Toronto author Terry Falls self-published his work after he couldn’t interest an agent or a Canadian publisher. Now the book has won the $10,000 2008 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour.
Tag: 05.01.08
A Wrongheaded Attack On English Church Music
“Nothing could be more off-putting than the happy-crappy, watered-down dross that passes for music in these churches, where any sense of musical lineage has disappeared along with most of the congregation.” And now one of the better traditional hymns is being banned?
Iraqi Official Accuses West Of Abetting Antiquities Theft
A senior Iraqi official has accused the West of not doing enough to stop the thriving trade in antiquities smuggled out of the country’s depleted archeological sites and sold in auction houses across Britain, America and Europe.
Dominic Dromgoole’s Grand Plan For The Globe Theatre
“Income last year was up 12 per cent from the year before, and the present season’s advance sales of £2m is higher than that of 2007. Fundraising for a new education centre, library, and indoor theatre is marching ahead. All this has been accomplished without government aid, whose absence Dromgoole does not regret.’It’s a huge advantage, actually. I find it intellectually liberating’.”
Classical Music’s Bad Century?
“If nineteenth-century German politics and philosophy and musical endeavour made classical music unprecedentedly momentous, its implication in the near-annihilation of European civilization by the mid-century robbed it of moral authority, a collapse with which classical music still lives, sixty years on.”
LA Artist Settles Suit Over Destruction Of His Mural
Los Angeles artist Kent Twitchell has settled his lawsuit against the U.S. government and 11 other defendants for painting over his six-story mural “Ed Ruscha Monument,” painted on the side of a federal government-owned downtown building, for $1.1 million.