Aamir Khan’s new television show, Satyamev Jayate (“Truth Alone Prevails”), “takes elements of the female empowerment talk show associated with Oprah Winfrey, journalism, public service announcements and reality TV interactivity and throws them all together.”
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Adjusting Israel’s National Anthem To Not Exclude Israeli Arabs
The first line of “HaTikva” reads (in English translation), “As long as deep within him a Jew’s soul stirs …” In the wake of a silent protest by an Israeli Arab justice of the country’s Supreme Court, The Forward teamed up with singer Neshama Carlebach (daughter of the late Rabbi Shlomo) to offer – with just a few tweaks of the lyrics – a version of the anthem that doesn’t exclude 20% of Israel’s population.
Megan Fairchild Shows Us Just How Important Those Pointe Shoes Are
The New York City Ballet principal has made a 5½-minute video about the indispensable footwear, showing how the shoes are made, fitted and used.
William Forsythe On Artifact, His Great Meta-Ballet
“I had to find my way around Balanchine, Petipa, Cranko, MacMillan, the whole crowd. … It is about the process of people imitating one another. Of replication. That is what one does. One starts by standing behind someone else and imitating what they do.”
The Cheese Portraitist (Or, Van Gogh Goes To Whole Foods)
Philadelphia artist Mike Geno: “I only paint things that I find attractive and appetizing. I like to translate what I find the most seductive about my subject. And cheese, it turns out, is the absolute perfect match for the way I paint. I get hungry looking at cheese.”
Decoding A Maestro’s Moves
“So in an attempt to understand what is going on, we interviewed seven conductors as they passed through New York in recent seasons with an eye to breaking them down into body parts – like that poster in the butcher shop with dotted lines to show the different cuts of meat – left hand, right hand, face, eyes, lungs and, most elusive, brain.”
Competing To Redesign Washington’s National Mall
“A amphitheater at the base of the Washington Monument. A glass-enclosed restaurant overlooking the Constitution Gardens pond – and a winter-time ice-skating rink where the pond currently sits. A lively new Union Square, with streams of water arching into the Capitol Reflecting Pool. Those are among the ideas that architects and designers have floated for redesigning and reviving three sites on the National Mall.”
Elizabeth Catlett, 96, Sculptor And Harlem Renaissance Figure
“Though much of her early career was ignored by the mainstream art world, Catlett’s work is now collected by museums all over the world. Still, the artist said it was too much when NPR told her last year that she had been described as the matriarch of modernist sculpture.”
Stella And Stanley Shouting Contest In New Orleans
“Each year, the annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival ends with a bevy of wannabe Stanleys bellow to love-torn Stellas positioned on a balcony in Jackson Square – and the roles are reversed when a woman is doing the shouting.”
Alcoholism On American TV: A Brief History
“Television saw the comedy in drunkenness long before it saw the tragedy. From Shakespeare’s Falstaff to Mark Twain’s Pap Finn, the ‘town drunk’ has been a source of amuse, ridicule, and scorn for centuries – and the small screen was once no different.” Until, that is, the idea of alcoholism as disease took hold.