How The Soul Of The West Transformed

Humans are born incomplete. The brain absorbs huge amounts of essential information throughout childhood and adolescence, which it uses to carry on building who we are. It’s as if the brain asks a single, vital question: Who do I have to be, in this place, to thrive? If it was a boastful hustler in ancient Greece and a humble team-player in ancient China, then who is it in the West today? The answer is a neoliberal.

Lots of Coffee

Recently, in a conversation about beginning relationships with new communities, one of our new ArtsEngaged trainers, Anne Cushing-Reid, commented that, especially where there is negative history to be overcome, “There’s a lot of coffee in our future.”

Little New Jersey Musical Goes Viral Out Of Nowhere And Ends Up Sold Out Off-Broadway

Be More Chill, a show about a high-school nerd who takes a mysterious drug (an actual “chill pill”) that makes him popular, got one professional production at a Jersey Shore theater in 2015, dropped a cast album on the streaming platforms, and disappeared. Two years later, young fans started discovering the show online; before the year was out, it had been listened to 150 million times on Spotify. So the creators got an off-Broadway production together – and its initial run sold out in a day.

Carnegie Library Thefts Rattle Tightly-Knit World Of Antiquarian Booksellers

The arrests in July of a Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh archivist and a dealer on charges of stealing and selling $8 million worth of items from the library’s collections “sent a shudder across the rare books industry, a multimillion-dollar business in the United States … In this niche world based on trust, where confidants are currency and handshake deals are commonplace, the arrest of a prominent dealer is a shocking suggestion of deceit.”

One Resignation, Two Suspensions At New York City Ballet For ‘Inappropriate Communications’

A statement released by the board chairman said the company “received a letter alleging inappropriate communications made via personal text and email by three [principal] members of the company. … [An investigation] determined that each man had violated the norms of conduct that New York City Ballet expects from its employees.” As a result, Chase Finlay has resigned, and Amar Ramasar and Zachary Catazaro have been suspended without pay for the rest of 2018.

Rotten Tomatoes Expands Pool Of Critics Who Count Toward Tomatometer

“The Tomatometer score is the percentage of the reviews that have been positive, supposedly reflecting the ‘collective opinion’ of critics, but critics have so far been limited to those who write for established publications, a group that, according to numerous studies, is heavily slanted toward critics who are white and male. Reviews from established publications will still be included automatically, regardless of who wrote them, but the new rules allow for the inclusion of individual critics, regardless of where they publish.”

Berlin Wall To Be Recreated For Berliner Festspiele Installation

“Pending final approval from Berlin city authorities, which organisers said was ‘in the works’, staff plan to erect 900 concrete wall slabs, each 3.60 metres (about 12 feet) tall, for the 6.6 million euro ($7.7 million) event. Visitors to the parallel world will have to apply online for entrance ‘visas’ … Set on a city block on Unter den Linden boulevard, the time-capsule project is due to launch on October 12 and end with a ritualistic tearing down of the wall on November 9, the day of the historic event in 1989.”

Supreme Court Of Philippines Upholds Artist’s Conviction For ‘Offending Religious Feelings’ – Then Gov’t Asks To Overturn It

“The pendulum keeps swinging for the case of the Filipino activist artist and organiser Carlos Celdran, who was convicted for ‘offending religious feelings’ for a 2010 protest in support of reproductive rights. A ruling on 1 August by the Philippines Supreme Court upheld a 2013 conviction … for violating Article 133 of the Revised Penal Code … But on 15 August Celdran received the backing of the Solicitor General Jose Calida, whose office petitioned the Supreme Court to reverse the conviction … and to declare Article 133 unconstitutional.”