“In the twilight of her life, about two-thirds of the white blood cells remaining in her body at death originated from just two stem cells, implying that most or all of the blood stem cells she started life with had already burned out and died.”
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Series-Production Standoff: “House of Cards” Versus The State Of Maryland
“The California-based production company has postured long enough since the end of the legislative session, with threats to tear down the sets, pack up the soundstages in Joppa and move to Georgia or Pennsylvania.”
How Disney Movies Serve The Gay Agenda (The Real One)
“Through both its corporate practices and the content of its films, Disney for decades has implemented the so-called ‘gay agenda’ – which is to say, helping make the world a more accepting place.”
Why Do Some People Hate Céline Dion So Much?
“‘The most wholly repellent woman ever to sing songs of love,’ spewed Cintra Wilson, ‘I think most people would rather be processed through the digestive tract of an anaconda than be Céline Dion for a day.’ Bitch, excuse me? We’re not talking about Bernie Madoff or the Abu Ghraib torture team.” Novelist Mary Gaitskill has a go at figuring it out.
The Dallas Opera Loses Longtime Artistic Leader
“Jonathan Pell, The Dallas Opera’s artistic director, has been the company’s resident taste-maker for three decades, making important decisions about everything from which operas get staged to who stars in them. This morning, TDO announced that Pell will be leaving the company at the end of this year. Well, sort of leaving.”
Much Ado About Nothingness: Was Shakespeare An Atheist?
“The atheist Shakespeare theories” – which have been around for about a century now – “may be gaining currency, but … he has been called everything from a closet Catholic to an apologist for the Protestant state religion; the truth, one suspects, is murkier.”
What We Forget About Shakespeare: He Was An Actor First
Many of the encomia written for his 450th birthday “will likely omit or only fleetingly mention one fact: Shakespeare’s first acts of creation were not poems or plays, but the characters he gave life to as a struggling actor. This is no small omission.”
Why Choreographer Wayne McGregor Collaborates With Neuroscientists
“When we think about images, we tend to only think about visual images. There are different types of images: acoustic, kinesthetic. … What we concentrate on when we are making choreography is how we can do things differently. That is what the neuroscientists have been helping us with.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.23.14
Harry Potter and the Disregarded Entity
AJBlog: The Artful Manager | Published 2014-04-23
Does Literary Fiction Exist? And, James Franco
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-04-23
Doris Duke Performing Artists of jazz beyond jazz
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz | Published 2014-04-23
Why Salzburg is losing its good Easter egg
AJBlog: Slipped Disc | Published 2014-04-23
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Toronto Symphony Lands A New Star CEO
“Several sources on the front lines of the cultural business say the TSO deal has been made, the contracts have been drawn up and the staff know Jeff Melanson is on board. That’s a huge step forward because he is known as a great fixer — and there’s no organization more in need of a big fix than the TSO.”