“In addition to its traditional season subscriptions and individual ticket sales, ACT launched a membership program. For $25 a month, members can see anything at ACT, as often as they like.”
Tag: 02.10.10
Public Lectures Become Hot Tickets In Britain
Charlotte Higgins: “I’m not sure that five years ago one could have accurately predicted how popular the public lecture would become. You’d think: I gave up listening to people droning on at the front of the room when I left university.” Yet the talks are selling out all over, and in London, there’s even a School of Life which offers “sermons.”
Kirkus Reviews Saved – By NBA Mogul
“Herb Simon, the owner of the Indiana Pacers of the N.B.A., and chairman emeritus of the shopping mall developer Simon Property Group, has bought the venerable journal of prepublication book reviews from the Nielsen Company, which announced in December it was closing the magazine.”
Martin Luther King Drama Headed To Broadway
“The Mountaintop, a new two-character play that imagines a surprising turn of events for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the night before his assassination, is aiming for Broadway in the fall … The play, by Katori Hall, received a critically praised production in London last summer.”
Palestinians Try To Block Israel’s Museum Of Tolerance (And They May Have A Point)
“A group of Palestinians descended from 15 of Jerusalem’s oldest Arab families lodged a protest with the UN today in a fresh effort to prevent the construction of a ‘Museum of Tolerance’ on the site of an ancient Muslim cemetery.”
Do Schools Still Need Libraries?
“Keeping traditional school libraries up to date is costly, with the constant need to acquire new books and to find space to store them. Yet for all that trouble, students roam the stacks less and less because they find it so much more efficient to work online.” A “Room for Debate” roundtable asks, “What are the educational consequences of having students read less on the printed page and more on the Web?”
1,500-Year-Old Street Uncovered In Jerusalem
“Archaeologists said on Wednesday they have found a 1,500-year-old Jerusalem road that was once a bustling thoroughfare used by throngs of Christian pilgrims and which is depicted on a famed mosaic map of the Holy Land.”
Teabaggers Protest Captain America Comic
Marvel Comics has “said it would amend a recent issue of [the] comic-book series after it upset members of the Tea Party movement.” In that issue, “the hero and his ally the Falcon find themselves at a rally where protesters hold signs that read ‘Tea Bag the Libs Before They Tea Bag You!’ and ‘Stop the Socialists!'”
In Dissent, Vancouver Poet Laureate Won’t Read At Games
Among his complaints: “a neglect of literary events in the Cultural Olympiad; deep cuts to arts funding in B.C.; [a] ‘muzzle clause'” for Cultural Olympiad artists; “the ‘grilling’ of U.S. journalist Amy Goodman at the Canadian border; and a Vancouver Public Library memo instructing staff to favour Olympic sponsors.”
Cut Off From Cuban Music, Americans Are Missing Out
“Cuban composers of both this century and the last tend to blur the boundaries of ‘classical’ and ‘popular’ and to assert Cuban identity through various traditional vocabularies. This melding and merging of genres is a theme, and a process that keeps Cuban musical life of all kinds infused with energy.” Not that Americans would know firsthand.