Six months earlier, faced with the reality of closing Patrick’s Cabaret within the year, I had a great deal of difficulty finding resources to help me do it well. Even discussing a closure is taboo, so there is little documentation of best practices. This is the account of an organization at the end of its lifecycle, and how we embraced its final act and staged a beautiful end to its story.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: Our Personal Data Is Being Weaponized Against Us
Referring to the misuse of “deeply personal” data, he said it was being “weaponised against us with military efficiency. We shouldn’t sugar-coat the consequences,” he added. “This is surveillance.” The strongly-worded speech presented a striking defence of user privacy rights from a tech firm’s chief executive.
Orange County Arts Center Remakes Plaza Open To Community. One Year Later: Is It Working?
The Julianne and George Argyros Plaza opened on Oct. 28, 2017, with 11 hours of pomp, partying, speeches, music and a dance company that defied gravity on a wall high above the crowd. Helped in part by a gift from the Argyros family, the Segerstrom Center’s rather drab and empty public plaza was transformed into an attractive and inviting outdoor space with an imposing stage, plenty of seating, a dramatic fountain and many other amenities, all planned to send a message: “linger here for a while.”
Study: Almost One-Third Of UK High School Students Don’t Know Who Shakespeare Was
Researchers gave 1,000 pupils a list of 13 names, including Alesha Dixon and Neville Chamberlain, and asked which were playwrights. Seven out of ten managed to pick William Shakespeare from the list.
Cleveland Orchestra Fires Concertmaster, One Other Musician After Harassment Investigation
“The investigators found that Mr. Preucil and Mr. La Rosa engaged in sexual misconduct and sexually harassing behavior with multiple female students and colleagues over a period of years while employed by the Orchestra,” the orchestra’s statement read.
Masked Dancers Of Nepal Celebrate End Of Monsoon
“Indra Jatra, an eight-day festival celebrated mostly by the Newar community, the native residents of Kathmandu, is also known as the festival of deities and demons. It especially honors Indra, the Hindu god of rain, to mark the end of the monsoon. The masks and dances can be fearsome, entertaining and awe-inspiring, depending on the performers’ movements.”
American musical theater mythology: What does it say? What can it say? How much do we care?
A look at two works, now playing in New York, set in the much-mythologized Old West: Puccini’s Girl of the Golden West at the Met and a revisionist Oklahoma! at St. Ann’s Warehouse.
Omaha’s Joslyn Museum Plans Ambitious Major Expansion
Museum officials unveiled the architecture firm handpicked to design that new building — the same firm that designed the Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion, reimagined an ancient Egyptian library and expanded the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It’s a big-time move, a big-money move, a big-city move.
David Lynch Is Creating A Virtual Reality Version Of ‘Twin Peaks’
“Last weekend in downtown Los Angeles, [Lynch and] Showtime previewed [the] first Twin Peaks VR experience, which will be available for fans to buy on Steam for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift sometime in 2019. … However, the full experience will eventually be a one-hour production created by Showtime and Collider, with guidance from Lynch himself.”
YouTube Went Down For An Hour And… Traffic To News Sites Increased 20 Percent
A one-hour YouTube outage on October 16 at around 9 p.m. ET resulted in a 20 percent net increase in traffic to client publishers’ sites, Chartbeat found.