“Detectives say the gangs are prepared to use extreme violence to get what they want during the robberies.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Ours Brains Work The Way Google Searches Work (Or Don’t)
“To capture more complex patterns, the brain does better by amalgamating and integrating information from many different neurons with very different response patterns. The brain crowd-sources.”
German Collector Says He Hid Art Out Of ‘Love’
T”he recluse German collector who kept a priceless trove of art, possibly including works stolen by the Nazis, hidden for half a century says he did so because he ‘loved’ them and that he wants them back.”
Once You Raise $800,000 For Your Blog, Why Not Publish Magazines?
“The new monthly magazine will be exclusively for subscribers. ‘Free-riders can’t see it,’ [Andrew] Sullivan’s email said. ‘We’ve erected a real paywall to keep them out, unlike our leaky meter system on the blog.'”
Doris Lessing, 94, Author Of ‘The Golden Notebook’
Upon winning the Nobel for literature in 2007, she said, “I’m 88 years old and they can’t give the Nobel to someone who’s dead, so I think they were probably thinking they’d probably better give it to me now before I’ve popped off.”
The Future Of Opera? It’s Already Here (In Los Angeles)
Forty wireless mics for performers, 160 sets of headphones, 15 in-ear wireless monitors – all of this tech “allows ‘Invisible Cities’ to break the boundaries between musicians, audience members and casual passersby, expanding the stage into the public space at Union Station.”
Herb Alpert Gives Big To Los Angeles City College
That includes scholarships to “students who, like Alpert in the old days, will have their own label – Herb Alpert Scholars.”
Is It Too Late To Save Late Modern Architecture?
“Since much of the architecture from that era was pointedly tough or complicated or even openly ambivalent about its place in the culture, rallying support for it among the public can be tricky.”
The Math Of Book Advances, And Other Tales From The Inside
“Approximately four out of every five books published lose money. Or five out of six, or six out of seven. Estimates vary, depending on how gloomy the CFO is the day you ask him and what kinds of shell games are being played in Accounting.”
Can Actor Jon Hamm Ever Escape The Shadow Of Mad Men’s Don Draper?
“Don Draper is a pretty dismal, despicable guy, so why I would want to take him home with me I don’t know.”