Alan Gilbert: “I am making a personal promise that these beloved free concerts will return next summer and continue for many years to come.”
Tag: 06.29.11
Artists Compete To See Their Work Go Up In Flames
“Now in its eighth year, the 2011 Combustion Art Competition Awards held at a recent meeting of the Combustion Institute brought together a bunch of pyrotechnic scientists eager to show off their red-hot creations.”
Could Last Harry Potter Break The Magic $1 Billion Mark?
Ony Seven movies have earned as much. “With a box-office gross of $974,733,550 the 2001 film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is the closest the young wizard has come to the billionaires club.”
Report: California Film Tax Credit Produced $3.8 Billion Return
The report “found that for each tax dollar allocated the local and state governments get back at least $1.13 in tax revenue, while the total GDP in the state will increase by $8.48.”
Is There A Relationship Between Energy (Fuel) And Literature?
“Instead of divvying up literary works into hundred-year intervals (or elastic variants like the long eighteenth or twentieth century), or categories harnessing the history of ideas (Romanticism, Enlightenment), what happens if we sort texts according to the energy sources that made them possible?”
Rebooting The Brain
“If you rebuild an area [of the brain], you somehow have to get it to talk to the surrounding areas. The adult stem cells might actually facilitate the communication between existing brain cells and new ones, enabling doctors to one day reboot the silenced cells of a brain.”
“Sleepwalking” Into Book Piracy
Have publishers set themselves up to be pirated as digital books become popular?
Arts Council England Promotes Scheme To Increase Arts Philanthropy
“Under the Arts Council initiative, £30m of Lottery funds will be invested in a match-funding scheme to increase arts organisations’ ability to fundraise. Match-funding is where an organisation undertakes to raise a certain amount from private giving that will then be matched by Lottery funds.”
Reviving The Open-Air Dancehalls Of France’s Belle Epoque
Guinguettes, “the old open-air dancehalls that thrived on the rivers around Paris in the early part of the 20th century… are finding new fans in a fast-paced modern world.”
Abbey Road Studios Launches An Anthem-Writing Contest
“To mark its 80th birthday, Abbey Road has a devised a competition that gives composers of all ages and abilities the opportunity to have a piece recorded at the studio with the London Symphony Orchestra and some of the U.K.’s best singers. The challenge? Compose an anthem scored for choir that has not been previously published or commercially recorded.”