It’s not because of male ego or stubbornness or obliviousness. Studies are indicating that men do indeed apologize less often than women, but only “because they have a higher threshold for what constitutes offensive behavior.”
Tag: 09.23.10
Does Grammar Create Cultural Outlooks?
“The upshot is supposed to be that human groups are going about with their grammatical structures lending them fascinatingly different Ways of Looking at the World.” But is this true?
Why Is There So Little Diversity In America’s Ballet Companies?
“In America, with the exception of a few male dancers, our ballet companies remain unrelievedly white. In reviews, blogs and at the Dance/USA conference that coincided with the June 2010 series, the question again resounded, ‘Where are the black swans’?”
Oakland Ballet Names Graham Lustig Artistic Director
“Acclaimed choreographer Graham Lustig has been named artistic director of the troupe, recently helmed by dancers Michael Lowe and Jenna McClintock after the sudden departure of Oakland Ballet founder Ronn Guidi in 2009.”
US Public Television Pursues the Boomer Demographic
Let the commercial networks chase after the 18-to-34 males; how much TV do they even watch? A group of public broadcasting executives is launching “Next Avenue,” a broadcast-and-online project aimed at America’s roughly 77 million 45-to-65-year-olds, who do watch TV, use the Web and spend money.
Louise Bourgeois’s Indispensable Man
Jerry Gorovoy, her assistant and factotum for 30 years: “We made a bargain.Louise would make the work and I would do everything else.” Bourgeois: “When you are at the bottom of a well, you look around and you say, who is going to get me out? In this case, Jerry comes and presents a rope.”
Suspect Arrested in Theft of Van Gogh
A man accused of stealing van Gogh’s Night Café from a private home in Santa Fe and selling it for $250 has “turned up in Vermont, where he has been charged with burglarizing two condominiums in the ski resort town of Stowe, credit card fraud and occupying an abandoned camp in Underhill.”
Vote for the Greatest Stage Actor Ever! (As Long as He’s English)
Britain’s trade paper The Stage has launched a reader poll to name “the greatest stage actor of all time.” Of the ten candidates, all are English (though one was born in Ireland), four are dead, only three are female, and only one is under 70.
The Latest Real-World Use for Second Life: Therapy
Users of the popular online virtual world have developed “avatar therapy – in which [real] therapists interact with their clients avatar to avatar. … The emotions are real. The rewards are real. Only the location is fake.”
Wanna Make Your Indie Film Festival Stand Out? Lock Audience Members in Caskets
“Fantastic Fest, a festival in Austin, Tx., that devotes itself to genre cinema, likes attention-getting stunts.” For instance, placing four participants inside coffins to watch (on screens on the coffin lids) the movie Buried, whose protagonist is trapped in a coffin.