“It’s a job that makes a good amount of money. It’s almost impossible to find in business a job where you can make that amount of money. So you get involved in that and it becomes an addiction, making money. It becomes a body addiction too. It’s definitely not a passion.”
Tag: 05.29.13
Dance New Amsterdam Files For Bankruptcy
“After years of struggle, including possible eviction because of unpaid rent, cash flow problems, trouble getting foundation support and the loss of a major rental partnership, Dance New Amsterdam, a dance space in Lower Manhattan, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.”
Amazon Picks Up Five Pilots For Its First Original Series
“The programs, including a John Goodman comedy about misfit roommate senators and a kids program about a young scientist, will be the online retailer’s first original series as the company follows Netflix Inc. and Hulu LLC into the business of creating its own programming to stream on the Web.”
World’s Oldest Complete Torah Scroll Discovered In Bologna Library
“Mauro Perani, professor of Hebrew at the University of Bologna, said experts and carbon dating tests done in Italy and the United States dated the scroll as having been made between 1155 and 1225. The scroll, which has been in possession of the Bologna University Library for more than 100 years, had been previously thought to be from the 17th century.”
Munich’s Lenbachhaus Museum Reopens
“Munich’s standing as one of Germany’s major cultural centres has been consolidated this month with the reopening of the city’s renovated Lenbachhaus Museum … [following] a four-year renovation plan overseen by Lord Norman Foster’s Foster + Partners architectural firm.”
The Internet’s Most Famous Feline Has An Agent And A Movie Deal
“‘She hates movies,’ says [feline talent agent Tom] Lashes of his client, Grumpy Cat, a cat with a mouth puckered into a frown whose viral photos have ricocheted around the Internet.”
Italy’s Literati Battle To Save Writers’ Favorite Trieste Coffee Bar
“In its heyday the Caffè San Marco was one of the fixed points on the vibrant intellectual map of Trieste, frequented by James Joyce, the writer Italo Svevo and the poet Umberto Saba. … Locals fear that either AG will decide to give up on the San Marco, or new management will be found that has a different vision for the venue.”
Banana Split Healed: Velvet Underground And Warhol Foundation Settle Lawsuit
“Velvet Underground, the 1960s avant-garde rock band, has settled a fight with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts over the rights to an iconic pop art image of a banana that graced the band’s best-known album.”
Four Super-Ambitious Plans For A Penn Station Makeover
“In New York, we’re always late and we think of waiting as a waste. How could you turn that into a positive attribute and actually come there early and spend more time?”
The Poor Battered CBC
“This government’s reach into the CBC inner working comes at an odd time. The CBC is a wounded, bewildered beast staggering round, trying to figure out how to survive with a hostile government and an aggressive commercial broadcast sector that wants it dead.”