“Workers said they were forced to endure brutal heat inside the sprawling warehouse and were pushed to work at a pace many could not sustain. Employees were frequently reprimanded regarding their productivity and threatened with termination.”
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Ruth Wheeler, 93, Pioneer In Boston’s Modern Dance Scene
“Scientific American is not high on the list of potential source material for choreographers, but the magazine inspired Ruth Wheeler … who cofounded Dance Collective, Boston’s longest-running modern dance troupe … to create dances that dazzled audiences around Boston for years.”
Vancouver Playhouse Gets $1M City Bailout
“The City of Vancouver secretly approved a bailout of more than $1-million for the struggling Vancouver Playhouse Theatre and the Museum Of Vancouver (MOV), and will provide an annual operating grant to the theatre company, which had been facing bankruptcy without the emergency help.”
Scandalized Georgia Mayor Shuts Down Production Of Rocky Horror Show
The original, staged version of this deathless camp classic has been around since 1973. But the show is still too outré for Carrollton, Ga. mayor Wayne Garner. After seeing some rehearsal footage on a Facebook page, Garner has cancelled the rental of a city-owned theater to a young company producing the musical.
New York Film Goes Bollywood
The New York Film School is opening a branch near Delhi, and some welcome the influx of U.S. actors and ideas.
Want To Buy That Painting? Wave Your Hand At The Screen
At least one credit card giant “is tinkering with a new prototype that’s going to make racking-up ginormous credit card debt as easy as sitting on your futon, watching tube and snapping your finger. Quite literally.”
Got A Nasty River? Indianapolis Artist Wants To Clean It Up
A six-mile long work of public art, a smartphone app and a lot more ask Indiana’s art-loving citizens to consider where a raindrop goes — and what happens downstream.
Move Over, New York; L.A.’s Blasting Through
“Since the rise of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s, New York has dominated textbook accounts of contemporary art. Pacific Standard Time hopes to establish Los Angeles as an equal player in the post-World War II art world by spotlighting its unique contributions, including David Hockney’s dazzling swimming pool paintings, Ed Ruscha’s deadpan-humorous prints and the lifestyle-defining furniture of Charles and Ray Eames.”
Barnes & Noble Doesn’t Sponsor Book Tours, But Its CEO Does
Barnes & Noble CEO Leonard Riggio has funded an eight-city book tour for a relatively unknown author. “The arrangement is unusual. Publishers usually pay the bills for authors to travel, not the heads of major bookstore chains (the few that are left standing, anyway).”
Critics Dislike Negative Reviews, Except When They Write Them
“When somebody fails to appreciate something you yourself have deeply enjoyed, it’s hard not to feel personally affronted. This isn’t logical — why should your own pleasure in something be lessened by somebody else failing to share it? — but it’s human. You may feel that your whole value system is under attack.”