations of sexual harassment, and even assault, of staffers by the director.
San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre Has Found Its Next Artistic Director
Pam MacKinnon, who has been nominated for three Tony Awards and won one (for the 2013 revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), will take over from departing artistic director Carey Perloff on July 1.
Thailand Drops Lèse-Majesté Charge Against Historian For Lecture About 16th-Century King
“Prosecutors decided not to pursue their case against [84-year-old] Sulak Sivaraksa, who was charged in October under Thailand’s controversial lèse-majesté law against defaming, insulting or threatening the royal family. The charges were connected to a 2014 university lecture, during which Sulak … questioned whether [16th-century] King Naresuan had in fact slain a Burmese crown prince while riding an elephant.”
One Of The Last Dead Sea Scrolls Now Deciphered
The manuscript, written in a coded form of Hebrew, had deteriorated into sixty pieces that had to be digitally pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle. The document includes the sophisticated calendar followed by the sect that wrote the scroll as well as information about that sect’s disputes with the Temple authorities in Jerusalem.