Monday, March 19, 2018
"While he was performing an aerial straps number, long-time aerialist Yann Arnaud fell onto the stage, a Cirque du Soleil representative said in a statement. He was taken to Tampa General Ho…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Austin, which has been struck by a series of handmade bombs in the last few weeks, is on edge, so when the promotion company Live Nation said it had gotten an emailed bomb threat, the police…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 10:30AM[SHARE]Oh: "'Southern folk music's overwhelming dominance " for all its championing by non-Southern liberals " also subtly reinforces the 'heritage not hate' defenses of the Confederate flag and ot…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Ask David Foster Wallace - or Leslie Jamison: "I'd been afraid that meetings were basically lobotomies served alongside coffee-flavored water and Chips Ahoy!; afraid that even if sobriety co…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 09:45AM[SHARE]Since the new play opened last weekend, the Footlights Theatre in Falmouth, Maine, has been getting hate calls. "I had one woman tell me, 'I don't want to see a play about those (expletive) …
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 09:30AM[SHARE]It's been 50 years since the massacre, and since Hugh Thompson and his helicopter crew stopped it from being far worse. Now, as the opera plays around the country, traditional Vietnamese ins…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 09:15AM[SHARE]Nasrallah was a journalist, teacher, lecturer and novelist who advocated for women's rights and wrote about refugees and war in Lebanon. Her books "recount the emptiness left by immigration,…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Why? And how? "We might deny that morality needs to be taught, putting our faith in the natural goodness of children or their propensity to discover and sign up to moral standards of their o…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 08:45AM[SHARE]You call it 'blackened faces,' the parent who pointed it out was concerned that it looks more like 'blackface' - perhaps it's time, Bethel Park High School, near Pittsburgh, to call the whol…
SOURCE: triblive.com at 08:30AM[SHARE]One problem is simply the numbers in the U.S. - single digits for women directors, compared to women being 1/4 of directors in France, for instance. And then, of course, "sci-fi is still fie…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 08:15AM[SHARE]This is part of what it's like: "By day, a steady stream of tourists came, posing for pictures (and peeking in the windows) dressed in the free costumes provided by the visitor center " cali…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Rasquache is the art of making do with very little - something that might lead to, well, black velvet paintings. "For generations, these pieces have been placed on the mantles of Chicano hou…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 07:45AM[SHARE]A man who worked on the technology of Hawking's voice synthesizer in 1986 got a call in 2014 about saving the tech. "In nearly 30 years, he had never switched to newer technology. Hawking li…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 07:30AM[SHARE]The theatre took down its website and all of its social media at the same time the announcement went out on a Friday morning. "The unsigned statement from ATC's board (which declined intervi…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 07:15AM[SHARE]Sharmaine Lovegrove, the woman who opened the first English-language bookstore in Berlin when she couldn't get any hold in London, returned to Britain 20 years later - only to be met with a …
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 18, 2018
They tried to have a panel about it during SXSW. But even the panel showed the problem: "Issues surrounding sexual harassment and misconduct are one of the greatest challenges facing not onl…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 04:30PM[SHARE]A group called Factum Arte is using high-quality 3D scanners to bring works of art that have been damaged or partially lost back to life. And it has some intense results: "It's absolutely br…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 04:00PM[SHARE]Propwatch: the axe in Buggy Baby It was Chekhov who defined the essential rule of theatre props. 'If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall,' he told a friend in 1889, 'then in …
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 03:15PM[SHARE]Not in the way you might expect, though. "Everyone seems so excited by the fact that music is more accessible, people can find new artists more easily and it's cheaper, without focusing on t…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 03:00PM[SHARE]Amid the emergence of a far-right, anti-refugee coalition government in the country, "the Scottish artist Susan Philipsz is using the eerie sound of fingers rubbed on water-filled glasses to…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 02:30PM[SHARE]And this is from the students themselves, who ranked arts degrees above language, history, and philosophy. This may be more a reflection of the schools than the subject, however. One student…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 02:00PM[SHARE]Basically, women with money donate gowns, and the students at Juilliard get to go "shopping" when the racks of designer wear come in. The students "are expected to be outfitted in fancy atti…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:30PM[SHARE]After some years in the doldrums, TV has caught back on to New York as one large studio - a boon for New York actors, of course, and perhaps largely the result of an expansion of tax breaks …
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:00PM[SHARE]This isn't new; once digital designs became possible, and embroidery machines could run all day and night, the costumes had to step it up to match. The early days of change were harsh: "Iris…
SOURCE: www.racked.com at 12:30PM[SHARE]The status to be moved is of songwriter Stephen Foster - and, in words written at the time the status was created in 1900, "an old darkey reclining at his feet strumming negro airs upon an o…
SOURCE: hyperallergic.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Is it all a feint to ensure that the focus is off Levine as a sexual predator and instead focused on Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Met? Or do Levine's legal complaints have a basis …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AM[SHARE]Alix Ohlin is taking on at least the first task for a program that has been in disarray since the suspension and firing of its former chair, Stephen Galloway, under accusations of sexual har…
SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 10:30AM[SHARE]Daniel Wu's life is not well-known in the U.S., even though he's a Cali native. Why? He randomly took a trip to Hong Kong after he got an architecture degree, and in Hong Kong, he was discov…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AM[SHARE]Maeve Brennan "would not have left Ireland at the age of 17 if she'd been given the choice, and yet in her adult years she didn't choose to return. A displaced person, always on provisional …
SOURCE: https:0 at 09:30AM[SHARE]Erdem Moralioglu's company is famous for its evening gowns and "decadent craftsmanship." How will he work with dancers at the Royal Ballet in London?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:30AM[SHARE]Bulick, a folk musician and potter and human of many talents,"supervised the nation's first comprehensive regional cultural planning process, Arts Plan 2000. That document led to the creatio…
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