“Without that review and without a reliable reviewer people have come to trust, a lot of the performing arts groups are saying that their second weekend of shows aren’t getting that big bump they used to when someone would come to review the dress rehearsal or reviewed their opening night.”
Tag: 06.16.16
Facebook Exec: FB Will Likely Be All-Video Within Five Years
“I just think if we look already, we’re seeing a year-on-year decline on text. We’re seeing a massive increase, as I’ve said, on both pictures and video. If I was having a bet, I would say: video, video, video.”
Fresno Grand Opera Reports Financial Falsifications, Misrepresentations
“Among the issues raised in the internal report and documents delivered to the attorney general’s office, are alleged falsification of tax forms, an alleged failure to disclose an outside business relationship with a for-profit company owned by key employees, alleged improper accounting methods misrepresenting the organization’s true financial health, and allegations that board minutes were created several years after meeting dates.”
We Have An Official World’s Ugliest Color – And A Defense Of It
“Also known as ‘opaque couché,’ the drab hue of greenish brown has drawn endless comparisons to baby poop.” (We think it looks more like guacamole that’s been in the fridge too long.) “Researchers first discovered widespread repulsion to this particular tone in a 2012 study intended to help the Australian government come up with unappealing packaging for cigarettes.”
Gregory Rabassa, 94, Giant Of Literary Translation
Perhaps the greatest tribute to Rabassa, whose work brought (among others) Mario Vargas Llosa, Octavio Paz, Jorge Amado, and Clarice Lispector to the English-speaking world, came from Gabriel García Márquez, who called Rabassa “the best Latin American writer in the English language” and said that his translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude was a better book than the original.
Creator Of ‘The Big Gay Musical,’ 41, Commits Suicide, Leaves Note On Facebook
“[Fred] Caruso, who was openly gay, wrote or produced – and often directed — several LGBT-themed films, including Go Go Crazy and A Four Letter Word, and he produced the off-Broadway news spoof hit Newsical. But [he] was best known for The Big Gay Musical, a film which follows two gay actors starring in a (fictional) off-Broadway musical titled Adam and Steve Just the Way God Made ‘Em.”
EU Court Set To Rule That Libraries Can Lend Ebooks Like Print Books
“Maciej Szpunar, advocate general to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), said in an opinion published (PDF) Thursday morning that public libraries should be allowed to lend e-books so long as the author is fairly compensated.”
Is Australia’s Largest Baroque Festival Near Collapse?
Brisbane Baroque only launched last year, and the first-ever festival won five Helpmann Awards, Australia’s national honors for the performing arts. But this week, just two months after the second festival ended and a few days before it’s expected to get another batch of Helpmann nominations, news emerged that many of this year’s performers still haven’t been paid and Brisbane Baroque’s CEO is incommunicado in a Melbourne hospital.
Outdoor Arts Attract The Diverse Audience We (Say We) Want
“The findings [of a recent large-scale study] are both fascinating and exciting. One of the most important findings is that outdoor arts consistently attract an audience that is representative of the population as a whole. This is a simple statement with profound significance. In the cultural sector there’s often the ambition to be accessible for all, and there are examples of that being achieved. The outdoor arts though consistently achieve it over both time and place.”
Still Teaching At Age 102: Curtis Institute’s Eleanor Sokoloff
While she’s currently at her summer home in New England, in the fall Sokoloff will return to her students in Philadelphia, where she has taught at Curtis since 1938.