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The Day I Broke Into James Baldwin’s House On The French Riviera

PEOPLE Posted: August 19, 2014 7:30 am

“I had been told that it was derelict and vacant; that after Baldwin’s death in 1987 there had been legal disputes about who in fact owned the eighteenth-century Provençal building (Baldwin thought he did). The rusty padlock on the austere gates and the broken buzzer confirmed that the house was unoccupied. I glanced furtively around to check that no one was watching and prepared to scale the wall.”

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PEOPLE Published: 07.30.14

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What It’s Really Like Being A New York Subway Dancer

DANCE Posted: August 7, 2014 10:35 pm

“Rayquan Perez is a 19-year-old dancer with 2Live, a group that performs on the 4 and 2 trains. He spoke to Brian [Lehrer] about what it’s like to flip and somersault through a moving subway car, and about the crackdown on dancers.” (includes audio)

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DANCE Published: 07.30.14

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Is Apple Gearing Up To Become An Ebook Subscription Service?

WORDS Posted: August 4, 2014 9:00 am

“Serving up relevant recommendations (and sometimes that means genre fiction rather than literary fiction) is critical to keeping subscribers engaged. Thus the acquisition of BookLamp by Apple could possibly herald Apple’s entry into ebook subscription services.”

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WORDS Published: 07.30.14

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Why Does A Vancouver Theatre Critic Write Under A Pen Name? (And Other Arts Journalism Lapses)

ISSUES Posted: August 1, 2014 8:26 am

“Since the practice of pen names fell out of favour in the mid-20th century, after newspapers began promoting themselves with their new brand of ethics, I wondered why any daily newspaper would go along with it?”

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ISSUES Published: 07.30.14

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Research Archive Meets Warehouse Meets Database Meets Flea Market: Behold The Accumulibrary

IDEAS Posted: August 1, 2014 12:11 am

“Unlike modern libraries, the Accumulibrary doesn’t segment or segregate media types. It fails to differentiate documents from things, books from periodicals from pamphlets, devices from objects, the new from the used from the old, the rare from the common. The sole laws that it holds sacred are the law of number and the law of stuff.”

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IDEAS Published: 07.30.14

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Indie Movie Makes More In Video-On-Demand Than In Theatres. Is This A More Viable Path?

MEDIA Posted: July 31, 2014 1:24 pm

“The movie, directed by Bong Joon-ho, made $3.8 million in its first two weeks of VOD release, compared with $3.9 million from five weeks in theaters.”

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MEDIA Published: 07.30.14

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Newport Jazz At 60 – Grandad To The Modern Festival

MUSIC Posted: July 31, 2014 10:59 am

“For the past 60 years, no institution has done more to help establish jazz as a legitimate art form than Newport and the notion of the jazz festival that Mr. Wein created. Where jazz once rubbed shoulders with pop stars like Frank Sinatra, it now competes for government and corporate funding with opera and chamber music.”

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MUSIC Published: 07.30.14

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Will Creating An “Arts District” Make A City More Dynamic?

ISSUES Posted: July 31, 2014 9:25 am

“Dallas is trying to create more “vibrancy” downtown; trying to attract more people and keep them there for longer. One way it is doing that is through its arts district, a truly phenomenal collection of cultural institutions housed in equally impressive buildings, which is just now completing the commercial infrastructure it believes will activate the streetscape both day and night.”

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ISSUES Published: 07.30.14

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Why The Vienna Philharmonic Sounds Different From Other Orchestras

MUSIC Posted: July 31, 2014 9:18 am

“The “Vienna sound” has been the subject of reams of music criticism, academic research, acoustical experiments and more than a little debate. Not everyone agrees on precisely what it is — it is sometimes described as plush, warm and rich or sumptuous — but many listeners say that they know it when they hear it.”

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MUSIC Published: 07.30.14

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Amazon: Hachette Dispute Is About Lower Prices And More Money To Authors

WORDS Posted: July 31, 2014 9:12 am

“Books compete against mobile games, television, movies, Facebook, blogs, free news sites and more,” Amazon said in the statement, which was posted on the forum for its Kindle ebook reader. “If we want a healthy reading culture, we have to work hard to be sure books actually are competitive against these other media types, and a big part of that is working hard to make books less expensive.”

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WORDS Published: 07.30.14

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Orlando Ballet “Needs To Take A Deep Breath,” Says New Boss

DANCE Posted: July 31, 2014 12:59 am

“‘We all need to take a deep breath,’ says Jim Mitchell, the ballet’s fourth executive director in three years. During that time, the leadership was in flux and the organization was left homeless after a mold infestation shut down its headquarters in the former Orlando Utilities Commission building.”

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DANCE Published: 07.30.14

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Is Your Name Your Destiny?

IDEAS Posted: July 31, 2014 12:53 am

“Names work hard: They can affect who gets into elite schools, what jobs we apply for, and who gets hired. Our names can even influence what cities we live in, who we befriend, and what products we buy since, we’re attracted to things and places that share similarities to our names.”

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IDEAS Published: 07.30.14

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James Wolcott, Frank Bidart, David Rabe Win PEN Literary Awards

WORDS Posted: July 31, 2014 12:46 am

“The poet Frank Bidart, the critic James Wolcott and the playwright David Rabe are among the winners of the 2014 PEN Literary Awards, announced today by the PEN/American Center.”

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WORDS Published: 07.30.14

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Downtown L.A.’s Arts District Is Pricing Out The Artists (It’s An Old Story)

ISSUES Posted: July 31, 2014 12:41 am

“In the 1970s, the streets east of Little Tokyo and west of the L.A. River made up a dingy district of hollowed-out warehouses that landlords rented to artists who needed a lot of space for little money. … [Now, a] new coffee shop moves in every month or so, and it’s hard to walk two minutes in any direction in the 52-block neighborhood without finding a blue-and-white filming notice.”

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ISSUES Published: 07.30.14

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Hollywood And Kodak Unite To Save Motion Picture Film

MEDIA Posted: July 31, 2014 12:39 am

“Faced with the possible extinction of the material that made Hollywood famous, a coalition of studios is close to a deal to keep Eastman Kodak Co. in the business of producing movie film. The negotiations … [should] result in an arrangement where studios promise to buy a set quantity of film for the next several years, even though most movies and television shows these days are shot on digital video.”

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Rome’s Opera House Avoids Liquidation (For Now) With Labor Deal

MUSIC Posted: July 31, 2014 12:35 am

“A tentative agreement has been reached between management and unions representing the staff of Rome’s Opera House, following recent strikes over the theatre’s restructuring and salvage plan. The threat of liquidation which had been hanging over the Opera House has been averted, pending an upcoming referendum by unions on the terms of the restructuring programme.”

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MUSIC Published: 07.30.14

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Cincinnati Art Museum Names New Director

VISUAL Posted: July 31, 2014 12:33 am

“Cameron Kitchin, director of Memphis’ Brooks Museum of Art, has been named the new director of the Cincinnati Art Museum after a nearly seven-month search.”

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100 Years Of World War I Movies (And How They Changed)

MEDIA Posted: July 31, 2014 12:30 am

David Mermelstein surveys the ways in which The War to End All Wars has been portrayed on screen, and how each era’s preoccupations affected the stories those films told.

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MEDIA Published: 07.30.14

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This Is The Guy To Bring To A Bloody Knife Fight (If You’re Putting It Onstage)

THEATRE Posted: July 31, 2014 12:29 am

“Death is easy, but for a good eye-gouge, Broadway directors call Rick Sordelet. … A top purveyor of staged mayhem, Mr. Sordelet has created fistfights, sword duels, stabbings and gunplay for some 60 Broadway productions – as well as Hollywood films, the Metropolitan Opera, the 1995 Super Bowl halftime show, and Ben Hur Live.”

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THEATRE Published: 07.30.14

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London Theatre By The Numbers – This is A Booming Industry

THEATRE Posted: July 30, 2014 11:04 am

“In 2012/13 more than 22 million people went to a London theatre performance and £618.5m was taken at the box office. London cinema admissions totalled 43 million, meaning the average ticket price would need to be more than £14.40 – which it is not – for cinema to have a bigger box office figure than theatre.”

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THEATRE Published: 07.30.14

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The Met Opera: Caught Between Competing Realities

MUSIC Posted: July 30, 2014 11:00 am

“Whether our current opera house model will survive will depend, I believe, on how successfully opera houses attract new artists to create work that speaks as eloquently to the traditions as to present-day audiences.” It’s an open question, however, whether the Met can do so. It certainly cannot while the stage door is padlocked.”

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MUSIC Published: 07.30.14

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Iraqi Anger As Militants Damage Cultural Heritage

VISUAL Posted: July 30, 2014 10:57 am

“The angry public reaction to the attacks on Mosul’s cultural history — including the eviction of Christians by militants, which outraged many Muslim residents who celebrate Mosul’s reputation for tolerance — appears to be the first spark of rebellion against harsh Islamic rule.”

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Michael Kimmelman: Why The Frick Museum Shouldn’t Expand

VISUAL Posted: July 30, 2014 10:55 am

“The city’s truest anti-MoMA, the Frick becomes the latest front in a larger battle to prevent nonprofit outposts of civilization from falling prey to the bigger-is-better paradigm.”

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Time-Shifted Viewing Increasingly Competes With Live TV (And It’s Changing How Programing Is Done

MEDIA Posted: July 30, 2014 10:52 am

“In the past year, the volume of DVR playback viewing that occurs during primetime hours has reached the point where the DVR now ranks as the No. 1 network. The ratings generated by viewers opting to watch time-shifted programs — from across the television dial — are equivalent to the averages of the Big Four networks combined.”

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More Universities Get Out Of College Radio and Affiliate With Public Radio Stations

MEDIA Posted: July 30, 2014 10:44 am

“College-radio fans say the deals threaten rock innovation and experimentation. Many fledging bands still get their start on college radio, where the lack of profit constraints allows the stations to experiment with music and expand listeners’ horizons, they say.”

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