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Friday, December 13, 2013

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"Down With Long-Form Journalism!" Says The Atlantic's Editor-In-Chief
James Bennet: "I have had it with long-form journalism. By which I mean - don't get me wrong - I'm fed up with the term long-form itself, a label that the people who create and sell magazines now invariably, and rather solemnly, apply to their most ambitious work." The Atlantic 12.12.13
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"Down With Long-Form Journalism!" Says The Atlantic's Editor-In-Chief James Bennet: "I have had it with long-form journalism. By which I mean - don't get me wrong - I'm fed up with the term long-form itself, a label that the people who create and sell magazines now invariably, and rather solemnly, apply to their most ambitious work." The Atlantic 12.12.13
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Locked-Out Minnesota Orchestra Musicians Announce Season Of Their Own "The Musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra revealed details of 10 concerts they will produce and play between January and May." Erstwhile music director Osmo Vänskä will conduct four of them, and a couple of very well-known soloists will perform for greatly reduced fees. The Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul) 12.13.13
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Patrice Chéreau, Directing In The Shadow Of Death "The great French director, who died recently, took some persuading to do a play in London - and was seriously ill when he did. But the experience was life-changing, recalls the Young Vic's artistic director." The Guardian (UK) 12.12.13
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What's Worse Than Snark? Smarm (Says Tom Scocca) One of the Web's more accomplished snarkmeisters argues that the push by some goody-goodies for more niceness on the Internet - for instance, the decision by BuzzFeed's new books editor to avoid negative reviews, or, in Scocca's opinion, almost anything Dave Eggers says - is worse than the problem it's trying to address. Gawker 12.05.13
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Smarm? What's Wrong With Some Niceness? (Says Malcolm Gladwell) And, regarding Scocca's attack on Eggers in particular, Gladwell looks at everything Eggers has done and says, "You have to be running pretty low on ammunition to look at someone like that and call him full of shit." The New Yorker 12.11.12
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Joy Womack Tells More About The Bolshoi Ballet (And Why She Quit) Back in Texas for a family visit, the first American to graduate from the Bolshoi's ballet school fills in some details on the explosive allegations she made (e.g., that she was asked to pay a $10,000 bribe to get cast) and the responses she has received in Moscow since she went public. Austin American-Statesman 12.12.13
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Natalia Osipova On The Bolshoi's Troubles "My first five years [there] were amazing. ... Then, slowly, difficulties started and I decided to leave. I didn't want scandals: our profession is dancing, not politics. But the Bolshoi is still my home: I am from Moscow. For us, the Bolshoi was something holy. I just hope the theatre will find a way out of this." The Guardian (UK) 12.10.13
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That Letter From Vaganova Ballet Academy To Putin - Was It A Fake? Last month, after the Russian Ministry of Culture installed the fired Bolshoi star Nikolai Tsiskaridze as director of the historic St. Petersburg school, a sizeable group of faculty wrote an open appeal to President Vladimir Putin to overrule Tsiskaridze's appointment. Now the Ministry has claimed that the letter is a forgery. Gramilano (Milan) 12.12.13
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Colin Wilson, 82, Author Of The Outsider "The author of well over 100 volumes of fiction and nonfiction, Mr. Wilson became a sensation at 24, when The Outsider was published and instantly touched a deep nerve in postwar Britain." The New York Times 12.13.13
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Could Coca-Cola Be A Religion Of Americana? "Coke, if I may extend my musings further, is the closest thing that exists to a religion of Americana. Not an American religion, but a religion devoted to the idea of America - which is to say, to those Norman Rockwell scenes of homecoming, fly fishing, and presents under the tree." Paula Marantz Cohen visits the high temple: The World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta. The Smart Set 12.09.13
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Uh-Oh, This Is A Bad Sign For British Arts Philanthropy "A £600,000 Cultural Investment Fund created by Newcastle City Council to attract match funding for the arts from private donors has failed to attract any money since its launch in July." The Stage (UK) 12.12.13
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How Poor Are British Actors Equity Members? "About half of Equity members undertook unpaid work in the past 12 months, with a similar proportion earning less than £5,000 over the year." The Stage (UK) 12.12.13
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Court Allows California To Resume Suit For Nazi-Looted Pissarro Painting "A Jewish family from San Diego that has been seeking to recover a painting by Camille Pissarro that a relative sold during the Holocaust has received a legal victory from a panel of judges who ruled this week that the family can pursue the case, reversing an earlier court decision that had favored the painting's present owner." Los Angeles Times 12.11.13
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L.A. County Museum Of Art Is Reviving Its Art-Meets-Tech Companies Program But they're doing it differently this time around - and the companies involved include Google and SpaceX. Los Angeles Times 12.10.13
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The Last Great Vaudevillian (He's Only Just Now Retiring) John Lahr: "[Barry] Humphries's retirement marks the end of the vaudeville tradition, whose singing, dancing, and low-comic folderol he almost single-handedly carried into the twenty-first century." (Yes, that's Dame Edna.) The New Yorker 12.11.13
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Estelle Parsons, 86, Will Be Doing Eight Shows A Week This Spring "[She] will return to Broadway in April in Eric Coble's comedic play The Velocity of Autumn, which she recently performed at the Arena Stage in Washington in October." Los Angeles Times 12.12.13
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music
Much-Needed Good News From The Motor City: Detroit Symphony Turns A Financial Corner "The city of Detroit may be in bankruptcy, but the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is back in the black. ... The newly released figures suggested that the orchestra is recovering from a corrosive six-month strike that ended in 2011." The New York Times 12.11.13
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Indianapolis Symphony (Finally!) Posts Surplus "A big boost in donations and hefty cutbacks pushed the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's annual budget into the black for the first time since 2007." Indianapolis Business Journal 12.09.13
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media
Weinstein Brothers Sue Warner Studios Again "For the second time this year, the brothers Weinstein are in a legal dispute with the brothers Warner." This time, it's about the Hobbit films. Los Angeles Times 12.12.13
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New Zealand Is Not Middle Earth! Ed Power argues that, if Peter Jackson really wanted to represent the setting of Tolkien's novel on screen, his homeland was exactly the wrong place to do it. Slate 12.12.13
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ideas
The Great Catalan Sport: Human Towers "Jesús Zazo stood in the ancient plaza in a throng of other pink-clad members of the Colla Vella dels Xiquets club. He had everything riding on this grudge match in the Catalonia region's signature competitive event: human-tower building." The Wall Street Journal 12.12.13
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issues
You Know Who Started The War On Christmas? The Pilgrims, That's Who "The real American crisis over the holiday happened centuries ago. Back then, the attackers were the Puritans - they hated Christmas, especially the fun parts. And they were experts at fighting it. " The Wire 12.11.13
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media
American Hustle, 12 Years a Slave Top 2014 Golden Globe Nominations "12 Years a Slave and American Hustle emerged as movie awards front-runners on Thursday, as each picked up seven Golden Globe nominations, including best picture nods in their respective categories, just a day after being nominated for top prizes from Hollywood's acting guild." The New York Times 12.12.13
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Surprises And Snubs In The 2014 Golden Globe Noms "The Golden Globes have a long and often amusing reputation for nomination-morning howlers. But [this year], there was no Tourist, no Burlesque, no Salmon Fishing in the Yemen ... Yet that didn't mean the snubs and surprises, the jaw-droppers and the head-scratchers, weren't there. Here are six of the biggest." Los Angeles Times 12.12.13
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12 Years a Slave Leads Screen Actors Guild Nominations In an unusually good year for African-descended actors, 12 Years, "based on the real-life story of Solomon Northup, garnered nominations in four of SAG's five film categories, including the organization's top award, best ensemble cast." Lee Daniels' The Butler earned a further three nods. GlobalPost (Reuters) 12.11.13
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Will David Sedaris Or Stephen Colbert Finally Win A Grammy This Year? They've each been nominated in the Spoken Word category three times before - and they're competing against a couple of living legends (whom people under 35 may not even remember). Los Angeles Times 12.06.13
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Drag Queens, Soul Sisters And A Proto-Carrie: 2014 Grammy Noms For Musical Theater There are three nominees. Did we give enough hints for you to guess them? Los Angeles Times 12.06.13
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music
Classical Grammy Nominations 2014: An Esa-Pekka Year? Salonen (or his work) is nominated in three different categories. Other nominees include the familiar (Rattle, DiDonato, Bartoli; Wagner, Beethoven, Pärt), those we should know better (Lutoslawski, Palestrina; Maria João Pires, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir), the up-and-coming (2013 Pulitzer winner Caroline Shaw; New York Polyphony), the little-known (Leonardo Vinci, not to be confused with that mirror-writing Mona Lisa guy), and the beleaguered (Osmo and the Minnesotans). Los Angeles Times 12.06.13
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Upstarts Upset Chick Corea In 2014 Grammy Jazz Nominations "A winner of 20 Grammys, including two last year, Corea, with his latest album The Vigil, was shut out Friday night in this year's list of nominees, which again offered a welcome blend of relative newcomers and familiar faces." Los Angeles Times 12.06.13
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How Technology Design Dictates Our Culture "If the best experience we can have with technology requires an American-designed platform, we'll get an American experience: Buy an Apple iPhone, and in a thousand quiet ways, we interact with it the way Cupertino wants us to." Wired 12/11/13
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Pew Poll: Americans LOVE Their Public Libraries "Some 90% of Americans ages 16 and older said that the closing of their local public library would have an impact on their community, with 63% saying it would have a "major" impact." PewInternet 12/11/13
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How Stores Use Music To Make You Shop More "Retailers are fine-tuning their stores' playlists as they wake up to the power of music to communicate a brand message and put shoppers in the mood to spend. One shopper's favorite song can make another shopper cringe." The Wall Street Journal 12/12/13
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Could Coca-Cola Be A Religion Of Americana? - The Smart Set 12.09.13
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The Great Catalan Sport: Human Towers - The Wall Street Journal 12.12.13
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How Technology Design Dictates Our Culture - Wired 12/11/13
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Joy Womack Tells More About The Bolshoi Ballet (And Why She Quit) - Austin American-Statesman 12.12.13
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Natalia Osipova On The Bolshoi's Troubles - The Guardian (UK) 12.10.13
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That Letter From Vaganova Ballet Academy To Putin - Was It A Fake? - Gramilano (Milan) 12.12.13
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Weinstein Brothers Sue Warner Studios Again - Los Angeles Times 12.12.13
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New Zealand Is Not Middle Earth! - Slate 12.12.13
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American Hustle, 12 Years a Slave Top 2014 Golden Globe Nominations - The New York Times 12.12.13
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Surprises And Snubs In The 2014 Golden Globe Noms - Los Angeles Times 12.12.13
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12 Years a Slave Leads Screen Actors Guild Nominations - GlobalPost (Reuters) 12.11.13
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Locked-Out Minnesota Orchestra Musicians Announce Season Of Their Own - The Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul) 12.13.13
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Much-Needed Good News From The Motor City: Detroit Symphony Turns A Financial Corner - The New York Times 12.11.13
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Indianapolis Symphony (Finally!) Posts Surplus - Indianapolis Business Journal 12.09.13
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Classical Grammy Nominations 2014: An Esa-Pekka Year? - Los Angeles Times 12.06.13
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Upstarts Upset Chick Corea In 2014 Grammy Jazz Nominations - Los Angeles Times 12.06.13
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How Stores Use Music To Make You Shop More - The Wall Street Journal 12/12/13
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Alex Ross on The Minnesota Orchestra: Words Fail - The Rest is Noise 12/11/13
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Patrice Chéreau, Directing In The Shadow Of Death - The Guardian (UK) 12.12.13
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Colin Wilson, 82, Author Of The Outsider - The New York Times 12.13.13
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Rethinking The Idea Of Leonard Bernstein - New York Review of Books 12/19/13
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"Down With Long-Form Journalism!" Says The Atlantic's Editor-In-Chief - The Atlantic 12.12.13
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What's Worse Than Snark? Smarm (Says Tom Scocca) - Gawker 12.05.13
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Smarm? What's Wrong With Some Niceness? (Says Malcolm Gladwell) - The New Yorker 12.11.12
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Will David Sedaris Or Stephen Colbert Finally Win A Grammy This Year? - Los Angeles Times 12.06.13
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Pew Poll: Americans LOVE Their Public Libraries - PewInternet 12/11/13
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How Poor Are British Actors Equity Members? - The Stage (UK) 12.12.13
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The Last Great Vaudevillian (He's Only Just Now Retiring) - The New Yorker 12.11.13
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Estelle Parsons, 86, Will Be Doing Eight Shows A Week This Spring - Los Angeles Times 12.12.13
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Drag Queens, Soul Sisters And A Proto-Carrie: 2014 Grammy Noms For Musical Theater - Los Angeles Times 12.06.13
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Court Allows California To Resume Suit For Nazi-Looted Pissarro Painting - Los Angeles Times 12.11.13
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L.A. County Museum Of Art Is Reviving Its Art-Meets-Tech Companies Program - Los Angeles Times 12.10.13
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Is There Such A Thing As A "Global" Art Aesthetic? - ARTnews 12/11/13
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Detroit Institute Of Arts Joins Talks For Control Of Its Art - Detroit Free Press 12/11/13
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NYU's War On Architecture - Bloomberg 12/12/13
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