“In a range of ways, a city that was deeply privatized in the postwar years, that was organized largely around the single-family house and the car and the freeway, is trying to rediscover and reanimate its public realm.”
Category: issues
Canadian School Boy Appears To Have Discovered Lost Ancient Mayan City
“Studying 22 different constellations, William found that they matched the location of 117 Mayan cities scattered throughout Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. When he applied his theory to a 23rd constellation, he found that two of the stars already had cities linked to them but that the third star was unmatched.”
A Lost Mayan City Discovered By Teen? Probably Not
“The square in the CSA’s satellite images is probably an abandoned field, and another spot may be a small dry lake or clearing in the jungle, says archaeologist Ivan Šprajc. Moreover, experts are skeptical of the claim that the Maya built their cities according to constellations. They did indeed have constellations, but there is no complete canonical list of them, so the theory is hard to test.”
Eviction Of Small Detroit Arts Center Suggests City’s Rising Fortunes
“The plight of the Carr Center — the public face of the 25-year-old Arts League of Michigan — is a multilayered story whose meaning shifts depending on perspective. From one angle it looks like a tale of gentrification: A small cultural organization that moved into the neighborhood when property values were low can no longer afford to stay amid escalating prices in a downtown on the make. From a more global perch, the longstanding financial challenges facing the Carr Center, including annual deficits of about $200,000 on an $800,000 budget, are consistent with the troubles often affecting black and Latino nonprofit arts groups nationwide.”
Five Young Egyptians Arrested For Facebook Videos Making Fun Of President
The young men, all between 19 and 21 and members of a satirical group called Awlad al-Shawarea (“Children of the Streets”), “have been accused of ‘inciting anti-government protests’ and ‘insulting state institutions.'”
A First Look At Washington DC’s New National African American Museum
“Museum officials on Tuesday offered a sneak peek at the 400,000-square-foot museum, the 19th of the Smithsonian Institution, that’s next to the Washington Monument. President Obama is expected to cut the ribbon on the dramatic space, which features layers of galleries focused on slavery, segregation and the civil rights movement as well as music, entertainment, sports and politics.”
Paris Wants To Make The Seine Swimmable By 2024
The plan was announced as part of Paris’s bid for the 2024 Olympics, and there’s even talk of staging the triathlon’s swimming event in the river. But cleaning up the Seine will be complicated and expensive, and it’s not certain that the city could pull it off.
China Made Korea Cancel Our Shows There, Says Falun Gong-Linked Dance-Theater Company
“Consulate officials accused Shen Yun of ‘propaganda’ that uses a message of compassion and peace to disguise ‘the truth and to realize their evil purpose of exerting mind control over them’.”
A Need For Defining Canadian Content (And Why It Matters)
“Despite the nationalist sentiment that originally drove them, Canadian cultural regulations have wisely tended to focus on the citizenship of the creators rather than recognizable settings or prescribed themes. The best definition of Canadian content remains a tautology: It’s content created by Canadians.”
Diversity? Here’s Where It gets Defensive…
Mr. Butera told us that his board was all white and that he couldn’t diversify his board because they aren’t appointed but, rather, they are elected by the membership. Further, his membership isn’t diverse because, “Blacks and Latinos lack the keyboard skills needed for this field.” He also intimated that music theory is too difficult for them as an area of study. It seems that music education is on an order of magnitude of difficulty akin to medicine or law. Yet there are thousands and thousands of black and Latino doctors and lawyers.