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Archives for December 12, 2013

‘American Hustle’, ’12 Years a Slave’ Top 2014 Golden Globe Nominations

MEDIA Posted: December 12, 2013 5:02 pm

“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.”

MEDIA Published: 12.12.13, The New York Times

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Surprises And Snubs In The 2014 Golden Globe Noms

MEDIA Posted: December 12, 2013 4:59 pm

“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.”

MEDIA Published: 12.12.13, Los Angeles Times

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’12 Years a Slave’ Leads Screen Actors Guild Nominations

MEDIA Posted: December 12, 2013 4:56 pm

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.

MEDIA Published: 12.11.13, GlobalPost (Reuters)

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Will David Sedaris Or Stephen Colbert Finally Win A Grammy This Year?

WORDS Posted: December 12, 2013 4:53 pm

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).

WORDS Published: 12.06.13, Los Angeles Times

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Drag Queens, Soul Sisters And A Proto-Carrie: 2014 Grammy Noms For Musical Theater

THEATRE Posted: December 12, 2013 4:49 pm

There are three nominees. Did we give enough hints for you to guess them?

THEATRE Published: 12.06.13, Los Angeles Times

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Classical Grammy Nominations 2014: An Esa-Pekka Year?

MUSIC Posted: December 12, 2013 4:41 pm

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).

MUSIC Published: 12.06.13, Los Angeles Times

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Upstarts Upset Chick Corea In 2014 Grammy Jazz Nominations

MUSIC Posted: December 12, 2013 4:38 pm

“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.”

MUSIC Published: 12.06.13, Los Angeles Times

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How Tech Design Dictates Our Culture

IDEAS Posted: December 12, 2013 9:25 am

“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.”

IDEAS Published: 12.12.13, Wired

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Pew Poll: Americans LOVE Their Public Libraries

WORDS Posted: December 12, 2013 9:21 am

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.

WORDS Published: 12.11.13

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How Stores Use Music To Make You Want To Shop More

MUSIC Posted: December 12, 2013 9:10 am

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.

MUSIC Published: 12.12.13, The Wall Street Journal

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Is There Such A Thing As A “Global” Art Aesthetic?

VISUAL Posted: December 12, 2013 9:04 am

Funny thing about the word “global”: It looks the same in Spanish and English. But it sounds different, and brings different connotations.

VISUAL Published: 12.11.13, ARTnews

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Rethinking The Idea Of Leonard Bernstein

PEOPLE Posted: December 12, 2013 8:59 am

“There’s the Lenny problem: Is he for real or is he an act? Do we love him or do we want to kick him in the ass? Is his heart only on his sleeve, or is there another one inside him? And do those of us who grew up with him in all his avatars respond to him the same way as those coming to him for the first time, with no history and perhaps no expectations?”

PEOPLE Published: 12.19.13, New York Review of Books

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Detroit Institute Of Arts Joins Talks For Control Of Its Art

VISUAL Posted: December 12, 2013 8:54 am

“The Detroit Institute of Arts embraced publicly, for the first time, the broad outline of a federally mediated deal that would protect its art from sale and spin off the museum from city ownership into an independent nonprofit. The deal would raise roughly $500 million from a consortium of national and local charitable foundations and funnel the money into retiree pensions on behalf of the value of the art at the DIA.”

VISUAL Published: 12.11.13, Detroit Free Press

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NYU’s War On Architecture

VISUAL Posted: December 12, 2013 8:16 am

“For decades, New York University has waged architectural war on Greenwich Village and even the announced departure of President John Sexton in 2016 seems unlikely to stop its overweening expansion plan.”

VISUAL Published: 12.12.13, Bloomberg

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Hey TicketMaster – Time To Rethink Those Tickets!

ISSUES Posted: December 12, 2013 8:13 am

“My job requires me to check tickets and usher people to their seats—a manageable task, but after checking hundreds of Ticketmaster tickets, it’s very clear that these tickets were designed more than three decades ago without a serious look into how people interact with it.”

ISSUES Published: 12.11.13, Medium

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Alex Ross on The Minnesota Orchestra: Words Fail

MUSIC Posted: December 12, 2013 8:01 am

The Minnesota Orchestral Association gives a dumbfounding report of its financial situation.

MUSIC Published: 12.11.13, The Rest is Noise

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What The Choice Of The Kennedy Center’s Next President Says About The Kennedy Center

ISSUES Posted: December 12, 2013 7:57 am

“It’s not that she’s a woman, though it was certainly high time for the Kennedy Center to be led by one. It’s that she comes from the classical music world.”

ISSUES Published: 12.11.13, Washington Post

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In Year Without Concerts, Minnesota Orchestra Management Spent $13M, Lost $1.1M

MUSIC Posted: December 12, 2013 4:45 am

Board chairman Jon Campbell believes this says something about the “business model”.

MUSIC Published: 12.12.13, The Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul)

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The Case For The Serial Comma, Made In One Screenshot

IDEAS Posted: December 12, 2013 4:30 am

(Slate‘s always-lively commenters are not all convinced, however.)

IDEAS Published: 12.10.13, Slate

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Judge Tosses Booksellers’ Suit Against Publishers, Amazon Over Kindle

WORDS Posted: December 12, 2013 4:15 am

“Federal Judge Jed Rakoff has dismissed a lawsuit filed by independent booksellers against Amazon and the big six publishers that alleged a murky conspiracy to restrain trade.”

WORDS Published: 12.10.13, Publishers Weekly

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Digital Language Death (Yes, It’s A Thing)

IDEAS Posted: December 12, 2013 4:00 am

In the 21st century, can a language survive for long if no one uses it on the Internet?

IDEAS Published: 12.11.13, Slate

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Iceland’s State Broadcaster Faces Massive Cutbacks

MEDIA Posted: December 12, 2013 3:45 am

“Ríkisútvarpið (RÚV) announced the departure of 60 staff on Thursday – 20 per cent of its already-trimmed workforce – and unveiled severe cuts to programming.”

MEDIA Published: 12.02.13, Gramophone

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Hitting That Snooze Button Will Only Make It Worse, You Know

IDEAS Posted: December 12, 2013 3:30 am

Why? Because it’s unnatural, basically. (Not to mention sleep inertia and social jetlag.)

IDEAS Published: 12.10.13, The New Yorker

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Tom Krause, 79, Bass-Baritone

PEOPLE Posted: December 12, 2013 3:15 am

While he had an operatic repertoire of over 50 roles in eight languages, he was known even more for lieder and concert music, and he made more than 100 recordings.

PEOPLE Published: 12.06.13, Limelight (Australia)

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Richard Nelson’s Apple Family Plays To Be Filmed For Broadcast

THEATRE Posted: December 12, 2013 3:00 am

“Richard Nelson’s critically acclaimed Apple Family plays, which are running in repertory at the Public Theater through Sunday, will be recorded for television by WNET, the PBS station on Channel 13 in New York, for broadcast at a future date, the Public announced on Wednesday.”

THEATRE Published: 12.11.13, The New York Times

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