A Theatre-World Boycott Of Newsweek Over Review

“Glee” creator Ryan Murphy is urging an immediate boycott of Newsweek until the magazine apologizes to all of its gay readership for what Murphy calls a “needlessly cruel and mind-blowingly bigoted piece” by Ramin Setoodeh that seems to imply that gay actors shouldn’t be playing straight characters, a position that Murphy calls shocking and “blatantly homophobic,” in part because Setoodeh is gay himself.

So What Exactly Is Wisdom, Anyway?

Two UC-San Diego professors reported “that while defining wisdom is subjective, there are enough similarities in definition across time and cultures to suggest that wisdom may come from just the right balance between our more primitive brain regions and our more recently developed brain functions.” Subsequently the two did a meta-study in an attempt to define the concept of wisdom.

In India, Trying To Win Fans Of Western Classical Music

“Despite India’s colonial past, and many attempts to establish classical roots by prominent musical figures from the Parsi community (such as the conductor Zubin Mehta), India has never taken the bait. Its own embarrassment of musical riches probably has something to do with this. … But the [London Philharmonic] is always up for a challenge.”