“Fried Beer is a beer-filled pretzel-like dough pocket that’s shaped like ravioli. Take a bite and the beer pours out. … Simply use the dough to soak up the rest of the brewski. ‘Why drink your beer when you can eat it?’ creator Mark Zable said.”
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Bob Dylan Experiments with a Ticketless Show
For a performance last week in San Francisco, the folk-rock legend “asked his fans to line up outside the venue for a few hours with $60 cash in hand to get inside – eschewing extra fees, printer errors and scalper markups.” How did it work? Only okay …
The Secret of Paris Review Interviews
“In the first place, the method is slow. My interview with Jonathan Lethem took a couple of weeks, with reading assignments before each session. … In the second place, the interviews are collaborative. After our interns type up the transcripts, the interviewer and subject sit down and edit them – together. … When writers have total control, George [Plimpton] realized, they feel safe. And when they feel safe they open up.”
What Musician Wages Say About Today’s Orchestras
New pay agreements are all over the map…
Cleveland Museum of Art’s New Director: David Franklin
“Franklin, 49-years-old and a native of Quebec, is an expert on Italian Renaissance and baroque art. He recently organized several major exhibits on Bernini, Parmigianino and Michelangelo while serving as deputy director and chief curator at the National Gallery of Canada.”
Bridge Project’s Final Show: Kevin Spacey in Richard III
“The American actor will be directed by Sam Mendes in what will be the final production for the Bridge Project, a three-year transatlantic collaboration that has seen US and British actors tour the world in productions including The Tempest, As You Like It and The Cherry Orchard.“
Mozart in the Mud: A Classical Music Glastonbury
Serenata, a three-day event on the Dorset coast, is billed as Britain’s first outdoor classical music festival. There are multiple stages, core classical and crossover artists, booths selling burgers and curries, tents collapsing in high winds, and lots and lots of mud. Just like Glastonbury.
Did They Design the Broad Collection Building Upside-Down?
Christopher Knight: “The dynamic 2006 building designed for Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art contains one serious flaw. Unfortunately, it appears that architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro … are about to repeat the error in … the Broad Collection [building]. The mistake: In Boston, it’s a long schlep from the front door to the art galleries.”
Satoshi Kon, 46, Who Made Anime for Adults
“[His] legacy of work is a mere four completed feature films and one television series. So, it’s likely many of you have not heard of the man – doubly likely since his films were all animated. … [Yet they] are so involving and cinematic it’s easy to forget that they are constructed one frame at a time. What’s more, they are definitely not for kids.”
Lower East Side’s Scrappy Gallery Scene Gets Gentrified (via Norman Foster)
“To an area where emerging-art galleries occupy storefronts and cramped walk-up spaces, Sperone Westwater will bring an eight-story sliver designed by Sir Norman Foster with laminated-glass facade, three floors of gallery space and a display room that moves from floor to floor.”