“Palmyra’s symbolism is powerful, and not lost on IS. At its height the city was the centre of an empire that covered, among other territories, all of modern Syria and Israel and parts of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. It is still one of the most impressive archaeological sites in the Middle East.”
Tag: 05.30.15
Laid-Off Sacramento Ballet Dancers Debut As New Troupe
“The ballet recently announced that it would cut its season short as a cost-saving measure. … In response, more than 20 of the laid-off performers founded the Capital Dance Project, a new, dancer-driven company that held its first production Saturday. The dancers put the show together in 20 days.”
Folks Behind ‘Big Bang Theory’ Create Scholarships For Needy STEM Students
“The Big Bang Theory Scholarship Endowment has already raised $4 million to support undergraduate students at UCLA who are studying the sciences. Starting in the fall, 20 Big Bang Theory grants will be awarded to UCLA science students who have gotten in on academic merit but need extra support to supplement their financial aid … Every year, five more students will be added.”
Why Loki Has Been Popular For, Oh, 900 Years Or So
“Of all the gods of Asgard, Loki is the subversive, the social and racial outsider; a gender-fluid character in a binary world. It seems appropriate, therefore, for Loki to subvert the epic tradition of prose just as he subverts everything else. It is a gesture of defiance – one of many – against authority, convention, even the rules of storytelling.”
A New York City Ballet Pair Gets Married, Then The Performance World Keeps Them Apart
“Before we married, we had the perfect scenario — we did everything together. We could just look at one another across the room in ballet class, and that was enough to check in.’
Reese Witherspoon And The Quest To Make Movies Starring And About Adult Women
“‘Women make up 50 percent of the population, so we should make up 50 percent of the [roles and stories] in movies,’ she added. ‘It’s not a crazy thought, it’s just a representation of reality.'”
How Do You Juggle Broadway, Hollywood, And Chemo?
“She’s so alive onstage and so thrilling to watch. That’s a direct result of her having to live in the moment in her life right now. She doesn’t say, ‘I’ll do it later.’ I’ve never once felt like she wasn’t giving 100% of herself.”
A Haitian Novelist Who Came Of Age In Canada Is The First Non-French Citizen Inducted Into Academie Française
Dany Laferrière “wore the signature costume of academicians: a black tailcoat embroidered with green olive branches that in his case a Montreal embroiderer spent 500 hours sewing, and a metal sword specially made by a Haitian sculptor with references to Legba, the Voodoo deity of crossroads.”
An Irish Art Collector, Drowned On The Lusitania, Left His Collection To Ireland – So Of Course It’s In London
“I don’t think it is unreasonable for me –or for anyone who has studied the history of the Lane paintings – to feel a glow of righteous rage when we see the ownership of these paintings vested solely and simply in the National Gallery, London.”
Instead Of ‘Decluttering,’ Try Loving Your Stuff And Its History
“It is time to liberate ourselves from the propaganda of divestment. I would like to submit an entirely different agenda, one that is built on love, cherishing and timelessness. One that acknowledges that in living, we accumulate. We admire. We desire. We love. We collect. We display.”