“You do something like this, and I had no idea whether it was going to be 100 people, 1,000, or 10,000 people,” Paul Allen said. “But we’re well over that.” Through Sunday, when the fair ended, more than 11,000 attended, organizers said. A host of satellite fairs, events and open studios were scheduled to coincide with it
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Comcast Is Spending Billions On Theme Parks
“That’s just a huge, huge number for a business this size. We see this as a major growth driver for the company for five, 10, 15, 20 years.” But now Comcast faces a new question: Is it moving too fast and disregarding the perennial problems that have long challenged this corner of entertainment?
Animation Is Thriving In The Digital Age
“It’s become so natural to be in a movie, say, flying over an impossible landscape at a speed that no human has ever gone and see realistic-looking creatures that have never existed and will never exist but do exist in these alternative worlds.”
Dramatizing Egypt’s Political And Social Issues With A Bedroom Farce
Threesome, by Yussef El Guindi, “begins as a bawdy bedroom comedy whose main characters, a heterosexual Egyptian-American couple, invite a white American man into their bed. Over two acts it transforms into something darker, as all three grapple with the fallout of sexual assault, infidelity, war and the pain of lost hope, both political and personal.”