“By now, Cultural Studies has infiltrated nearly every corner of the humanities and social sciences, and so a generation of educated, internet-addicted music listeners has spent their formative university years questioning the primacy of their own tastes and interrogating bricolage in early-nineties hip hop.”
Tag: 04.11.14
New York Theatre Thrives On Unpaid Interns – And That’s Possibly Illegal
“Unpaid internships are supposed to be about training, education, and be for the benefit of the intern, not the institution. Yet imagine if theaters suddenly lost all of their interns? Who would be doing all of that grunt work?”
How The Best Cinema App Rose, Succeeded, And Died – All In A Few Days
“Unlike Netflix, the service offered a catalogue of films that was theoretically infinite – including lots of new releases – all for free. It did so by making use of the age-old BitTorrent protocol, which allows users to download files in ‘bits’ from countless other individuals around the world.”
Going Backstage With Paul Taylor
“On days that Paul was not in the studio, … the camera could get right up close to the dancers. For visual continuity, the dancers agreed to wear the previous day’s sweaty dance clothes all over again.”
Stephen Petronio Company Celebrates 30 Years
“When I hit 50 I stopped dancing for a while because the memory of how I used to dance was too painful for me. But there are things I can do now that I couldn’t then. When you’re young it’s all about how fierce it feels. Now it’s about how deep it feels, and I’m really enjoying that.”
Four Years After Gorecki Died, His Fourth Symphony Will Get Premiere
“The question was, how would Górecki follow the Third when he came to write his Fourth Symphony, three decades later? At his death, the Fourth was completed only in short score – a composer’s shorthand rather than a full-fleshed orchestral version.”
Why Does Anyone Care About Late Night Hosts Anymore
“It’s certainly not because they’re big draws anymore: Fewer and fewer viewers are watching shows such as Late Night and The Tonight Show when they air, while the smartest among these hosts– namely Jimmy Fallon — approaches his program as if its main purpose is to generate viral videos.”
Novelist Sue Townsend, 68
“She was best known for the fictional diaries of Adrian Mole, who began confiding his deepest desires and ambitions in the Secret Diary of Adrian Mole 13 3/4 in 1982. His teenage years were recounted in the Growing Pains of Adrian Mole and further novels dealt with married life and middle age.”