Describer by the jury as “a powerful oratorio for chorus and sextet evoking Pennsylvania coal-mining life around the turn of the 20th century,” Anthracite Fields was commissioned by the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, which premiered the piece last April with the Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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“Between Riverside And Crazy” By Stephen Adly Guirgis Wins Pulitzer For Drama
“[A] play about the police, race, a suspect shooting, and real estate,” with a retired African-American cop (shot and wounded by a white colleague) at its center, Between Riverside And Crazy debuted last summer at New York’s Atlantic Theater Company.
Cirque Du Soleil Hasn’t Been *Completely* Sold, Just *Mostly* Sold – For $1.5 Billion
The majority stake went to a U.S. private equity firm, with minority stakes going to a Chinese investment firm, Quebec’s pension fund, and founder Guy Laliberté. Plans are for a major expansion in China, though the owners insist that Cirque’s headquarters will remain in Montreal.
Alison Bechdel Never Expected The Bechdel Test To Become A Real Thing
“I feel sort of funny about that whole thing because it wasn’t like I said, ‘This is the Bechdel test, and now you must follow it.’ It somehow just got attached to me. I mean, I did write down the principles in a cartoon, but this younger generation of feminists and film-watchers has adopted it in this way that I think is pretty cool.”
Why People Like Food Porn When They Can’t Eat The Photos And May Never Cook With The Recipes
On a basic level, the appeal of any sort of porn is what scientists call supranormal stimulus, “[an] exaggerated imitation [that] can cause a stronger pull than the real thing.” But food porn “is a visual experience of something that other people can smell and taste … something that, at its best, should manufacture a desire that it can’t satisfy.” So what happens in the brain that keeps people hooked on it?
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.20.15
The Shocking Cooper Hewitt
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-04-20
Global Guggenheim Updates: Abu Dhabi (workers’ rights), Bilbao (renewal), Helsinki (finalists’ show)
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-04-20
What beauty does. (Taking stock in week 6 of the class.)
AJBlog: Jumper Published 2015-04-20
The Money Frog: A potent symbol of Bay Area greed?
AJBlog: Lies Like Truth Published 2015-04-20
Together Dancing Cheek to Cheek
AJBlog: Plain English
Don’t mention the war
AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2015-04-20
The shame sharks
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-04-20
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‘All The Light We Cannot See’ Wins Pulitzer For Fiction (And The Complete List … )
Anthony Doerr wins for “an imaginative and intricate novel inspired by the horrors of World War II and written in short, elegant chapters that explore human nature and the contradictory power of technology.”