“As you yourself have observed, Chinua himself repudiated such a tag – he did study literature after all, bagged a degree in the subject. So, it is a tag of either literary ignorance or ‘momentary exuberance’ – ala [Nadine] Gordimer – to which we are all sometimes prone.”
Tag: 05.18.13
The Dance Company Reality TV Built
“Los Angeles-based contemporary dance company Shaping Sound … [was born] from the Oxygen Network’s All the Right Moves” a docuseries that followed [the four founders] as they endeavored to form their own company.”
TV’s Gender Imbalance
“Forty and older are actually 47 percent of our population here in the U.S., yet only 26 percent of women on TV,” she observes. Of course, 40 and older in the real world tends to describe the ages of CEOs, high-level politicians and people who’ve poured decades into building distinguished careers.
LAPhilharmonic Worries About Subway Noise In Disney Hall
“Experts who know the hall’s acoustics are worried that the listening experience in the main auditorium could suffer when subway trains begin running 125 feet below the parking garage in 2020.”
This Was The Most-Streamed Recording Of The Past Year
“A total of 4.4 billion tracks were streamed in the last twelve months from sites including Spotify, We7, Zune, Napster and Deezer.”
This Dance Philanthropist Takes Her Coffee Seriously
Dance philanthropist/publisher Patsy Tarr: “We own two espresso machines, and we use them both. We must drink four lattes apiece each morning. I wake up dead, and that’s how I get going.”
Watches: They’re Still Going, Increasingly As Complex Pieces Of Art
“Eight hundred ninety-one parts–each hand-finished to a tolerance of one hundredth of a millimeter–mesh to measure and display everything from the phases of the moon to an interesting but inessential equation used to account for the discrepancy between mechanical time and the time kept by the sun.”
Christine White, 86, Who Had A Starring Role In Classic ‘Twilight Zone’
“The show became a classic — remade in a movie, honored in song and spoofed on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ ‘3rd Rock From the Sun’ and ‘The Simpsons.'”
Yeah, ‘Digital Ethnic Cleansing’ Is As Bad As It Sounds
“You could imagine autocratic regimes or other communities taking advantage of that, creating a scenario in which one group finds a way to, for example, filter another group’s content from the web. Or to shut down — or severely slow down — their Internet access.”
Digging Through The Shelves For The Dirt On China’s Elite
“‘There are so many things that we’ve been deceived over,’ he said, waving toward books on the devastating famine of the late 1950s and early 1960s, an episode that official histories have muffled in euphemisms. ‘We can’t learn the truth, so black becomes white and white becomes black.'”