Farhad Manjoo: “While Gawker is dropping the blog format, sites of magazines like Wired and The Atlantic are embracing it. (At both outlets, all articles, other than those that first appeared in print, are published in a blog-like format.) … The design shifts – with blogs looking more like magazines, and magazines looking more like blogs – aren’t just superficial.”
Tag: 10.18.10
Montreal Symphony and Kent Nagano Do an All-Night Rave
“It would not be strictly accurate to say that this was the first-ever MSO performance at which the Gazette critic was the oldest person in attendance. After all, I had a date.”
Director Nicholas Hytner – A Life In The Theatre
“Listening to Hytner describe his career, you’d think everything was accidental – or, at least, happened en route to somewhere else. The truth is that Hytner has packed more into the last 25 years than most directors accomplish in a lifetime.”
Authors Head For The Schools
It’s no surprise that the rise of the touring children’s author has come hand in hand with the reduction in space for children’s books in the press. Author events are now a key marketing strategy. But rather than seeing this additional task as a chore, there’s a whole generation of children’s authors and illustrators who embrace it as a core part of what they do.
Opera In The Pubs (It Works)
Ever since my company OperaUpClose announced that we were turning the King’s Head into London’s third full-time opera house, we’ve been inundated with feedback. Most of it has been extremely positive – ticket sales for the opening production of The Barber of Seville are more than encouraging – but some people are obviously dubious about the merits of “pub opera”.
New Database For Stolen Holocaust Art
“The database combines records from the US National Archives, the German Bundesarchiv and records on repatriation and restitution held by the French government.”
Why The Nobel Literature Prize Still Matters
“What this year’s prize really shows is that prizes, like people, have a DNA of their own. The Nobel Prize in Literature would have been more illuminatingly named not after Dynamite Alfred but after his close friend, greatest hero, and ideal writer, Victor Hugo.”