“Something is fundamentally broken in the music market, so that artists and the labels that invest in them no longer benefit fairly from growing demand.”
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Silicon Valley Hates Music, Or At Least Hates Paying Musicians And Producers
“New services and platforms are great for consumers, but our weak laws have allowed them to siphon revenue away from the underlying music, leaving songwriters, performers and the whole industry choking on their dust.”
What Makes Bad Writing So Darn Bad?
“It’s possible that you’ve never had to read 80,000 words of bad writing. The friend of a friend’s novel. I have. On numerous occasions. If you ask around, I’m sure you’ll be able to find a really bad novel easily enough. I mean a novel by someone who has spent isolated years writing a book they are convinced is a great work of literature. And when you’re reading it you’ll know it’s bad, and you’ll know what bad truly is.”
A Requiem For A Dancer Who Died Too Young Returns To The Stage
“Just before he turned 19, he tested positive for HIV, and his dance, ‘Lacrymosa,’ became a reaction to the 1980s AIDS crisis. Many dancers and artists around Stierle were dying from the disease, and as he worked on the ballet, he knew he would become sick too.”
You Know Portland People Like Tattoos, But Check Out These Temporary Tattoo Artists Of Social Change
“Tattoos can heal people and offer a release, both mentally and physically, for pain and processing for whatever ails ya. They can be very healing.”
Itzhak Perlman Cancels A North Carolina Appearance Because Of The State’s New Bigotry Laws
“It is discriminatory — and it’s not just about bathrooms. It’s about dignity, like [U.S. Attorney General] Loretta Lynch said. I’ve been an advocate of equality for the disabled, and this is just another situation in which this is the subject. We are dealing with the equality and dignity of citizens.”
People Have Been Working On This Latin Dictionary For 122 Years, And They’re Up To The Letter M
“Right now, Ottink is focused on the article for the word res, which roughly translates to ‘thing.’ Just like ‘thing’ in English, it is a very common word in Latin. And here’s the thing — its meaning hard to pin down, because it appears in all kind of idioms. Ottink did not volunteer for this word. ‘No one volunteers for res,’ she says, a little ruefully. Still, she’s been plugging away at it, on and off, since 2009.”
Innovative, Influential Biographer Of Mozart And Wagner Dies At 90
Robert W. Gutman’s “Wagner book, which placed its subject in the larger intellectual context of his times, infuriated idolaters, for whom the master could do no wrong.”
Ai Weiwei, Who Has Been Spending Time With Refugees, Says The EU’s Stance Is Immoral
“Speaking in Athens, where the works are going on public display for the first time from Friday, Ai said that although he had seen and experienced extreme and violent conditions in China, he ‘could never have imagined conditions like this’.”
When You Learn A New Language And Country, What Happens To Your Old Words?
“Going home for holidays I noticed that buzzwords had come and perhaps already gone—nerd, dink—without my ever using them. Editors were forever picking up Italianisms in my writing. Setting a new story in England I began to feel vulnerable. Often Italian expressions came to mind when what I needed was English. Even Italian situations. Often English expressions came to mind that quite likely no one was using any more.”