Q: “What’s your best time-saving shortcut/life hack?” A: “I’ve got nothing. Reading other people’s answers to this question on your website today made me realize I live my life like an ape.” However, Ira does offer (after the product plugs this site seems to require) an excellent description of how he organizes a bunch of interview material into a structure.
Tag: 07.23.14
The List To End All Lists Of ‘New Yorker’ Stories We Should Read While The Archives Are Open
Seriously, this is a post compiling all the lists the internet has made about what to read – and it’s complete with links. We’ll see you back here when the archive closes.
So Frank Gehry Is Designing A Campus For Youth Social Services In L.A.
“The idea is that this will be something special. There are so many messages that people, particularly children, get from their environment. There can be a certain bleakness.”
When Will Broadway Be Able To Deal With A Full-on Hip Hop Musical?
“It’s inevitable, but not without a certain amount of consideration towards rap’s unique and specific position in the music sphere. Also, I am doubtful of its ability to be successful using the same formulas of other more successful jukebox musicals.”
It’s Not Just “Mikado” – Opera’s Full Of Racial Stereotyping, And We Should Deal With That
Aida, Otello, Turandot, Madama Butterfly, and on and on. Gwynn Guilford lays out what she sees as the problem and how she thinks opera companies in 21st-century America might address it.
Artists, Officials, Celebrities Unite To Ask Venice To Ban Cruise Mega-Ships
“More than 50 leading figures from the worlds of art, film, fashion and architecture have signed a petition calling for a ban on giant cruise ships sailing through Venice. Cate Blanchett, Julie Christie, Michael Caine and Rob Lowe are among the signatories urging the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and the Italian Minister of Culture and Tourism, Dario Franceschini, to ‘halt the passage of the big ships across the Bacino San Marino and along the Giudecca canal’.”
David Hallberg On Becoming A Celebrity Dancer
“Ballet needs figures that people can recognize and relate to. People don’t know ballet dancers as well as they know other artists.”
Where Hearing Voices Can Be A Good Thing (Other Places’ Schizophrenia Is Not Like American Schizophrenia)
“A new study suggests that schizophrenic people in more collectivist societies sometimes think their auditory hallucinations are helpful.”
Short Attention Spans? Why, That’s Just A Sign Of How Smart We’re Getting
“The world is faster, faster, faster these days. That’s the current reality, and it’s not going anywhere. Leaving a page that isn’t loading isn’t a character fault; it’s smart. You can get the information you were after elsewhere, and you can get it faster. If we really valued what we were made to wait for, well, we would wait.”
How The Summer Festival Has Gone Big Time (Mainstream, Commercialized)
“Long gone are the painted Volkswagen buses, talk of “free love,” and shoulder-length hair for men, but it’s only recently that the festivals associated with those things have also begun to disappear, replaced by a new breed of festival that’s tailored to a different group entirely: hipsters.”