“Canadian Internet users are world leaders when it comes to watching video online, according to a study from digital tracking firm comScore Inc. The company’s Media Metrix service found 88 per cent of Canadians who use the Internet viewed a video online in January; during that month Canadians watched close to 3.1 billion videos.”
Tag: 03.15.09
Legendary Juilliard Teacher Joseph Bloch, 91
“Joseph Bloch was a learned guide for thousands of young pianists, many now among the finest alive. And though he indelibly shaped world-famous performers for nearly half a century, Mr. Bloch did so almost entirely without giving private lessons.”
Oxford Prof Accuses Former Student Of Theft For Jane Austen Bio
Her publishers have described it as “the first book about Jane Austen to dissect the industry around her”, hailing it as “a completely original approach to one of Britain’s most enduring popular novelists” Yet according to Prof Sutherland, far from breaking new ground, Jane’s Fame is in fact similar to an academic study, Jane Austen’s Textual Lives, from Aeschylus to Bollywood, that she published in 2005 after 10 years of research.
Boot Camp Dance
For Ethan Stiefel training is about “more than perfecting steps or even transcending the limits of the human body. At the school he has formulated a set of eight initiatives. Inspired by the principles of many martial arts, the list concludes, ‘We will work toward becoming great dancers, while understanding that being a good person is the true goal’.”
Steve Martin Funds Play After High School Ban
“Actor and comedian Steve Martin has offered to pay for an off-campus production of his play Picasso at the Lapin Agile, which was banned from a high school because parents objected to what they called adult content.”
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Seemed Immune To Recession. And Yet…
“Maintaining one of the largest repertory companies in the United States while staging an 11-play season on three stages lasting eight months, the festival will operate its 2009 season on a trimmed-down budget of slightly more than $24 million. That’s down from last year’s $26,689,500.”
Almost Two Decades After The World’s Biggest Art Heist…
“As the 19th anniversary of the Gardner Museum heist approaches, the FBI, the US attorney, and museum officials say they are still chasing down tips and leads but do not believe that James Bulger, a longtime FBI informant who is charged with 19 murders and is one of the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted, ever got his hands on the artwork.”
Setting Goals – A Recipe For Failure?
“Among psychologists, the link between setting goals and achievement is one of the clearest there is, with studies on everyone from woodworkers to CEOs showing that we concentrate better, work longer, and do more if we set specific, measurable goals for ourselves. But a few management scholars are now looking deeper into the effects of goals, and finding that goals have a dangerous side.”
Why Do People Go To Museums?
Actually, it’s not so easy to find out. “So, here’s theory No1: museum numbers are up, because, quite suddenly, museums aren’t much like museums…”