Hey, that baby they use to make the stem of the Q: Not an actual company member, we’re guessing.
Tag: 03.16.10
Gardner Heist Author: ‘Run-Of-The-Mill Crooks’ Did It
“The museum was less secure than the average 7-Eleven or bank that night, [Ulrich] Boser said. According to a previous Globe investigation, the Gardner was equipped with only one alarm button and two young guards.”
Prosecutor: Whitey Bulger Didn’t Steal Gardner Paintings
“Assistant US Attorney Brian Kelly, who prosecuted [South Boston gang leader turned fugitive] Bulger and his criminal gang, said that investigators had specifically looked at a possible Bulger link to the crime, including interrogating former Bulger associates Stephen Flemmi and Kevin Weeks, but found no links.”
When Artists Become Political Figureheads
“[L]ike Casals, whose refusal to perform under Franco made him a symbol of heroic resistance, or Rostropovich, whose political beliefs led to exile from his own country and a resulting sense of moral authority. Once you’ve won that authority, what is your responsibility to use it, and how?”
Archaeologists Find Cemetery Rife With Sexual Symbolism
“In the women’s coffins, the Chinese archaeologists encountered one or more life-size wooden phalluses…. Looking again at the shaping of the 13-foot poles that rise from the prow of each woman’s boat, the archaeologists concluded that the poles were in fact gigantic phallic symbols,” corresponding to “symbolic vulvas” on the men’s.
Why Does Music Get Stuck In Our Heads?
“The mental pathways for music are complex, sometimes including not only auditory areas but also the visual cortex of the brain. Recent research suggests that musical perception is entwined with primitive parts of the brain and that it can influence emotions through the limbic system.”
What Does Ben Bernanke’s Taste In Art Tell Us About Him?
Yes, the Federal Reserve board has its own art collection. “Rather than being predictable, Mr. Bernanke’s stylistic choices at the Fed changed three times during my years at the Fed. His willingness to try different styles and periods of art was indeed the mark of a man who could be creative, innovative and flexible.”
A Lost Original Shakespeare Play Is Real, Arden Declares
“[F]or most of the three centuries since its debut, Double Falsehood; or, the Distrest Lovers has been ridiculed as a hoax or just disregarded. Yesterday that changed when The Arden Shakespeare … published Double Falsehood, endorsing its credentials and making it available in a fully annotated form for the first time in 250 years.”
Signature Theatre Gets New Home, Just Not At Ground Zero
The 42nd Street space still has “three theaters of varying sizes; an open lobby with a cafe and a bookstore; and the prominent [Frank] Gehry as designer.” It’s also “budgeted at a mere $60 million and is actually under construction, in contrast to the planned arts center at the World Trade Center site, which increasingly seems like a pipe dream.”
Tech Worry: Preserving Authors’ Digital Archives
“Electronically produced drafts, correspondence and editorial comments, sweated over by contemporary poets, novelists and nonfiction authors, are ultimately just a series of digits — 0’s and 1’s — written on floppy disks, CDs and hard drives, all of which degrade much faster than old-fashioned acid-free paper.” The technology ages faster, too.