“Writers from the United States, Britain, Australia and Canada are suing the universities, claiming they obtained unauthorised scans of an estimated seven million copyright-protected books from the internet giant Google.”
Tag: 09.16.11
Will Toronto’s Three Civic Performing Arts Theatres Be Frozen Out By The City?
“The Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts and the Toronto Centre for the Arts all felt a chill on Monday when it was revealed that one of City Manager Joe Pennachetti’s many possible areas to cut costs from the 2012 budget was for the government to step away from active involvement in those three facilities and “attempt to sell, lease or come to some other new arrangement†for the three theatres in question.”
How The Way You Walk Identifies You
“It seems footsteps are as unique as fingerprints, and can identify people with 99.8 per cent accuracy.”
Netflix Subscribers Leave After Price Increase, Stock Price Tumbles)
“The video rental company’s shares plunged 17% on Thursday after it warned investors that it would end the current quarter with fewer subscribers than it previously predicted.”
Despite Recession, Kansas City Opens Glittering New Arts Center
“The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, a $326 million concrete-and-glass clamshell overlooking downtown, … was designed by the prominent architect Moshe Safdie and paid for with private donations. The building, people here say, reflects the willingness of Kansas City residents to open their wallets if it means raising the national profile of the city’s arts scene.”
Two Great American Critics And Their Conflicts Of Interest
As his first play, Satchmo at the Waldorf, opens in Orlando, Wall Street Journal drama critic Terry Teachout reminds us that such legendary critics as art maven Clement Greenberg and composer Virgil Thomson were ethically compromised in ways that would not be accepted today.
Ernest Hemingway’s Favorite Paintings
“Ernest Hemingway the hunter, Hemingway the fisherman, Hemingway the drinker – they’re all part of the legend. … But Hemingway the art lover?” Yup. “When in New York he was as likely to visit the Metropolitan Museum as Toots Shor’s.”