The former host of the popular CBC Radio program Q “has been acquitted on four counts of sexual assault and one count of choking by an Ontario Court judge who says the ‘deceptive and manipulative’ evidence of the complainants raised a reasonable doubt [about his] guilt.”
Tag: 03.24.16
New Scans Suggest Shakespeare’s Skull May Be Missing From His Grave
Researchers used ground-penetrating radar to explore the playwright’s tomb in Stratford-upon-Avon’s Holy Trinity Church. Staffordshire University archaeologist Kevin Colls, who led the study, said they found “an odd disturbance at the head end,” with evidence of repairs some time after the original burial.
Frick Museum Abandons Expansion Plans That Would Have Replaced Gardens
While the Frick abandoned its earlier renovation plan, designed by Davis Brody Bond — which called for a six-story addition that eliminated the gated garden on East 70th Street — its space constraints have remained the same, if not “become more pressing.”
Don’t Blame “Reality” TV For Donald Trump
Yet “reality TV star” is constantly attached to Trump as a label and his rise in popularity as politician, with all its reverberations, is regularly blamed on the existence of reality TV. This is nonsense. Coarse, rabble-rousing politicians existed and thrived before television existed, let alone what we now call reality TV.
‘Big Ego And High-Handed Obstinacy’: Maybe It’s A Good Thing That English National Opera’s Music Director Quit
Rupert Christiansen: “Urbane and cultured, [Mark Wigglesworth] is a charming and intelligent person with exceptional musical talent, but his big ego and high-handed obstinacy are qualities that, in its current ’emergency measures’ position, ENO cannot accommodate. He’s long been well known to be a tricky customer with a short fierce temper, and his brilliant early career hasn’t fulfilled its promise because of it.”