“Lawsuits and death threats have been volleyed at Jordan-based LGBTQ webzine My.Kali, which has just released its first Arabic-language issue in the May/June 2016 edition. My.Kali went live in 2007 and has traditionally published its ‘dialogue surrounding LGBTQ issues’ exclusively in English.”
Jazz Pianist Claude Williamson Dead At 89
“A versatile pianist who skillfully merged the bebop style of the East with the laid-back sound of the West, securing himself a seat in the cool L.A. jazz scene of the ’50s, … [Williamson was a] club musician, vocal accompanist, studio player, band leader, trio player.”
Oops: Museum Admits It (Unwittingly) Put Up A Show Full Of Forgeries
“A local museum has announced its final conclusion on the authenticity of a scandal-hit painting art exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City, and the results are probably far from what the collector had been hoping for.”
In Publishing, One Format Is Growing Much Faster Than All Others
“Carrying around a pocket-size entertainment center stuffed with games, news, music, videos and books has conditioned people to seek out constant entertainment, whether walking to a meeting or sitting in a doctor’s office. For more multitasking book-lovers, audiobooks are the answer.”
If We Normalize Queer Theatre, What Happens To Its Meaning?
“I don’t understand how a battle for equal rights under law devolved into an unintentional shift toward behavioral sameness in our artistic representations and daily lives.”
Screening Film, Real Film, In Brooklyn
“Adversity has made the purists even more ardent. The act of acquiring a film becomes a treasure hunt: cinemas brag about having gotten their hands on a particularly high-quality print, and the buffs themselves are known to have rooms piled high with big metal wheels.”
Making A Move From City Ballet To ‘Cats’
“I’ve kept my head on straight and kept my eye on the real prize which is having a career that is full and spans many different spectrums of dance and that I did this on my own. It took me a long time to get comfortable in my skin as a human. I don’t know that I would have had the strength earlier to step away from City Ballet had I been offered something like Cats.”
The Principal Dancer’s Career-Ending Injury That Created An Actress
“November 12, 2013. I was ready to make a jump, I hit a slippery spot on the floor and heard two huge pops in my right knee,” she says. “The ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) had ruptured. The pain came from my tibia slamming into my femur.” She’d had injuries before – what dancer hasn’t? – but realized this could be career-ending: “I went into surgery, knowing I might not come back.”
Battles Rage Over Authenticating Modigliani Work
“As well as a number of suspected fakes on the market (more in drawings than in paintings, says Wayne), complicating the field has been an epic battle between two specialists, Christian Parisot and Marc Restellini, which aired publicly for more than a decade through the 2000s.”
Getting To Understand John Cage Through His Letters
Question: “Is politics to society what music is to sound?”
Cage: “Yes, if music is thought of as a body of laws to protect musical sounds from noises, as government protects rich from poor.”
Meet The Orchestra Of Disabled Musicians That Grew Out Of The 2012 Paralympics
“The resistance that they come up against in being fearless, brilliant and bold doesn’t usually come from within, but from others. I’m talking about the British Paraorchestra, … performing challenging works, playing all manner of instruments you’d never hear in traditional orchestras, adding spikes of technology and pushing themselves to the limits of their hard-practised skills. Did I mention that they are disabled? Does it matter? Unfortunately it does, but that’s what we are here to try to change.”
Lightning Strikes Ballet Company’s Headquarters
“Lightning and strong winds struck the Board of Trade building in downtown Duluth early Thursday, knocking the chimney through part of the roof – and leaving many of the Minnesota Ballet’s costumes under a thick pile of rubble. … The rest of the ballet’s rooms were unharmed, except for a few branches that came through the dance floor studio windows.”
The UK Gov’t Inquiry Into The Iraq War Is Now An Edinburgh Fringe Event
“From 8 August, a host of comedians, authors and politicians, including Stewart Lee, Omid Djalili and Ian Rankin, are to stage a [non-stop] complete reading of Sir John Chilcot’s 6,000-page report on the Iraq war, invasion and occupation.”
How Great Visual Artists Have Staged Mozart’s ‘Magic Flute’
From Marc Chagall through David Hockney, Maurice Sendak, and William Kentridge to Jun Kaneko.
Al Jazeera Is Coming Back To America
“Al Jazeera English is in talks with cable carriers that carried the now defunct Al Jazeera America to make its live video stream available [digitally] in the U.S. starting in September … The move comes almost three months after it shut down its U.S. cable television network, Al Jazeera America.”
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Pokémon Go Goes Global, And Governments Combat The Pikachu Peril
“In Saudi Arabia, clerics renewed an existing fatwa against Pokémon, calling it ‘un-Islamic.’ Bosnia has warned players to avoid chasing the creatures onto land mines left over from the 1990s. … Russian websites published articles claiming the game is a C.I.A. plot, while religious figures denounced it. ‘It smacks of Satanism,’ a Cossack leader told local media.”