Monday, June 11, 2012
current top storymedia
Chileans Arrested During Protest Of Pro-Pinochet Film "The protesters decried the film as revisionist history. 'This is a homage to a murderer and a thief, responsible for deaths, torture and exile,' said B?rbara Riquelme, who said her father, Samuel Riquelme, a former chief detective, was arrested and severely tortured after the coup. 'This government should have denied permission for this homage, but it didn't, because it also has blood on its hands.'" The New York Times 06/11/12 theatre
media
After A Decades-Long Gap, An Art Film House In Fort Worth? "Right now, the only thing here is a heavy wooden sign marking it as the future home of the Citizen Theater. But renderings have been drawn and the interior design process is well under way for what would be the first movie theater in Fort Worth devoted exclusively to independent and foreign cinema since the Ridglea Theater stopped showing movies in the early 1990s." Fort Worth Star-Telegram 06/09/12 people
Time For A Ray Bradbury Museum? "Waukegan, Ill., has two festivals, a park and a library conference room named after Ray Bradbury. But what the town still needs, according to the late author's biographer, is a Ray Bradbury museum." Chicago Tribune 06/09/12 media
dance
ABT Dancer, After Some Frantic Press Coverage, May Meet Birth Mother "When ballet star Jennifer Whalen flies to South Korea next month, she'll have a lot more on her mind than what tights and slippers to pack. Whalen, 26, is somewhat of a media sensation in the Asian nation -- and not because of her work on stage as a senior corps member of the American Ballet Theater. The Koreans are fascinated with her because she's one of their own: She was born there, left at an ophanage, and adopted four months later by a loving Irish-American couple. But now, she may finally be able to meet the woman who gave birth to her and then gave her up." New York Daily News 06/11/12 ideas
issues
Did The Arts Win In Kansas - Or Get Set Up For A Big National Loss? "Opposing the arts - then reversing one's position after recognizing the huge outcry against such a move is (especially for GOP candidates) often a win-win situation. They appease the base then placate the opposition. They look tough, then moderate. And in the process the arts yet again spend valuable time, energy, money and soul defending their very existence and consider their survival a real victory. Meanwhile as Richard suggested, they move the arts towards the private sector version of creativity, and valuable only as an economic stimulator." Barry's Blog 06/10/12 people
Frank Cady, 96, Of Green Acres Fame "Reflecting on his TV career, Cady told the Portland Oregonian in 1995, 'You get typecast. I'm remembered for those shows and not for some pretty good acting jobs I did other times. I suppose I ought to be grateful for that. Because otherwise I wouldn't be remembered at all. I've got to be one of the luckiest guys in the world.'" Los Angeles Times 06/10/12 publishing
music
In Morocco, Musicians Are Celebrated - But Not Compensated (Much) "Arts funding in Morocco is so poorly organized and endowed that King Mohamed VI and his government are trying to remedy the situation by handing some of their favorite singers or film stars licenses for buses and other businesses to subsidize their acting or singing." The New York Times 06/06/12 theatre
She's Got A Pulitzer, But L.A. Theatre Doesn't Care "At 34, playwright Quiara Alegr?a Hudes has a lot going for her: this year's Pulitzer Prize for drama, a piece of a Tony Award-winning musical (In the Heights) and a growing repute as one of the most poetic, socially clued-in young voices in the American theater. Now what she really could use is a little West Coast love." Los Angeles Times 06/10/12 ideas
Making Chocolate, Fomenting Social Revolution (Of A Gentle Sort) "In the 19th century, William Morris preached a social revolution in which exploitative 'useless toil' would be replaced by 'useful work'. He dreamt of a world that would reject shoddy mass-produced goods in favour of objects made with care and craftsmanship. Any business that sells 'artisanal' goods, whether the goods be curtains or crumpets, is essentially quoting Morris and referring to his promise." And so are these chocolatiers in sailboats. Maclean's (Canada) 06/11/12 visual
Ai Weiwei Goes After Chinese Government Again "Ai said self-interest is China's only political ideology and the 'people in office just try to maintain so-called stability to protect their own profit, or their own interest. They have to crush other voices. There's no real communication or discussion.'" Washington Post (AP) 06/11/12 music
publishing
When Publishers Know Everything About You "Imagine a scenario where a publisher is able to cross-reference a reader's profile on their news site with information gathered through social media profiles and other online behaviors. The product, still in private beta, triangulates all the signals we leave around the Internet to try to create a unified picture. You can see how this would be useful to a news outlet that wants to better tailor its content for readers or simply needs better ammunition to raise their CPMs. (And you can see how it might raise the hackles of privacy advocates.)" Niemanlab 06/08/12 media
Mid-Budget Hollywood Movies Endangered "The mid-budget movie -- largely abandoned by the six major Hollywood studios -- is becoming increasingly difficult to bring to life for producers." Variety 06/09/12 publishing
At Book Expo An Uneasy Peace Among Publishers "Nearly two months after the U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and five major publishers, the tensions over commerce were audible on the show floor." The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) 06/10/12 publishing
Young Children In UK To Be Forced To Memorize Poetry Under New Education Plan "Children as young as five will be expected to learn and recite poetry by heart in a major overhaul of the national curriculum for schools in England. The education secretary, Michael Gove, will promise a new focus on the traditional virtues of spelling and grammar when he sets out his plans for the teaching of English in primary schools later this week. At the same time, Gove will put forward proposals to make learning a foreign language compulsory for pupils from the age of seven." The Guardian (UK) 06/10/12 music
Do Innovative Orchestras = Better Orchestras? Two of the more exciting indie classical orchestras just released new CDs that show that a different operating model doesn't diminish the music's quality. Still, if orchestras like this are going to innovate on the operational side -- more power to 'em! -- I wish they'd also include more innovative and contemporary music in their programs. San Francisco Classical Voice 06/10/12 music
NY Phil Flutist's Instruments Stolen, Then Recovered Alexandra Sopp was carrying a leather bag containing her instruments -- worth more than $40,000 -- only to notice the bag missing about 3 a.m. Her $25,000, 14-karat gold-plated flute -- with an $8,000 one-of-kind headpiece -- and $8,000 wooden piccolo had been snatched. New York Daily News 06/10/12 dance
Founder Of Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers Dies "Rachel Browne founded Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers in 1964 and was its artistic director, resident choreographer and teacher for more than 20 years. Brent Lott, the company's current artistic director, called Browne the matriarch of modern dance in Canada." CBC 06/10/12 media
US Radio Stations Make Deal To Pay Royalties To Performers The agreement, between Clear Channel and Big Machine, the record label behind Taylor Swift and other country acts, will for the first time allow a label to collect a royalty when its songs are played on the radio. The New York Times 06/11/12 theatre
"Once" Steals Tonys Show "The bittersweet musical "Once" captured the hearts of Tony Award voters on Sunday night, winning eight trophies and earning bragging rights as the top musical on Broadway, even as most shows came away with at least something to crow about." Yahoo! (AP) 06/10/12 people
What Kind Of Muppet Are You? (It Matters) The Muppet Theory is "a little-known, poorly understood philosophy that holds that every living human can be classified according to one simple metric: Every one of us is either a Chaos Muppet or an Order Muppet." Slate 06/08/12 visual
Why Is Facebook So Successful? It's The Photos "There are two main reasons why Facebook is a dominant Internet company. One, it is the first cross-platform and truly global identity provider. Second, it is the most constantly updated photo album on the planet. That is why photos are Facebook's lifeblood." GigaOm 06/09/12 media
Big Video Streamers Maneuver For Position In Online Wars "The internet is now in its very own age of video, and there's simply so much traffic moving on the network that websites are striking deals with the ISPs themselves and installing their own gear in nondescript buildings all over the world." Wired 06/08/12 theatre
Simon Schama: How Shakespeare Helped make The English "Sometimes we forget the startling fact that in the 16th century only the English had custom-built, site-specific commercial theatre. In Italy the peripatetic commedia dell'arte performed on the street; in Spain and the Netherlands plays were acted on decorated carts and wagons. The court and the church still summoned performances all over Europe. But the English had the Theatre, the Curtain, the Rose and the Globe, open to both the elite and ordinary for it cost just a penny to stand with the groundlings in the pit." Financial Times 06/09/12 media
The Decline Of The Porn Business "The porn industry is in crisis, its profits decimated by the impact of the illegal downloading of pirated content from YouTube-style sites and also amateurs uploading their own sex scenes on paid-for sites." BBC 06/09/12 media
ideas
Has Cultural Diversity Made Us Really Really Dumb? "When people doll up declining linguistic standards as 'cultural diversity', they're really making a virtue out of dumbness, turning illiteracy into just a variant form of literacy. It is insulting to assume that young people, especially poor young people, are incapable of mastering standard language, of conquering English and all its glorious complications, and so instead must be allowed to write 'potatoe' instead of 'potato'." spiked-online 06/07/12 publishing
The Impermanence Of Traditional Publishing "Getting published, it turns out, is a lousy way to stay published. Back in the day my stuff at the original BYTE.com was lost, years later the same thing happened to my stuff at InfoWorld.com. With all due respect to this venue I will be pleasantly surprised if the URL at which you are reading this is alive in 2020." Wired 06/09/12
Click here for Previously Posted stories...
censored jerry yang stop sopa justified southland sopa blackout protect ip act
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.