Dare, whose history as a sex offender was under investigation, wrote that he thought “media attention to my family’s personal life will harm the organization and musicians I cherish, as well as needlessly embarrass my wife.”
Tag: 01.12.13
The NEA Loves Its Black Female Alien Superheroes
“HERadventure is one of nine recipients of the NEA’s maximum grant. It was created by filmmaker and digital artist Ayoka Chenzira, Ph.D., inspired by her attitude towards social issues at large.”
Will Netflix’s Original Series Change Our Relationship To TV – Or Tank?
“It’s rather like the library getting into the book-publishing business because it can tell what people like to read. Great idea, but fraught because the public’s taste is fickle and the public is so easily distracted.”
Sometimes, The White House Can Be Quite Amusing
The official response to a petition for a Star Wars-style Death Star: “We don’t have a Death Star, but we do have floating robot assistants on the Space Station, a President who knows his way around a light saber and advanced (marshmallow) cannon, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is supporting research on building Luke’s arm, floating droids, and quadruped walkers.”
As WWII Museum Expands, Is It Losing Its Way?
“There is something American about this view of history as cumulative individual experience. But it would be a mistake if the museum’s focus on the United States completely eclipsed other national experiences.”
Architect Renzo Piano Loves His Shard
“It is a kind of lighthouse in London. It is quite a surprising element, and providing surprise and wonder is not essential, but it is not a bad thing to do.”
Despite West Coast Social Media Anger, Grammys Won’t Change Delayed Telecast
CBS “specials and music VP Jack Sussman said the current model of airing the show live at 5 p.m. on the East Coast and delayed at 8 p.m. on the West Coast is working perfectly.”
John London’s ‘Call of the Wild’?
“We venture to suggest the use of the more frequent form of the Christian name … — John seeming to us better suited than Jack to literary purposes.”