Easy answer: Fiction.
Author: ArtsJournal2
Study: The ‘Buffy Effect’ Is Real
Women and men both benefit from seeing strong women on TV – even if there’s sexual or other violence toward women in the same show.
The Universal-BMI Deal Heats Up In Europe
“European regulators will vote next week on Universal Music Group’s $1.9 billion bid for EMI’s recorded music arm, which could set the stage for a final EU decision on the deal later in September.”
Protests (And Support) For Berlin’s Plans For The Old Masters
“German art historians, conservators and newspapers united to criticise plans to empty the Gemäldegalerie of its Old Masters for the sake of Modern art. ‘Save the Gemäldegalerie!’ was a headline that ran in four German newspapers. But the plan is beginning to find influential supporters, including Thomas Campbell, the director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.”
Writers In Pieces, Arranged By Country
“But globalization is not uniform, and not always so kind. It can happen that a writer remains absolutely trapped in his local community, perhaps well known for a restricted group, but unable to project him or herself outside it.”
Damien Hirst: (Inter)National Disgrace
It’s all fun and games until Hirst slams Van Gogh on a beloved UK children’s show.
Fifty Shades Sells 10 Million Books, Rescues Company From Media Slump
When’s the last time you heard this? “The book boom helped Bertelsmann paper over weaknesses in RTL Group, its core television and radio broadcasting business.”
The Scots Like Their Theatre, But Not As Much As Their Libraries
“Theatregoing has dropped from third favourite cultural activity in 2007, behind cinema-going and library use. It is now fifth, having been overtaken by live music and museum-going.”
Moleskine Notebook: The App
The company that owns the brand “doesn’t want to be recognized merely as a notebook company. Their vast catalog now includes hundreds of niche products like beer journals, pencil sets, reading lights, and postal notebooks that turn into ready-to-mail letters.” Not to mention Moleskine iPad and Kindle covers (and the app, of course).
Tango: Better Than Prozac And Meditation
“Those who took the tango and meditation classes both showed greater reductions in depression than those who did neither. But the tango students lowered their stress more than either the meditation students or those on the waiting list. And in something of a surprise, the tango students reported a greater increase in mindfulness.”