“The Can Can is a unique phenomenon in Seattle, and maybe in the country: a tiny lounge where people come night after night to drink and watch modern dance. They don’t necessarily know they’re watching modern dance.”
Tag: 06.29.10
Chicagoans Give The Hairy Eyeball To The City’s Latest Public Art
“Even as an optometrist, Silvia Pelini wasn’t prepared for the mammoth eyeball that is Chicago’s latest public art display” – a 30-foot sculpture by Tony Tasset called Eye.
How The Declaration Of Independence Created American Prose
“It is an almost impossibly tricky line to establish, the one between revolution and prudence. In establishing it, Jefferson not only formulates a new approach to government, he inaugurates a new prose style, an American prose. Its central principle is the following: When addressing matters difficult and august, it is best to be chatty.”
A New Front In The Breast-Feeding Wars: Fount Of Nourishment Or ‘Fun Bags’?
“[A] provocative article just published in Mother & Baby magazine has acted like kerosene on a conflagration. The author … wrote that she bottle-fed her babies because: ‘I wanted my body back … They’re part of my sexuality too – not just breasts, but fun bags’.”
Elaine Calder Stays On As Oregon Symphony CEO
“Oregon Symphony President Elaine Calder has agreed to a four-year contract extension that will keep her at the top of the performing arts group through 2014.” She is credited “with building relationships with musicians and the community, growing ticket revenue, cutting expenses and retiring $7 million in long-term debt.”
Enough With Jane Jacobs Already! (Says A Nonprofit Developer)
“Jacobs had a tendency toward sweeping conclusions based on anecdotal information, and some of them were overblown and/or oblivious to the facts. Perhaps most graphically, Jacobs predicted that the grand arts center planned for the Upper West Side of Manhattan would fail. But Lincoln Center turned out to be a great success … More revealingly, the Greenwich Village she held out as a model for city life has become some of the highest-priced real estate in New York City.”
Hulu Set To Launch Paid Subscription Site
The TV network-owned video website has “announce[d] the launch of an ad-supported subscription service that will offer top broadcast shows in high definition to be viewed from a plethora of devices, including Internet-connected TVs, set-top boxes and game consoles, as well as portable devices such as Apple’s iPad and iPhone.”
A Cello Grows In Brooklyn
“Before Samuel Zygmuntowicz begins building one of his famed instruments, he walks into his wood room and runs his hands over the many slabs, shingles and samples of lumber he’s been collecting since the 1970s.” A visit with one of America’s top luthiers in his Park Slope studio.
Chatting With Norman Foster As He Turns 75
“‘There’s a snobbery at work in architecture,’ says Foster, speaking at his riverside studio in Battersea, London. ‘The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it’s an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.'”
Goodbye, Edward Elgar; Hello, Adam Smith
“The £20 English banknote featuring the image of composer Edward Elgar will be accepted in shops for the last time on Wednesday. … The Elgar £20 banknote, first issued in June 1999, has gradually been replaced by the Adam Smith note since March 2007.”