“If granted, the injunction would mean the musicians could continue to play their instruments in the show until a decision is made at a final hearing.”
Tag: 04.10.14
The Sad Case Of The Orchestra Executive Director Charged With Embezzlement
“When Stephen Jay Carlton was hired on July 1, 2009, at an annual salary of $75,000 plus full medical benefits, the balance sheet for the Symphony at the fiscal year ending June 2009 showed about $500,000 in endowment funds with close to $10,000 in the checking account. On Sept. 20, 2013, when the alleged fraud began to unravel, there was $1,400 in endowment funds and $0 in the checking account.”
San Diego Opera Chairman Says Board Wants To Save Company ‘In Some Form’
Karen Cohn: “We are exploring every possible idea for creating an economically sustainable way to preserve the current opera company in some form. And if that proves to be impossible, we all stand ready to do whatever we can to help preserve opera in a new form for San Diego.”
Stephen Colbert May Be A Worthy Successor To Letterman, But ‘Stephen Colbert’ Was One Of TV’s Greatest Characters Ever (Seriously)
“The Colbert Report was more than just a late-night show. The Colbert Report was also the type of character study that had never been seen or attempted before. … 150 nights a year, Colbert defined the character slowly but surely, segment by segment.”
Mary Cheever Dead At 95
An author and poet in her own right, she was “a central figure in a family of prominent American writers whose most notable member was her husband, John, with whom she had a relationship as complex as those he wrote about.”
The Word That Won Scrabble’s New-Word Contest Is Superfluous In Scrabble
Not only that, argues Stefan Fatsis, but the contest was won by the equivalent of ballot-stuffing.
SFMoMA To Open Largest Photography Exhibition Space In U.S.
“The John and Lisa Pritzker Center for Photography will feature more than 15,500 square feet of space and will almost triple the current amount of space for photography at the museum, according to the museum. The center will be located on the third floor of the museum when it reopens in 2016 after extensive renovations.”
At Last Minute, ‘A Night With Janis Joplin’ Cancels Off-Broadway Transfer
“The production, built around Mary Bridget Davies’s uncanny channeling of the 1960s diva’s spirit and sound, was to begin performances at the Gramercy Theater, following a short Broadway run that generated a fervent fan base.” But on Wednesday producers postponed the opening indefinitely due to what they called “production issues”.
Can We Really Learn To Control Our Own Dreams?
Lucid dreaming is real, and likely more people do it than you (or they) might think.
Remember That Papyrus That Said Jesus Has A Wife? Well, It’s Not A Fake
“A faded fragment of papyrus known as the ‘Gospel of Jesus’s Wife,’ which caused an uproar when unveiled by a Harvard Divinity School historian in 2012, has been tested by scientists who conclude in a journal published on Thursday that the ink and papyrus are very likely ancient, and not a modern forgery.”