Jerry Delaney: “Friends of mine still speak openly of their ‘love’ of Camus. Does anyone speak of a love of Jean-Paul Sartre? Or Martin Heidegger? I feel an intense gratitude to Camus for giving me the language to express a few basic truths on which to base a life.”
Tag: 11.06.13
So Reading Fiction Makes You A Better Person. Really?
Reading fiction is good, according to the studies, because it makes you a more effective social agent. Which is pretty much what being able to read a train schedule does for you, too.
Ballet’s Great Runaway Brings Spotlight To Moscow’s No. 2 Troupe
Less than two years after he walked out on his burgeoning career as a principal at London’s Royal Ballet, Sergei Polunin is drawing critical raves and ravenous ticket-buyers to the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre, whose ballet company has always labored in the shadow of the mighty – and now strife-plagued – Bolshoi.
Myrtle Beach Voters Approve Tax Hike To Build Performing Arts Center
In a low-turnout referendum (3,546 votes cast), 54% of voters supported a small property tax increase to fund construction of a new $10 million, two-stage venue in a South Carolina resort town better known for golf, country music, and heat-seeking Canadians than for drama, dance, or classical music.
Brain Research After The Mozart Effect
“One of the difficulties of the Mozart Effect was it was associated with the passive listening of music. The work that Virginia and I have been talking about is really in stark contrast to that. It is the active engagement with an instrument.”
Indie Bookstores Reject Amazon’s Offer To Give Them Cut Of Kindle Sales
“You are putting your competition inside your store and selling their books for them. That ultimately will not lead to a successful business model.”
Basically, The Word Police Are Just Wrong
Usage police periodically go so far as to claim that the word “basically” is mere filler, that it doesn’t even mean anything. Basically, this is nonsense.
The Scale Of That Newly-Discovered Munich Art Trove…
“Few outside the art world are aware of the fact that Nazi art and looting agencies operated large bureaucracies that not only purged the museums of Germany itself of the so-called Degenerate Art, but ran confiscation programs at home and in the occupied countries.”
Blockbuster Video To Close All U.S. Stores
“The video chain that a decade ago made moguls tremble with its stranglehold on video rentals will be gone in January: Dish Network, which paid $234M to take Blockbuster out of bankruptcy in early 2011, said today that it will close the 300 remaining U.S. retail stores as well as its distribution centers.”
Bolshoi Ballet Director Testifies In Acid Attack Trial
“Sergei Filin, the Bolshoi Theater ballet artistic director who suffered serious burns over his face and body from an acid attack earlier this year, made an emotional appearance in court Wednesday, speaking publicly for the first and likely last time.”