“Medicines which were designed to treat brain injury, dementia and ADHD are now becoming popular pick-me ups. Businessmen take them to beat jet lag, academics pop them to sharpen their minds and shift workers take them to stay alert.”
Tag: 01.03.08
Best In Show – MIT Press Looking Good
“I think it’s fair to say that MIT Press was the first university press to make a serious commitment to graphic design, as well as to architectural publishing. Thirty years later, there are more players, but the depth and longevity of MIT Press’s commitment to design publishing and practice remains quite exceptional.”
Congress Boosts Spending On Arts And Culture
The National Endowments for the Arts and for the Humanities, as well as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and arts education at the Department of Education all got boosts in this year’s budget. The 16 percent raise in the NEA budget is the largest given to the agency in the past 24 years
“Wicked” Sets Chicago Box Office Record
The Chicago production of “Wicked” has announced that it broke its own box office record, grossing $1,418,363.24 for the week ending Dec. 30, filling the Oriental Theatre to capacity.
Netflix To Offer Streaming Movies To TV
The set-top box, to be made by LG Electronics Inc. as part of a partnership announced late Wednesday, is designed to broaden the appeal of a year-old streaming service that Netflix provides to its 7 million subscribers at no additional charge.
San Jose Museum Director To Take Over Milwaukee Art Museum
Dan Keegan revitalized the smaller San Jose museum. With an aim of attracting “venture culturalists” – museum visitors willing to take a risk and experience art that connects to the human experience – Keegan spearheaded a drive to attract patrons by offering free admission at the museum from 2001-06. The campaign increased museum attendance by 115 percent, to nearly 200,000 visitors a year.
Are Students Finally Ready For e-Textbooks?
“With laptops now an ubiquitous presence on college campuses and textbook prices ever on the rise and suddenly a hot issue, technologically inclined students seem poised to change their study habits — and save a lot of money — by forgoing scribbles in the margin and trading in their highlighters for cursors.”
Tom Wolfe Leaves Longtime Publisher
Tom Wolfe has left his publisher of 42 years, Farrar, Straus & Giroux and sold his next novel to Little, Brown & Company. “People involved in the negotiations said on Wednesday that Mr. Wolfe’s advance for the new book was close to $7 million.”
After They’ve Seen Met Opera’s HD, Will They Go To The Theatre?
“Successful as these HD broadcasts are, they raise some questions. Will newcomers to the form who attend these screenings be inspired to go to the opera house and hear the real thing, that is, to hear wondrous operatic voices in a natural acoustic?”
Marie-Jeanne, Balanchine Ballerina, 87
Marie-Jeanne, an American ballerina long associated with George Balanchine and a member of the New York City Ballet during its first season, died on Friday in Austin, Tex.