Many cities believe the key to redevelopment of their downtowns is building entertainment/retail districts. Do they work? A survey. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Tag: 11.20.99
WHAT’S SO FUNNY?
Apres le Comedy Industrial Revolution – Have movies and marketing turned audiences into complacent consumers of mediocre comedy? Comedian Rick Maranis looks back at the slippery slope. National Post (Canada)
FAKE O’KEEFFES
Twenty-eight paintings in a Kansas City Museum may be frauds. CBC
BRITISH BALLERINA BADDIES
It’s been a bad year for British ballerinas – there were fights on a Royal Ballet flight, name-calling that led a dancer to quit a major tour, and then the infamous posing by English National ballerinas in their underwear for a magazine. It’s as though “the ballerina, once the representative of what was most graceful about British femininity, was a fiction that no one could be bothered to keep up.” – London Telegraph