Scholar David Shulman writes of experiencing the performance of a 130-hour epic kudiyattam – “a living tradition of classical Sanskrit drama that has survived intact for more than one thousand years” in the southwest Indian state of Kerala.
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‘Ten Things The Nutcracker Won’t Tell You’ – MarketWatch Takes On America’s Favorite Ballet
“1. You see sugar plums. We see dollar signs. … 2. Your family outing might equal your mortgage payment. … 3. We depend on child labor. …” And so on.
How A Small, Eccentric, Devoted Publisher Survives In The U.K.
“The Persephone readers of Bishop’s Castle are, like Persephone readers everywhere, avid and highly particular. They have joined the nearest thing British publishing has to a cult, and their enthusiasm for it is enough to heat even a creaking and under-funded town hall.”
David Simon Talks The Wire, Treme, The CIA, And More
“You either save the city, or you lose the American spirit, you lose the American soul for the next 100 or 200 years. We’re not going to be rural people. We’re going to be more and more urban people, and more multicultural, and we’re either going to solve these problems that are inherent in the modern American city, or we’re not going to be a first-rate society.”
Spectacular Theatre Coming To Chicago’s North Shore?
“Nothing quite like this has been built on the North Shore, and it’s likely to change the architectural and cultural face of Glencoe. The building alone, it seems reasonable to predict, would attract cultural tourists.”
Christo Plans Ambitious Sculpture For Abu Dhabi
“A 150-metre-high, flat-topped pyramid would be taller than St Paul’s Cathedral or St Peter’s Basilica and would overshadow the Great Pyramid of Giza – creating Abu Dhabi’s answer to Egypt’s pyramids or Mecca’s Kaaba.”
Bill Lee, The Unsung Voice Of Captain Von Trapp
Christopher Plummer: “Julie, of course, had been, you know, trained since day one as a – I mean, she was tone perfect since she was in her cradle, which is an exasperating thing to admit. And it was awfully hard to match her and her sustained long notes.”
A Book Inside A Game Becomes A Game Inside A Book
“At the core of Myst’s story was a mystical technology called Linking Books that pulled players into other realms, called Ages. They were these beautiful old tomes that, when opened, showed an animated preview of the Age to which you’d be linked.” So one Myst-lover created a real one.
Larry Hagman, 81, Who Played J.R. On ‘Dallas’
“Few actors enjoyed their fame as much as Mr. Hagman, who portrayed the oilman-robber baron J. R. as, in one critic’s words, ‘an overstuffed Iago in a Stetson hat.’ At the height of the show’s popularity, he handed out fake $100 bills with his face on them.”
Should Museums Rent Out Their Most Famous Works?
In Boston, “a total of 26 paintings, including the marquee Dance at Bougival and Madame Roulin, have been sent to exhibitions in Italy organized by a private company called Linea d’Ombra, for a large, undisclosed fee. The combined loans and rentals have resulted in what Malcolm Rogers, the MFA’s director, readily admits is a ‘traffic jam’ of missing masterpieces.”