“Making her way from her small apartment in the city where she grew up, passing bombed out buildings, crowded cafes and ubiquitous security checkpoints, Nagham ventures daily to the studio where she first honed her internationally recognized skills as a ballerina.”
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The Met Museum Admissions Lawsuit Has Been Settled
“To dispel any remaining confusion, signs at the museum’s admission desks will also include two new sentences: ‘The amount you pay is up to you’ and ‘Please be as generous as you can.'”
Books Provide The Best Oscars Fodder, The Numbers Say
“When a book has been terrifically popular, when people love the story and the characters, there’s almost a public demand that it be turned into a movie. The studio can be confident that the film will make money, and it may even turn out to be a really remarkable film.”
All An American Musical Audience Wants Is A Good ‘I Want’ Song
“Time has proven that the pre-inciting incident I Want Song is the most successful with audiences. It gives the characters the power to make choices and influence the plot. When the characters are making choices, they are more sympathetic.”
Al-Jazeera America Bows Out With A Valedictory Look Back
“AJAM online’s legacy, some of it captured on these pages, is a journalism of value and of values not tied to any ideology or political entity but morally committed when confronted by racism and bigotry, violence against the innocent, injustice and inequality, sexism and homophobia. We tried in our brief tenure to uphold the fine tradition of an American journalism that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable.”
In Honor Of These Oscars, Let’s Look At All The Times The Academy Picked The Wrong Best Picture
“Let’s take a walk through the past four decades of Best Picture winners of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It’s an almost unbroken chain of incorrect decisions!”
Study: A Clean Desk Might Impede Creativity
“Clean up your desk too much and you might find you’ve accidentally cleaned out your mind.”
Why Michael Flatley Is Excited About Retiring From The Dance
“This type of dance is particularly brutal. I was the first person to do it for an extended period of time. … I have a lot of friends who are professional athletes, and we like to get together and have a couple of beers and exchange horror stories. I always win.”
Opera’s Gender Problem
“According to Operabase, an online opera database, in the years 2009 to 2014 there are only 3 women amongst the 60 most performed living opera composers in the world. Saariaho comes in highest at number 33. In all opera composers performed in that period, living or dead, women fare far worse with not a single female composer in the top 30. And in the most performed 50 operas worldwide in that same period, there is not a single work by a woman.”
Indie Music World Is Rife With Sexual Harrassment
“Despite its outward appearance as being more female-friendly, despite there being less puppeteering than in pop music, despite the seeming prevalence of “male feminists” in the scene, women in the indie music scene say that sexual harassment is rampant and just as much a reality for them.”