King wrote the magazine article that became The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. “He wrote in a good ol’ boy vernacular style similar to other Southern authors such as Roy Blount and Charles Portis.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
A Pitched Battle For A Henry Moore Sculpture (And Its Sales Proceeds)
One London council wants to sell the $30 million sculpture, but “lawyers for the Art Fund, a national charity, say they have uncovered evidence that the sculpture – through a complex series of dissolutions and transfers among various London municipal entities over several decades – is actually the property of the Borough of Bromley, in Southeast London.”
L.A. Has A Great New Mass Transit-Spurred Arts District
Now if the city can only not ruin it with old-school auto-centered thinking …
More ‘Utopian Dream’ Moments From South America’s Music Programs
“Recently, the Brazilian government declared music to be mandatory in elementary and secondary school, and officials are currently creating teacher training programs to serve all children.”
D.C. Plays A Role In Oscar Politics This Year
“The nation’s capital typically ranks low on an Oscar campaign’s priority list. The city is like the electoral equivalent of Montana: very few votes.” Not this year.
Amazon Purging Friends And Family Reviews (But Letting Some Chicanery Go)
“Giving raves to family members is no longer acceptable. Neither is writers’ reviewing other writers. But showering five stars on a book you admittedly have not read is fine.”
Want To Hear Beck’s New Songs? Gather Musician Friends Around And Start To Play
“Each of the 20 tunes in Song Reader is individually printed with high-contrast illustrations and detailed faux adverts straight from the first half of the 20th century.”
The Time For Toymaking Companies May Be Over
“Children have played with dolls for millenia. It was a good run.”
Now we – and our 3-year-olds – want tablets instead.
Can Les Miz Succeed Where Other Movie Musicals Have Crashed And Burned?
“Since Chicago took home the best picture Oscar in 2002, a number of beloved stage musicals such as Phantom of the Opera and Rent have crashed and burned when adapted for the screen.”
If We’re Living In A Matrix-Style World, How Would We Know?
The process of simulation “generates artifacts that don’t appear in the real world and that we have to remove. So we started to think about what sort of artifacts might appear if we lived in a simulation.” (Apparently, we don’t.)