“The standard psychological explanation for the differences between male and female shopping attitudes has long been that men are innate, solitary hunters who like to make a quick killing, while women are sociable gatherers who are happy to wander around in groups for hours. This is all nonsense.”
Tag: 08.14.07
Chicago “A Music City In Hiding,” Study Says
“A ground-breaking study sent to Mayor Richard Daley and city officials this week concludes that Chicago lags behind smaller cities in nurturing and profiting from its homegrown music community. Despite having one of the most lucrative and vibrant music scenes in North America, the University of Chicago study describes Chicago as ‘a music city in hiding.'”
Grant Funds An Alt-Rock Station For NYC
“In what could be an exciting new development in New York radio, the listener-supported station WFUV (90.7 FM) will use a $500,000 grant to run an alternative rock station targeted at young listeners in their 20s and 30s,” and featuring local bands. “New York has long been a radio anomaly. It’s home to one of the world’s biggest and most influential music scenes, yet no major radio stations exist to support it.”
Train’s Late Again? Our Poet Will Help You Through It.
“Britain’s worst-performing train company has hired a poet to soothe the tempers of its frustrated customers. First Great Western, which operates services from Paddington to South Wales and the West Country, insisted yesterday that its decision to engage Sally Crabtree, a Cornish poet, to perform at selected stations over the next four days had nothing to do with its poor punctuality record, disclosed in The Times yesterday.”
S.F. Tower Finalists Emphasize Their Green Appeal
“No matter which team gets chosen and what actually gets built, the Transbay competition already demonstrates how environmental awareness has entered the development mainstream. Competition rules required an emphasis on green design, to be sure. But each proposal seems designed to woo Al Gore…. Another nice twist: Projects of this size are mandated to have large budgets for art, so the Pelli team brought an artist in from the start….”
Wiesel’s Accused Stalker Blurts A Courtroom Apology
“The man accused of accosting Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel in a San Francisco hotel apologized to the Nobel Peace Prize winner in court Monday as Wiesel recounted what he described as his most harrowing ordeal since World War II. ‘I’m terribly sorry about what happened,’ Eric Hunt, 23, blurted out as the 78-year-old Wiesel was on the witness stand in San Francisco Superior Court at the defendant’s preliminary hearing.”
US Asks WTO’s Help In Stopping Piracy In China
“The US government is pressing ahead with its complaint to the World Trade Organisation over the widespread piracy of movies, music and books in China. Yesterday the Bush administration requested a formal case at the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body in order to force China to crack down on pirated goods.”
Is It All Right For True Art To Crack A Smile?
“(I)s there a place for humour in art? … Is it even morally justifiable, in the current climate, to be anything less than furious? We are trained, both as viewers and as consumers, to accept only the grave and magisterial as great. And while Romantic sturm und drang has fallen from favour … the respect accorded the playful, the determinedly slight, has dropped even further.”
By Choice, Pavarotti To Stay In Hospital
“Luciano Pavarotti has been given the go-ahead by doctors to leave the hospital where he was admitted last week with a fever, but he plans to remain for a few more days just to be sure, his wife said Tuesday.”
Stephen Carter, Sans The Cover Of Footnotes
Stephen Carter, the novelist and Yale law professor, “was never a neoconservative, except in the sense that some liberals really didn’t like him. His nonfiction has made him a fair number of enemies, but, he says, he didn’t mind because he could research and footnote everything. ‘With fiction I don’t have that protection. Part of what makes fiction more nerve-racking for me is that I make up the story. So what a lot of writers see as the freedom of fiction I see as the risk.'”