And, well, the funding is coming to a close. (The libraries say they think they can get other corporate sponsors.) Surprise number two: The funding is going away … because Canadians said they valued music education over any other arts access.
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Uma Thurman Posts The Beginnings Of Her Statement On Harvey Weinstein On Instagram, On Thanksgiving
Her gratitude was razor-edged: “Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! (Except you Harvey, and all your wicked conspirators – I’m glad it’s going slowly – you don’t deserve a bullet).” She ended the post, “Stay tuned.”
What If – Just Bear With Us Here – A Former Obama Official Takes Over Weinstein Co. And Installs A Majority-Female Board?
Maria Contreras-Sweet ran the Small Business Administration, and now she’s wants to run a big business – the scandal-laden, struggling Weinstein Co. Or at least that’s what she said in her surprise bid: “I believe we have now reached a crossroads where it is imperative that a woman-led board acquire control of the company and create content that continues to inspire audiences around the world.”
Pixar Could Have Screwed Up Royally With ‘Coco’
But it didn’t, and here’s how: It had to upend decades of Pixar secrecy to avoid massive cultural missteps.
Could E-Sports – That’s Right, Gaming – Be The Next Big Thing In Media?
They already are – millions of people tune in to watch e-sport championships online, and the players train every day for the chance to become famous (and rich).
Music Lovers Rejoice: The ECM Records Catalog Is Finally Streaming
ECM, which cared very much about sound quality, “was long a holdout against streaming services that have to contend with bandwidth limits and non-optimal soundcards in computers and phones, as well as deals that minimize the value of music.” Sadly, or perhaps luckily, it’s given in.
Ursula LeGuin On Life, Literature, And Just About Everything
On becoming a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters: “To paraphrase Mary Godwin’s line about the vindication of the rights of women, it’s a vindication of the rights of science fiction. To have my career recognized on this level makes it a lot harder for the diehards and holdouts to say, ‘Genre fiction isn’t literature.'”
Shannon Michael Cane, The Man Who Made Art Book Fairs Cool, Has Died At 43
The Australian took over the Printed Matter book fair in New York in 2013. Printed Matter is “the granddaddy of such gatherings, and [Cane] transformed it into a radically inclusive affair, attended by venerable rare-book dealers alongside obscure zine makers so scrappy they could barely afford the plane fare to participate.”
When You’re German, It’s Tough To Make Sense Of The Imprecision Of English
Whew, what’s up with but and butcher? Or cheesy? But there are deeper differences: “Germans read and speak differently; we scan to the end of the sentence, then we go back and parse it. Understanding this, in my view, is crucial to understanding how English speakers and German speakers think differently. English speakers make it up as they go along; German speakers have to know where they’re going.”
The Museum Of The Bible Is Missing Something
Namely, it’s missing Islam, and the Koran. One scholar who has studied the museum’s sponsors says, “For them, the Bible is American Protestantism [and] the story they are telling is the story of ‘the Bible goes West.’ … There’s a disconnect of the Bible from any non-Western themes, which is incredible.”