It hard to think that even with all of that, even with all those faux slights against women, that your column is going to cause much genuine interest or outcry, even if you were to complete it with an obviously attention-seeking headline such as “Women are not capable of understanding GoodFellas”.
Tag: 06.11.15
Ohio Republicans Kill Historic Preservation Tax Credit, And Cincinnati Arts Leaders Fret About Music Hall Restoration
Developers who fought in an intense competition for the money were mystified that senators had slipped a couple of lines into the two-year state budget to eliminate the tax credit.
How Chile Is Changing How Movies Are Being Made Around The World
The term “Chilewood” refers to an emerging camp in its eponymous country where genre films are being made by a myriad of talents and attracting high-profile names like Eli Roth and Keanu Reeves. And the etymology of the catchy name originates with its creator Nicolás López, who dropped out of high school at 15 to produce a show for MTV Latin America and never looked back.
Last Month David Letterman’s Show Ended. Now All His Shows Are Off The Internet Too
“A source at CBS says that the videos have been removed from the site as the digital rights have returned to Letterman’s production company, Worldwide Pants, which owns the rights to the show, and that CBS no longer owns the rights.”
Dramatists Guild Protests Treatment Of Writers At Tony Awards
“Ironically it’s the theater that most esteems writers; we are generally recognized as the principal artistic force behind new work, and we even retain ownership and control over the material we create. Yet on the very awards show intended to celebrate our craft, we are effectively negated.”
Has Britain’s National Trust Lost Its Way In The “Visitor Experience”?
This idol now reigns supreme in the NT’s culture: the “visitor experience” of shop, café, loos, car parks and fun for all the family, banishing the dark spectre of “elitism” and making everything ever more “accessible”, has become its religion, superseding a basic respect for the integrity and dignity of what it is charged with conserving and cherishing.
Unknown Poems By Katherine Mansfield Found In Chicago Library
In the collections of the Newberry Library, a researcher discovered nearly 30 poems from the years 1909 to 1911, “the writer’s most painful and difficult period, the evidence for which she had later destroyed.”
No, Ursula K. LeGuin, Amazon Is Not Turning Literature Into Junk Food
Stephen L. Carter: “But now, according to Le Guin, Amazon’s quest for short-term sales is destroying serious literature. … I think Le Guin is half right – or, more to the point, she has identified the correct problem but chosen the wrong villain.”
This 93-Year-Old Ballet Legend Created A New Form Of Dance Therapy
“After she retired from the stage, María Fux, Argentina’s prima ballerina assoluta during the 1940s and ’50s, began teaching classes of blind and disabled students to dance, getting their bodies to do far more than had been thought possible.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.11.15
Being the Sea
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2015-06-11
Trashing Tranquility: Pierre Huyghe Invades Oases at Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Modern Art
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-06-11
Ornette Coleman returned music to freedom and basics
AJBlog: Jazz Beyond Jazz Published 2015-06-11
Getting Happy With Lester Young
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-06-11
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