The shortlist for this year’s edition of British architecture’s booby prize includes a “Vegas heads to Plymouth by way of New York” student housing complex, an “absolutely terrifying” redesign of a traffic gateway, and the “grotesque” rooftop extension added to a historic hotel.
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Supreme Court Of Philippines Upholds Artist’s Conviction For ‘Offending Religious Feelings’ – Then Gov’t Asks To Overturn It
“The pendulum keeps swinging for the case of the Filipino activist artist and organiser Carlos Celdran, who was convicted for ‘offending religious feelings’ for a 2010 protest in support of reproductive rights. A ruling on 1 August by the Philippines Supreme Court upheld a 2013 conviction … for violating Article 133 of the Revised Penal Code … But on 15 August Celdran received the backing of the Solicitor General Jose Calida, whose office petitioned the Supreme Court to reverse the conviction … and to declare Article 133 unconstitutional.”
How You Choreograph James Corden’s Street Broadway Productions In 45-Second Bites
“Once James [Corden] steps in, you want to laugh at everything, but what makes what we’re doing funny is that we take it very seriously. So I always have to tell the dancers: ‘You approach the crosswalk like this is Broadway. Like this is the best thing you’ve ever done in your life.’ And that’s what makes it so funny, because people that are driving by are like, Why is there a full-blown production in the street?“
Oops: Steep Drop In Attendance At London’s National Portrait Was Counting Error
An automatic device was found to undercount visitors, so it failed the test. Inexplicably, Ipsos incorrectly informed the gallery that the equipment had “passed” the test. So, for more than a year, the faulty equipment remained in use and incorrect data was supplied to the government. A recent investigation into why the test was categorised as a pass rather than a failure found that “human error” within Ipsos was to blame.
A Philosopher’s Rallying Cry For The Greatness Of Traditional Classical Music
He pursues height and depth at the expense of breadth and fine-grained texture, qualities which can only be found if one lowers one’s gaze, and deigns to look at music’s everyday reality, amid the muddle of ordinary human life—and beyond the west, to music in the wider world. That stance is more and more the stance of musicology nowadays, but Roger Scruton wants nothing to do with it.
John Coltrane Said All There Was To Say On The Sax. After That?
In March 1963, three weeks after the Beatles have recorded their first album, an acoustic quartet wrestles with harmonies and values that Elvis and Chuck Berry have already consigned to the past. As this recording approaches the summit of late style, it becomes the apogee of modernism’s last style. For it is a sad fact of musical history that after Coltrane, there was nothing left to say on the saxophone. But Kenny G said it anyway.
Van Gogh’s Nightmare In A French Asylum Revealed
The artist was judged by his brother and friends to be unfit to live alone after he mutilated himself, cutting off his ear and presenting it, wrapped in paper, to a young woman in a local brothel, following the collapse of a proposed artistic partnership with Paul Gauguin.
Change The World? These People Are Dangerous!
At first, you think: Rich people making a difference — so generous! Until you consider that America might not be in the fix it’s in had we not fallen for the kind of change these winners have been selling: fake change.
Props To The Lexicographers: How Aretha Franklin Got A Citation In the OED
Ben Zimmer recounts how he traced the origin of the slang word “props” to Aretha’s version of the hit “Respect” (not Otis Redding’s original) – and convinced the gatekeepers of The Oxford English Dictionary to give the Queen of Soul her due.
Almost A Million People Paid $10 To Watch Two YouTube Stars Hit Each Other. But Twitch Knocked Out YouTube
At its peak, more than 860,000 people paid $10 to watch Logan Paul and KSI’s months-in-the-making fight, but that was nothing. A number of illegal streams on Twitch gathered more than 1.2 million viewers. These were people interested in watching the YouTubers pummel each other, but didn’t want to spend $10 to do so. In the realm of streaming and YouTube, a few hundred thousand people may not seem like a big deal, but at $10 a person, that works out to $4 million.