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Tag: 09.09.18
Hundreds Of Ancient Roman Coins Found In Theatre Basement
The coins, hundreds of them, date back to the late Roman imperial era and were found in a soapstone jar unearthed in the basement of the Cressoni Theater in Como, north of Milan.
Will NYCityBallet Dancer’s #MeToo Lawsuit Force Reforms?
With the company due to open its autumn programme on 18 September, one of its principal dancers has publicly declared that the NYCB needs “a moral and fair individual to lead us out of this darkness”. Signs also seemed to be emerging that the NYCB may face a boycott over Ms Waterbury’s claims that her ex-boyfriend Chase Finlay, while a principal dancer at the company, shared nude photos of her and joked about abusing ballerinas
Recent Listening In Brief: A Sextet And Three Duos
Rafal Sarnecki, Climbing Trees (Outside In Music)
Mikkel Ploug/Mark Turner, Faroe (Sunnyside)
Mark Turner/Ethan Iverson, Temporary Kings (ECM)
Hans Teuber & Jeff Johnson, Deuce (Origin)
These Long-Forgotten, Four-Dimensional Numbers Led The Way To Modern Algebra (And More)
The history of quaternions includes a mathematician gleefully carving his ideas into Dublin’s Broome Bridge, spurious negative numbers, and a war among physicists.
If Money And Success Were The Issue, Hollywood Would Have Made A Ton Of Asian And Asian American Movies After Joy Luck Club
Critics raved, and lines stretched around the block, when The Joy Luck Club opened in 1993. The actors and director started to receive offers – and they thought the long drought of good movies and roles for Asians and Asian Americans in Hollywood was coming to an end. But “roadblocks proved shockingly resilient. Instead of ushering in a crop of Asian-American projects, The Joy Luck Club remained a token for more than two decades.” Will Crazy Rich Asians be different?
Accused Sexual Harasser Les Mooves, Reported To Have Been ‘Obsessed’ With Ruining Janet Jackson’s Career, Is Finally Gone From CBS
Ronan Farrow reported a long piece in The New Yorker on the accusations against him in July and added a follow-up report Sunday, September 9, days after the HuffPost’s Yashar Ali reported that the CBS exec wanted Janet Jackson’s career “destroyed” after the infamous “wardrobe malfunction.” Moonves is now gone from the network.
How Did Netflix Become A Comedy Powerhouse?
It’s because of Lisa Nishimura, basically, the vice president of original documentary and comedy programming who convinced Dave Chapelle to return to stand-up specials for the company. And she bet big on a lot more comedy as well. “Now, 50 percent of its 130 million [U.S.] subscribers have watched a special in the last year, and a third of those viewers have watched three such shows.”
New York Gets Literal Signs Of Climate Change
The art show “includes 10 solar-powered signs installed in parks around the city. Each sign flashes climate-change-related phrases in English and in Spanish, Russian, French and other languages used in nearby neighborhoods.” The show – city-supported! – even gets environmental justice walking tours.
Movie Star Olivia Munn Gets Shunned By Her Male Co-Stars And Her Director After She Gets A Sex Offender Cut From A Movie
Way to go, (most) men of Predator. The director, Shane Black (whose friend was the abuser that he put in a scene with Munn), hasn’t bothered to apologize to Munn, and the cast members who were scheduled to appear with her at the Toronto Independent Film Festival backed out. Munn: “It’s honestly disheartening to have to fight for something so hard that is just so obvious to me. … It’s a very lonely feeling to be sitting here by myself when I should be sitting here with the rest of the cast.”