Harvey Weinstein Faces 27 Years’ Worth Of Sexual Harassment Allegations

“An investigation by The New York Times found previously undisclosed allegations against Mr. Weinstein stretching over nearly three decades, documented through interviews with current and former employees and film industry workers, as well as legal records, emails and internal documents from the businesses he has run, Miramax and the Weinstein Company.”

Angel Corella Speaks Publicly About Dismissal Of Dancers From Pennsylvania Ballet

About a month after he arrived as artistic director, Corella said, “People started to put their arms across and say, ‘This is not going to happen.’ I heard that some dancers said, ‘The same way we got rid of the previous artistic director, we’re going to get rid of this one.’ Dancers were laughing at my face. A dancer even insulted me in front of everyone, just called me an [expletive]. You had people who didn’t even show up to class – I didn’t see them for three or four months – others that were injured for a very long time. … People from all around the world were knocking on the door – we had 2,000-something people sending in audition tapes.”

Corella’s Predecessor At Pennsylvania Ballet Goes To Vegas

Roy Kaiser, who spent two decades as the Philadelphia-based company’s artistic director (and 18 years at the company before that), is the new artistic director of Nevada Ballet Theatre in Las Vegas. “He replaces James Canfield, who served as NBT’s artistic director from 2009 until his contract expired June 30. Kaiser is just the fourth artistic director of the Nevada Ballet Theatre, which is entering its 46th season.”

Composer Klaus Huber, Giant Of 20th-Century Modernism, Dead At 92

“Unlike the other greats of his generation, he was not a figure affected by the media. The genius emperor Boulez, the sensuous artist-prince Henze, the galactic Stockhausen, had all already cut their own paths as Klaus Huber continued to teach 40 violin students per week, and only pursued a vocation he’d long known in the mornings.” (Huber was also a highly-regarded composition teacher; among his students were Brian Ferneyhough, Wolfgang Rihm and Kaija Saariaho.)

More Appalling Behavior By V.S. Naipaul

The late novelist Anthony Powell was an important mentor and supporter of Naipaul during the latter’s early years as a young Trinidadian writer in London. Years later, Naipaul included in his own memoir a harsh dismissal of Powell’s writing. Now Powell’s biographer has discovered evidence that Naipaul’s remarks about Powell were quite possibly based on a lie and definitely different from what Naipaul had told Powell personally.

Finalist For Canada’s Prestigious Journey Prize For Literature Disqualified After Copying Concerns

The story The Most Human Part of You, by Richard Kelly Kemick, a National Magazine Award-winning writer from Calgary, Alta., was found to share elements with the story The Dog of the Marriage by the American writer Amy Hempel. As a result, Kemick’s story, as well as a second work, have been pulled from The Journey Prize Stories, an anthology that features the best fiction published in Canadian literary journals and magazines.

Boys Are Being Bullied For Dancing Ballet – It’s An Epidemic, Actually

The statistics on boys, ballet and bullying are staggering. According to a study by dance sociologists Doug Risner and Maggie Allesee of Wayne State University in Detroit, 93 percent of boys involved in ballet reported “teasing and name calling,” and 68 percent experienced “verbal or physical harassment.” Eleven percent said they were victims of physical harm at the hands of people who targeted them because they are boys who study dance.