Dance Becomes An Issue In UK’s Close Elections

“In a general election as impossible to predict as the one here on Thursday, with many constituencies in the balance and a large chance of a hung Parliament, any pressing issue may swing the vote of the undecided. One of these issues is dance. Yes, dance … [The] subject has spurred a voting initiative and more than one political furor in recent months.”

Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center Loses Organ, Pianos To Floods

“One of the city’s recently acquired glories – the $2.5 million Schoenstein pipe organ installed in the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in 2007 – is among the latest casualties of the Cumberland’s unstoppable flood waters.” Two Steinway concert pianos and the center’s dining facility were also damaged, though the main concert hall was not flooded.

Battling Chinese-To-English Malapropisms In Shanghai

“Fortified by an army of 600 volunteers and a politburo of adroit English speakers,” the Shanghai Commission for the Management of Language Use “has fixed more than 10,000 public signs (farewell ‘Teliot’ and ‘urine district’), rewritten English-language historical placards and helped hundreds of restaurants recast offerings” such as “monolithic tree mushroom stem squid.”

Appreciation: Lynn Redgrave

“To Vanessa’s tragically unbending Antigone, Lynn was the levelheaded Ismene, the sibling not built for radical extremes, who preferred everyday humanity to the glories of myth. … The truth is that critics, by and large, were as susceptible to her appeal as her fans. As much as Vanessa Redgrave is revered, Lynn was beloved.”