“Back when he recorded his first tracks, studio musicians weren’t appreciated or even known by name outside the record industry. But Purdie was one of the foremost sidemen to advocate for his own visibility, and few others had his charisma or cockiness. Everywhere he goes, Purdie is called upon to play his defining creation, the Purdie Shuffle, a notoriously complex four-limb beat that he invented (and quickly named after himself) in his salad days.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Things We Learned At (And From) Sundance
Nick Jonas is a decent actor, Netflix & Amazon are big players, next year’s Oscars probably won’t be so white and much more.
We Want To Believe We’re ‘Natural,’ But All Humans Eat Seriously Artificial Food Every Day
“Canned and frozen fruits and vegetables in winter eliminated the scurvy that had plagued the northern United States. Iodized salt did away with the goiter belt of the Midwest. More nutritious, safer food contributed to a taller population that lived longer. Life expectancy increased from under 50 years in 1900 to around 75 at the end of the 20th century.”
SAG Awards Thumb Their Noses At The All-White Oscars, And Reward ‘Spotlight’ Too
“‘This is what happens when you have the SAG group — a group of very diverse people who understand the work that we all put in and that we all deserve the same opportunities,’ Queen Latifah told The Times backstage. ‘That’s about it. I feel very positive about this day.'”
Opera: Not Snobby, Not Elitist, Not Expensive (Says Comedian)
Chris Addison: “It seems mental to me. … People imagine it is all dickie bows. I have seen great stuff here; paid £6 and sat at the back. True, there are top price tickets I would never buy, but there are super-expensive seats at Arsenal too. You could come to four operas for the price of an Arsenal ticket and have two quid over for a lovely cup of coffee.”
Should Public Transit Pay Pacific Northwest Ballet School To Relocate?
“The Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Eastside school features studios framed in soaring glass and steel, ‘floating’ floors to absorb dancers’ leaps and pirouettes, expanses of mirrors, and barres to give even the youngest girls in leotards the surroundings of a professional ballerina. But the industrial warehouse building the ballet has so carefully transformed is directly in the path of Sound Transit’s East Link route through Bellevue.”
Banksy’s Newest Work: A Protest Of France, On The French Embassy In London
“The artwork, which depicts a young girl from the film and musical Les Misérables with tears in her eyes as CS gas billows towards her, appeared overnight on Saturday. In a first for the elusive graffiti artist, the artwork is interactive and includes a stencilled QR code beneath.”
Amazon Beats Movie Companies In Bidding War At Sundance
“Amazon will bring on a theatrical distributor and many suitors are circling. The move follows a trend this Sundance of streamers stepping up with huge offers and outbidding traditional theatrical distributors.”
Oxford Dictionaries Calls Women ‘Shrill’ And ‘Grating’ And ‘Rabid’ – And Will Now Review Its Examples
“The dictionary publisher, part of Oxford University Press, was taken to task by the Canadian anthropologist Michael Oman-Reagan, after he noticed that the word ‘rabid’, defined by the dictionary as ‘having or proceeding from an extreme or fanatical support of or belief in something’, used the example phrase ‘rabid feminist’. Oman-Reagan tweeted about it to the publisher, suggesting they change it.”
Why The Director Of ‘Selma’ Hates The Word ‘Diversity’
“‘There’s a belonging problem in Hollywood,’ Ms. DuVernay said, ‘Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.'”