The bureau found Ticketmaster’s advertised prices did not reflect the true cost to the consumer as the online ticket service added mandatory fees later in the purchasing process that often added more than 20 per cent to the cost and in some cases over 65 per cent. – CBC
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Designing For How People Experience Buildings Rather Than How Buildings Look
That idea of beginning with human experience rather than beauty, has applications beyond the deaf and blind communities. It’s a design philosophy that can be applied to tackling problems of sustainability as climate change worsens, and of an aging population, and of increasing urbanization. – The Atlantic
Why Have Scholars Retreated From The Public Stage?
The best of what the university has to offer lies less in its specific power to advance knowledge or solve problems in any of its many fields than in its more general, more crucial ability to be a model and a support for generous thinking as a way of being in and with the world.” We have turned inward exactly when we needed to turn outward. – The Baffler
Theatre On The Go: Made For Your Car
This is a theatre column, after all. But I really picked up three actors who directed me around streets previously unknown to me in downtown Markham and its environs, and who each made me believe in ten short minutes that their situations were really happening. – Toronto Star
How I Found A Studio For Merce Cunningham In Postwar Paris
Marianne Preger-Simon recounts how she saw the great choreographer perform in the French capital in 1949, and how she contrived to meet him — ultimately to become his first student and then a charter member of his dance company. – Literary Hub
Propwatch: the lighter in ‘Venice Preserved’
In the opening scene of the Restoration tragedy Venice Preserved at the RSC, a rebel recruits a desperate friend to the cause. His indignation is scorching hot, so of course he pulls out a lighter, itching to burn the rotten state to the ground. – David Jays
UK Education Secretary Pushes Back: “We’re Not Cutting Arts Education”
Damien Hinds pushed back on references to the Fabian Society’s Primary Colours report, which was published earlier this year and concluded there had been a “dramatic” decline in arts education. – The Stage
At Historic House Museums In The South, A New Focus On The Lives Of The Enslaved
“In cities including Savannah and Charleston, … for years, tours of historic homes would focus on their architecture and fine furniture, but not on how the wealth so clearly displayed depended on enslaved labor. … Now that’s changing.” – The New York Times
Why Lists Of “Best” Or “Most Livable” Cities Are A Dumb Exercise
By using data as a driver, such rankings present themselves as dispassionate and impartial, as if they are simply removing the lid on a machine to reveal objectively how the engine beneath is functioning. They nonetheless represent a worldview taken from a highly specific angle, one that is full of scarcely acknowledged assumptions about who the imaginary citizen they address is. – CityLab
When Mexico Became The World’s Hotbed Of Surrealism
It wasn’t just Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. In the 1930s and ’40s, André Breton, Leonora Carrington, José and Kati Horna, Gordon Onslow-Ford, Wolfgang Paalen, and others flocked to Mexico City. As Kahlo once put it, “I never knew I was a Surrealist until André Breton came to Mexico and told me I was one.” – Artsy