“In reality, a bookstore is a really unique kind of space where people from different walks of life can cross paths. I mean, it’s a very sort of democratic kind of product, and it’s kind of a space where people can come in and start to have conversations. And that’s the kind of space we want to be.”
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“Hamilton” Tries New Plan To Fight Bots, Scalpers
“This is a new effort to put tickets into the hands of theatergoers at regular prices,” said Jeffrey Seller, the lead producer of “Hamilton.” “We’ll always be fighting the resellers because their incentive to keep trying is so powerful. Are we making progress? Yes. But is it foolproof? Not at all.”
Canadians Are Still Ditching Cable TV – Only In Smaller Numbers
Canada’s biggest TV providers lost almost a quarter fewer customers in the first half of 2017 as they did the same time last year, a new report shows.
Museums In Talks To Return Benin Bronzes To Africa
The British Museum will take part in a European summit to discuss the return of art seized from the Benin kingdom, now part of southern Nigeria, by a British punitive expedition in 1897 as “reparations” after it defied the British empire by imposing customs duties.
Karaoke, And The Technology That Makes It Possible: A History
The phenomenon dates all the way back to the 1970s and 8-track tape players, and initially people did it at home as well as at bars.
How The California Symphony Blew Up Its Business Model And Remade Its Audience
To give away the end of this story, over the last three years, after a calculated change in approach to audience development strategy, the California Symphony has seen profoundly different results from the national trends for orchestras
We May Be On The Verge Of Having Real Sex Robots – And That Could Be Fantastic Or, Well, Problematic
“There are a lot of sweeping statements about the idea that having robots available could mitigate human trafficking, or exploitation of children by pedophiles. … But how do you prove it? How are you going to run tests, which heads of child trafficking operations are we going to have fill in a questionnaire for us on whether or not use of a robot would help them?” Aimee van Wynsberghe, co-founder of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics, talks with Quartz.
Piano Teacher Daisy Sweeney, 97 – Credited With Teaching Oscar Peterson To Play
“What she tried to do was to look at the children around her and have them see the potential in themselves. She was always the one they all remembered because she took it beyond the piano bench, it was right into their lives, into their school, into their social (life).”
‘Imagine If Antonin Artaud, William S. Burroughs And David Lynch Decided To Open An Industrial Nightclub’
That’s what the lead singer says about David T. Little’s next opera, Artaud in the Black Lodge (yes, it’s a Twin Peaks reference), whose first part is getting a concert premiere in Los Angeles. (By the way, David Lynch has, in fact, opened a nightclub.)
A Tale Of Two Languages
“To us French people, American English has this beautiful casualness about it that translates into the way we picture Americans themselves—a cliché of self-possession and comfortable-in-their-own-shoesness. A jealous French person would say “cockiness.” I for one like this ability Americans have to say big things very casually. I don’t know if it’s just me, but I find that some things in French just have too much weight, and that the American way is enviable. Example: “love” and “amour” are two very different words, even though any English-to-French dictionary will try to convince you they mean exactly the same thing.”