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Tag: 06.17.11
Internet Addiction Can Literally Reshape Your Brain: Study
“The work, published June 3 in PLoS ONE, suggests self-assessed Internet addiction, primarily through online multiplayer games, rewires structures deep in the brain. What’s more, surface-level brain matter appears to shrink in step with the duration of online addiction.”
If New York Philharmonic Won’t Plays Parks Concerts, Brooklyn Philharmonic Is Happy To Oblige
In a June 14 letter to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Brooklyn Philharmonic Artistic Director Alan Pierson wrote, ‘Since our cousin, the New York Philharmonic, has other activities that don’t allow them to continue the tradition of free concerts in the parks this summer, we’d be happy to step in and play for free for the people of New York City in their place.”
Voices Of The Dead In Brooklyn’s City Of The Dead
“There was nearly a full moon over Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn on Monday night, when the cast of the cemetery’s latest theatrical performance gathered for a full run-through … of The Spoon River Project, a dead-serious adaptation of Edgar Lee Masters’s 1915 masterpiece, Spoon River Anthology.”
Mummies Of The World, United In Philadelphia
“After a while, you get used to the trappings of death: the vacant, hollow stares; prongs of teeth protruding from desiccated gums … What you don’t get used to … are the trappings of life that are still evident in these mummified bodies.”
Is LA A Theatre Town? Discuss
“The proximity of theaters to Hollywood talent agencies doesn’t constitute an advantage, according to some panelists.”
Defying Trends, Big New Bookstore Expands In Downtown LA
“Located on the ground floor of the Spring Arts Tower downtown, the Last Bookstore is a mix of old and new. It has pillars stretching 25 feet up to a painted, vaulted ceiling; underfoot are intermittent mosaics, all part of the former Citizens National Bank, which opened in its grand location in 1915.”
Is Technology Killing A Regional Sense Of Self?
“Technology, encouraging mass production and homogeneity, could appear a natural enemy to those who still celebrate regional idiosyncrasies. And the online bookstore, ideal for marketing e-books to a global audience, might seem to portend short shrift for regionally themed books that are more suited to a smaller, more local market.”
Report: Online TV Watchers Might Be Watching Less TV
“Americans who watch the most video online tend to watch less TV, according to The Nielsen Co., a finding that overturns a longstanding belief that people are watching more programming over all devices.”
Is “Oldies” Radio Slipping Into The Past?
“You might look at ‘oldies’ as a genre, certain music from a certain time with a certain aesthetic. Or perhaps you think “oldie” merely connotes something that’s a certain amount of old. Or here’s another possibility: The whole concept of ‘oldies’ is on its way to history’s dustbin, taking with it songs from the ’50s and early-to-mid-’60s.”