Included in the firing are pop music critic icon Robert Christgau, dance editor Elizabeth Zimmer, book editor Ed Park, theatre editor Jorge Morales. “Since New Times Media took over the paper, Voice staff members have feared that the new management intended to centralize arts coverage and use writers and editors from various Voice Media papers to fill the local pages.”
Tag: 09.01.06
Last Of The Animators
As late as the 1990s, major movie studios employed as many as 2000-3000 animators. Now almost all of that work has gone to computers and there are only a few hundred working. That doesn’t mean 2D animation is going away, though…
Last Of The Ziegfeld Girls
Doris Eaton Travis is 102 and still dancing. “It’s really odd because day to day you forget she’s a celebrity. You don’t think of it until you see her in a setting…. When she steps onto that stage to a sold-out house and people are on their feet screaming and applauding, then you realize it. That’s when it’s breathtaking. She’s an American treasure.”
Neighbors Try To Block Whitney Expansion
Some neighbors of the Whitney Museum in New York have filed suit trying to block the museum’s expansion. “The plaintiffs — two associations of residents and the owners of the Carlyle Hotel — claim that the Board of Standards and Appeals erred in granting the museum variances to zoning regulations, in order to allow the Whitney to go forward with its expansion, which includes a 178-foot stainless-steel-clad tower designed by the award-winning architect Renzo Piano.”
Boston Symphony’s New Musicians Contract (And A Freelancer Pay Cut)
“BSO players’ salaries will rise from a weekly minimum of $2,170 last season to $2,270 this year, a 4.61 percent increase, and more in later years.” Meanwhile, freelancers for some of the orchestra’s pops concerts will be getting a reduction. “Those freelancers, who earned $434 per concert in 2005-06, will earn $378 for dozens of Pops concerts in the upcoming season.”
Netflix Becomes A Movie Player
Netflix isn’t just about renting DVDs any more. “Ironically, the little Los Gatos Internet upstart that relies on the first-class postage stamp to deliver its discs has become the player to beat. It now finances films. It scours independent festivals to procure movies that the studios miss. It’s even begun exploring video on demand.”
Vatican: Harry’s With The Devil!
The Vatican’s chief exorcist has condemned Harry Potter. “Behind Harry Potter hides the signature of the king of the darkness, the devil,” says Father Gabriele Amorth, the Pope’s ‘caster-out of demons’.”
How Do You Get Young People Into The Museum? Hire Musicians
Tate Modern “may be the most popular in Europe but it remains concerned about its appeal to young people and those communities where gallery-going is not a frequent pastime. The gallery has asked artists as diverse as the hip hop singer Estelle, former Blur guitarist Graham Coxon and east end rap collective Roll Deep each to select a work in the museum and compose a piece in response.”