“The BBC has unveiled plans to make its content available on a download-to-own basis. … BBC director general Mark Thompson said Project Barcelona would allow members of the public to purchase a ‘digital copy of a programme to own and keep’. He added that there would be a ‘modest charge’ for doing so.”
Tag: 03.15.12
Man Asian Literary Prize To Shin’s Please Look After Mom
” South Korean author Kyung-sook Shin won Asia’s most prestigious prize for literature on Thursday for her novel about a family’s guilty soul-searching after the disappearance of their elderly mother. … Shin is the first woman to win the award and the first South Korean to be shortlisted.”
Translating Novels To The Theater – Is It Worth It?
Ben Brantley: “The return of Gatz to New York got me to thinking about other attempts to capture the essence of books on stage. … Mostly, interpreting written words into spoken dialogue is an act of translation in which something is invariably lost, though are there are sometimes compensations that only theater can provide.”
Searching For _why – And Finding A Semi-Secret World
All the reporter wanted to do was learn how to code. Then she discovered the subculture of Ruby programmers, and the man who tried to open that world up to the world – before he disappeared.
Is Religion Just Playing Dead (Or Dying)?
In the United States, five major events marked religion’s “horrible decade” from 2000 to 2010. Is this religious recession over – or has the real decline only just begun?
How Should Japan Memorialize The Earthquake And Tsunami?
“The sheer scope of the 2011 disaster and the diversity of the cities and villages it ravaged means that a single monument may not be sufficient, or appropriate. … Officials should consider pairing any official monument with a network of smaller, or less formal, found memorials.”
North Korea And France Make (Beautiful) Music Together
South Korean conductor Chung Myung-Whun led the combined forces of the Unhasu orchestra and the Radio France Philharmonic in a joint concert by his musical “families.”
The Problem With Revenge Movies (And How Hamlet Gets It Right)
“Vigilante justice is reduced to a personnel problem. If a crazy bad person picks out people to kill, then that’s evil. If a noble, comforting character actor … is in charge of picking out the people to kill — well that should be all right, then.”
Author Of The Time Traveler’s Wife To Write New Ballet For Covent Garden
“Audrey Niffenegger, who has also worked as an artist and graphic novelist, is to collaborate with the [Royal Ballet’s] resident choreographer Wayne McGregor.”