The producers of the Cannes of stand-up comedy are launching Just for Laughs Theatricals, a New York-based production company that plans to develop musicals for Broadway and the West End and to license French versions of those shows for Montreal.
Tag: 02.26.13
Theft Of Ancient Babylonian Glazed Bricks Much Bigger Than We Knew
“Four hundred fragments of bricks from Babylon’s Ishtar Gate and Processional Way have been stolen. The local Iraqi press reported the loss of 33 pieces last October, but in February the minister of tourism and antiquities, Liwa Sumaism, gave the much higher figure.”
Russians Demonstrate Against New Director Of Historic Monastery Complex
“The appointment by Russia’s culture minister of a businessman turned politician to run a state open-air museum in Karelia in the north of Russia has outraged opponents who fear that his inexperience and agenda to increase tourism will put the region’s heritage and eco-system at risk.”
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Fails In Bid To Ban Embarrassing Book
“Dominique Strauss-Kahn has failed to have a kiss-and-tell book by an old mistress banned but won a court order insisting a card outlining his objections should be individually placed inside every copy of the book sold.”
Can Computers Be Taught What “Truth” Is?
“Even “1+1=2” is less obvious than it seems at first. Beginning in the early part of the 20th century, mathematicians and philosophers, led at first by Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege and later by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Kurt Gödel, Alan Turing, and others, tried to see whether mathematical knowledge–facts like “1+1=2″–could be reduced to the laws of logic.”
Barnes & Noble Founder/CEO Offers To Buy The Struggling Company
“The kind of deal Leonard Riggio is proposing for Barnes & Noble is known on Wall Street as a “management buyout”, in which a current CEO or executive makes a deal with banks and private equity firms to take over his own company.”
Oscar Telecast Ratings Up
“Sunday’s telecast of the 85th annual Oscars on ABC rose above 40 million viewers for just the second time in six years, and also spiked among the younger adults the Academy was hoping to reach.”
Study: Our Aesthetic Tastes Formed As Babies
“Can you tell a real Jackson Pollock painting from a watered-down replica? If so, don’t feel too superior: So can your eight-month-old baby.”
Shouldn’t Local Arts Support Be Used To Grow LOCAL Music?
“The notion of a publicly subsidized neighborhood network of Oregon classical music incubators merely redresses a long standing and grievous imbalance: tremendous taxpayer support for performances of existing, easily available works by long-dead European composers — but scant public investment in Oregon’s creative postclassical culture.”
‘A Haunted Take On Campus-Gothic Grandeur’ – Univ. Of Chicago’s New Arts Center
In their design for the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien “hold a variety of tensions at bay. The tower’s layered planes appear ready to peel apart. The tower itself erupts from a broad, plain-spoken two-story base with a sawtooth clerestory roof.”