“As is, the coffee shop is my most frequent outside-the-home-office haunt. It’s much the same for my friends who telecommute. I’ve surveyed them recently to see if there’s any agreement as to why it’s often better to work from Starbucks and its analogues than home or the office. There are three competing theories. …”
Tag: 04.15.11
Kerouac’s On The Road Finally Put On Film
“When it comes to the big screen, however, On the Road has faced a Kerouac curse. Past efforts by Hollywood to adapt the author’s work have been failures. Now, somewhat quietly, On the Road has finally been made into a movie. The $25 million production, shot in San Francisco, Montreal and other locales, is scheduled for release this fall.”
After Three Decades, Lucinda Childs’s Dance Is An Unlikely Hit
“Some years ago this repetitive, mesmerizing but severe work was big in France, welcome territory for other cerebral experimentalists such as Merce Cunningham … but here? And yet Childs has been touring the country with Dance for two years, with dancers who weren’t even born when the work premiered.”
Arthur Marx, 89, Author, Scriptwriter And Son Of Groucho
“Following his father’s advice, Marx became a writer instead of an actor, producing a novel and several screenplays before concentrating on scripts for such popular television shows as McHale’s Navy and My Three Sons and writing biographies of such classic Hollywood figures as Samuel Goldwyn, Red Skelton, Bob Hope and Mickey Rooney.”
Study: Our Language Evolution Was Complicated
“Language seems to have evolved along varied, complicated paths, guided less by neurological settings than cultural circumstance. If our minds do shape the evolution of language, it’s likely at levels deeper and more nuanced than many researchers anticipated.”
What’s Going On? First Increase In Number Of Indy UK Record Stores In Years
“Numbers of independent stores reached a low of 269 in 2009, but last year that had grown to 281, the first increase in a generation, according to the Entertainment Retailers Association.”
Why TV Networks Are Getting Out Of The Soap Opera Business
“Soap opera ratings have falling for decades and have been in particularly troubling shape over the past 15 years at least. Meanwhile, formats like reality television shows have shown growing viability, sometimes on particularly lean budgets.”
“Black Swan” Stand-in Dancer Stands By Her Story
“Although Fox Searchlight, director Darren Aronofsky and actress Mila Kunis have all stepped forward to refute Lane’s claims that Natalie Portman only did five percent of the dancing in her Oscar-winning turn in “Black Swan,” Lane refuses to back down.”
What Happened To Non_Western Art In Our Museums?
“Do a quick scan of major exhibitions in big American museums in the past few years and Africa’s barely there. The same with India. Even China, usually an easier sell, is seen only discreetly. Wasn’t the multicultural surge of yesteryear supposed to produce the opposite effect?”
New Jersey Performing Arts Center Gets New Leader
“The New Jersey Performing Arts Center is undergoing the first major change to its top leadership position.”