“Brainbow allows researchers to tag several hundred neurons at once with roughly 90 distinct colors. The resulting images , which resemble abstract color paintings, are both beautiful and informative. They look like they could hang in a modern art museum and are among the most detailed images of neuronal connections ever made.”
Tag: 10.31.07
Tough Year For Cleveland Concertmaster
The Cleveland Orchestra is on European tour. Orchestra members say on the way overseas, concertmaster William Preucil “got completely wasted and started screaming at the airline attendant. He was also overheard mumbling those laments of violinists everywhere: “**** the orchestra” and ” **** all this shit.”
Welser-MÖst – Feeling The Love
Franz Welser-MÖst is on tour with his Cleveland Orchestra in Austria. “Conductors, including Welser-MÖst, and soloists garner bigger print than ensembles. The Austrian conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra is viewed here as the local boy made good, even though he hails from the smaller city of Linz.”
Things You Know And When You Don’t Know Them
“The books you read at a certain age can put you on the wrong path, even though you don’t recognize it at the time. You are too naively ambitious to get much out of them — or too naive, perhaps, not that it makes much difference either way. And by the time you realize what you should have read, it’s too late. You would understand things differently, and probably better, had you made different choices. You would be a different person. Instead, you wasted a lot of time.”
The Blog That Begat A Growing Publisher
“Since its launch in 2006, Dzanc Books has acquired other presses, signed numerous authors, launched an education program and started an award — the Dzanc Prize — to encourage writers to undertake community literacy projects. Dzanc is growing at a time when there are few independent publishers left, and the remaining ones were hit hard by the recent bankruptcy of Advanced Marketing Services, a major distributor.”
Runnicles To Lead Berlin’s Deutsche Oper
Scottish-born conductor Donald Runnicles will become the musical director at Berlin’s Deutsche Oper in 2009. Runnicles, currently music director at the San Francisco Opera, will succeed Italian conductor Renato Palumbo in Berlin.
Is Local UK Arts Funding About To Dip?
“An estimated £120 million is invested in arts organisations across England and Wales by authorities every year, providing one of the UK’s largest culture funding sources. Executive officer of the National Association of Local Government Arts Officers Sue Isherwood warned that, following a disappointing settlement of 1% above inflation in the comprehensive spending review, the provision may plummet nationwide.”
Trump This – The Donald Clumps Through Broadway
“The Donald is bigfooting his way onto Broadway, rounding up theater personalities in what’s likely to be a failed effort to pump life into his sagging ‘The Apprentice.’ Along the way, he and his two competing teams of B-list celebrities – well, to be strictly accurate, C-list (Marilu Henner is, after all, a team captain) – are causing chaos.”
Survey: Americans Oppose Media Ownership Concentration
“More than half of Americans surveyed said it should be illegal for a company to own both a newspaper and a television station in the same market. Long-standing FCC rules restrict cross-ownership and ban ownership of a newspaper and a TV or radio station in the same market without an FCC waiver.”
Rowling Sues Over Harry Potter Fan Book
“Author J.K. Rowling and the maker of the “Harry Potter” films are suing a small publisher in Michigan over its plans to release a book version of a popular Web site dedicated to the boy wizard.”