“The situation in Greece is not improving and as time passes all the consequences of an economic crisis such as strikes and fuel shortages are starting to be felt.”
Tag: 12.21.10
A Deal To Preserve, Care For Watts Towers
“The ink is nearly dry on a $150,000 deal for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) to oversee the restoration and preservation of the city’s Watts Towers.”
Are There Any Cultural Lessons To Be Learned By Success Of Justin Bieber?
“Over the past year, the teen icon’s popularity has become inescapable. At the time of writing, his video for Baby, the most popular clip on YouTube in 2010, has been viewed more than 1.3 million times per day since it was first uploaded on Feb. 11. Last week, Facebook named him the sixth-biggest “trend” of 2010.”
Would You Pay $29 For Your Movie Ticket?
The theatres “operate on the premise that a certain sort of fan will pay handsomely to be pampered at the movies, with hyper-plush seating and fancy food and drink. The movie houses, born down in Australia, take online reservations for reserved seats, charging a whopping $29 a throw on weekend nights.”
Flying Actor Falls, Is Injured In “Spiderman” Performance
“Theatergoers who attended Monday’s performance of “Spider-Man”… said that they saw a performer playing the title hero fall about 8 to 10 feet into a pit during the closing minutes of the show, and that some equipment fell into the audience when this occurred.”
Ontario’s Tough New Ticket Scalping Law In Effect
Ontario’s new law to stop U.S. entertainment giant Ticketmaster and others from selling and reselling tickets to the same event is now in effect.
A New Blog Examines the Intersection of Law and Comic Book Characters
“Is Superman’s heat vision a weapon? If so, would the Second Amendment protect his right to melt pistols and cook hamburgers with it? … [A] new blog and the interest it is generating shows that there are people who look at an epic battle between superheroes and supervillains and really, really want to know who should be found liable for the broken buildings and shattered streets.”
Iranian Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Gets Six Years in Prison
A Tehran court ruled that the internationally known director of The White Balloon and The Circle must spend six years behind bars and may not make films or travel abroad for 20 years. The crime: working on a film about Iran’s last election and the protests that followed.