Despite a lot of new outlets “sniffing opportunity” and opening new offices or expanding coverage, people in Guelph, Ontario, miss their daily paper. there’s “a creeping dread that fact-free U.S.-style politics – enhanced by the canny use of social media by those in power – could be spreading north.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Dick Van Dyke Apologizes For His ‘Cockney’ Accent In Mary Poppins
‘Strewth: “Van Dyke, 91, was chosen this week by Bafta to receive the Britannia award for excellence in television. Speaking afterwards, he said: ‘I appreciate this opportunity to apologise to the members of Bafta for inflicting on them the most atrocious cockney accent in the history of cinema.'”
Ballet West Keeps Connections To Cuba Despite New Trump Restrictions
“‘Being in Utah, and seeing those mountains is one of the best experiences of my entire life,’ 17-year-old ballet student Marcos Ramirez-Castellano said. Likewise, watching Ramirez-Castellano’s strength and precision in partnering class last week was awe-inspiring. Sklute said ‘there is no better training for male dancers in the world” than in the Cuban system.'”
When You Make A Jane Austen Banknote But ‘Egregiously’ Misuse A Jane Austen Quote
Hint: If Jane Austen had Caroline Bingsley say something, probably you shouldn’t quote it for gentle surface meaning. “In short, Austen wrote the line as a satirical comment on how we perform certain admirable qualities to win approval.”
Monopoly Was Invented For Just Such A Time Period As Ours
The original game, that is, was made to show the, let’s say, challenges of capitalism. So in its spirit, “as you set out piles for the Chance and Community Chest cards, establish a third pile for Land-Value Tax, to which every property owner must contribute each time they charge rent to a fellow player. How high should that land tax be? And how should the resulting tax receipts be distributed? Such questions will no doubt lead to fiery debate around the Monopoly board.”
Who Gets The Most Arts Money? The Answer Will (Not) Shock You
Yes, another study found that it’s large, mostly white organizations. And whoa, the disparities: “The study found that organizations focused on communities of color make up 25 percent of all arts nonprofits but receive just 4 percent of all foundation giving.”
Director Jane Campion Says ‘The Clever People’ Have Switched From Film To TV
Campion (The Piano, Bright Star), who makes the TV series Top of the Lake, says that “movies have become conservative cash cows,” but “in television, there is no concern about politeness or pleasing the audience. It feels like creative freedom.”
They Exhumed The Corpse Of Salvador Dali For A Paternity Test, Only To Find His Mustache In Perfect Shape
Yes. The mustache, in “classic 10-past-10 position,” survives. “Narcís Bardalet, who had embalmed Dalí’s body in 1989, told the Catalan radio station RAC1 that finding the mustache intact was ‘a miracle.’ He added: ‘Salvador Dalí is forever.'”
In Tucson, A Trial Over The Right To Teach Kids About Their Histories And Cultures
A week into a federal trial over whether a law preventing Tuscon from teaching elective ethnic studies classes was racially motivated, the former head of public instruction, one of the strongest supporters of the ban, “reaffirmed things like saying that Spanish language media should be banned from the United States with a limited exception of Mexican restaurant menus.”
Evil Robot Masters Are Ruining Theatre Tickets, And Maybe The World As Well
Don’t read this piece if you ever want to sleep again. “Today’s impersonation-bots are different from the robots imagined in science fiction: They aren’t sentient, don’t carry weapons and don’t have physical bodies. Instead, fake humans just have whatever is necessary to make them seem human enough to ‘pass.'”