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Tag: 10.04.14
Saying Goodbye To City Ballet, After Dancing Beyond Dinosaur Age
Wendy Whelan is retiring from New York City Ballet at age 47. Her farewell performance, “which will include a new work created for her by Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon, two of ballet’s biggest choreographic names — sold out within minutes.”
The New Weekly Magazine That Doesn’t Give A Rat’s Ass About New York
“Why launch a new print publication on the opposite coast from the country’s magazine publishing hub? Being at the heart of so many American subcultures, from tech to entertainment, makes California inherently interesting, McGray says.”
New Languages Get Invented All Of The Time. Why Do Some Catch On With Hollywood?
“It would be wonderful if there were tons of conlangers working with fantasy authors, working with science fiction authors, where the author can spend their time on the story and the conlanger can spend their time on the language, so by the time it gets picked up and it becomes the next blockbuster, whether on film or television, they actually have a language there to go along with it.”
Yes, Images Have Meaning (And Matisse Proves It)
“Matisse wanted to control the beholder and specify how and what she would see, but he also wanted something like the opposite. The viewer must be led by the work, but her attention must at the same time be self-conscious — both hypnosis and resisting hypnosis are part of engaging the work.”
Why (Some) Conservatives Love Lena Dunham And ‘Girls’
“The thing that makes Dunham’s show so interesting, the reason it inspired a certain unsettlement among some of its early fans, is that it often portrays young-liberal-urbanite life the way, well, many reactionaries see it: as a collision of narcissists educated mostly in self-love, a sexual landscape distinguished by serial humiliations — a realm at once manic and medicated, privileged and bereft of higher purpose.”
Hollywood, Let’s Talk About Getting Spanglish Right
“As someone who regularly speaks English, Spanish and Spanglish (that mix of English and Spanish), this made no sense. For American Latinos, there are certain unspoken rules about what language you speak, and to whom.”
Has New York Times Reporting On Publishing Been Biased Against Amazon?
“‘Propaganda’ is a stretch … But it’s certainly true that the literary establishment has received a great deal of sympathetic coverage.”
Thanks For Inventing Nightlife, New York!
“For the first time, women went out to drink too and occupied the same small, dark spaces as men. Couples started dating, instead of courting.”
Protestors Stage ‘Requiem for Mike Brown’ At Intermission Of St. Louis Symphony
About 50 people sang and unfurled banners during intermission at a St. Louis Symphony performance. A symphony spokesperson “said everyone involved had apparently purchased a ticket. Ebsworth-Goold added that she wished the demonstrators would have stayed to see the rest of the performance.”