“The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on Wednesday on “targeting Web sites dedicated to stealing American intellectual property,” and the White House has pledged to propose a new law to address rampant piracy within the year. But writers and other creative workers should still be worried.”
Tag: 02.14.11
Egyptian Protesters Pursue Antiquities Chief
“‘Get out,’ a crowd of 150 archaeology graduates chanted outside the office of Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass, who threw in his lot with the old order when he accepted a Cabinet post in the last weeks of Hosni Mubarak’s rule.”
The Alchemy of Photographer Milton Rogovin
“His dogged black-and-white documentation of those he called ‘the forgotten ones’ – mine workers, steel workers, Native Americans, the town and country poor of all races, especially black – could be dismissed by art-world formalists as politically, but not artistically, important. … [But] his whole enterprise [was] a humanist slap to the faces of those who hide behind art to ignore the world.”
Salon’s First Good Sex Writing Award – And the Winner Is …
The winner is a passage from James Haynes’s novel Next: “The porch railing creaks under their weight, and even drunk and excited Kevin wonders about the farmhouse’s craftsmanship and hopes the Philosopher’s Daughter’s father is as good a handyman as he is a philosopher. …”
What Makes for Good Sex Writing, Anyway?
The four judges for Salon’s new Good Sex Award for fiction “talk about their decisions, their dilemmas and the delicate art of writing about sex.”
Will Radiohead’s New Album Be A New Business Model For The Music Industry?
“Radiohead’s The King of Limbs, which breaks with the honesty-box tactic of In Rainbows, may provide clues as to how the industry could find salvation in a time of flagging sales.”
Jazz Pianist GeorgeShearing, 91
The George Shearing Quintet’s first big hit was “September in the Rain,” in 1949. He wrote “Lullaby of Birdland” in 1952, naming it for the famous New York jazz club.
Orlando Ballet Tests “Sex Sells”
A promotional brochure highlights “hotter dancing” on its cover and proclaims, “We’re bringing sexy back.” The poster for the modern “Battle of the Sexes” program, which opens tonight, goes one step further: Sexy is back, it shouts in all capital letters.
Traffic Jam For Broadway Theatres
“New Yorkers are instant-gratification junkies. They don’t like to wait when something is hot. But unless you’ve got a walletful of cash to give a scalper or want to stand on the cancellation line, you’re going to have to.”
Grammys Point Up Generational Divide In Music Industry
“This year’s Grammy Awards ceremony, telecast from Staples Center Sunday night, was a generational takeover and an airing of the widening gap between the traditional corporate music industry and the dynamic, diverse culture that’s redefining the very nature of popular music right now.”