“For those already texting a lot (some users text upwards of 3,000 messages a month), there’s only so much you can increase from there. Alternatively, with the rising popularity of smartphones, are we simply turning to other options?”
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Holy War: How Real Is The Clash Of Religions And Civilizations?
“While religion is a popular motif for describing national or international strife, a closer look suggests that’s really just a veneer for less spiritual issues.”
Oakland Children’s Museum Cancels Show Of Art By Palestinian Kids
“An Oakland children’s museum, citing pressure from the community, canceled a planned exhibit of artwork by Palestinian youth that depicted the Israeli assault during the 2008-09 Gaza conflict.”
No, Not Swingers, And Not Free Love; Just Rethinking Monogamy
“If, as Dan Savage suggests, we’re not cut out for monogamy as a species, we’re not alone here. Quite the reverse. Scarcely a month goes by without some creature, once thought to be a heart-warming example of lifelong fidelity, being exposed as a serial philanderer.”
PoMo: Actually, Possibly, Destroying The World
“All this stuff was way beyond surrealism. It was deliberately indiscriminate weirdness: the ordinary was made to seem in some way excessively other, like stage props for a chaotic rather than reasoned reality. It was almost pose-modern.”
Don’t Fly Solo; Playing Doubles Means More In Real Life
“People spend more time playing doubles than watching it for a reason. It parallels too closely the struggles of our own lives: working with others; toiling in the shadows; getting second billing. Not getting paid enough. Maybe we don’t watch doubles because we are all doubles players.”
Cliff Robertson, 88, Played JFK in ‘PT-109’
Robertson played JFK in 1962 and won an Oscar for “Charly,” but got blacklisted in Hollywood for years after turning an embezzling Columbia exec.
The Performing Arts, Fading Away In Australia
The days of high-stakes, energetic theatre collaboration are long gone in Adelaide, asserts the man who just won the Premier’s Lifetime Achievement Award. “People must be given the opportunity to fail in the arts. Samuel Beckett said: `Try again. Fail again. Fail better’. That’s the way theatre gets made.”
A Wildly Successful Executive Director Steps Down In Oregon
Things have changed since Paul Nicholson took over as executive director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival 17 years ago. “Under Nicholson’s tenure, the OSF grew from a pre-professional theater and a place where people could begin their careers to a professional theater where people could have a career and raise families, and once-itinerant actors who stick at OSF now have insurance and retirement plans and earn enough to buy homes.”