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Tag: 10.23.12
The Cabaret Boom – What It Can Teach Traditional Theatre
“Theatre too often tries to box off different forms and genres from each other, while cabaret thinks nothing of putting live art and plate-spinning side by side. Both can be damned good entertainment, and both mean something.”
Market Glut – Too Many Writers?
“We’re pumping out all these graduates while the readership for literary fiction is shrinking. I think everybody knows that.”
Two Members Of Pussy Riot Exiled To Remote Prisons
“Two members of the anti-Putin band Pussy Riot have been sent to remote prison colonies to serve their sentences for hooliganism, according to supporters of the group.”
Even Established Movie-Makers Are Turning To Crowdfunding
“It’s indicative of the way film financing is going that such an established name as David Fincher has switched to online crowdfunding.”
Soprano Monserrat Caballe Suffers Stroke
“A Sant Pau hospital spokesman said Tuesday that the 79-year-old soprano has been in intensive care since arriving from Russia on Saturday. He said she was responding favorably to treatment and has not lost consciousness or suffered paralysis.”
Warning: All That Digital Music, Those E-Books You Bought From Amazon? Thay Can Take Them Away
“According to Linn Nygaard, an IT consultant living in Norway, Amazon remotely wiped her Kindle and closed her Amazon account for as yet unspecified violations to its terms of service. It’s frightening evidence that when you buy into an ecosystem built on DRM, while you may own your device, you don’t own the data that lives on it.”
Ten Poets Named Finalists For TS Eliot Prize
Previous winners include Ted Hughes, Duffy herself and Seamus Heaney.
Russell Means, 72, Actor, Musician, And Native American Activist
“He rose to national attention as a leader of the American Indian Movement in 1970 by directing a band of Indian protesters who seized the Mayflower II ship replica” and went on to lead the famous 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. “Over two decades he appeared in more than 30 films and television productions,” as well as recording CDs and penning a memoir.
Australia’s Cultural Cringe Lives On In Classical Music, Says Pianist
Michael Kieran Harvey: “There is no problem with the number or quality of Australian composers or performers; we punch well above our weight for such a population. There is a problem, however, and it is that Australian classical music audiences still regard Australian music and performers as inferior.”