“On Fox, Arrested Development would set up a joke in one episode and pay it off three weeks later; on NetÂflix the joke would pay off in an hour and a half. When Âpeople say Arrested Development was ahead of its time–something the show’s staff is as likely to say as its fanboys are–they’re really saying that it was ahead of NetÂflix.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Want To Be A Violin Soloist? Good Luck Getting An Instrument To Borrow
“Most often soloists rely on the generosity of a wealthy owner or foundation to lend them an instrument.”
How A City Can Help Performance Art Thrive
“Performance artists gravitate to Boston the way painters gravitate to New York, he says. Phelan knows plenty of performance artists who, after leaving Boston, ‘come to a complete stop pretty quickly,’ he says. ‘But here, there’s always a new place, a new activation.'”
Wilshire Boulevard: The Main Street Of Los Angeles (With All That Implies)
“Wilshire has operated as a proving ground for new ideas about architecture, commerce, transportation and urbanism in Southern California. For nearly a century Wilshire has been L.A.’s boulevard of prototypes, a string of hypotheses 16 miles long.”
Berlin, Artistic Mecca – And Architectural Hell
“There’s a dirt trail running from Berlin’s main railway station, and it demonstrates how this city works: First, someone comes up with something; then everyone does something completely different; and, finally, the whole thing goes haywire.”
Measuring The Internet – Illegally
A hacker probably opened up your computer, router, or security system to discover how weak normal passwords are (and in the process, map the supposedly unmappable internet).
What Makes Some Shows (Ahem, LIke Game of Thrones) So Fan-Friendly?
“There have always been epics – Star Wars perhaps being the most famous – that create a mass fan movement. But why certain shows resonate more than others is not an exact science.”
Would Willa Cather Have Hated Having Her Letters Published?
“The letters do not yield steamy intimate detail. But they do make clear that Cather’s primary emotional attachments were to women, while also laying to rest what the volume’s editors, in interviews, called a persistent urban legend: that of the fanatically secretive author eager to erase any record of shameful desire.”
Falling In Love WIth Hearing, And Telling, Stories
“You felt real energy there — a stirring in your soul, and you wanted more. Excited to find a kindred consciousness, you wanted to understand how a writer could make you feel that intensity.”
Barnes and Noble Dramatically Cuts Orders From Simon & Schuster
“A standoff over financial terms has prompted the bookstore chain Barnes & Noble to cut back substantially on the number of titles it orders from the publishing house Simon & Schuster, raising fears among other publishers, agents and authors.”