Yikes: “The educational loophole has left Canada with the reputation of being lax on copyright; publishers as venerable as Oxford University Press have simply stopped publishing Canadian schoolbooks because they view this market as too risky.”
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This Is What Happens When Britain Invades Broadway
Real glassware in the theatre bar, for one thing. And the patrons like it. “‘It shows class,’ said Billy-Grace Ward of Manhattan, who was drinking Champagne before a performance of 1984. ‘It’s not a disposable experience.'”
Top Posts From AJBlogs For The Weekend Of 07.23.17
Is The Stirling Prize For Architecture The Worst Prize Ever?
Rowan Moore is not happy with it. The Stirling “has a magnificent record of not recognising the projects that define their time, of favouring everyone’s second choice and nobody’s first choice, with the result that you could write a convincing history of modern British architecture based on the projects that haven’t won.” And this year? It missed again.
For A Better Life, Turn Off All Of Your Push Notifications
Why? Because you’ll be happier. Way, way happier. Push notifications are for brands, not for users: “Allowing an app to send you push notifications is like allowing a store clerk to grab you by the ear and drag you into their store. You’re letting someone insert a commercial into your life anytime they want. Time to turn it off.”
Does ‘The Big Sick’ Throw South Asian Women Under The Bus?
The problem isn’t necessarily The Big Sick or Master of None but that South Asian women don’t have enough representation on screens big or small. “The word ‘erasure’ comes up frequently in the criticism, and it’s neither new nor unfounded.”
The Modern-Day Palaces (Or Are They Cathedrals?) Of The Tech Giants
The tech giants “have, plainly, colossal resources, with the ability to do almost anything they like. They can have new materials invented, or make old ones perform as never before. They can build the biggest and most expensive workplaces yet seen. They can change cities. They have already redefined ‘architecture’ in the sense that the word can now refer to the structures of software and hardware. Now the old-fashioned version of architecture finds itself an adjunct of the new sort. “
An Immense Screw-Up Over A New Building May Kill This Drama School In England
One of the current students; “It’s sad to see such a unique, outstanding, renowned college be let down by a bunch of suits who didn’t make their mind up over the future of it, and there’s at least a hundred of us that have been left with the mess they patched together for us.”
Sure, Netflix Does Original Shows And Reboots – But Its New Secret Weapon Is Genre Movies
Directors, showrunners, and cast members were at San Diego Comic-Con. “To hear them say it, Netflix could do no wrong. ‘I was able to do my shit here,’ Ayers said. ‘I was able to tell my fucking story. I was able to do my thing.'”
Opera In Europe Is Not Exactly Content With The Way The World Is Working
“Aix’s outgoing general director, Bernard Foccroulle, described his vision as one in which opera has ‘a vivid and creative relationship to the past, with a focus that is of our time.’ The model should be one of ‘participation, not consumerism.'”