Bob Mondello: “With the Supreme Court hearing arguments this week on same-sex marriage, I’d like to point out a parallel evolution in what I see as a Hollywood mini-genre: films in which gay characters are either taken to court or seek redress in court for issues involving their sexuality” – from Leopold and Loeb to the AIDS crisis.
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More Ballet-Meets-Hardware: A Dance For Bicycle-Furniture Hybrids
“If you recently saw a person driving a park bench through the streets of San Francisco, don’t worry – you’re not crazy, and neither is the rider. The bench-on-wheels is simply a prop for a performance called Transit: Next Stop, which happens to involve classically trained dancers gliding around on stage atop heavily modded bicycles.”
Ballet Memorial For A Soldier Slain In Iraq
“Colin Wolfe was killed in Iraq in August 2006. A roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle in Anbar province just a few weeks after he arrived. … Nearly seven years later, on the heels of the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, his mother paid tribute to her son with a ballet.”
The Archive Of Magical Thinking: Visiting The World’s Top Prestidigitation Library
“The Conjuring Arts Research Center, located a few blocks from the Empire State Building … has over 15,000 books, plus manuscripts and letters serving magicians, historians and screenwriters. The documentation is all created by magicians for magicians.”
FBI Says It Knows Who Committed Gardner Museum Thefts
“In a stunning twist in a case that had frustrated investigators for decades, federal law enforcement officials said today that they had identified the people who stole $500 million worth of masterworks in a daring heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.”
Can Computers Fill The Role Of Choreographers?
“Now we’re getting at more complicated questions about how we relate to the digital world, about the balance of power between our machines and us. In fact, the tensions that drive science fiction are no longer theoretical – they’re real, at least on the experimental margins of the dance world.”
Let’s Dispense With These Myths About Ballet Once And For All, Shall We?
It’s frou-frou. It makes no sense. It’s intimidating. It’s just boring. Stephanie Merry debunks them one by one.
Egypt Blocks Documentary On Egyptian Jews
“An Egyptian documentary called Jews of Egypt was supposed to hit theaters Wednesday, but won’t because state security officials have blocked its release, according to the film’s producer.”
Could A Passport For Instruments Make Musicians’ Lives Easier?
“U.S. delegates have proposed passports for instruments made with exotic woods, old ivory or tortoise shell parts because, as it stands now, instruments can be seized if musicians don’t have import and export permits for each country they visit.”
How Dogs Think Like People
“Dogs are the only species that have been identified to date that learn words in the same way as human children – by using inferences. … The second thing is that they make use of human gestures at a similar level of flexibility to young infants.”