The media site Owni.fr hasn’t quite figured out this e-book thing yet, but it’s throwing resources toward “livrels” anyway in a bid for a future French audience.
Author: ArtsJournal2
The End Of Netflix As We Know It – Is The Internet Ready?
As the U.S. Postal Service brings an end to one-day delivery, Netflix inevitably moves toward streaming – and the internet could see a 50 percent jump in demand for bandwidth.
Vaclav Havel, 75, Playwright, Humanitarian, Leader of the Velvet Revolution
“He served 14 years as president, wrote 19 plays, inspired a film and a rap song and remained one of his generation’s most seductively nonconformist writers. All the while, he came to personify the soul of the Czech nation.”
Cesária Evora, 70, “Barefoot Diva” From Cape Verde
2004 Grammy-winner Evora, who often performed barefoot to remind her audience of the poverty on Cape Verde, “was best known for singing songs of longing, and her style brought comparisons to the American jazz singer Billie Holiday.”
Away From The Loud Street, Music Flourishes In Gaza
One 11-year-old at Gaza’s only music school prefers to listen to Justin Bieber but loves playing the traditional qanun. “When I play, I feel happy, I don’t know how to describe it exactly, but I feel different, I’m in a different place.”
Want To Earn A Profit? Let Nonprofit Theatres Show You How
“Broadway’s three nonprofit companies … look more like profit-making, Tony-seeking hit factories these days.” Hurray! The theatres aren’t dying. But is this drive for profit harming the creation of new work?
The Terror, And The Thrill, Of Recording Beethoven
“That is the ever-present difficulty of recording: That the desire to communicate the music is balanced and sometimes even replaced by the desire to control the music.”
Digital Doesn’t Kill Books (Really! It’s Saving Print)
Four new ventures into the rapidly mutating world of publishing bravely chart new territory – or is it ground Dickens, magazines and T.V. shows have already covered?
A Young, Vigorous Crop Of Dancers – And Some Legends Too
“At Ballet Theater, which is overrun with guest stars, there is a new generation of dancers that could become the next decade’s top artists, if they are cultivated for the long haul.”
Way To Kill A London Theatre? Simple: Take All Its Money Away
No death by a thousand cuts for the Broadway Theatre – a borough council in London just axed its entire £331,000 grant.