“In just the past few years, [SEIU] has organized close to 10,000 Florida adjuncts, in what is one of the most remarkable and little-noticed large scale labor campaigns in the country.” – Splinter
Tag: 06.19.19
More Information Makes Things Complicated. No Wonder We Prefer Simple
“Reality is annoying like that: at every level of examination, it raises more questions than answers. There are always details that don’t fit, exceptions to rules, consequences that can’t be predicted. That’s why humans, who famously cannot bear too much reality, have evolved a method of coping with all this complexity: we lie to ourselves about how much we understand.” – New Statesman
The 40 Most Powerful People In Comedy For 2019
With categories like The Suits, The Legends, The Auteurs, The Breakouts, The Dynamic Duos, The Arena Fillers, and The Advocates (that’s for the agents and managers), “The Hollywood Reporter polls industry insiders and mines the data to assemble the second annual list of the artists and executives with the clout to make the world laugh.” – The Hollywood Reporter
Berlin Philharmonic Inaugurates New 650-Seat Concert Hall In Swiss Mountain Village
The little town of Andermatt had been in decline because of the gradual closure of an army base. But an Egyptian developer who fell in love with the area has begun creating a large ski resort, with “hotels, apartments and chalets, restaurants, new infrastructure, a golf course – and a concert hall good enough to attract the world’s best players.” – The Guardian
If Ideas Drive History, What If They’re Really Bad Ideas?
“If ideas drive history and most ideas are bad, as Felipe Fernández-Armesto believes, what follows for politics? A sceptical sort of anti-utopianism, perhaps, which regards any large scheme for human improvement with suspicion.” – New Statesman
Girish Karnad, India’s Greatest Playwright, Dead At 81
As a young man, he got a graduate degree from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar before coming home to make his career on stage and screen. He appeared in almost 100 films (Bollywood blockbusters and arthouse) and directed a dozen (including several award winners), “but it is for his plays, in which he often used myths, folklore and historical events to examine the cultural, economic and social changes in post-independence India, that he will be remembered.” – The Guardian
The Printing Press Was Invented Centuries Before Gutenberg
“Movable type was an 11th-century Chinese invention, refined in Korea in 1230, before meeting conditions in Europe that would allow it to flourish — in Europe, in Gutenberg’s time.” – Literary Hub
Meet America’s Leading Trans Choreographer
“[Sean Dorsey] is an openly transgender choreographer and activist with a professional dance company that has been thriving for 15 years. His company is more in demand than ever. … His mission has always been to honor the lives and stories of the forgotten and censored LGBTQ and transgender elders before him.” – Forbes
What’s Next At The Shed? A Multi-Million-Dollar Sci-Fi Kung-Fu Aerialist Contemporary Dance Musical
That sounds unlikely enough, but the creative team for Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise is even more unlikely: choreographer Akram Khan, director-producer Chen Shi-Zheng (The Peony Pavilion, Monkey: Journey to the West), and the guys who wrote Kung Fu Panda. – The New York Times
The New York Times Just Called Them ‘America’s Most Astonishing Choir’. And Just Sounding Beautiful Doesn’t Interest Them.
“[Here’s what makes] The Crossing one of the country’s most exciting vocal ensembles: an embrace of the new, a social conscience and fearless technique, brought together in a marriage that transcends mere prettiness. A Crossing program is often politically charged — taking on issues like homelessness, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster and corporate personhood — without being didactic. The group is uninterested in, ahem, preaching to the choir, preferring works that are suggestive and ambiguous.” – The New York Times