Tuesday, January 24
The End Of Democtratic Information Flow On The Internet? "The telecommunications companies' proposals have the potential, within just a few years, to alter the flow of commerce and information -- and your personal experience -- on the Internet. For the first time, the companies that own the equipment that delivers the Internet to your office, cubicle, den and dorm room could, for a price, give one company priority on their networks over another." Washington Post 01/23/06
Posted: 01/24/2006 7:36 am
Want Success? Stick With It... Is it all-brains-all-the-time that separates achievers from the pack? Or is something else at work? The difference likely is something Angela Lee Duckworth calls "grit," which she defines as "tenaciously pursuing something over the long term." That "something" can't be something easy. To pass the grit test, the thing being chased must be "the highest challenge." It's all about passion. Philadelphia Inquirer 01/23/06
Posted: 01/23/2006 9:46 pm
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The Klimt Attorney Los Angeles attorney Randol Schoenberg has spent the past 7 1/2 years arguing that five Gustav Klimt paintings in Austria looted by the Nazis ought to be returned to a California woman. "For Schoenberg — kinetic, restless and intense, with the boundless snap of a Spencer Tracy character — the case is far more than a simple legal wrangle, it's an obsession." Los Angeles Times 01/23/06
Posted: 01/24/2006 7:52 am
Explosion Rips Finland's National Museum The blast happened Monday night. "The investigation indicates that the explosion happened in a storeroom next to the silverware exhibition. The storeroom contains the museum's master electricity switchboard." Newsroom Finland 01/24/06
Posted: 01/24/2006 7:50 am
The Man Who Stole The Cellini So who was it that stole the Cellini saltcellar from a Vienna museum? The suspect "was a funny guy. He had collected sculptures in his youth and had a feeling for them. He also ran an alarm firm and was an expert in alarm systems. He knew exactly how to steal it. He told us afterwards it [the theft] was all rather spontaneous." The Guardian (UK) 01/23/06
Posted: 01/23/2006 8:49 pm
An Indian Artist Takes World Stage Tyeb Mehta is India's most successful artist. "Mehta's career has mirrored the changing fortunes of contemporary Indian art over the last six decades, from the intellectual fervor of its birth at Indian independence in 1947, to a lifetime of aesthetic and financial struggle, to the improbable rise of the Indian art market in the last few years." The New York Times 01/24/06
Posted: 01/23/2006 7:59 pm
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Contract Disptue At San Francisco Symphony The San Francisco Symphony is locked in contract negotiations with its musicians. "At issue is the combination of base salary and extra payments that musicians earn after a certain period with the orchestra. Under the most recent contract terms, a player with at least 25 years with the orchestra earns a minimum of $110,760 annually. According to the musicians, the latest management offer would bump that to $114,140 in the first year, which would rank the Symphony last among the nation's top seven orchestras; they're asking for $117,104, which would put them squarely in the middle." San Francisco Chronicle 01/24/06
Posted: 01/24/2006 8:56 am
The Mozart Question "Who was this guy, and how did he do what he did? How is it possible that a mere human being could have created music of such unearthly beauty and emotional profundity, and apparently (though this point may be overstated) done it with such effortless facility? Mozart's life helps a little, but not much." San Francisco Chronicle 01/23/06
Posted: 01/23/2006 10:05 pm
Lincoln Center Jazz Venue Gets Mixed Review It's been a year since Lincoln Center's new jazz venue opened. "Fans of the three new stages applaud the acoustics and aesthetics and say the new building - with its can't-miss-it marquee and snazzy marketing - has raised the profile of jazz as an art form nationwide. But the very qualities that make some people consider the new Jazz at Lincoln Center a raging success are those that others say amount to a disappointment." The New York Times 01/24/06
Posted: 01/23/2006 7:57 pm
The Mozart Connection (Maybe) "Does Mozart still speak to us? The fact that we are celebrating his 250th birthday this month suggests so, and for some fraction of the elite culture, he surely does. Judging by concert halls, it's an old and shrinking fraction, but there are still a fair number of teenagers learning the "Turkish Rondo," so who knows?" The Weekly Standard 01/30/06
Posted: 01/23/2006 7:52 pm
New Protests Against Springer Tour Jerry Springer, The Opera is about to begin a UK national tour, but theatres are bracing for protests. "Pressure group Christian Voice, which orchestrated 55,000 complaints when the BBC screened the musical a year ago, is planning a string of demonstrations." BBC 01/23/06
Posted: 01/23/2006 7:21 pm
Grassroots Opera Seattle is seeing the birth of a new movement of new opera outside traditional channels. "These productions bracket an extraordinary and sudden flowering—a dozen or so examples in as many months— of what might be called 'homemade opera.' Singers and composers are taking the impresario reins, presenting small-scale productions both of new operas and of neglected works by established names, making their own opportunities to perform and be heard outside a mainstream operatic culture in which young singers face stiff competition and composers are all but ignored." Seattle Weekly 01/18/06
Posted: 01/23/2006 7:02 pm
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The Porn Factor "Not too long ago, pornography was a furtive profession, its products created and consumed in the shadows. But it has steadily elbowed its way into the limelight, with an impact that can be measured not just by the Internet-fed ubiquity of pornography itself but by the way aspects of the porn sensibility now inform movies, music videos, fashion, magazines, and celebrity culture." Boston Globe 01/24/06
Posted: 01/24/2006 8:45 am
Miami PAC And Major Presenter Stop Merger Talks Miami's Concert Association of Florida and the under-construction Miami Performing Arts Center have postponed discussions of a merger of the two organizations. "It would have been a 50-50 financial split, and frankly, we both have too much to do at the time. It was the better part of wisdom for both of us to postpone it for a year or so." Miami Herald 01/23/06
Posted: 01/23/2006 9:30 pm
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Poet Irving Layton, 92 The Canadian firebrand "was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982 and again in 1983, and won Italy's Petrarch Prize for Poetry in 1993. A gifted lyricist, he considered himself a "romantic with a sense of irony" in both words and actions, and his confidence was matched by his talent, which he used to fight uniformity and puritanism." The Guardian (UK) 01/22/06
Posted: 01/23/2006 8:55 pm
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The New New Musicals A new generation of improbable-sounding musicals is hitting London stages. "A key common denominator among this new breed of offbeat shows is that they're about the lyrics as much as the music." The Guardian (UK) 01/21/06
Posted: 01/23/2006 8:25 pm
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Perkins Wins Childrens Book Honors Lynne Rae Perkins' Criss Cross, a humorous series of vignettes, illustrations and poems about a group of small-town teenagers, has won the Newbery Medal for "the most outstanding contribution to children's literature." Chicago Sun-Times (AP) 01/24/06
Posted: 01/24/2006 8:49 am
People-Moving Poetry Twenty-five buses in Pittsburgh have been covered with poems. "The poetic exteriors are the latest in the ongoing effort to make buses more visually interesting than the red-and-white affairs that transported commuters a decade ago." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 01/23/06
Posted: 01/23/2006 9:56 pm
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Coming To PBS - The Great Unifier? Why did PBS choose Paula Kerger, a top executive at New York's Thirteen/WNET to be the network's new president? "She's someone who we felt would be a great unifier of the system. Because she knows the system well — knows both newcomers and seasoned participants and brings a respect for the accomplishments of all — she will have a very unifying influence, which will be very constructive."
Los Angeles Times 01/24/06
Posted: 01/24/2006 7:46 am
NBC Struggles To Reinvent NBC's having a terrible year. The network is trying anything, and recently had a hit with podcast episodes. "Could it be that video iPods are helping decide prime-time winners? You can never prove anything for sure, but it hasn't hurt and probably helped quite a bit." Newsweek 01/30/06
Posted: 01/23/2006 8:21 pm
Movie Compensation, Explained "The studios' business nowadays is entirely driven by one or two huge franchises that serve as worldwide licensing platforms. And the most predictable producers of these windfalls, such as Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Tom Cruise, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Peter Jackson, are all gross players represented by savvy lawyers and agents who know all the ropes of the movie business." Slate 01/23/06
Posted: 01/23/2006 7:49 pm
Pixar And Disney - An Odd Match? Disney is in talks to buy Pixar. But the two companies have very different styles, and there is some concern about whether the two cultures can mix. "Pixar is known for its egalitarian ways where the lowest-ranking animator can share ideas with the bosses while Disney has a reputation for making creative decisions from the top down." Yahoo! (Reuters) 01/23/06
Posted: 01/23/2006 7:33 pm
PBS Names New President Paula Kerger has been named new president of PBS, replacing Pat Mitchell. "Kerger is executive vp and chief operating officer at the Educational Broadcasting Corp., which holds the license to Thirteen/WNET and WLIW in New York. Her job, which she has held since 2004, includes responsibility for the editorial content of both stations." Backstage 01/23/06
Posted: 01/23/2006 7:28 pm
- Challenges For New PBS Boss "The management change comes at a challenging time for PBS, which supplies programs to 348 stations. In recent years, cable has encroached on the documentary, nature, drama and children's programming for which PBS is known. Even so, PBS has struggled to get its stations, which prize their autonomy, to agree on a common strategy to compete for viewers or even a consistent nationwide schedule." The New York Times 01/24/06
Posted: 01/23/2006 5:55 pm
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Colorado Ballet Gets Some Good News It's been a tumultuous year for Colorado Ballet. One thing that has gone right? The box office. "With nearly a third of its 2005-06 performances remaining, the company has sold more tickets than it did during the entire 2004-05 season and reached 93 percent of its $3.2 million ticket sales goal for 2005-06." Denver Post 01/23/06
Posted: 01/23/2006 9:20 pm
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