“The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and its musicians have ensured labor harmony through the 2014-15 season by extending and modifying their collective bargaining agreement. … Under the terms of the new agreement, the Milwaukee musicians relinquished most of a previously planned raise for the 2012-13 season.”
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Does Ian McKellen Have Prostate Cancer Or Not?
“In a series of tweets, the actor gave an explanation for a bizarre twist Tuesday in which a major British [tabloid] newspaper quoted him as saying he had cancer, and then McKellen’s agent claimed he didn’t.”
DC’s Shakespeare Theater Co. Averts Eviction
“The Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, which won this year’s Tony Award for best regional theater, won another victory on Tuesday – this time in court – and staved off the threat of eviction from its 7th Street home in the Lansburgh building.”
Why Do People Put Up Christmas Crèches?
The custom is old but not ancient, dating back to the High Middle Ages. And there seems to be one famous individual responsible.
Tamara Rojo On Why Nutcracker Stays So Popular
“First and foremost, it is [Tchaikovsky’s] score.” But it’s more than that: “It is taking us back to a time of innocence, a time with no worries, a time when you believe completely in Christmas.”
Attention, Oscar Voters: Do Not Nominate A Grade-Schooler For Best-Actress
Scott MacDonald on Beasts of the Southern Wild star Quvenzhané Wallis: “Though she’s nine now, she was a mere six when the film was shot. To put it another way, she was not quite seven, which is the year developmental psychologists like to refer to as the age of reason: when kids start making decisions based on logic and causality. I’m no psych expert, but it seems to me this might be the sensible cut-off point for acting plaudits.”
Ravi Shankar Despised The Hippies
He described the audiences that flooded his legendary appearances at Woodstock and Monterey as “these strange young weirdos … shrieking, shouting, smoking, masturbating and copulating – all in a drug-crazed state … I used to tell them, ‘You don’t behave like that when you go to hear a Bach, Beethoven or Mozart concert.'”
The Encyclopedia Of World Problems (Yes, It’s Real)
“Anthony Judge’s career has been peppered with problems, from Aarskog Syndrome to Zoonotic bacterial diseases. In between, he tackled dandruff, ignorance, kidney disorders and sabotage.”
When Is It Okay For Audiences To Cheer At Hot Actors Stripping Off?
Mark Lawson: “During two new London West End musicals – The Bodyguard and Viva Forever! – a huge whoop came from women in the audience during sequences when an attractive man took off his shirt. … What’s striking about this response is to imagine what would happen if men behaved in this way.”
Will Peter Jackson’s New Hugh-Frame-Rate “Hobbit” Change The Way We Want To See Movies?
“It frees up the image in a way that I think is disruptive for some people — certainly off-putting — but once you actually get into it and sort of accept the images that you’re seeing [as] being very different, you absolutely embrace the world.”