“Welcome to the strange jazz resurgence of the new millennium. Jazz is definitely hot again … yet all of this is happening outside of the jazz world. This is a peculiar turn of events.”
Tag: 05.27.16
Six Words Of Arts-Professional Jargon That Could Just Make You Want To Puke
“There’s a small subset of words that trigger this nauseous reaction when we encounter them. We want to analyse what it is about these words that makes them so objectionable to us. They sit at the intersection of Jargon, Buzzwords, and Office Speak.”
San Francisco Arts And Homeless Organizations Join Forces
“Although the city’s arts and homeless communities intersect frequently in the present tough economic climate — with increasing numbers of artists and arts organizations being displaced from their homes and workplaces, artists creating art about living on the streets, and homeless services organizations offering arts activities to people in shelters — the collaboration is certainly unusual.”
So You Think You Know Your Own Mind, Do You?
“The mid-20th-century behaviourist philosopher Gilbert Ryle held that we learn about our own minds, not by inner sense, but by observing our own behaviour, and that friends might know our minds better than we do. (Hence the joke: two behaviourists have just had sex and one turns to the other and says: ‘That was great for you, darling. How was it for me?’)”
Indie Opera Is Flourishing In Toronto
“Quite apart from the gold-plated extravaganzas that glide across the stage of the Canadian Opera Company’s Four Seasons stage, there is a vital collection of smaller companies in the city finding natural life in the supposedly ossified realms of one of Western civilization’s most highly developed art forms.”
Do Canadian Content Rules Make Any Sense In The New Media Landscape?
“Even the most ardent cultural nationalists know there’s a problem. On television, regulations requiring that about half the programming day be devoted to Canadian shows were created for linear schedules; they make little sense in an on-demand environment. Also, unregulated foreign services – that would be Netflix – face no such requirements. Nor does Netflix contribute to the Canadian programming funds underwritten by the cable and satellite companies.”
New Young Generation Takes The Stage At Stratford And Shakespeare Is Reinvented Yet Again
In fact, the most immediately notable aspect of the younger Stratford is that it is becoming a more thoroughly diverse Stratford – just as young Canada is a more diverse country.
Why Would Corporations Help Rome Restore Its Monuments? City Government Is Incompetent At Best
One reason why the city is so hard-up (beyond the still-towering effects of the 2008 financial crisis) is that its administration is almost as dilapidated as the monuments of which it is custodian. Steered by a mix of sclerotic incompetence and outright corruption, the city’s mismanagement has long earned it the sobriquet “Mafia Capital.”
Are We Close To Having A Universal Translator? (And If So You’ll No Longer Need To Learn A Second Language)
“For years it’s been a major boon in business to know a second language—and for the sake of relationships, it may still be. But it looks like in a few years you’ll be able to attend a German cocktail hour and know what’s being said, or make that trip to France and understand directions.”
What Kinds Of Books Are Selling These Days? Paperbacks, Audiobooks, Coloring Books – But Not E-Books
“After years of seemingly unstoppable growth, e-book sales have started to slip, while paper has improbably bounced back. Digital book sales fell nearly 10 percent in 2015 from the previous year. Paperback sales grew by a healthy 16 percent.” What’s more, “those who came of age with digital technology seem, surprisingly, to prefer paper to pixels.”