“I want to believe what the Internet tells me is mostly truth, and that my contacts aren’t Catfishing me, and that even cartoonists who make a professional mistake are more like Manti Te’o the Blindly Gullible and not Manti Te’o the Possible Hoaxer.”
Tag: 01.18.13
Cleveland Orchestra Builds A Bigger Audience – By Attracting Lots (And Lots) Of Kids
“So far this season, student attendance is up 55 percent and totals more than 18,000 young people. On an average subscription evening at Severance Hall this year, 16 percent of listeners are students.”
Robert Chew, The Wire‘s Prop Joe, Dead At 52
“Chew, who appeared in Homicide: Life on the Street and The Corner, as well as The Wire, also taught and mentored child and young adult actors at Baltimore’s Arena Players, a troupe he stayed with as his television career blossomed in David Simon’s HBO series.”
Protect The Kids! Brazil Seals Fifty Shades of Grey
“Judge Raphael Queiroz Campos issued the order Jan. 14 after he saw children in one of city’s bookstores looking through erotic books.”
‘Immigration Consultant’ Sees Jail Time
A Canadian man who bilked actors out of thousands of dollars as he pretended to get them arts visas to the U.S. has pled no contest to the counts against him.
Django Unchained Demonstrates the Death of the Western
“This is not how westerns were meant to be. Westerns were the mythological touchstone of American values. They were not to be played for laughs.”
The Book: Cultural Necessity Or Outdated Container Of Content?
“Do physical books really matter any more? Is there something special about them, or are they just a historical artifact whose time has come and gone?”
How To Get More People Into The Library – Pole Dancing?
“Pole dancing is a new way of drumming up support so I suppose if it works what the hell, we may as well give it a try. But books as tennis bats? I’m absolutely appalled.”
Robert Redford Talks About Sundance (And What It’s Turned Into)
“It’s become like a monster’s ball. I’m not displeased about it. But it gets more and more difficult. It’s wonderful on one hand, and it’s monstrous on the other hand.”
Riccardo Muti Drops Out Of Chicago Symphony’s Asia Tour
“Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti has been diagnosed with an internal hernia that will force him to bow out of the orchestra’s entire 10-day tour of the Far East, Jan. 25-Feb. 3.”