Bank Accuses Bucks County Playhouse Owner Of Fraud

Ralph Miller, owner of the Bucks County Playhouse and of the recently charred Pocono Playhouse, “was facing a sheriff’s sale” of the Bucks County theatre until he declared bankruptcy. “But last week Skippack-based Stonebridge Bank called on the court to block the Chapter 11 bankruptcy, saying Miller ‘knowingly and fraudulently’ misrepresented his financial picture….”

Jerking: Break-Dancing For The Internet Age

“Goofy, gentle, nimbly amateurish, jerking was little known outside certain precincts of this sprawling city [L.A.] until a year ago. But in the last nine months or so, jerking began an unexpected run as an Internet phenomenon.” The movement has a “rebellious disregard for the conventions of urban style and music (old school hip-hop artists are referred to as ‘baggy daddies’).”

Simon Rattle And The Berlin Phil, In Love Once More

“It’s been an interesting journey. Slowly and surely we have come together through honeymoons and the opposite. I remember Karajan said that with an orchestra like this the first five or 10 years are tradition. I didn’t quite believe him. But after what has sometimes felt like moving at the speed of tectonic plates, … we now have a tradition to build on.”

Robert Cameron, Bard Of The Aerial Photograph, Dead At 98

“His 19 ‘Above‘ books, each with about 150 photographs, include neighborhood-by-neighborhood overviews of Paris, London, Mexico City, New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, San Diego and Seattle.” (He covered his hometown with four volumes of Above San Francisco.) “Then there are the volumes showing the natural wonders of places like Yosemite, Big Sur and Hawaii.”