“For an hour, musicians tag-teamed from stop to stop in the first car of the train in a continuously repeating performance of the Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1.
In G.”
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Oh, English. Why So Damned Difficult?
“Why, for centuries, have people struggled to spell? Because English spelling is horribly hard. It is not just that we have ‘for’ and ‘four,’ ‘stake,’ ‘steak,’ and ‘mistake.’ We also have ‘peak,’ ‘peek,’ and ‘pique.’ ‘Horrid’ has a double consonant in the middle, ‘timid’ a single one. ‘Prefer’ has one ‘f,’ ‘proffer’ two.”
So, What Do The Real Housewives Of Miami Think Of Art Basel?
“Marysol: It’s always been about art, which is its basis, but now it’s taken over the social calendar. It’s just this huge social experience and celebrities, every year there’s more and more. … It’s interesting how in the beginning we worked with big art galleries, and then it started transforming into a few art galleries and fashion brands bringing the art element in.”
Moving An Online Store Offline, And Making It Pretty
How to move your product (tastefully) from a nice web page to an in-the-flesh experience? Hire designers, of course.
The CIA Director Jumps Into Zero Dark Thirty Discussions
Acting CIA Director Michael Morell: “Whether enhanced interrogation techniques were the only timely and effective way to obtain information from those detainees, as the film suggests, is a matter of debate that cannot and never will be definitively resolved.”
Of Course Wealthy French Movie Stars Should Flee The Tax Rates, Says Catherine Deneuve
Deneuve defends fellow actor Gerard Depardieu for his move to Belgium, where the wealth tax is 50 percent instead of next year’s French rate of 75 percent.
“Chicago” Becomes Third-Longest-Running Show On Broadway
“Thursday night’s performance of the 1920s musical was its 6,681st. The other two longest-running shows are Cats, with 7,500 performances, and The Phantom of the Opera, which is still running after more than 10,300 shows.”
“Gangnam Style” Passes One Billion Views
“One industry watcher said the fact so many people continued to post their own versions of Gangnam Style had played a huge part in the clip’s success.”
Russian Movie Box Office Up This Year (But Russian Film Share Declines)
“The Russian box office is to reach $1.3 billion this year, a 15 percent increase from 2011, while the local fare’s share is to decline.”
Is This App The Future Of Classical Music?
“Best of all, The Orchestra is no techno-utopian attempt to do away with the concert hall. Rather, it’s an invitation for new listeners to get comfortable with the density of informational delight that can be had there.”