“Classically, we have defined ourselves by the things we love. By the place which is our home, by our family, by our friends. But in this age we’re asked to define ourselves by hate. That what defines you is what pisses you off. And if nothing pisses you off, who are you?”
Tag: 08.11.13
Edinburgh Int’l Festival Will Stay Away From Scottish Independence Issue, Decrees Director
“Jonathan Mills [revealed] that he had decided to sidestep politics and would not be commissioning any work about the independence debate for the 2014 festival, which takes place in the final weeks of campaigning before Scots go to the polls on 18 September.”
A Wrong Note In Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto?
“Performers concerned with how to interpret a piece often pore over manuscripts and early editions, trying to to sweep away the cobwebs of later editorial interventions and gain a better understanding of a composition.”
Singer Eydie Gorme, 84
“[The] bouncy, bantering, big-voiced pop singer and entertainer … as a solo act and with her husband, Steve Lawrence, performed on the air, in clubs, onstage and on records for more than 50 years.”
The Russian Celebrity Who’s Fighting Her Country’s Morality Laws With Mockery
“Kseniya Sobchak is a celebrity, TV figure, and socialite, … whose late father was mayor of St. Petersburg and, in the early nineteen-nineties, a kind of mentor to Vladimir Putin … [She] is an attractive woman of about thirty known for her audacious, even provocative, talk about any matters from politics to sex.”
Why Do So Many New Plays Feel Like They’re TV Episodes?
“One of the downsides of our ascendant era of writerly TV drama — wherein networks are constantly luring away playwrights with big checks — is that new plays by young authors now often feel more like spec treatments or screenplays than juicy dramas for the stage.”
E-Books Record And Report Everything You Read. Should You Be Worried?
“Every e-reader is, by design, capable of tracking your reading page by page: bookmarks, highlights and all. Individual policies about the retention of this information, and who it might be shared with, are worryingly unclear.”
Technology Is Changing The Classroom (But Are Students Being Shortchanged?)
“Is this really a brave new world, or the gateway to indolence, addiction and diminishing social and cognitive skills? Don’t children already spend too much time on computers at home? Shouldn’t the classroom be a place where they can concentrate on time-honoured disciplines that involve prolonged concentration and rentention of facts?”
San Diego Dance Company Folds
“San Diego’s Eveoke Dance Theatre, a genre-blending and barrier-breaking arts organization since 1994, is going on indefinite hiatus, according to Artistic Director Ericka Aisha Moore.”
Tech Leaders To The Aid Of Print News?
“Helping print journalism adapt to a changed era is becoming a cause de jour among the technology elite.”