“Denver has boomed over the past decade. The city is bigger, richer and more interesting than ever. Public- and private-sector investment is through the roof, and neglected neighborhoods are springing back to life. And in all of this, artists have been left behind.”
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A Tuition-Free Ballet Program Changes The Lives Of Baltimore Boys
“Last school year, 31 boys attended Peabody Dance (which can cost thousands a semester) tuition-free, breathing new energy and life into the mirrored-walled studios and bringing economic, racial, and social diversity to a world that ‘hasn’t always been that way’.”
Learning A Second Language? You May Also Be Learning To Handle Ambiguity
Basically, what you don’t know when speaking a second language is as important as what you do know. “Weirdly, not needing to exhaustively know everything lets you learn more.”
The Idea Of America As A Fiction
“America cannot be made great again because America isn’t real. America never was real. America is 325 million different ideas that disagree with each other just enough for human lives to be lost in the process of translating between them. America is nothing but miscommunication and unspoken secrets and fragmentary dreams that fail to cohere. It’s a multiplicity of states, none of them united. America, like money, isn’t the final product of human creativity.”
Where Did The Whole ‘War On Christmas’ Issue Come From, Anyway?
Blame a book with a too-incendiary title and a conservative media star.
Should Scientists Really Bother Going To All The Trouble To Find What’s Unique About Strads?
Acousticians Bruno Fazenda and Trevor Cox suggests several reasons why the answer is probably no.
It Took Ethan Stiefel A 9,000-Mile Motorcycle Trip To Figure Out His New Ballet
“He’d set off on the cross-country journey soon after getting the call from Julie Kent, the Washington Ballet’s newly arrived artistic director, who offered him his first big commission as a choreographer.”
English National Opera Box Office Soars 32 Percent, But Donations Dip
“According to its box office receipts, the £11.4 million in its current report was up from £8.6 million in the previous year. Its total income was £40.3 million, compared with £38.2 million the previous year. However, money from donations and sponsorship tumbled, from £3.6 million in 2015 to £2.7 million in the year to March 2016.”
A Survey Of The Literature On Benefits Of The Arts
The team at Createquity gathered up all the research they could find on how the arts improve lives and tried to organize it in usable form. “Over the past half century, hundreds of researchers have spent thousands of hours and millions of dollars grappling with these questions. And while the literature still has a ways to go before we can consider the answers definitive, it is becoming clear in at least several arenas that it’s not just our imagination: arts participation really does improve lives.”
57 Years Ago Barbara Roston Checked Out A Library Book. This Year She Decided To Return It
This volume was due back on Nov. 18, 1959. After 20,842 days since, Ms. Roston would owe the library $1,042.10…