“While the Calgary Stampede is promising its show will go on next week ‘come hell or high water,’ … Calgary Arts Development [has] launched an effort to determine the impact of the flooding on arts organizations and independent artists, so that ‘appropriate relief’ can be provided. Groups are still assessing the damage.”
Tag: 06.25.13
Is The Idea That Humanity Progresses Just Wrong?
“No single idea,” wrote the American intellectual Robert Nisbet in 1980, “has been more important than, perhaps as important as, the idea of progress in Western civilization.”
Fairy Tales Are For Kids, Right? And Yet…
So what is it about fairy tales that keep us coming back for more?
Why Google Was Right To Abandon Its Job-Interview Brain-Teasers
“The candidate is asked to handle an abstracted ‘gotcha’ situation, where thinking quickly is often more important than thinking well” – not what one wants in a programmer.
The Passion Of Vasily Grossman
Sam Sacks on the two stages of the Russian writer’s career: peerless chronicler of the Second World War and careworn Soviet outcast.
Retelling The Tales Of The Thousand And One Nights
Journalist and novelist Hanan Al-Shaykh explains why she was moved to write new adaptations of favorite stories from the massive collection – and she explores how Scheherazade is even more resourceful, compassionate and compelling than we’d thought.
Small (But Important) Chicago Theatre Falls To Developer
“Built and opened in 1966 under the auspices of director Bob Sickinger, it’s the only remaining one of the Hull House group of theaters that gave birth to the city’s now-famous off-Loop scene. In the mid-70s through 1981, it was where Organic produced some of its most iconic shows”
Superhero Movies Are Flourishing. What’s Next?
“Of course, most of the big superhero successes have come from iconic characters like Iron Man and Superman, who are already well-known to mainstream audiences. It will be more interesting to see in coming years is how moviegoers react to films whose superheroes who lack the brand awareness of the Avengers or X-Men.”
Scholar Asserts Hollywood Nazi Ties
In “The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact With Hitler,” Ben Urwand draws on a wealth of previously uncited documents to argue that Hollywood studios, in an effort to protect the German market for their movies, not only acquiesced to Nazi censorship but also actively and enthusiastically cooperated with that regime’s global propaganda effort.
Los Angeles Argues Over Ending Its Ban On New Murals
The city council is debating an “ordinance that could lift Los Angeles’ decade-old ban on virtually all original murals on private property and launch a permitting and registration system for creating new ones. … [Yet there are] concerns among some elected officials and neighborhood councils that [the law] could lead to a slew of new murals in residential neighborhoods that don’t want them.”