“Despite winning several awards, the 62-year-old Ryan was virtually unheard of before her appointment as laureate. A resident of Fairfax, Calif., she described herself in a recent interview with The Associated Press as a “modern hermit.”
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A Web-Savvy Dance Sensation
“Persona Non Grata is rappers Ill-O and Ivo Dinero, both 19, and Heedi Blacc, 18, all of Brownsville, Brooklyn. They are part of a wave of hip hop in which Web-savvy teens with an ear for catchy music can create and control their own fame. In this case, fame centers on a song that begat a dance that begat an Internet sensation.”
Video Game Sales Continue Torrid Sales Gains
“U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 53 percent in June from a year ago.”
“Cellist Of Sarajevo” Claims Author Stole His Story
“They put my picture, my face, on the front, on the cover with no permission. They don’t ask me — they use my name advertising their product. I don’t care about fiction, I care about reality.”
Denver’s Museum Of Contemporary Art Director Steps Down
Cydney Payton, who led a passionate charge to construct Denver’s first stand-alone museum devoted to contemporary art, has announced her resignation from MCA Denver in late October, the building’s first anniversary.
Ticket Disaster Cripples Edinburgh Fringe (At Least For A Little While)
An online ticketing system failure has been described as “an unmitigated disaster on the scale of the BA terminal 5 chaos”.
The Contradictions Of Corbusier
Le Corbusier’s own idea of the perfect space seems curiously telling. Having spent a lifetime at the cutting edge of progress, expanding his reputation and designs to maximum scale, he found his ideal home in his cabanon – a spartan, one-roomed wooden hut on the Côte d’Azur, where he spent every summer from 1952 onwards.
A Do-It-Yourself Future For Books?
“Is The Shack the Blair Witch Project of the modern book world? Does it demonstrate that with modern e-tools literary talent can find a way around the cumbersome apparatus of the publishing industry? Is it a portent?”
Books You Participate In
“These ‘choose your own adventures’, half work of fiction, half roleplaying game, appear to be enjoying something of a resurgence, perhaps partly due to nostalgia and partly due to a generation weaned on the internet looking for the same interactivity in books.”
SAG Explains Why It Rejects Studio Contract Offer
“Hollywood’s largest actors union said it can’t accept studios’ proposed labor contract because it doesn’t ensure union jurisdiction over new media, signaling an impasse between the two groups.”