Tag: 04.03.06

Julia Roberts A Broadway Box Office Hit

The actress’s Broadway debut sold out in its first week of previews, earning almost $1 million at the box office. “The eight performances, which began March 28, played to 101 percent of capacity (which includes standing room) at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, the league said. The Richard Greenberg play — Roberts’ Broadway debut — opens April 19.”

Think it? Write It

“Brain-wave typing could become reality in just a few years. It would open up a world of communication with caregivers and loved ones for people disabled by ALS, cerebral palsy or high-level spinal-cord injuries. With little or no muscle control, communicating clearly, or even at all is difficult, if not impossible. Researchers in the brain-computer interface, or BCI, Group at New York State Public Health Department’s Wadsworth Center are enrolling patients in trials of a system that could enable them to send e-mail and communicate using their brain waves.”

Another Sad Tale Of Failed Dance In Southern Cal

Ethan Stiefel should have been the guy to make a dance company work in the Los Angeles area. But he was thwarted. Why? “Too bad he had to learn the hard way what the rest of us have understood for a long time: Everybody wants a resident world-class ballet company in the Southland, but nobody wants to pay for it. And rather than repeating [oft chronicled reasons] and clucking sadly yet again, how about considering a radical proposal? How about forbidding anyone to start yet another new local penniless ballet company until we’ve doubled our dance audience through a host of development strategies?”

Spitzer: FCC Is Undermining Payola Investigation

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has been investigating radio companies over illegal payola deals. But Spitzer now says that “the FCC is working against him. ‘We have asked them several times to participate and they have not only not done that, but they are now furtively going out there negotiating behind our backs’,” propsing mush smaller fines than Spitzer had in mind.

Prehistoric – Teenage Boys And Their Graffiti

Who drew most of the prehistoric cave paintings that have been discovered? Teen age boys. “The theory contradicts the idea that adult, tribal shaman spiritual leaders and healers produced virtually all cave art. It also explains why many of the images drawn in caves during the Pleistocene, between 10,000 and 35,000 years ago, somewhat mirror today’s artwork and graffiti that are produced by adolescent males.”

Does MoMA Need To Reinvent?

Has the Museum of Modern Art become too safe? Too museum-like? “No one doubts that MoMA remained the preeminent museum of its kind anywhere. But MoMA was traditionally a living idea, not a static monument. It aspired to be the center of an arts community. It considered itself an edgy institution that challenges and instructs.” And now?

Date Set For Denver Museum Opening

A date has been set for the opening of the new Daniel-Libeskind-designed Denver Art Museum building. It’s October 7. “Planning for the building began in 1999 when Denver voters approved a $62.5 million bond issue. The project also prompted the DAM board to raise more than $50 million in endowment funds, and another $28 million for upgrades in the project.”