An architectural historian says it’s time to distinguish between Germany’s “good” architectural sins – the ones that make people the angriest, like a shopping mall that looks like a meat cleaver cut it in half – and the boring bad ones.
Tag: 08.23.13
The Times, It Is A-Changin’
“In place of the 30 reporters and editors who left last winter, the Times is hiring Âdozens of videographers to create new Âcontent for the paper’s website” – and they report to the corporate, not the editorial, side of the paper. Wait, what?
Is ‘Cool Culture’ Somehow Better (Or Different) Than Geek Culture?
“Nerds, once the overlords of this inclusive pop-culture universe, will also take a back seat of sorts, standing in suddenly long, winding lines with reclusives and prom queens alike, everyone indulging in ‘geek chic’ and cosplaying as their fave heroes.”
Dancing Away From That Moldy Old Building The Ballet Calls Home
The Orlando Ballet springs out of its 112-year-old building – which is already the site of a million-dollar environmental clean-up effort thanks to diesel fuel & oil – when mold attacks.
London’s National Theatre Has Never Been More Popular (So Now A Need For Something More Experimental)
“The National’s three stages (and West End hits like “War Horse” and “One Man, Two Guvnors”) have never been more popular, with about 1.5 million theatergoers in London in the 2012-13 season compared with 817,000 four years earlier.”
Music Videos Sell Music – And YouTube Is Where It Happens
“These days the Internet is the medium for music videos, and legions of music fans surfing the Net determine if a video becomes popular: YouTube, not MTV, is the platform. It has supplanted radio as the main way American teenagers listen to new music, a survey by Nielsen shows.”
Could The Massive Popularity Of Its Original Content Prove To Be A Problem For Netflix?
Analyst Barton Crockett theorized that Netflix may have been caught by surprise by how binge-viewing has shaped demand for its original programming. “Netflix might be accelerating front-end loaded viewing by debuting series all at once,” he added.
Minnesota Governor Speaks Publicly For First Time About Orchestra Lockout
Mark Dayton: “I’m hoping, and this is just my own assumption, that they both want to get it solved, and they have until basically Labor Day to do so. When you have this kind of dispute, both sides have to want to resolve it. No mediator can force a resolution.”
New York’s Museum Of African Art To Become Asia Society-Style Institute
“The institution’s plan to reinvent itself as the New Africa Center – with a museum, policy institute and members’ club for business executives, cultural leaders and policy makers interested in Africa – comes after the departure of the museum’s longtime president, Elsie McCabe Thompson, in October.”