“A dispute between the Chicago Federation of Musicians and the Harris Theater for Music and Dance over the theater’s proposal to engage non-union musicians for performances by the Mark Morris Dance Group has been resolved. But neither side can claim victory.”
Tag: 09.08.10
A First: Spanish-Language Univision Network Tops All American Broadcast Nets In The Demo
“Spanish-language broadcaster Univision made history last week, beating all other broadcast networks in the coveted 18-49 demographic for the first time ever. Univision also managed to beat both Fox and the CW in viewers for the week.”
ABT Star Launches New Dance Festival in Sarasota
“The Carreño Dance Festival, named for ballet dancer José Manuel Carreño, will have two components: master classes and two performances by several guest artists in December, and a monthlong dance workshop next August, which will culminate in four performances.”
Scandal – We’ve Gotta Have It, Part IV: Cheating and the Marketplace
What do disgraced baseball player Roger Clemens and disgraced “memoirist” James Frey have in common? “[The] charge of illicitly boosting their games by employing prohibited substances (anabolic steroids and fictional experiences, respectively). In other words, these are scandals of ambition. They’re about people doing what it takes – or what they believe it takes – to enhance their position in the marketplace.”
Is Current Theatre Not Political Enough? The Blogosphere Debates
Athol Fugard has “argued that writers were increasingly being pressured to write for audiences that only had ‘attention spans of 10 minutes between adverts’. But do these two elements of politics and entertainment have to be mutually exclusive? Of course not.”
Coming Soon to the Web: George Bernard Shaw in a Bathing Suit
“He left [his] house, Shaw’s Corner, and its contents to the National Trust complete with an enormous photographic collection of more than 20,000 prints, negatives and glass plates. These will become available for the first time to scholars and enthusiasts as the images are digitised and put online.”
Remember Eight-Inch Floppy Disks? Telegraphs and Telexes? There’s a Museum for All That
At the American Computer Museum, “you’ll still find all manner of models, machinery and accessories that most of us long ago, or only yesterday, relegated to the junk heap” – from the Gutenberg press through telegraphs and enormous telephone switchboards to the Apple I, vintage 1976.
Indian Men Head to ‘Voice Gyms’ to Attract Women
“Men today, want rich resonant vocals to impress their ladies. And those yearning for the baritone of choice are now heading to voice gyms. These gyms are full fledged fitness centres that monitor the use of vocal chords [sic].”
Coward’s Solution to the Romantic Triangle
“[P]laywrights have tended to find more creative potential in triangles where the bisexuality simmers unconsummated, expressed through a shared surrogate, or where it’s the fantasy of an imagination haunted by the potential torture of double exclusion.” Then there’s Noël Coward’s Design for Living.
Houellebecq: Stealing From Wikipedia Isn’t Plagiarism
Stealing from Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is not necessarily plagiarism. It can also be an experimental form of literature. Even a form of “beauty”. This was the angry defence made by the best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq this week after allegations that he lifted passages of his latest book from Wikipedia.fr.