“He seemed to transform every work of art he wrote about; you never looked at one the same way after reading what Steinberg wrote about it.”
Tag: 03.24.11
Efficient By Design
“Few existing buildings can be retrofitted to net zero, but huge cuts in energy use are possible now at low cost. An apartment in a conventional building oriented to harvest winter daylight and reject summer heat can save more than 50 percent of the heating and cooling energy needed to keep occupants from frying in a typical single-family house designed with slabs of glass facing the sun.”
Can A Serious Iraq War Drama Become A Broadway Hit – Even With Robin Williams?
“How to turn the bloody truths of the Iraq war into mass entertainment is a problem that has repeatedly bedeviled Hollywood executives. Even The Hurt Locker, which won the Academy Award for best picture last year, earned only $17 million domestically.” Coming to Broadway, where ticket prices are ten times those of movies, is a play “that starts with a behanding, … and features no less than Uday Hussein clutching the severed head of his brother, Qusay.”