“Asking a veteran conservator or museum professional where they were when the Arno River burst its banks 50 years ago this month, submerging the historic centre of Florence under 18 billion gallons of filthy water, is akin to asking someone what they were doing when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.”
Tag: 11.04.16
TV Companies Try To Win Back Cord-Cutting Millennials With Their Favorite ’80s And ’90s Shows
“‘In a weird way, the strategy seems to write itself: Like, huh, we have all this stuff, we already own, it, people seem to want it,’ [MTV exec Erik] Flannigan says of MTV Classic. It helps, of course, that MTV’s vintage programming, for many millennials, coincides with ‘that window of your life that’s so formative and so meaningful.'”
When Celebs We Love Make Tweets Or Videos Or Facebook Posts We Hate
In today’s media climate, Oscar Wilde was right: “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” Which means that famous people who want to remain famous must constantly create new content of some sort to talk about. That means a lot of chances for fallible human beings to make mistakes.
Lyric Opera Of Chicago Bosses Claim They Broke Even Last Season, But The Numbers Show A $22M Deficit
“Even though Lyric CFO Roberta Lane is calling it a break-even year, the grim numbers on the auditor’s statement of activities indicate otherwise.” And the company’s answers to a reporter don’t exactly clarify things.
Thomas More’s ‘Utopia’ At 500
China Miéville: “Was More’s utopia blueprint, or satire, or something else? As if these are exclusive. As if all utopias are not always all of the above, in degrees that vary as much in the context of their reception as of their creation. … But the fact that the utopian impulse is always stained doesn’t mean it can or should be denied or battened down. It is as inevitable as hate and anger and joy, and as necessary.”
Teaching James Baldwin To White Students In The Age Of Obama
Citing Baldwin’s “The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed that collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their ancestors were all freedom-loving heroes, that they … have always dealt honorably with Mexicans and Indians and all other neighbors or inferiors,” Scott Korb looks at why “such claims against white Americans didn’t make sense to students who believed they had never believed such things.”
How A Dancer Can Transform Into A Choreographer
Do the usual: Apprentice, try to job-shadow and assist the best people, fly with your own wings – and be prepared for a few problems. “One of the toughest challenges will be getting people to see you in a new light.”
The Sad, Surreal Experience Of Hearing Other Audience Members Laughing During ‘Moonlight’
Sometimes the audience and the movie don’t match up, to put it mildly, but that can be extra painful when the not-so-funny scene concerns a revelation of identity.
The British Government Just Pulled All Of Its Funding From The New, Simon Rattle-Backed Concert Hall
A former culture minister offered more than £5 million, of which more than a fourth has been spent … and now the government has simply decided that the rest has to be returned to them because the proposed Centre for Music “doesn’t offer value for the taxpayer.”
Innocent Abroad: An American Bookseller Goes To The Frankfurt Book Fair
So this experiment goes well: “I apologize a lot. I try to assure the international book community that not all of America has lost its goddamn mind.”