“Stella Artois is launching its new lager brand, Stella Artois Black, using a piece of immersive theatre created by Punchdrunk artistic director Felix Barrett. The Night Chauffeur … takes audience members through London in a Citroen DS and is designed to make them feel like they are in a film.”
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Looking at Meat Calms You Down: Study
“Contrary to expectations, a McGill University researcher has discovered that seeing meat makes people significantly less aggressive.”
‘Pornography for God’: Jonathon Keats Is At It Again
The man who created the First Bank of Antimatter and made porn for plants (featuring explicit pollination) “has now appointed himself God’s pornographer. Opening this week in a Brooklyn art gallery, Keats will be showing images … [from the] Large Hadron Collider (LHC), collisions that recreate conditions that occurred nearly 14 billion years ago, just after the moment of ‘divine coitus’.”
The Arts On TV? We Need Something New
“Some people take the view that merely having writers and other artists on television is enough because, you know, they don’t get enough attention from mass media. Publicity is what they need. This is nonsense.”
How The Internet Is Saving Literary Magazines
If the novel is struggling in this new environment, what of literary magazines? Long extinct? The opposite: literary magazines are getting popular again.
Every Stat About The Australian Movie Industry You Ever Wanted To Know
Australian film production has been steady through the recession. “A large slab of the $265m spent on features, possibly almost half, was spent on three features…”
Art Market Pops Out
“There’s a fresh fizz to the contemporary-art market these days that’s been largely driven by sales of Pop classics by Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and others. Pop’s cheery colors and reassuringly familiar objects such as crumbly pies and red lobsters appeal to jet-setting bidders who want to buy art again but aren’t ready to stretch for edgy unknowns.”
Pianist Is Victim In $20 Million Computer Virus Scheme
“A noted classical pianist, composer and Latin music producer found himself drawn into an elaborate years-long extortion scheme that cost him between $6 and $20 million after he brought his laptop into a computer repairman to help rid it of a virus.”
Major New Musical Theatre Company To Launch In Toronto
It will be “founded by 20 of the brightest lights in the country and modelled along the lines of Soulpepper Theatre.” This would be the first artist-run company in North America, if not the world, run on a large scale and devoted exclusively to the art of musical theatre.
Study: Brain Training Helps Older Drivers Avoid Accidents
“It turned out that the reaction speed and reasoning skills programs helped reduce accidents by 50 per cent, but the memory training made no difference.”