The capital and some surrounding areas have been moved into Tier 3, the UK government’s most stringent level of restrictions, meaning that live audiences are barred only a few weeks after they had begun (in limited numbers) to return. Performances may continue to be streamed from empty venues, so classical music concerts may continue in some form. That doesn’t work so well economically for theatre, and producers are howling in protest. – London Evening Standard
Tag: 12.14.20
Did American Cities Build Too Many Luxury Developments?
Across the U.S., the coronavirus pandemic has sapped Americans’ appetite for fancy projects like this, in no small part because the cross-section of upwardly mobile people who can afford such apartments—like well-off students, high-earning young professionals, or people with second homes—have fled urban city centers or scaled back on spending. – Slate
Poets On COVID – Is This All There Is?
“This lukewarm book, largely uncompromised by alert feelings, political insight, wit, striking intellect or lightning of any variety, is — to borrow a slab of Orwell’s Newspeak — doubleplus ungood.” – The New York Times
The Cost Of Being Charley Pride
Ultimately, Pride was rewarded by the country music business — by the end of the 1960s and throughout the 1970s, he was one of the genre’s central, crucial performers, a part of the firmament. But he was also, naturally, the exception that proved the rule — even with his success as an example, the country music industry remained largely inhospitable to Black performers. He was a one of one. – The New York Times
TV’s Landscape Had Several New Nonbinary Characters This Year
From Star Trek: Discovery to Good Trouble, TV shows added nonbinary characters this year. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation – GLAAD – even has a checklist for writers’ rooms. All this isn’t an untrammeled joy for nonbinary people, however: Often, “nonbinary characters don’t appear to be informed by a real nonbinary person’s experience and perspective.” – Los Angeles Times