The legendary Latin-jazz-rocker tells Rolling Stone, “I’m going to stop playing when I’m 67 and work on what I really want to do, which is to be a minister, like Little Richard.” Meanwhile, he tells his band, “the theme of this tour is ‘live your light.’ I want the audience to be reminded that before they had all this stuff, this DNA and flesh and bones, they were made out of light.”
Tag: 10.06.08
Where Poetry Is A Star
“Imagine living in a society where poetry was considered to be the most important art form. Where a poet could easily fill a football stadium. Where a poet’s death was the top news story for days. Where dictators would ply poets with gifts and flattery in invariably futile attempts to get them on side. Where scientists and economists and government ministers would find it unthinkable not to read poetry every day. Where everyone could recite the national poets by heart.”
Dubai Says It Will Build World’s Tallest Building – One Kilometer High
“The tower, at the centre of the Nakheel port and harbour complex, is to be “over one kilometre” high and have more than 200 floors, beating its nearest rival, the existing Burj Dubai tower, still under construction and due to rise to a mere 818 metres.”
Netflix Fails To Make Quarterly Numbers
“The average consumer couldn’t help but be scared in the month of September, with all that’s going on. Even though Netflix is a very low-cost way to watch movies, it’s still hard to commit (to a monthly subscription) if you’re not absolutely secure you’re going to have an income, have a job.”
Is There Anything New To Be Said About Leonard Bernstein?
“Is it possible that after decades of adulation, Bernstein could still be underappreciated? Perhaps all that love has done him a disservice. The Establishment is so thickly populated by Bernstein’s apprentices that they make it difficult to hear his music for what it is.”
West End Theatre Being Affected By Economic Meltdown
“House Full” signs are in markedly short supply of late in a climate in which you can buy tickets on the day to erstwhile sellouts such as Joseph and Hairspray. To that extent, London’s theatreland now bears comparison with New York, where big-deal Tony winners such as Spring Awakening and Spamalot would appear from their grosses to be winding down.
Sotheby’s Stock Plummets
“Sotheby’s shares dropped $2.38, or 14 percent, to $14.64 as of 4:15 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. While the shares recovered at the end of the day with the rest of the market, they remain at their lowest since July 2005.”
Generally Speaking, Art Market Is Sinking
“A net balance of 34 percent more auctioneers and valuers reported prices falling for items estimated at 1,000 pounds and below in the quarterly survey completed last month. By contrast, a balance of 39 percent reported that prices rose for more expensive works of 50,000 pounds and higher as wealthy people snapped up trophy art. Contemporary art registered the strongest growth, with 41 percent more surveyors reporting increased prices.”
Family Feud Clouds Future Of Important Tribal Art Collection
Three years ago John and Marcia Friede had promised to give San Francisco’s deYoung Museum “their entire 4,000-piece collection of tribal art from New Guinea, generally regarded as the best of its kind in private hands. The museum built an 8,000-square-foot wing to display the Friede collection and helped publish a lavish two-volume catalog of the works. Today the gift is in doubt, and many wonder whether the collection will remain intact.”
The Novel That Teams Up With A Video Game (Or Is It The Other Way Around?)
“The online game extends the fictional world of the novel, it also allows readers to play in it. At the same time, PJ Haarsma very calculatedly gave gamers who might not otherwise pick up a book a clear incentive to read: one way that players advance is by answering questions with information from the novel.”