“Online gathering spots represent a potentially radical change to historical research, a craft that has changed little for decades, if not centuries. By aggregating the grass-roots knowledge and recollections of hundreds, even thousands of people, “crowdsourcing,” as it’s increasingly called, may transform a discipline that has long been defined and limited by the labors of a single historian toiling in the dusty archives.”
Tag: 05.25.08
How Chicago Theatre Is Weathering The Recession
Just like real estate, everything in the arts is local.
Book Review Editor Reflects On 10 Years Of Change
“When I joined The Observer in 1996, the world of books was in limbo between hot metal and cool word processing, but it would have been recognisable to many of our past contributors. Now that world is more or less extinct. Many of the great names from those times (Hughes, Murdoch, Mailer, Heller, Gunn, Miller, Vonnegut) are gone. Books, meanwhile, have been pushed to the edge of the radar.”
Carlos Acosta’s Route To Ballet
“Many ballet memoirs revel in a sort of martyrdom in service to a calling. In “No Way Home” we see a man who spent years in blunt defiance of his calling. The result is a bittersweet, uneven but spirited testament to Acosta’s prodigious talent: despite it all, when he finally leapt, he flew.”
Let Me Tell You About Myself!
Gradually, the memoir changed. I don’t know who gave permission to the thousands of unhappy, ill, abused or just dissatisfied people to feel it was OK to reveal in raw, vivid — and as it turned out, sometimes fictional — words their dark secrets, or just a bad day at the office, to the masses, but the technique proved successful.
Jazz Brings In The Globe
“Sure, jazz is historically a hybrid form. But while jazz always has been omnivorous, sucking up influences, it lately has truly entered the global age, sinking new roots and moving further afield than ever before.”
Does The La Scala Muti Tell Us Anythin About What The Chicago Muti Will Be?
“Some patrons offer swift best wishes when asked about the newly named musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In a half beat, they beg off further talk. Others consider questions about Muti, who three years ago was forced out as musical director of La Scala, in a kind of reflective crouch.”
The Class Wins Cannes’ Top Award
Laurent Cantet’s The Class is “about a teacher who is challenged by his students in a tough junior high school in Paris. In his acceptance speech Cantet noted he was disappointed that the film business has not been especially open to making films that are slightly offbeat. But with “The Class,” he said, he was able to accomplish something ideal to him.”
Gold Artwork Stolen From British Columbia Musem
Several priceless gold works of art by legendary Haida artist Bill Reid have been taken from the University of B.C.’s Museum of Anthropology in a daring theft.