“For the last 17 summers it has been one of New York’s more offbeat free diversions: … a troupe of actors on a shoestring budget perform Hamlet, Macbeth and other classics in a municipal lot on the Lower East Side.” Beginning this year, due to a rule change, the city’s Transportation Dept. is asking the company to pay the usual parking fees for the empty spaces they use.
Tag: 06.20.13
What’s UNESCO’s Beef With A Bobsleigh Run (Yes, A Bobsleigh Run) In Germany?
What happens when humans keep on building things on or near human-history-affected World Heritage sites? (Hint: It’s not good.)
Yay! The Internet Democratized Writing! Except That Sucks For Good Writers
“Making money on the web has much in common with book publishing, just with more cat photos.”
Nashville Symphony And Banks Near Deal To Avoid Foreclosing On Concert Hall
“As a planned foreclosure sale of the Schermerhorn Symphony Center nears, conversations between the Nashville Symphony and its lenders are shifting toward reaching an agreement rather than the symphony proceeding with a bankruptcy filing, according to sources familiar with negotiations.”
If The Nashville Symphony Settles With Creditors, Is It Out Of Trouble?
“Assuming a settlement holds, the pressing concern is how the orchestra can avoid a repeat of its present predicament, and satisfy its supporters’ demand for top-notch performances while eyeing the bottom line. For that reason, it’s worth examining how the current situation began.”
A Venetian Monet Sells For Nearly $31M At Sotheby’s
Le Palais Contarini “fetched $30.8 million at a Sotheby’s auction in London on Wednesday after a bidding battle jacked up the selling price of the work. The auction of Impressionist and Modern art brought in a total of $165.9 million.”
Sotheby’s May Sell Off Its Own Headquarters
“Sotheby’s, the auction house that has for centuries put other people’s treasures up for sale, is in the early days of exploring whether it should place one of its own on the block: its glittering glass-and-granite-fronted worldwide headquarters on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.”
How The Sopranos Changed the Television Industry
“Part of what’s interesting about The Sopranos is that it’s not just an artistic achievement, it’s also the product of real business model innovation. It reflected some broader trends in the industry and had some precursors, but it’s really the show that turned a certain kind of corner about what kinds of programming could be commercially viable and what aspirations it makes sense to finance.”
Have We Forgotten Cathy Berberian? She Changed Classical Singing
The new indie film Berberian Sound Studio (about a movie sound effects man) “takes its title and inspiration from the late American mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian. … [It’s] the minimally least we can do to remember the singer who changed singing perhaps more than any vocalist since the 18th century.”
The Complete Tolstoy Is Going Online
A Project Gutenberg-like endeavor called All Tolstoy in One Click is digitizing all 90 volumes of Count Leo’s works. “Not only fiction, but also diaries, letters and articles, as well as religious and philosophical texts … will be legally available for free on the website tolstoy.ru, both for online reading and for mobile download.”