“Amazon, Huh? is a new extension for Google’s Chrome browser that ‘warns’ you when you’re about to shop at Amazon. The pop-up challenges you each time you open Amazon.com: ‘When’s the last time Amazon brought one of your favorite writers in to read from her work – for free?”
Tag: 12.19.11
Hildegard Of Bingen To Be Named Saint And Doctor Of The Church
Pope Benedict XVI has announced that the 12th-century Benedictine nun – a composer, writer, philosopher, medical practitioner and latter-day feminist/New Age icon – will be recognized as a saint and Doctor of the Church in September 2012.
Kim Jong-Il’s Obsession With Cinema
The “Dear Leader” was crazy (as it were) for movies: he wrote a treatise on socialist filmmaking, produced many fiction films and documentaries, and micro-managed the rest of North Korea’s film industry, right down to costumes and make-up. Yet Kim himself was a fan of mainstream Hollywood action movies and Ealing comedies.
Kim Jong Il’s Favorite Film Director And Movie Star (He Had Them Kidnapped)
Shin Sang-Ok “is a film director of legendary stature in his native country – the Orson Welles of South Korea. … He and his wife, the well-known actress Choi Eun Hee, were among Seoul’s celebrity set.” Then the “Dear Leader” had them captured and brought to Pyongyang to remake North Korea’s film industry. Among their creations: a Communist Godzilla.
Study: Los Angeles Is Losing Tens Of Thousands Of Creative Jobs
“The findings for 2010 commissioned by Otis College of Art and Design and compiled from state and federal government figures by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. showed a loss of 21,500 jobs and an 11% decline in employment in the three years.”
World Culture Ministers To gather Next Summer In Edinburgh
“Under the banner of ‘Culture as an International Dialogue’, the two-day event will bring together ministers with prominent artists, thinkers and those involved in developing and implementing cultural policy. It is being organised as a collaboration between the Scottish and UK governments, the EIF and the British Council.”
Latest Robert Wilson-Lucinda Childs Project Called Off (For Now)
“A planned collaboration between famed theater director Robert Wilson and choreographer Lucinda Childs” – titled I Was Sitting on My Patio This Guy Appeared I Thought I Was Hallucinating – at the Pacific Standard Time festival has been postponed indefinitely.”
New House Budget Cuts NEA And NEH By 5.6%
“The National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities each will see a 5.6% budget reduction in fiscal 2012 under a spending bill passed Friday in the House that’s expected to prevent a feared government shutdown.”
Arts Center Marquee Scrubs ‘Gay’ From Denver Gay Men’s Chorus
Imagine the singers’ chagrin when they saw that the venue where they were to perform this past weekend announced them in lights as the “Denver *** Men’s Chorus.” Management at the L2 Arts and Culture Center blames the language filter in the marquee’s software.
Dominic Cooke To Leave London’s Royal Court Theatre
“Dominic Cooke, 45, whose productions of Enron and Jerusalem transferred from the small Sloane Square venue to the West End and then Broadway, will step down as artistic director in 2013. The venue’s executive director Kate Horton is also departing to become deputy executive director of the National Theatre.”