YouTube, With New Site Design And Content, Could Begin Replacing TV

“Google rolled out an ambitious new look for YouTube on Thursday … But the ultimate goal is much more ambitious than just making the video-sharing site look less cluttered: Google wants YouTube to be so wonderful that people will use it the way they use TV – surfing channels when they’re bored and want to be entertained rather than when they’re looking for something specific.”

Wikileaks, The Play

“A play about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will have its European premiere in London next year. First seen … in Sydney last summer, when it was originally titled Stainless Steel Rat, Ron Elisha’s play will open … in January. Renamed Man in the Middle, the play has been reworked over the past three months to guarantee its topicality in light of recent events.”

RUGs Unraveled: Cunningham’s Apprentice Group Dissolves

As the Merce Cunningham Dance Company enters its final month of existence, its Repertory Understudy Group has given its last performances. “Known as the RUGs, its four dancers were never quite a second company. The group, formalized in 1990, served as an apprentice program for the Cunningham company, with whose members its four dancers shared studios and took class.”