“Manual typewriters aren’t going gently into the good night of the digital era. The machines have been attracting fresh converts, many too young to be nostalgic for spooled ribbons, ink-smudged fingers and corrective fluid. And unlike the typists of yore, these folks aren’t clacking away in solitude.”
Tag: 03.30.11
Met Opera Japan Tour In Jeopardy
General director Peter Gelb “said any risk created by problems at nuclear reactors would be fully evaluated “before the advance team is scheduled to depart in the middle of May.”
How Computers Have Changed Architecture
“Over the centuries, a steady stream of devices altered the way that architects worked: pencils, erasers (what a boon they were!), T-squares, tracing paper, parallel rules, technical pens, rub-on lettering. No device has had the impact of the computer, however.”
Local Market TV Stations Struggling
“It’s the best-of-times, the worst-of-times as local TV climbs out of the economic morass of 2009. The long-term trend is down, but revenue increased last year, even as ratings continued to drop.”
Riccardo Muti, Appearing Healthy, Returns To Chicago Symphony
“Muti’s manner on Tuesday was as brisk and engaged as ever, and conversation bubbled with his customary good humor, perhaps the result of careful recuperation here in Chicago while his wired jaw healed and while he regained his arm mobility, which was limited by the surgery to implant the pacemaker.”
This Year’s Man Booker Prize Finalists
“The 13-strong shortlist for the Man Booker International prize has been announced. Limbering up in the race for the award, known in the publishing world as “the Olympics of literature”, are authors as diverse as Philip Roth, Philip Pullman, Anne Tyler and John le Carré .”
What Not To Do After Your Book Gets A Bad Review
“Self-published author Jacqueline Howett’s online meltdown after a poor review quickly went viral, proving the internet has finally removed the line in the sand between reviewers and authors.”
LA Museum Attendance Lags
Only two Southern California institutions, the Getty Center and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, made the top-100 list in the Art Newspaper’s international survey of museum attendance. With 1,205,685 visitors last year, the Getty came in 33rd, behind not just the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York with more than 5 million but also San Francisco’s De Young Museum with 2 million and the Art Institute of Chicago at 1.6 million.
Critics Speak: What Makes Looking At Art Difficualt
LA Times critics write about what could be improved about the condictions under which they see art.
New Bio That Suggests Gandhi Had Gay Relationship Is Banned In India
“The furor was sparked by local media reports, based on early reviews out of the U.S. and U.K., some of which emphasized passages in the book suggesting Gandhi had an intimate relationship with a German man named Hermann Kallenbach.”