“Extracts from Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf will go on sale in kiosks in Germany on Thursday, but with the text blacked out after a court ruled that reprinting the Nazi manifesto broke copyright laws.”
Tag: 01.25.12
Theatre, EU-Style: The Prospero Project
“With its subtitle – six towns, one project, one joint theatre – this four-year programme funded by EU money grew out of an observation ‘that the tragedy of Europe is that it built itself starting with the common market. If only we had started with culture’.”
Ailey Foundation Director To Step Down After 16 Years
“Since taking the reins in 1995, Sharon Gersten Luckman racked up a list of accomplishments that have made the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater one of the city’s most solid, well-managed modern dance companies.”
Oregon Symphony Players Accept Three-Year Contract
“After playing without a contract since August, Oregon Symphony musicians agreed to a new three-year contract with management. … The contract also loosens previous restrictions on broadcasting Oregon Symphony concerts.”
Filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos, 77, Killed In Road Accident
“[He] was working on a new film, The Other Sea, when he was hit by a motorcycle [in Piraeus] and sustained serious head injuries. He died later in hospital.”
Short Plays – Underappreciated, Just Like Short Stories
“[It] is a fugitive form, lacking a permanent home, rarely available on the page. Yet for all that it seems to me a very good way into any writer’s work – released from the armature of plot, the playwright is compelled to invest the moment with intense theatrical energy. In those precious minutes the dramatist’s toolkit of rhythm, voice and image is ruthlessly exposed.”
Sikh Group Sues Jay Leno, Calling Misfired Visual Joke ‘Racist’
In a recent Tonight Show segment on presidential candidates’ vacation homes, Leno and his writers used, for the retreat of the famously wealthy Mitt Romney, an image of the Golden Temple, Sikhism’s holiest shrine. In response, an Indian-American Sikh has filed a lawsuit against the comedian.
Top Chinese Maestro Beats Up New York Mugger
Long Yu, music director of the China Philharmonic, was in Manhattan to lead the New York Philharmonic in a Chinese New Year program. He was walking along Columbus Avenue one night this week when a man asked him for a cigarette and then punched him; Long Yu chased his attacker down the street and punched back.
Dept. Of Overworking A Metaphor: Researchers Study Thinking Outside An Actual Box
“Just how potent is the metaphor ‘thinking outside the box’? To find out, researchers built a literal box out of PVC pipe and cardboard – 5′ cubed.”
Behind A Royal Ballet Star’s Departure
“Not many dancers in any era have possessed such a complete package of balletic refinement, glorious natural grace and potent dramatic talent that Polunin has become fêted for by Covent Garden balletomanes, for whom this is a huge and unwelcome shock.”