“In architectural circles, the town of Owatonna, Minn. is best known for its extraordinary Louis Sullivan bank … Now, Owatonna is home to a second architectural jewel – a Frank Gehry-designed home, the Winton Guest House, which was originally built on in the suburbs of Minneapolis.”
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Shakespeare’s Globe To Host Multilingual Shakespeare Festival For Olympiad
“British debuts from the national theatre companies of China, Israel, Bitola and Armenia are planned as part of the Globe to Globe festival next year, during which each of Shakespeare’s plays will be performed in a different language.”
Study: Brainwaves Slow When Something Becomes A Habit
“As rats were learning the task their brain activity showed bursts of fast gamma waves. Once the rats mastered the task, their brainwaves slowed to almost a quarter of their initial frequency, becoming beta waves. Graybiel’s team suspects this transition reflects when learning becomes habit.”
The Movie Marketplace Is Being Reordered In Front Of Us
“Unless theater owners are prepared to call for the wrecking ball, filmgoing isn’t going away. And so a new order is emerging, one in which a mix of franchises, remakes and, yes, even retreads, could dominate.”
Virtual Monkeys Close To Rewriting Shakespeare
The virtual simian wordsmiths are close to doing so. They are 99.99 percent finished with Will’s entire catalog. The first work to be completed was the poem “A Lover’s Complaint”.
Small Independent Movie Theatre Sues Chain Over Booking Movies
“The lawsuit claims that Cinemark is engaged in an industry practice called “circuit dealing,” in which theater chains leverage their size and buying power to prevent distributors from booking movies at theaters owned by their rivals.”
Boston Museum Of Fine Art Returns Ancient Marble To Turkey
“Turkey has been campaigning for the marble’s return for the past two decades, with hopes of joining it to the marble torso, which is held at the Antalya Museum in southwestern Turkey.”
Getting To Know The Met’s New Heir Apparent
In a recent rehearsal, new Metropolitan Opera Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi “politely prefaced corrections with ‘I suggest’ and ‘May I ask a favor, please?’ But he made sure to get the changes that he wanted, even if they required several repetitions. After 90 minutes of efficient but painstaking rehearsal, he let the musicians go – an hour early.”
Why Paulo Coelho Gives His Novels Away Online
“I saw the first pirated edition of one of my books, so I said I’m going to post it online. … I put this first copy online and I sold, in the first year, 10,000 copies there. And in the second year it jumped to 100,000 copies. … Then I started putting other books online, knowing that if people read a little bit and they like it, they are going to buy the book.”