“While the Delaware Symphony Orchestra continues to weigh its financial future, DuPont Co. has kicked in money to revive the DSO’s chamber series at the Hotel du Pont and Music Director David Amado is proposing a scaled-down season that cuts the programming budget by more than half. Last month, the symphony announced the suspension of its 2012-2013 season because it had exhausted its operational funds.”
Tag: 07.06.12
Dame Edna Really, Truly Is Retiring
“Dame Edna Everage – the flamboyant alter-ego of comedian Barry Humphries for 57 years – took centre stage at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre to confirm that her farewell tour, Eat Pray Laugh!, would really be her final outing.” The 78-year-old Humphries hasn’t ruled out further appearances by his other characters, most notably the monstrously uncouth diplomat Sir Les Patterson.
South Carolina Governor Zeros Out Arts Commission Budget
“Nikki Haley struck the combined $9.5 million budgets of the South Carolina Arts Commission and the South Carolina Sea Grants Consortium late Thursday night, two of her 81 vetoes of the state’s $23 billion state budget.”
Kansas City Ballet Director Steps Down
“William Whitener, artistic director of the Kansas City Ballet since 1996 and the man who helped modernize the company’s approach to dance, will step down at the end of the 2012-13 season.”
Warning: Killing UK Playwrighting Programs Will Impact Theatres
“Writers’ development agencies have played a vital role in the spectacular expansion of new writing over the last decade. Uniquely, they are run by writers for writers, which is why the best ones have such longevity and success. If [such] institutions are allowed to perish, the consequences will be bitterly clear for new generations of playwrights in the future.”
The Trap Of Being Busy
“Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.”
Bollywood Star Goes Serious T.V. Host – And Changes India
“In two Indian states, the show has prompted governments to bolster the enforcement of existing laws, and a few weeks ago the show’s host was called to testify before a parliamentary committee after an episode on medical malpractice. The scale of the response has made Satyamev Jayate (as the show is called in Hindi) more like a people’s movement than a television show. More astonishing is the fact that this social and political phenomenon is the work of Aamir Khan, a superstar of India’s giant film industry.”
Teach Yourself Synesthesia! (Or At Least Give Your Brain A Good Workout)
“Conventional wisdom says that synesthesia is innate – you’re either born with the condition or you’re not, end of story. If you happen not to have been born that way but would really, really love to experience numbers as colors, or colors as sound … then you, my sense-straight friend, are pretty much out of luck. Except … maybe not?”
Is This Magazine Too Honest, Or Perhaps Too Inspirational, For The Internet?
“The more sincere Thought Catalog has skewed, the more exasperated its critics have become. Nolan says the backlash has been a product of both subject matter and tone: ‘It is confessional, but it’s more than that. I think it goes back to the fact that it’s not self-aware: They think they are great but they are not in on the joke – that they are the joke,”‘he says. ‘All of their posts about feelings just make them into a caricature of themselves.’
‘I’m really not afraid of being uncool,’ responds O’Connell.”
How Closely Do Movie And TV Newsrooms Resemble Reality?
Um. Not very closely, but check out this list of shows that might portray a little bit of the true newsroom flavor.