Tuesday, March 20, 2018
"Cuba has one of the lowest rates of internet usage in the Western Hemisphere, and access to media is strictly restricted - but that doesn't stop Cubans from watching Game of Thrones. Their …
SOURCE: qz.com at 12:03PM[SHARE]"[The work] is hung on a musical frame. But more saliently to most audiences, perhaps, it is religious, it is social, it is political. ... Maybe the technical term for it all is simply this:…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:04AM[SHARE]"Research that shows that the brain has to first accept a lie as true, only to analyze it, then refute it. Over time, the brain tires of that process and slowly starts to accept the lies as …
SOURCE: Salon at 10:36AM[SHARE]"The investigation was named Operation Al Zuni after Al Zuni Global Jewelry, a well-known business in Gallup, New Mexico, owned by Nashat Khalaf, a Palestinian immigrant and prominent Indian…
SOURCE: news.nationalgeographic.com at 10:05AM[SHARE]"Little colored bubbles float ever higher, growing larger as they rise toward the sky. People drift into a circle of six towering screens, wearing high-tech 3-D holographic visors, like moon…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:34AM[SHARE]"The fact that more than 100 journalists were murdered is, in [large] part, to be blamed on the freedom of the press today," the Nobel-winning Peruvian author told a radio interviewer, "whic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]"Joan Silber took the fiction prize for her novel Improvement. ... The nonfiction prize went to Frances FitzGerald for her book The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America, a sweeping hi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:03AM[SHARE]"The company may yet be able to reorganize and continue to produce TV shows and films under new ownership. Lantern Capital put in a 'stalking horse' bid, which provides a floor for a bankrup…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:47AM[SHARE]That's a worry some people have since the museum - now firmly ensconced in Center City Philadelphia rather than at Alfred Barnes's old home in an inner suburb - has hired a collections asses…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:32AM[SHARE]"French schoolteacher Frédéric Durand-Baïssas ... says the social media giant closed his account in 2011 because he posted L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World, 1866), [the histo…
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 08:16AM[SHARE]"The mayor, Mohammad Ali Najafi, attended a celebration last week amounting to an Islamic version of Mother's Day. There he encountered six [grade-school-aged] girls dancing in traditional c…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:01AM[SHARE]"Arts Council England (ACE) has launched a £14.4m fund for individual artists and creative practitioners in the early- and mid-stages of their creative careers. ...Grants of between £2…
SOURCE: www.artsprofessional.co.uk at 07:45AM[SHARE]"Vania MasÃas vividly remembers the first time she saw acrobats somersaulting at a traffic light on a visit to her home city in 2004. She was at the peak of an illustrious career as a bal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30AM[SHARE]Monday, March 19, 2018
Katherine Bigelow made Strange Days ($42 million budget) more than 20 years ago. Excepting the Wachowski siblings' Cloud Atlas and Jupiter Ascending (they got their Hollywood cred from the M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AM[SHARE]Friday, March 16, 2018
Ned Beauman, who writes conspiracy novels: "When we observe the Alt-Right questioning the established facts and the established world order, the last thing we should do is offer them a monop…
SOURCE: crimereads.com at 01:02PM[SHARE]"The use of YouTube is no accident. The internet is a great way for fans to party contrapuntally. Online musicians have turned dozens of songs into fugues, from 'Uptown Funk' to the 'Star Wa…
SOURCE: www.economist.com at 12:03PM[SHARE]"'Wooden-headedness' in statecraft, which she defined as 'assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs,' has clearly become a p…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36AM[SHARE]Kander: "Because corruption in society never seems to go out of style. Every once in a while, it becomes more obvious than not." Reinking: "Every step is basically a word. Especially with mu…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 10:05AM[SHARE]And they do - more, oddly, than on screen, let alone in real life. Peter Libbey looks at the reason profanity packs the punch it does (and when it doesn't) - from The Mother****** with the H…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:34AM[SHARE]The question arose (again) with the $450 million sale of da Vinci's Salvator Mundi after former Met Museum director Thomas Campbell posted an image of the painting pre-conservation on Instag…
SOURCE: www.theartnewspaper.com at 09:18AM[SHARE]Andrew Marantz meets the co-founder/CEO of the fourth-most-visited website in the United States, looks at just what it took for the company to move past free-speech absolutism, and how the s…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 09:03AM[SHARE]Jennifer Stahl: "The bottom line: Readers agree it's time to hold directors accountable, particularly to make sure that dancers are being paid fairly. But the good news is that change is alr…
SOURCE: www.dancemagazine.com at 08:47AM[SHARE]"Peace Corps alumni and drug safety organizations are calling on NPR to immediately air an investigation by Daniel Zwerdling, a veteran reporter who left the network last month after facing …
SOURCE: current.org at 08:32AM[SHARE]"Cooper Union has a plan to gradually move back to free tuition for undergraduates over the next 10 years, reversing course from a controversial 2014 decision to start charging. Scholarships…
SOURCE: www.insidehighered.com at 08:16AM[SHARE]Just three days after the company fired the conductor for "sexually abusive and harassing conduct," Levine has filed a legal action for more than $5.8 million. "It was only upon learning tha…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:01AM[SHARE]"The anonymous British artist's 70-foot-long mural was unveiled on Thursday, and it protests the imprisonment of the Turkish artist and journalist Zehra Dogan, who was sentenced last March f…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:45AM[SHARE]"The review was commissioned amid speculation of a poor working culture at the [company] after it was reported close to half of the 36 dancers it employed were leaving, and not all by choice…
SOURCE: tinyurl.com at 07:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 15, 2018
Joshua Barone visits Koh's apartment-cum-studio and watches her work on brand-new pieces by (and with) Vijay Iyer, Missy Mazzoli, and Lisa Bielawa. (includes audio)
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:02PM[SHARE]The award to A Fantastic Woman, about a transgender waitress dealing with the death of her partner, "has been enough to rekindle debate over a gender-identity bill that had been lagging in C…
SOURCE: The Atlantic Subscription at 11:03AM[SHARE]Psychology researcher Mohammed Al-Mosaiwi writes about what computerized data analysis has revealed about the words and phrases depressives use, and about the practical uses for that knowled…
SOURCE: theconversation.com at 10:35AM[SHARE]Dave Itzkoff visits the comedian at his 19-bedroom mansion (complete with multiple aquariums, bowling alley, basketball court, and Rolls-Royces), and accompanies Morgan on a visit back to on…
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