Typical of the responses at a panel following the Tribeca Film Festival screening of the opening episode was this from Elisabeth Moss: “For me, it’s not a feminist story. It’s a human story because women’s rights are human rights. … So for me, you know, I never approach anything with any sort of, like, political agenda. I approach it from a very human place, I hope.” As reporter Laura Bradley puts it, “[these] answers were much less in tune with the audience than the episode itself had been.”
Fifty Years Ago Canada Threw Itself A Giant Party (Looking Back, We Can See What A Different Time It Was)
1967 “was a year in which most Canadians felt good about themselves and their country.” A principal reason was Expo, which attracted more than 50 million people and was described by the respected Canadian writer Peter C. Newman as “the greatest thing we have ever done as a nation.”
Nostalgia Is Huge Business Right Now. Here’s Why
“The feeling that every advertiser wants to evoke in millennials is nostalgia; that warm, comforting sensation that one experiences when recollecting the past. People usually feel nostalgic for their own past, commonly referred to as autobiographical nostalgia. But oddly enough, they can also feel nostalgia for time periods when they weren’t alive; perhaps their parents played old music to them when they were young, and now, they associate those sensory details with positive memories.”
Smartphones And Siri Don’t Understand Icelandic, And That Has Icelanders Really Worried
The 1,200-year-old language isn’t among the many options available on smartphones, virtual assistants, voice-activated devices, and even many computers – and with a small base of speakers (fewer than 350,000), Silicon Valley has little reason to spend money to add Icelandic. The worry: “The less useful Icelandic becomes in people’s daily life, the closer we as a nation get to the threshold of giving up its use.”
Why It’s Essential That Computer Scientists Study The Humanities
“Universities should start with broader training for computer science students. I contacted eight of the top undergraduate programs in computer science, and found that most do not require students to take a course on ethical and social issues in computer science (although some offer optional courses). Such courses are hard to teach well. Computer scientists often don’t take them seriously, are uncomfortable with non-quantitative thinking, are overconfident because they’re mathematically brilliant, or are convinced that utilitarianism is the answer to everything. But universities need to try.”
Richard Florida: The Rise Of Creative Inequality
The clustering of talent and economic assets in cities is benefiting “the already privileged, leaving 66 percent of the population behind,” Florida says. “Left unchecked, this clustering force generates a lopsided, extremely unequal kind of urbanism in which a relative handful of superstar cities, and a few elite neighborhoods within them, benefit while many other places stagnate or fall behind.”
Is Classical Music Still Relevant? Sorry – But That’s The Wrong Question
“The only possibility for orchestras and opera houses to find new repertoire, with the chance that they hit upon something of real value, is to preserve a practical framework: the one which defines the fundamentals of the art form. This means ignoring the postwar modernist ideologies of progress – because there is no progress in the arts – and requiring of new repertoire that it be suited to the medium as it has developed over time.”
I.M. Pei At 100
“Over the course of his career, the aristocrat of American architects, who turns 100 on April 26, has drawn on a dazzling range of influences, from Chinese gardens to ancient Colorado cliff dwellings to the fountain in a Cairo mosque. He blended the austere modernism of the Bauhaus with opulent Beaux-Arts classicism, technological daredevilry with reverence for precedent and a minute study of the past.”
Contemporary Criticism Is Having An Identity Crisis
The primary concern of contemporary criticism is not whether a given cultural object is good or bad, but how that object reflects the realities of the social world, and how it can potentially (re)shape that same world. For Weinmann, “this new turn of criticism, this emphasis on the politics behind art, may be better for a work’s reputation than criticism that ignores politics.”
Shakespeare’s Colleagues Go Digital For His Birthday
In honor of Shakespeare’s 453rd birthday (and, perhaps, 401st death day), the Folger has opened a treasure trove: “a Digital Anthology of Early English Drama, which makes original scripts and visual images from 40 plays available to anyone with Internet access.”
The Shoppers Who Supply Costumes For New York City’s Ballet Companies Rely On The Garment District
And the Garment District is even more specialized, and special, than regular consumers know: “Several of his go-to shops won’t ever be seen by the public — they’re tucked onto upper floors of old commercial buildings. But the people who rely on them — Broadway costume designers, theater shoppers, fabric sellers and buyers, fashion designers and more — are all clued in to Choo’s hidden world.”
What’s Going On With Internal Turmoil At SAG-AFTRA Just As A Writers’ Guild Strike Looms?
Actors who have spent considerable time accusing SAG-AFTRA officials of lining their own pockets do it again, and then add a laundry list of accusations: “Complaints about residuals and foreign royalties trust funds, alleged conflict of interest and such matters as reimbursement of automobile mileage expenses for union travel, frequent flyer mile usage, cellphone plans, ownership of union buildings, the conduct of an independent music royalties organization (SoundExchange), the union’s recent deal with startup Exactuals for residuals direct deposit, reimbursement of bar association dues for the union’s general counsel, attendance at conferences by union executives, the hiring of a top expert on royalties and the fact that union executive director David White is no longer on active status as a member of the California bar (which is only required for practicing lawyers).”
When Harold Pinter Wrote A Play About A Seven-Year Affair And His Affair Partner Wrote A Play Right Back
And the BBC put both Pinter’s “Betrayal” and Joan Bakewell’s “Keeping in Touch” on the air. “You were conscious, as the events unfolded in reverse chronological order, of the way betrayal spreads like a virus through a whole network of human relationships.”
If You’re Interested In Reliving The Canadian VHS Anime Wars Of The 1990s, This Article Is For You
Which fan group’s illegal copies and iffy translations would get released? How would all of the anime fans come together to watch said illegal copies with iffy translations? And if they did, would cosplay – dressing up as a character from the anime series in question – be allowed?
Misty Copeland And Sally Field Talk About What It Means To Represent A Lot More Than Yourself
Copeland: “Knowing you have a bigger purpose — that it’s more than just about you on that stage, it’s all the dancers who came before and the ones who’ll come later — it makes the struggle much easier to deal with.”
Jane Jacobs Versus The Point Zero One Percent
And, of course, versus Robert Moses. A new documentary shows how “through a combination of grassroots activism, fundraising and persistence, Jacobs blocked Moses and successive city overlords from running Fifth Avenue through the historic Washington Square, tearing down much of SoHo and Little Italy to make way for a billion-dollar expressway, and building a six-lane highway up Manhattan’s west side.”
So You Want A Streaming Service That’s Filled With The Light Of Christ (And Jeff Foxworthy)? Pure Flix May Be Your Jam
Whoa. “PureFlix.com offers bingeable programming like ‘The American Bible Challenge,’ a game show hosted by Jeff Foxworthy; ‘Family Affair,’ a sitcom starring Brian Keith that ran from 1966 to 1971; ‘The Encounter,’ a Pure Flix original scripted series about people who are visited by Jesus; and stand-up comedy from Sinbad and Louie Anderson. Next up is ‘Hilton Head Island,’ a soap opera starring Antonio Sabato Jr.”
Remember The Ghost Light Project? What Have Theatres Actually Done?
Theatre artist Daniel Park wondered, so he asked: “As a queer person of color and member of Philadelphia’s theater community, I’m invested in and directly affected by your participation in the Ghostlight Project. The movement called itself a chance for organizations to ‘make, or renew, a pledge to stand for and protect the values of inclusion, participation, and compassion for everyone.’ On the movement’s website, it listed a large number of potential, actionable, ongoing actions for participants to take after the event on 1/19. I’m writing to find out what movements and plans your organization has begun since 1/19/17 to put this commitment into effect, outside of producing art.”
The Path To Success For A Ballet Company That Has Lasted 20 Years On The Border Between Iowa And Illinois
So this is how it started, two decades ago: “Joedy Cook was a 40-something stay-at-home mother in 1996 when she decided the Quad-Cities needed a professional ballet company. She went to the board of directors of the Cassandra Manning Ballet Theatre, where she volunteered at the time, and got the go-ahead. Ballet Quad-Cities kicked off with one paid dancer and a $25,000 budget.”
Erin Moran, Who Was Joanie On ‘Happy Days’ And Her Own Spin-Off, Has Died At 56
She started playing Joanie when she was 12. “Over the 10-year run of ‘Happy Days,’ Joanie transformed from the young teenager who complained about being sent to her room to a major character on the show. In later seasons, Joanie’s love interest with the aspiring musician Chachi Arcola became a major story line.”
So, How Do You Make A Horror Film That Makes Audience Members Faint – But Is Actually A Comedy?
“Raw” is the French director Julia Ducournau’s first feature film, and it’s already made waves. Here’s how she made the coming-of-age cannibal film, from getting the actors to bond through horror and beer to recreating the feel of a college down, aka places that “swim in the organic, heaving messiness of teens.”
Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare
The Bard turns 453, and Stratford-upon-Avon is not missing out on a parade for the man.