“Online harassment has become a depressingly common workplace hazard for people of color in the public eye. The incident illuminates some strange similarities between the bands of internet trolls stalking the web and the legions of online fans seeking to stir up some drama.”
Category: AUDIENCE
Why The Music Industry Is Going To War Against Internet Platforms
“Rampant piracy is the narrative being pushed by the music industry in its letter to Congress, but the truth is more complicated. Read between the lines of the letter, and a larger, more lucrative and familiar problem appears: The royalties that an artist or songwriter gets each time a stream of their song is played are declining.”
Hulu Didn’t Fail To Make Free Online TV Work, It Succeeded In Killing It
Will Oremus: “After eight years, Hulu is turning off its free TV service. Viewers will now be required to sign up or log in to its subscription service, Hulu Plus … The reason, I suspect, is not that the service failed to achieve Hulu’s goals, but that it succeeded. And by Hulu’s goals, I mean the goals of its corporate owners: Disney-ABC, NBC Universal, Fox, and now Time Warner.”
Joining Slow Food And Slow TV, We Now Have Slow Games For Our Phones
“Slow games are less ubiquitous and straightforwardly tantalizing than traditional mobile games. They often seem to lack any point at all. Instead, they invite players to engage in simpler virtual pleasures – taking a stroll, watering plants, feeding stray cats.”
The Chinese City With A Hundred-Year History Of Western Classical Music, Brought By Russian Jews
“The arts – and especially classical music – flourished here throughout the early 20th century. Nicknamed the St. Petersburg of the East, Harbin was home to a thriving Jewish community that helped build a rich cultural scene, including China’s first symphony orchestra, [founded in 1908 and] made up of mostly Russian musicians.”
Dances With Cows: High (Agri-)Culture In Vermont
“A Vermont ballet group brings whimsical performances outside to farms around the state. The Farm to Ballet Project raises money for agriculture while widening the audience for classical ballet.” (video)
Is Putting Shakespeare Into Modern English Really A Good Idea?
Linguist John McWhorter and Rutgers professor Jack Lynch, author of Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard, discuss the ‘sacrilege” issue. (podcast)
‘La Bohème’ At Attica State Prison
“One man perches literally on the edge of his seat, listening with his whole body; his chest seems to swell with the singers’ every breath. Afterward, I’m not surprised when he says that, before today, ‘I didn’t know that Latinos do opera,’ but ‘for a brief fifteen minutes, I was up there, I was singing.'”
Alberta Ballet, Working Its Way Out Of Deficit, Asks Each Supporter In The Province For $50
“Alberta Ballet will be asking supporters across the province to each donate $50 to the organization over the next seven months to help weather financial hardships the company has suffered over the last few years. It’s part of a $1-million fundraising campaign launched on its 50th anniversary to help put the organization, the second-largest ballet company in Canada, on steadier ground financially after revenue fell drastically in its 2013-2014 season.”
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Makes All Regular Concerts Free For Students
“The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, already a national leader in offering affordable concerts, said Tuesday it is offering free tickets to school and college students to unlimited concerts during the 2016-17 season. Students can go online now and order tickets a week before single tickets go on sale to the general public.”