“Sales of games, consoles and game accessories, such as extra controllers, dropped 14% last month to $743.1 million, down from $866.8 million in May 2010.”
Tag: 06.14.11
Regulator Proposes Overhaul Of Canadian Communications Laws
“The industry is going through fundamental change in technology, in business models and in corporate structures. It has become a single industry, thoroughly converged and integrated. Yet it continues to be regulated under three separate acts which date from 20 years ago.”
Latest Public Nuisance: Sodcasting
“With mobile phones in many a teenager’s pocket, the rise of sodcasting – best described as playing music through a phone in public – has created a noisy problem for a lot of commuters.”
Can Reality TV Bring More People Into Opera?
“Anything that introduces anyone to something they haven’t encountered before and then decide to take further is a great thing. Popstar to Operastar does that. Art forms like opera are shrouded in mystery and mystique and these programmes explain what the life of an opera star is like. There is an appetite for opera and now it can be seen in cinemas, people are going.”
Royal Ballet Star Carlos Acosta Contemplates Retirement
“Ballet has been like being married for 30 years, and then for some reason life takes you on different paths, but you still have the memories of the woman you love – that’s me and ballet.”
The New Whitney – A Building Out Of Place?
“The latest design for the $210 million Whitney Museum of American Art looks like a top-heavy container ship run aground in Manhattan’s Chelsea district.”
It’s Time To Rehabilitate Uncle Tom (The Character And The Book)
When it was first published, Uncle Tom’s Cabin “became the most influential novel in American history and a catalyst for radical change both at home and abroad. Today, of course, the book has a decidedly different reputation.” The title character “has become a byword for a spineless sellout … [and] we tend to think of the novel itself as an old-fashioned, rather lachrymose affair … But this view is egregiously inaccurate.”
Bono And The Edge Open Up About The Spider-Man/Julie Taymor Saga
“In their fullest comments yet about the creative clashes this winter inside Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Bono and the Edge, of U2 – first-time Broadway composers – said they originally embraced Julie Taymor’s script and characters for the show but were wholly ill-prepared for putting her ambitious ideas onstage.”