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Friday, October 21




Ideas

Women Pull Ahead In College There are more women than men in US colleges, and they're scoring better too. "There are more men than women ages 18-24 in the USA — 15 million vs. 14.2 million, according to a Census Bureau estimate last year. But nationally, the male/female ratio on campus today is 43/57, a reversal from the late 1960s and well beyond the nearly even splits of the mid-1970s. The trends have developed in plain view — not ignored exactly, but typically accompanied by some version of the question: Isn't this a sign of women's progress?" USAToday 10/21/05
Posted: 10/21/2005 9:24 am

Habitually Rewiring Our Brains Habits are extremely difficult to break. Why? Turns out there's a physiological reason. "Important neural activity patterns in a specific region of the brain change when habits are formed, change again when habits are broken, but quickly re-emerge when something rekindles an extinguished habit -- routines that originally took great effort to learn." Physorg.com 10/19/05
Posted: 10/21/2005 12:03 am

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Visual Arts

Chicago Architecture Tries To Keep Up With A Glorious Past Chicago has a distinguished history of great architecture. The city's contemporary architecure has difficulty competing, so a set of annual awards teases out some of the best. "Do the awards reflect great originality, or even the presence of geniuses among us? Maybe not, but they're limited by the fact that they honor projects that have been executed; if you're an architect and your last name isn't Gehry, many of your best and most original designs are likely to remain unbuilt. And sure, the awards paint a collective portrait of architects who are primarily extending, refining and reinterpreting the tropes of modernism, rather than founding new movements or styles. But they're doing so with a confident panache that virtually swaggers." Chicago Sun-Times 10/21/05
Posted: 10/21/2005 7:46 am

Tate Buys Time For £20,000 The Tate has paid £20,000 for a piece of performance art that consists of members of the public asking one another for the time. David Lamelas' work Time "questions the environment of the museum and static objects". A photograph of a past performance was included in the price. BBC 10/21/05
Posted: 10/21/2005 7:27 am

Judge Evicts Saatchi Gallery "A judge upheld the claim by Japanese company Shirayama Shokusan that the London Saatchi Gallery had continually breached the term of its lease. The judge said Danovo, the firm which runs the gallery, had shown 'deliberate disregard' of the owners' rights." BBC 10/21/05
Posted: 10/21/2005 7:20 am

The New Collectors The art market is booming, by all accounts. But who are these people that are putting their money into art? "What kind of people are they, the buyers of contemporary art, so different from the recipients of creativity in other fields - neither like the publisher nor the reader of a book, neither like the producer nor the audience of a film, neither like the record company nor the listener to a song?" The Guardian (UK) 10/21/05
Posted: 10/21/2005 12:15 am

Pompidou Aims At Museum In Singapore The Pompidou is joining up with casino company Harrah's to develop a new museum in Singapore. "This provides us a unique opportunity to develop/propose a concept to help Singapore enhance its global cultural offering." Forbes.com 10/20/05
Posted: 10/20/2005 11:39 pm

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Music

San Francisco Says Goodbye To Rosenberg Departing San Francisco Opera director Pamela Rosenberg is feted for her accomplishments with the company as she departs. "At the end of evening, the departing general director had some understandable difficulty maintaining her composure while acknowledging the standing ovation she received and the city and opera community she is leaving." San Francisco Chronicle 10/20/05
Posted: 10/21/2005 7:15 am

BBC - Missing A Chance At Download Culture? "Last week the BBC announced the end of music on the World Service while, in practically the same breath, assuring Parliament that it has an absolute right to deliver music to all corners of the earth. Bewildered? So are the troops." The bigger question is - is the BBC missing out on delivering content worldwide in an age of downloading? La Scena Musicale 10/20/05
Posted: 10/20/2005 10:48 pm

Whew! The Orchestra Strike Is Over. What 'Ya Gonna Do? If you're the Montreal Symphony, coming back from a five-month strike, you play "O Canada" for a pro football game. "The 80-piece orchestra under musical director Kent Nagano will play O Canada before the Montreal Alouettes' regular-season game Saturday afternoon against the Toronto Argonauts. More than 50,000 spectators are expected." SLAM! Sports 10/20/05
Posted: 10/20/2005 10:43 pm

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Arts Issues

World (Without US) Votes To Protect National Culture Some 150 countries have voted yes to a UNESCO convention that they say will protect cultural diversity. The US was not among the countries. "The US had said the 'deeply flawed" convention could be used to block the export of Hollywood films and other cultural exports. The vote follows French moves to protect its film and music industries." BBC 10/20/05
Posted: 10/20/2005 11:53 pm

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Theatre

Producers Screws Up With The Press In Chicago A New York producer bringing a show to Chicago bars Sun-Times theatre critic Hedy Weiss from attending a press conference announcing the show, then tortures the press he does allow inside by ambushing them with a game. Dumb move. Both the Sun-Times and Tribune protested... Chicago Reader 10/20/05
Posted: 10/21/2005 7:09 am

Where Are The Hot New UK Playwrights "Which, if any, current playwrights might become household names in years to come. Alongside Harold Pinter, the 1950s and 1960s brought a plethora of acclaimed playwrights, including a trio of Sirs - David Hare, Tom Stoppard and Alan Ayckbourn. But as television and film gained increasing prominence, new playwrights have struggled to enter our national consciousness." BBC 10/20/05
Posted: 10/20/2005 11:51 pm

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Publishing

What Happened To Great Magazine Covers? "It is one of the great signposts of the modern world, the wall of magazines to be found in every newsagent, in every railway station, and in every library in Britain, but in recent years these displays have become torture racks, revealing everything that is mean and cynical about how we live. It's hard to believe those covers were once the repository of things gracious, beautiful and imaginative." The Telegraph (UK) 10/20/05
Posted: 10/21/2005 12:12 am

Book Publishers Become Book Sellers Major book publishers have quietly gone into the online bookselling business. "The publishers, including Simon & Schuster, Random House and Penguin, claim to have limited retail ambitions and are simply trying to use their websites to help readers. 'We can offer features, services and guidance that might be difficult for another retailer to provide. What we're not going to be is competitors to Amazon or any other retailer in this area'." Wired 10/20/05
Posted: 10/20/2005 11:59 pm

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Media

Catchin' Some Rays - The New DVDs "Sony's Blu-ray DVD technology has won over another heavyweight supporter in the battle to be Hollywood's format of choice for the next generation of DVDs." BBC 10/21/05
Posted: 10/21/2005 9:27 am

Republicans Propose Killing Funding For Public Broadcasting "As the White House scrambles to find ways to pay for an expensive war in Iraq and the rebuilding of New Orleans, public broadcasting is once again being offered up as an expense the American public can possibly do without. PBS television and radio receives $400 million US annually in federal support. The Republican Study Committee, a conservative group within the caucus, recommended on Wednesday that it all be cut." CBC 10/21/05
Posted: 10/21/2005 7:40 am

  • Why Do We Need PBS? "PBS is at this point basically an upscale, government-funded, highbrow version of the mindset behind pretty much every major television network except for Fox News. You don’t have to be a declared enemy of the liberal establishment to have noticed this." National Review 10/21/05
    Posted: 10/21/2005 7:37 am

Middle America Gets Some Hollywood Clout Indianapolis's Heartland Film Festival has found a growing niche in films that appeal to middle America. "Heartland's rising profile hints that Tinseltown might be outgrowing its tin ear for middle America, a culture that's both savvier and more proactive than the "Peoria" of old - and a bloc whose consumer clout keeps growing. Some 580 films were submitted to Heartland this year, up from 330 in 2004." Christian Science Monitor 10/20/05
Posted: 10/20/2005 10:52 pm

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