“In 1979, the Times investigated picnic habits among Central Park concertgoers, discovering cream of plum soup, pork loin à l’orange, lobster claws, and vichyssoise.”
Tag: 06.12.15
Responding To The UK Election Results With Urgent Devised Theatre
“We’ve been looking at other models for making political theatre. We’ve found that devised theatre, collaboratively made over an intense period of four to five weeks, gives us a chance to react immediately to the changing tensions in the world around us.”
A Pre-War European Orchestra, Brought Back To Life
“Most powerful for me was the depth of meaning to recreate something like this. Most all the original members went to Treblinka extermination camp. It just carries this weight.”
The Man Who Stole History From The Nazis And Just Couldn’t Stop
“Mr. Szajkowski (pronounced shy-KOV-skee) took home disturbing memorabilia, too, like Hitler’s stationery and antlers from Hermann Göring’s hunting lodge. He sometimes tore apart books to cram them into shipping containers. ‘I’m doing my barbaric work with a clean conscience,’ he wrote to a friend in 1945.”
The Family That Watches TV Together …
A longitudinal study “found positive outcomes for families that used media such as TV, movies and the Internet ‘as a tool — to laugh together, to become informed, to connect, to spark discussion.’ Such shared activities led to greater levels of personal disclosure for adolescent boys, more positive family functioning for adolescent girls and greater parental involvement for both.”
How Drawn & Quarterly Transformed Comics From An All-Male Bastion To Something Slightly Different
“While D&Q has championed female artists, those creators have also helped the company succeed. Its three best-selling cartoonists are Tove Jansson (the ‘Moomin’ series), Lynda Barry (‘What It Is’) and Kate Beaton (‘Hark! A Vagrant’).”
The Real Problem With Men, Women, And ‘Goodfellas’
“There was a smarter column to write about gender divides over different movies. Those divides surely do exist, and just as surely have something to do with cultural assumptions and education and respective experiences, and do not require reducing a movie to unpersuasive tabloidisms like ‘GoodFellas [is] Entourage with guns instead of swimming pools.'”
Why Do So Few Comedians Receive Knighthoods?
“The idea of a mirth-maker being granted a title was preposterous. No entertainer ever received a knighthood before the actor Henry Irving in 1895.”
What’s New In Sculpture? Live Bees
“The bees that inhabit Untilled‘s hive are free to roam as they please, and visitors will find them buzzing about within a pretty wide radius of the work. (If you’re allergic, we wouldn’t recommend you get too close.)”
Is Technology Killing Collaboration In Theatre Sound Design?
“Any good sound designer understands that technology is making our jobs more fulfilling and manageable. But it is also making it easy for noncollaborative design to emerge. Anyone can, at this moment, find a specific piece of music, from a specific place anywhere in the world, by clicking a few buttons on multiple devices. However, this does not mean that what is found is the right choice for the production.”