“Gerardo Ortiz, a singer-songwriter from California and winner of several Mexican Billboard Music Awards, was set to perform at the Explanada De Philadelphia … Ortiz never took the stage, and several fans reportedly reacted by throwing things at the stage, knocking over and tossing speakers to the ground, and damaging instruments.” (Tsk – just like Philly sports fans.) (includes video)
Tag: 10.05.16
France’s Culture Minister Promises Largest Budget For Museums In Country’s History
“[Audrey] Azoulay announced a 5% increase in funding to museums, and, notably, an increase of 12% for acquisitions budgets for regional and national museums. She said that museums security would be partly supported by an intra-ministerial fund.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.05.16
Which is the Inimitable Don? Jones’s Giovanni
Søren Kierkegaard said in Either/Or: Because Don Giovanni desires in each and every woman the whole of womanhood, his behaviour has to be judged aesthetically, not ethically. Richard Jones has, I think, taken this seriously. … read more
AJBlog: Plain English Published 2016-10-05
Snapshot: Joni Mitchell sings “California” on The Johnny Cash Show
Joni Mitchell sings “California” on The Johnny Cash Show. This episode was originally telecast by ABC in 1969. … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2016-10-05
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So You Wanna Say ‘Email’ And ‘Bingewatch’ In Yiddish?
“Two of [the language’s] conservationists have produced the first full-fledged English-to-Yiddish dictionary in 50 years and it is designed to carry Yiddish into the 21st century and just maybe beyond. After all, Yiddish has always had a canny way of defying the pessimists.”
This Woman Should Be One Of History’s Most Famous Painters – Why Don’t More People Know About Her (And Her Horrendous Life Story)?
Jonathan Jones: “It is not simply that [Artemisia Gentileschi] became a highly successful artist in an age when guilds and academies closed their doors to women. She also did what none of the other – rare – Renaissance and baroque women who made it as artists could manage: she communicated a powerful personal vision. Her paintings are self-evidently autobiographical. Like Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois or Tracey Emin, she put her life into her art.”
Is It Possible To Be President Of Actors’ Equity And Do A National Tour At The Same Time? This Woman Is About To Show Us
“Kate Shindle is compiling quite the résumé. Once she was Miss America. Now she’s a labor leader, the president of Actors’ Equity. And this week she began playing the nation’s most famous lesbian cartoonist, Alison Bechdel, in the touring production of the Tony-winning Fun Home.”
First-Ever ‘Nobel Of Philosophy’, $1M Berggruen Prize, To Charles Taylor
“The Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor has been named the winner of the first Berggruen Prize, which is to be awarded annually for ‘a thinker whose ideas are of broad significance for shaping human self-understanding and the advancement of humanity.'”
Philadelphia Orchestra Board Approves New Contract; Musicians Do Pop-Up Concerts All Over Town To Celebrate
“Musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra fanned out across the region Tuesday, chatting up fans, playing in string quartets and wind quintets, and doing a little damage control.”