“The Bombay high court dismissed a public interest litigation seeking action against bogus astrologers, tantriks, … and the like.” The judges’ decision states that “the Supreme Court has already considered the issue and ruled that astrology is a science.”
Tag: 02.03.11
Missoula Children’s Theatre Slammed For Sarah Palin Lyric
At the center of the controversy was a single couplet, inserted by director Curt Olds into a song sung by the character Ko-Ko, a pacifist executioner. Listing off those people whom he intends to behead, the singer in the Missoula production noted, “that crazy Sarah Palin needs a psychoanalyst / She never would be missed, no she never would be missed.”
The Best Seats For Dance (Maybe Not Where You Think)
Critics at the New York Times sample seats high up in the city’s four major dance venues.
China Pulls Its Artifacts From Philadelphia ‘Silk Road’ Exhibition
The ‘Secrets of the Silk Road’ exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology – one of only three U.S. venues for the highly anticipated show, and the only one on the East Coast – “has been modified, and will open without artifacts and mummies from China, at the request of Chinese officials.”
Riccardo Muti Collapses During Chicago Symphony Rehearsal
“Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti is hospitalized but in no immediate danger … after he fainted during a rehearsal with the orchestra early Thursday afternoon.”
More Woe for Detroit Symphony: Bank Calls In $54M Loan
“The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has a bigger problem than the 18-week-old strike … The orchestra’s lenders, in an ominous turn, repaid the orchestra’s bondholders on Dec. 1 and called a $54 million loan the symphony cannot pay.”
Maria Schneider, Star of Last Tango in Paris, Dead at 58
“Although Schneider would go on to appear in more than a dozen more films, most notably Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger (1975), and had a few years in the 1970s marked by drug addiction, overdoses and a suicide attempt, she still seemed to retain the innocent face and artless persona” of her character in Tango.
Is Rocco Landesman Right to Wonder If There’s Too Much Theater in the U.S.?
Charles Isherwood: “[An] ongoing conversation about the size and structure of the not-for-profit theater world is definitely a necessity at a time when the collapsed economy has left every organization scrambling for grant moneys and private funding” and conservatives in Congress are demanding elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Welsh Assembly Wants Local Arts Funding Written Into Law
“All local authorities in Wales should have a legal responsibility to support arts and culture, according to a report published today by the National Assembly for Wales.”
UK Gives Final OK to Getty’s Purchase of J.M.W. Turner Canvas
“An agent for the Getty picked up the export license that seals the [$44.9 million] deal for Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino from the British culture ministry at the opening of business Thursday … With that, the museum cleared a hurdle it had tripped over in failed attempts to complete past high-profile purchases from Great Britain.”