“Officially called Tiger and Turtle- Magic Mountain, this sculpture of zinc-plated steel and LED lights … reaches heights of 69 feet and stands atop a hill in Anger Park in Duisburg, Germany, with a magnificent view of the Rhine to be enjoyed at whatever speeds you can reach on your own two feet.”
Tag: 01.05.12
Oregon Symphony Quits League Of American Orchestras
The Oregon Symphony has dropped its membership in the League of American Orchestras, said Elaine Calder, the orchestra’s president. At an annual cost of $17,000, the benefits of membership were not worth the expense, she said.
The Everything-Was-Better-When-I-Was-A-Teenager Problem In Pop Music
These naysayers among us demonstrate a kind of generational bias that can blunt a promising musician’s career. It can be summarized thus: “The only valid music is what I liked when I was in my teens.”
2011 US Music Sales Up In US For First Time Since 2004
“In total, 4.4 million more albums were bought in 2011 than in 2010, with CD remaining the most popular format. Only one in three albums were purchased digitally, figures show.”
BBC To Begin Running Radio Ads
“The proposed year-long pilot to insert advertising into World Service English output on the Berlin FM frequency would see advertising extended to BBC radio broadcasts for the first time.”
Making The Life Of A Modern Bedouin Nomad Into Literature
Miral al-Tahawy was born and raised in a Bedouin village in Egypt, moved (against her family’s wishes) to Cairo and earned a Ph.D., and then came to New York. “The foreigner was the Orientalist,” she says. ‘He was there to watch us. The first time for me to live this role was in Brooklyn Heights. I was the foreigner and I watched them. I was the one doing the ethnography and I was the one drawing them.”
Turning A Frankly Sexual Memoir Into A Stage Play
“In The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir, Toni Bentley predicted that, if her book was ever turned into a play, it would probably only reach ‘Off-Off-Off Broadway.’ It might end up being staged ‘in some dark performance space down some little-traveled back alley’.” Actually, it’s having a successful run in Madrid’s top alternative theater.
Keeping Up Real-Life Relationships Via Electronic Games
“Almost every adult in the industrialized world (and many in developing economies) now uses some sort of electronic device daily, and all of those devices offer some sort of game. As games become ubiquitous, they are not only content but also context, context for mundane human relationships among people who don’t even consider themselves gamers.”