Can Money Buy Happiness? Well, Yes…

“Most people don’t know the basic scientific facts about happiness–about what brings it and what sustains it–and so they don’t know how to use their money to acquire it. … Money is an opportunity for happiness, but it is an opportunity that people routinely squander because the things they think will make them happy often don’t.”

Take Our Tutus, Please, Asks Ballet BC

“[It] was a cheeky publicity stunt by Ballet B.C., a troupe eager to change its image. The campaign encouraged people to ‘take our tutus’, a signal the company is a cutting-edge, contemporary ballet troupe that doesn’t need the classical attire anymore. In fact, you’re more likely to find the dancers in corsets, boy shorts, and athletic wear.”

What Walt Whitman Understood About Death

“Before he became a nurse in Civil War hospitals, before he sat at the bedside of tens of thousands of wounded or sick soldiers as they passed over, he haunted hospitals and assisted at operations … From his researches at New York hospitals came at least one useful answer: Death is not the struggle before the end, the pain and the terror, but rather the deliverance.”

Can Teetering Charleston Symphony Survive Its Conductor’s Death?

“One effect of this sad confluence of events” – the orchestra’s suspension of operations due to lack of funds and the sudden death of longtime music director David Stahl – “is that the symphony — should it find its way to a recovery — is left with no heir- apparent, no interim music director and no slate of candidates for the position.” (And no concerts for conductors to try out with.)