“With 2.7 million unique monthly visitors, 1.4 million podcast downloads every four weeks and an additional 1.4 million iPhone and iPad apps in circulation, NPR Music (npr.org/music) has become a sought-after stop for both aspiring and established artists. More broadly, it has become a rising power in the music industry.”
Category: today’s top story
San Francisco Symphony On Strike; Tour In Jeopardy
“Musicians for the San Francisco Symphony went on strike today after eight months of fruitless talks with management centered on wage and benefit issues. The immediate impact: The symphony announced a concert scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday has been canceled. Also in jeopardy: a tour to the East Coast.”
Another Plan For L.A. MoCA: Partnership With National Gallery
“The troubled Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art is in talks for a possible partnership with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, a development that could cloud MOCA’s acquisition by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.”
Is This The Best We Can Do With The Internet?
“A future of frictionless, continuous shopping fits with Google’s vision for a world where we no longer need to search for anything, since we ourselves are perpetually monitored, with the relevant product or information sent to us based on perceived need.”
LACMA Makes Formal Bid To Take Over MoCA
“The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has made a formal proposal to acquire the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, which has been struggling with financial troubles and staff and board defections.”
Bolshoi Attack Mastermind: I Didn’t Mean For Them To Use Acid!
“Bolshoi soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko told a Moscow court that he had complained about ballet chief Sergei Filin to an acquaintance, who offered to ‘beat him up’. ‘It’s not true that I ordered him to throw acid at Filin,’ Dmitrichenko told the court … The 29-year-old dancer said he did not intend for the attack to cause such bodily harm.”
Three Suspects Confess To Bolshoi Acid Attack
“A dancer at the Bolshoi Ballet and two other men have confessed to carrying out an acid attack in January on the company’s artistic director, Sergei Filin, a crime that gripped Moscow and left one of Russia’s most revered institutions in turmoil, the police announced on Wednesday.”
Three Arrested In Bolshoi Acid Attack, Including Leading Dancer
Investigators accuse Pavel Dmitrichenko, a principal dancer at the Bolshoi, of hiring two men to injure Bolshoi Ballet artistic director Sergei Filin with sulfuric acid. Police have also detained the alleged attacker and the driver in the incident and say that one of the men has confessed.
Suspect Detained In Bolshoi Ballet Acid Attack
“Moscow police on Tuesday detained a suspect who allegedly splashed acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet in an attack that shocked the world artistic community and left the troupe in crisis.”
The Problem With TED Talks (And School In The Cloud)
“You are not supposed to interrogate a TED Talk. You’re supposed to share the talk on Facebook. But I have questions.”