“‘Tight’ refers to nations that have strong social norms and low tolerance for deviation from those norms, whereas another term, ‘loose,’ refers to nations with weak social norms and a high tolerance for deviation from them.” Researchers in a recent study “found that countries such as Japan, Korea, Singapore and Pakistan are much tighter whereas countries such as the Ukraine, Israel, Brazil and the United States are looser.”
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England’s Regional Theatres Become Hotbeds Of Experimental Work
“Not only are we seeing the fast rise of micro-festivals – events such as the Junction Sampled, Harrogate’s Two’s Company or the Basement’s 5×5 in Brighton – but regional theatres are increasingly throwing open their doors to companies that, in the past, they might have deemed a risky box-office proposition that didn’t fit in with the rest of their programmes.”
Leonora Carrington, Last Of The Original Surrealists, Dead At 94
She “led a life almost as picaresque and surreal as her art; born in Britain, she eloped with Max Ernst, hung out with Picasso and Dali, fled the Nazis, escaped from a Spanish psychiatric hospital and later settled in Mexico, where she built a reputation as one of the most original and visionary British artists and writers of the 20th century.”
What Arthur Laurents Left Behind
“In the month before his death, on May 5, the Tony Award-winning writer and director … gave his blessing to a plan for a new film version of Gypsy, starring Barbra Streisand, and also finished a full-length play as well as his third memoir, Laurents’s agent and several associates said this week.”
London Launches New Arab Arts Festival
“Sadler’s Wells, The Barbican Centre and the Young Vic are among venues taking part in Shubbak – the first ever pan-London festival of contemporary Arab culture. The cross artform event, which features organisations from the sectors of theatre, dance, architecture, literature, film, visual arts and music, will take place throughout the city for three weeks from July 4 to 24.”
Artists’ Studios As Artwork (In Miniature)
Artist Joe Fig “interviewed 50 established and up-and-coming artists in their studios, turning 20 of those encounters into minutely observed replicas of the artists’ paint-spattered worktables or even the entire studio space depicted in miniature.”
Stephen King’s First Musical Finished At Last
“Horror writer Stephen King’s first play, The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, featuring haunting melodies by rocker John Mellencamp, is finally ready for the stage. The musical was originally scheduled for its debut at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre in 2009, but was postponed. It’s now set to open next April at the Alliance.”
Matching Career-Challenged Celebrities With Stage Roles To Redeem Themselves With
Ben Brantley: “Famous people of all stripes are returning the compliment by looking to Broadway to rejuvenate their careers [and] enhance their artistic credibility … I am proposing a little list that matches stars in search of redemption with roles tailor-made to their particular skills and images.” (Picture Mel Gibson as Titus Andronicus.)
Study: Moody Men Are More Attractive To Women
The study found that women were not attracted to smiling, happy men, preferring those who looked proud and powerful or moody and ashamed. ‘To the extent that men think that smiling is a good thing to do if they want to be found sexually attractive our findings suggest that’s not the case’.”
America – A Nation Of Singers
“Chorus America, which is holding its 34th annual convention in San Francisco June 8-11, claims that 42.6 million people in the U.S. sing in more than 270,000 choruses today.”