“In the next three years, the Ontario government plans to winnow tens of millions of dollars from its support of the culture, tourism and sport sector, including a 23 per cent reduction in funding to Toronto’s high-profile Luminato festival and modest decreases in operating assistance to such venerable institutions as the Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario.”
Tag: 03.28.12
Hitchens Makes List For Orwell Prize
A book by the late Christopher Hitchens is leading the field for this year’s Orwell Prize for best political book. ‘Arguably’ is a collection of essays whose subjects range from the War on Terror to Diana, Princess of Wales.
The Books Market – Being Carved Up In Front Of You
“Setting aside the legalities, all the arguments about competitive and anticompetitive behavior in e-books seem to turn on how best to carve up the e-book pie among ten or twelve different market actors.”
Dustin Hoffman: Things Were Different In The Golden Age Of Movies
“They (the studios) don’t talk about doing good work – they just talk about making money. In our day the studio was hoping to make a good film, which hopefully didn’t lose money.”
‘Crosshatching A Miracle’: Inventing New York’s Street Grid
Ada Louise Huxtable recounts how the 1811 Master Plan of Manhattan was created (ingeniously) and implemented (tortuously), and she considers what the city has gotten from it (besides gridlock).