“Are we more or less likely to lie to someone if we are communicating via email or text message than if we are speaking face-to-face? One researcher has found that using the computer can actually encourage people to lie.”
Tag: 05.31.10
What We Learn In Outdated Reference Books
“With hindsight, we can always see through the dubious ‘authority’ of such historical sources. Few things look as unstable as the rock-solid certainties of previous ages. Since encyclopedias are supposed to be balanced and disinterested, the bias often seems even more naked.”
Thou Shalt Not Take The Name Of Fred Astaire In Vain
“[Robyn] Astaire, the performer’s widow, filed a suit on Friday … seeking to block what she says is unauthorized use of the Astaire name by the coming Fred and Adele Astaire Awards. The ceremony, a regular event in New York for the last 28 years, recognizes dance performances and choreography on Broadway and in films.”
Shakespeare Questions You Never Thought To Ask
“Shakespeare was a professional writer and writers have love affairs, rivalries, cash crises, prejudices, off-days, children and mortgages. The assumption is that we know very little about this side of his life. But it’s amazing just how much is known and how fascinating it is.” Question 1: “Was he gay, straight or just sex-mad?”
Sans $800M Infusion, Sydney Opera House May Close
“The cash crisis is so desperate, performers’ lives are at risk from ancient stage machinery because there is no money to update it, damning internal reports reveal. … Opera House chief executive Richard Evans has confirmed it may have to close permanently if state and federal governments do not give $800 million for a renewal project….”
Spoleto Fest Music Director To Step Down At Season’s End
“I love this Festival deeply,” Emmanuel Villaume told the Spoleto U.S.A. board this morning, “and I have always said that if I could not give the organization what I consider to be the necessary time, I would step down from my position.”
When The Ensemble’s Instrument Is A Laptop
“Every musician in this ensemble was playing the same instrument – a MacBook. You’ve now entered the world of Slork, one of various high-tech musical projects under way at CCRMA, Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.”
Poet Peter Orlovsky, Partner Of Allen Ginsberg, Dies At 76
“Although they spent time apart, Ginsberg and Orlovsky’s relationship endured for more than 30 years. … Orlovsky taught at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, founded by Ginsberg and Anne Waldman in 1974.”
Newport Music Festival Director Dies In Car Crash
“The Minnesota State Patrol says 79-year-old Mark P. Malkovich III of Portsmouth, R.I., was killed Sunday in an accident on Interstate 35 near North Branch, which is about 40 miles north of Minneapolis.”
Britain’s YBA’s – Goodbye To All That
“The glory years of youth and concept in British art are ending, not with a bang, but with a whimper. The death of the British boom in hot! new! young! art has been predicted before, but now it really seems to be happening. In its place a more catholic, and more honest era may be beginning.”