“The audience that gravitated to e-books first really was that voracious reader, reading for entertainment, reading multiple books in a month across multiple genres.”
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Some Protest The Bolshoi’s Decision To Get Rid Of Controversial Dancer
“The demonstrators, who had gathered on a square near the Bolshoi, held banners that attacked the theater’s management, claimed that the theater had lost its reputation and that Russian ballet was dead.”
What’s This Collector And Developer’s Big (Artistic) Plan For Toronto?
David Mirvish wants “to erect three 80-storey Frank Gehry-designed condo towers on King Street West. It is a game-changing architectural addition to the urban core that would also include … a museum to serve as a public platform for his expansive collection of modern sculpture and painting.”
Bert Stern, 83, Photographer Who Captured Marilyn Monroe Weeks Before Her Death
Stern was “an elite commercial photographer who helped redefine advertising and fashion art in the 1950s and ’60s but is perhaps best known for his painfully raw and poignant photos of Marilyn Monroe.”
Long Before Tumblr, Teenage Punk Feminists Made Revolution By Xerox Machines
“The central mode of [riot grrrrl] communication was the zine: lovingly handwritten or typed manifestos, full of collaged confessions, rants and recommendations, photocopied and disseminated at concerts or by post.”
Wheeling And Dealing An LBJ Play To Broadway
One producer “said he was being both playful and serious in admitting to ‘using tactical Johnson-esque mind games’ to attract producers to his Johnson play at the expense of the other one.”
Pittsburgh Symphony’s Deficit Tripled Last Year
The symphony’s still feeling the effects of the recession – and in 2012, the state cut budget contributions to zero.
Guess What? Facebook *Does* Promote Lasting, Intense Connections
Boomer dad after his Millennial daughter’s wedding weekend: “Their community is much wider than mine and my wife’s. Kate, Philip and their friends don’t move on when they move to new cities. They simply add on.”
Zing! Orson Welles Hated Damn Near Everyone, Newly Discovered Tapes Reveal
“Laurence Olivier was ‘stupid,’ Spencer Tracy ‘hateful’ and Charlie Chaplin ‘arrogant,’ and he could not even bear to look at Bette Davis.” (But John Wayne was cool.)
Hitchcock’s Silent Movies – ‘Steamy Showgirl Dramas’ – Restored For The Queen’s Jubilee
“We chose our big icon, you know,” Dixon says. “Drama has Shakespeare. Literature has Dickens. We have Hitchcock.”