“A crucial millage for the Detroit Institute of Arts passed easily in Wayne and Oakland counties – but was approved by the slimmest of margins in Macomb County as the final votes were tallied. … The property tax millage promises as much as $23 million for the DIA for 10 years.”
Tag: 08.08.12
Synchronized Swimming: Both Sport And (Rather Odd) Water Ballet
“Even when you have seen it on television, it is hard to appreciate the full experience of live synchronized swimming. For one thing, the swimmers do everything synchronistically, including walking to the edge of the pool, which they do in an oddly exaggerated way, like mimes in bathing suits. Then, when they get there, they affix their nose plugs and perform short dance routines – this is called deck work – that generally end in a kind of unexpected tableau vivant, with them posing together in an artistic flourish.”
Why Do Female Authors Dominate Young-Adult Fiction?
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Madeleine L’Engle, S.E. Hinton, J.K. Rowling … the list goes on. Two-thirds of the finalists for NPR Books’ 100 Best Ever Teen Novels were written by women.
Was This The Jacobean Borges? (Borges Thought So)
“Back when the English language was still young and impressionable, a London-born physician who took up the pen as a gentleman’s hobby made quite a dent, fathering a dictionary page’s worth of words we still use and tend to think of as ageless – ‘medical,’ ‘literary,’ ‘suicide,’ ‘exhaustion,’ ‘hallucination’ and ‘coma’ among them.”
LA MoCA Trustees Say They’ll Hire New Chief Curator
“Following sharp criticism from many corners of the art world, the board of trustees at the Museum of Contemporary Art has changed course and decided to fill the chief curator position left open by Paul Schimmel’s forced resignation in June.”
Mark O’Donnell, Co-Creator Of Hairspray, Collapses And Dies At 58
“[He] won a Tony Award in 2003 as co-author of the book for the Broadway musical Hairspray and was nominated for another in 2008 for Cry-Baby.”