“In a happy conclusion to a roller coaster of a summer, the museum announced Thursday that Sicilian cultural authorities, including Mariarita Sgarlata, the island’s highest official for the arts, have rescinded the cancellation. Sicilian authorities will allow the show to go on without attaching extra loan fees, as they had proposed in July.”
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Former Bolshoi Principal To Join National Ballet Of Canada
“Svetlana Lunkina has danced for Russia’s Bolshoi Theatre ballet troupe since 1997, but has resided in Toronto since fall 2012. In January, she announced her decision to stay in Canada instead of returning home, due to threats and blackmail she received there.”
Kansas City Ballet Launches Second Company
“The KCB II dancers will be selected from auditions around the country; they’ll receive professional experience, and hone their skills through public performances, demonstrations, daily classes and rehearsals … [as well as] providing outreach to schools, community centers, and other locations.”
Zubin Mehta To Conduct In Strife-Torn Kashmir
The Mumbai-born conductor, who has long wanted to perform in the Kashmir Valley, will led the Bavarian State Orchestra in a program of Beethoven, Haydn and Tchaikovsky at the fabled Shalimar Gardens on the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar.
The Scottish Play Is Everywhere
“The play is more than 400 years old and we all know how it ends, but suddenly William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is back in vogue. The Scottish tragedy is enticing a number of actors ranging from young to the far side of middle age to play the murderous Thane of Cawdor.”
Some Places Still Use Typewriters – And Even Buy New Ones
“In an era of apps, tablets and Google Glass, typewriters are still clacking along with the help of an unusual coalition of customers. Police departments, law firms and government agencies still punch out forms on the machines.” Two of the biggest users of typewriters: prisons and funeral homes.
Building A “Buddhist Mecca” In Nepal
The town of Lumbini, the Buddha’s birthplace, long had little more than a small temple to serve the many visiting pilgrims. For decades there have been plans existed for a grander complex with architecture from throughout the Buddhist world; progress is finally being made on realizing those plans, with major help from a foundation in China.
It’s Back! The ’60s Cult Classic That Made Audiences Literally Sick
That would be John Frankenheimer’s film Seconds, which features groundbreaking cinematography, identity theft, suburban anomie, on-camera plastic surgery, and Rock Hudson.
Kentucky Theater Won’t Show The Butler Because Owner Still Isn’t Over “Hanoi Jane”
“Ike Boutwell, a Korean War veteran, owns the Movie Palace in Elizabethtown and trained pilots during the Vietnam War. … He says Jane Fonda committed treason against the United States during Vietnam and refuses to show movies she appears in.”
Imagine There’s No Countries: Remembering Garry Davis And The One World Movement
“Borders were his enemy of choice. Garry Davis was a lifelong promoter of the One World movement, which sought to unite all humanity under one universal set of laws that would be based on fundamental human rights.” The idea really was that without countries, as Lennon put it, there would be “nothing to kill or die for.”