Neil Strauss: “The ‘like’ button began on the website FriendFeed in 2007, appeared on Facebook in 2009, began spreading everywhere from YouTube to Amazon to most major news sites last year … As a result, we can now search not just for information, merchandise and kitten videos on the Internet, but for approval.”
Tag: 07.02.11
Was George Bernard Shaw Really A Fascist Monster?
There’s been “a recent spate of virulent online and media attacks on Shaw’s reputation as a progressive, if eccentric, humanitarian. His critics tar him as a totalitarian supporter of Hitler and Stalin who wanted to send society’s weakest members to the gulag or to develop a ‘humane gas’ to kill them.” (And who started all this? Glenn Beck.)
No More Fat Opera Singers!, Declares Opera Australia Chief
Lyndon Terracini: ”If you’re seeing a couple making out and one of them is obese, who wants to watch that? It’s obscene. You just think, ‘Jeez, for Chrissakes, don’t let the children see that’.”
Montreal Symphony Heads To A New Home
“After at least seven failed attempts to build a dedicated concert hall, the OSM is just two months away from its first rehearsals at the building known as l’Adresse symphonique. For the OSM, better acoustics are the main prize, but not the only one.”
Royal Shakespeare Company Traveling With Replica Of Its Home Theatre
“The acclaimed company has built and shipped a replica of its home stage in Stratford-upon-Avon and is assembling it inside a 55,000-square-foot hall within an armory on Park Avenue.”