“Two of the region’s major arts organizations, the Virginia Opera and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, owe the city of Norfolk a combined $380,000 for unpaid rent and event fees.”
Tag: 02.20.16
What We Can Learn From Comparing Translations Of The Bible
“When a book is viewed by so many as holy, and when millions of people consider it the word of God, the stakes are much higher. Acknowledging that there is a translation issue, and that an alternative reading is possible, or that you may be reading a mistranslation, means the reader has to think deeply about what he or she actually believes.”
Harrowing Documentary About Refugee Crisis Wins At Berlin Film Festival
“It’s a daring hybrid of captured footage and deliberate storytelling that allows us to consider what documentary can do. It is urgent, imaginative and necessary filmmaking.”
The Translator Who Is Often Accused Of Being The (Mysterious) Author
“Just in case anyone was wondering if Goldstein is Ferrante, she’d like to clear that up right away: ‘No, I am not. I can say that without equivocation,’ she tells NPR’s Linda Wertheimer. ‘And I can also say I don’t know who she is.'”
The Writer Star Of Hamilton Uses His Social Media Powers To Help A Damaged Bookshop
“According to a manager at [Manhattan’s] Drama Book Shop, online sales have spiked thanks to Manuel’s efforts. ‘After having an inundation through water, we had an inundation on Internet through orders.'”
Turns Out LACMA Isn’t The Only Museum To Be Given A House
Still, it’s pretty rare to see “an encyclopedic museum of art acquiring a piece of architecture as an object for its permanent collection.”
Tech Is Great! And Also, We Have No Idea How To Just Sit With Ourselves Anymore
“To say I welcomed most of these diversions while I was laid up is an understatement. I stayed tuned in to developments at work by hanging out in Slack. I kept up with news on Twitter. I responded to get well wishes on Facebook Messenger. I sent emojis to friends in group texts.”
Which Black Roles Do The Oscars Reward?
“Black artists have been nominated for best actress or actor on 30 occasions, for work spanning 28 films. Over the last few weeks, I watched all of them. These movies have a lot in common, not least that most were directed by white men.”
After He Died, This Writer Was Kept In The Closet By His Controlling Family
“Even though they worked hard at sanitising the letters, the family still worried that too much had been revealed. A year after the edition appeared Alice wrote to her son Harry: ‘People are putting a vile interpretation on his silly letters to young men. Poor dear Uncle Henry.'” Henry James, that is.
The Day In 1987 When A Hollywood Movie Screened For The President And Changed U.S. Security Forever
“It’s fitting that the scenario of ‘WarGames’ — which aroused Reagan’s curiosity and led to the first national policy on reducing the vulnerability of computers — owed a crucial debt to the man who’d first warned that they were vulnerable.”