Category: issues

“Hong Kong has always looked down on Guangzhou as its poor mainland cousin. But while the affluent former British colony has stalled for years over plans for a massive cultural district, Guangzhou has gone ahead and built one.”

Rena De Sisto of Bank of America Merrill Lynch: “This need not be a Faustian bargain, but a mutually beneficial one. Treat your funders like valued clients and, like all satisfied clients, they will become more loyal.”

“The show, a tribute to Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim, lasted about an hour and lacked an encore. After fielding complaints all day Monday, Ravinia responded by offering attendees a two-for-the-price-of-one ticket deal to an upcoming show.”

“It seems short-sighted to me for the government to do such damage to the British cultural sector, which has made such a valuable contribution to the perception of Britain abroad.”

“A pilot study at a small private high school in Providence, R.I., has confirmed the well-documented benefits of a half-hour delay in the school start time for teens, an easy fix for the chronic and rampantly ignored sleepiness of adolescents.”

“Of course it should be a membership organisation of some description. Of course membership should, in some way, be tied to taking part in the Fringe. Of course there should be a board and of course they should in some way be related to the membership.”

“The volume of data on the world’s mobile networks is doubling each year, according to Cisco Systems, the U.S. maker of routers and networking equipment. By 2014, it estimates, the monthly data flow will increase about sixteenfold, to 3.6 billion gigabytes from 220.1 million.”

“It is a disconnect that is growing in the Internet age as concepts of intellectual property, copyright and originality are under assault in the unbridled exchange of online information, say educators who study plagiarism.”

“ACE published the results of its consultation on a 10-year strategic framework for the sector – Achieving Great Art for Everyone – and many respondents said that excellence should be the primary reason for the arts council awarding financial support.”

“When you take away the self-congratulatory speechifying and a slightly delayed curtain, that made for about 65 minutes of show. There were no encores — just some embarrassed bows from the performers and awkward glances from the members of the CSO who clearly understood they’d just upset the people at the back.”