“Most megachurches are located outside city centers, camouflaged into suburban sprawlscapes. Their architecture often mimics that of warehouses, shopping malls, or dome-shaped stadiums. Sometimes, the only thing distinguishing a megachurch from a defunct K-Mart is a spindly cross on its facade.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
As A Music Magazine Dies, The Future Of The Music Press In France Faces Questions
“Newsstand sales and subscriptions were stable. But this could not offset declining revenues from advertising on the Internet, much less ensure the survival of the magazine.” [This article is in French; the translation comes via Google Translate.]
Our Brains Can’t Resist A Tune, Which Is Why Good Advertising Jingles Work For Decades
“Although we can regularly screen out the thoughts, sounds, images, memories, opinions and ideas of others as foreign and potentially noxious, it ain’t the same with music.”
What Will Happen To The Chicago Tribune And L.A. Times As Tribune Publishing Rejects Gannett’s Offer?
“Like many American newspapers, the Times has struggled with continual budget and staffing cuts in recent years, including several changes of publisher and a buyout last November that resulted in the departure of dozens of senior reporters and editors. Daily circulation, which topped 1 million a quarter-century ago, is now barely half that.”
How To Acknowledge Your Manuscript Will Never Be A Novel – And Move On
“That’s not to say that it hasn’t been fun. We got together in the summer of 2012. You were a short story, a few thousand glorious words, but I wanted you to be more. Every fiction writer thinks they need to be in a long-term relationship.”
When The Most Important Musical Form Of The 20th Century Is Distilled To One Musician, Who Will It Be?
“In any reasonable world, the Beatles are the answer to the question ‘Who will be the Sousa of rock?’ But our world is not reasonable. And the way this question will be asked tomorrow is (probably) not the same way we would ask it today.”
Inside The Tate Modern Addition For The First Time
“In a moment of exquisite justice, you can peer straight into the living rooms of Neo Bankside from the top of the Switch House – and observe the bleak still lifes of mail-order luxury, as sterile as a stack of Damien Hirst’s tanks. Having accidentally spawned this exclusive enclave, it’s as if the Tate has now co-opted it as a site-specific installation.”
Watching Game Of Thrones Confirmed A Belief That Americans Are Violent Psychopaths
“‘Jem, this is a bad movie,’ she said, shaking her head. ‘You shouldn’t watch. When we see people don’t have heart, our heart will harden too. We always get inferenced by the thing we see.'”
The Wascally Wabbit That Inspired A Generation Of Opera Singers
“Those of us who didn’t freak at the sight of a rabbit in a winged helmet sliding off of the back of a fat horse—we went into opera.”
This Dancer Is Way Over The ‘Only One Body Size Is Good’ Idea For Ballet
“The 30-year-old Texan native known as ‘Frostine Shake’ blows most ballet stereotypes out the water. Shake might be a classically trained ballerina but she defies all traditional expectations.”