“There is a very simple reason why it’s so easy for the names of new acquaintances to slip right out of your head within moments of being introduced: Names are kind of meaningless.”
Tag: 05.15.15
Bestselling French Author’s Play Pulled From Festival Because Staging Anything By Him Is Too Dangerous
“The Elementary Particles, a new stage work adapted from [Michel] Houellebecq’s own 1998 novel, was set to play at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in July. … A spokeswoman for the festival confirmed by email that the play was canceled following a ‘risk analysis’ carried out by the Croatian Security and Intelligence Agency.”
Gov. Jerry Brown Increases California’s Arts Budget By 500% (And It’s Still Skimpy)
“State tax coffers have filled faster than expected this year, and the governor’s annual ‘May revise’ of the original spending plan he proposed in January would share a modest morsel of the wealth – $5 million – with the California Arts Council, the state’s arts grant-making agency.”
Just Why *Did* USC’s Entire First-Year MFA Student Cohort Quit?
“I had a dreamy first semester — it had a tone of rigor. But we’ve lost that this semester.”
BuzzFeed Makes A Flowchart To Help You Decide If You Should Give Someone A Book
“Is your home so filled with books that you use them as furniture/best friends/lovers?”
The Vermont Symphony’s Executive Director Steps Down
Alan Jordan in a news release from late on Friday: “It is time for me to seek out new challenges with another orchestra, and for the VSO to find someone with new perspectives and ideas to continue the VSO’s progress.”
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Franz Wright, Son Of A Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet, Dies A 62
In his poetry, he explored “the competing imperatives of self-annihilation and self-preservation; his yearning for his father, who abandoned the family early; his labyrinthine struggles with alcoholism, drug addiction and manic depression; and his eventual, cautiously hopeful passage out.”
When Marc Maron Interviewed Uber-Interviewer Terry Gross
“She thought about being a writer; she tried teaching. Then she began volunteering at a local radio station. (There was an opening at the feminist show because one of the producers was moving to the lesbian feminist show.)”
How One Los Angeles 99-Seat Theatre Might (Or Might Not) Adjust To New Equity Minimum Wage Standards
“When people are trying to save money, if you don’t force them out of that situation they’re going to choose free actors every time.”
A Very Small Sampling Of Older (Women) Artists We Should Have Known About All Along
Faith Ringgold: “‘If you live long enough and you persist, you are going to get recognition,’ Ringgold says today. ‘You have to stay in the game.’ Ringgold has not only stayed in the game, she recently designed one of her own, called ‘Quiltuduko,’ for mobile devices. Inspired by Sudoku, the number game, it uses quilt designs instead of numbers.”