“If you read a book from your shelves and dislike it, then this is a good day for you: now you can ditch it. If you’re lucky, you’ll end up strenuously disliking a book by an until-now untried author whose work you have in multiplicity.”
Tag: 07.29.16
How Misty Copeland Became A Megabrand
“She’s hoping that her success will create ‘a new structure for how dancers are treated.'”
Why Is Buying Concert (Or Hamilton) Tickets Such A Rigged System?
And what if the extremes are what the price actually *should* be?
The Museum Of Ice Cream Has Sold Out
“In one room dedicated to ice cream cones, the wall is covered in vague, uncredited trivia — ‘cones damaged during production are further ground down into animal feed’ — and guests can suck on a helium-filled balloon made of heated sugar.”
The Matriarch Of Regional Theatre
“Zelda Fichandler, a seminal figure in the regional theater movement who led Arena Stage in Washington for 41 years, producing more than 400 shows and directing more than 50 for a company that helped spur the growth of professional theater around the country and became its centerpiece in the nation’s capital, died on Friday at her home in Washington.”
A Musician Who Found Wild Success In Her 40s – And Cancer Soon After
“While major labels repeatedly shunned the singer as over the hill and ‘too dark,’ she finally found a perfect partner, and a breakthrough, via the fledgling indie Daptone Records, which specializes in reanimating the vintage sounds of soul, funk and Latin music”
How A Dancer Burned Up The Ranks In Canada
“Imagine the most dashing and magnanimous princes of 19th-century literature and you’ll conjure an idea of his magnetic presence as a performer.”
What’s The World’s Responsibility When Languages Disappear?
“While some languages survive by transplanting their speakers to more hospitable locations—New York City is especially fertile, hosting communities who languages have effectively become extinct in their places of origin—others don’t have the option of finding a home elsewhere.”
Museums Plus Activist Art Equals What, Exactly
Elizabeth Sackler: “This is a problem among museums because art is intrinsically a form of social activism. What would we give, [Holland Carter] asks, to have a museum that integrated its art and its history with its people and its morals? My response is that we don’t have to give a king’s ransom for that. We have that at the Brooklyn Museum.”
Asian American Actors Are Not Into Matt Damon In A Movie About The Great Wall Of China
“Constance Wu, a star of the comedy show Fresh off the Boat, posted a statement on Twitter that lambasted the ‘racist myth that [only a] white man can save the world.'”