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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

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HMV Files For Insolvency Protection
"The decision followed failed requests to HMV's suppliers for £300 million ($481.8 million) in additional financing. The retailer owes $282.8 million to banks having struggled from the ever increasing competition from online retail." Variety 01/15/13
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All This Fuss Over A Poem (Too Shocking To Be Read On Radio?) "It was described by the Daily Mail as a "torrent of filth". MPs called for it to be banned from the airwaves. But does Tony Harrison's controversial poem V still have the power to shock?" BBC 01/16/13
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media
Bad Month For Entertainment Retailers - Blockbuster UK Files Bankruptcy "The chain has 528 stores and employs 4,190 staff. Deloitte, the accountancy firm which will now take over running the firm, said Blockbuster would keep trading while it tries to find a buyer." BBC 01/16/13
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Jumping Ship - Another Curator Leaves LA's MOCA "Her departure leaves only two curators at MOCA (Alma Ruiz and Bennett Simpson), down from a high of seven curators in early 2009. That year the museum implemented various cost-cutting measures and layoffs, following a financial crisis and bailout by trustee Eli Broad." Los Angeles Times 01/16/13
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publishing
The Bookless Library - Redefining Access To Information "This replacement of jacket covers for hard drives is a calculated choice that many other libraries and officials around the nation have also considered, yet -- in most cases -- quickly abandoned." NPR 01/15/13
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music
Why HMV Really Failed "HMV's problem wasn't just that it was expensive, compared with the online retailers. It was that, by and large, it had become an awful shopping experience. Where once it was a byword for music shopping, it became - from this music buyer's perspective - a place of last resort." The Guardian (UK) 01/15/13
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HMV Failure Doesn't Spell End Of Music Shops (Far From It) "Despite HMV's inability to make high street music retailing pay, many independent record shops are already reporting higher demand and sales, due partly to a backlash against Amazon's tax set-up and the difficulty of stumbling across unexpected gems online." The Guardian (UK) 01/16/13
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media
Canadian Movie Box Office Up 9 Percent In 2011 "Gross theatrical box-office revenue in Canada for 2012 was close to $1.1-billion, a 9-per-cent increase over 2011. Canadian movies accounted for around 2.5 per cent of that, grossing, as of Dec. 21, $25.06-million, a drop of roughly 12 per cent from 2011." The Globe & mail (Canada) 01/16/13
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HMV's Failure - Part Of A Bigger Shift In The UK Economy "HMV's collapse means that nearly 200 retailers have collapsed over the past 12 months, including the electricals chain Comet just before Christmas and the sportswear retailer JJB in the autumn. It is also last remaining nationwide entertainment chain, following the disappearance of retailers such as Our Price and Zavvi." The Independent (UK) 01/15/13
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Last Record Shop Standing - What The Loss Of HMV Means To Buying Music "It's a great shame for the people whose jobs may be at stake. It's also a shame for the rest of us. A download's all very well, but it's not magic. Record shops were magic." The Independent (UK) 01/15/13
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Are Golden Globes Worth More Than Oscars At The Box Office? "As it turns out, Golden Globe awards result in a bigger box-office boost than Academy Award wins - $14.2 million per film, on average, versus $3 million, according to my statistical analysis." Reuters 01/15/13
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Is Satellite Radio The New Star-maker? "As SiriusXM approaches 24 million subscribers, this once-minor player in promoting songs has become a proving ground for new bands, a steppingstone between the Internet and breaking into the rotation at big FM radio stations." The New York Times 01/15/13
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issues
The Judging Culture - What's It Take? (And What's It Worth?) There's a popular colloquialism that asks, "What gives you the right to judge?" But we're all judges, in our own way; the only question is whether those verdicts are delivered in a public forum or the privacy of our homes. Variety 01/16/13
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media
As TV Shows Have Become More Violent, Questions About Why... "You look at the top scripted shows on cable, and they are all pretty heavy duty. These are not some small cultural little things that people like. The top drama on television now is a show where people get their heads blown off at point-blank range." The New York Times 01/16/13
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dance
Where Have All The African American Audiences Gone For Concert Dance? "Many professional dance companies in major U.S. cities dream of having more African American audiences for their work. Reality sets in as artistic and administrative staff look out over the crowd and wonder where all the African Americans audiences have gone." Dance/USA 01/15/13
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visual
Mexican City Fights Back Against Looting Of Historic Churches "A small, picturesque city 80 miles southeast of Mexico City, Cholula is said to have a church for every day of the year. There are, in reality, about 80 in all, many dating to the 17th century and filled with paintings and sculptures from that time. It is enough to draw hordes of worshipers - and thieves." The New York Times 01/16/13
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people
Japanese Filmmaker Nagisa Oshima Dead At 80 "[He] challenged and subverted the pieties of Japanese society and the conventions of Japanese cinema and ... gained international notoriety in 1976 for the sexually explicit In the Realm of the Senses." The New York Times 01/16/13
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issues
Philadelphia's Prince Music Theater Gets New Start As Performing Arts Center "Now, after a more recent series of legal plots and subplots, the Prince has emerged from bankruptcy with new leadership - and a mission that may or may not continue its role in developing new work. The Prince, which resides in a former movie house on Chestnut Street, exited Chapter 11 on Oct. 15 with something it did not have before: owners." The Philadelphia Inquirer 01/15/13
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music
Why Starting A Musical Instrument Young Makes A Difference: Neurology "New evidence comes from brain scans of 36 highly skilled musicians, split equally between those who started lessons before and after the age of 7, but who had done a similar amount of training and practice." It's all about coordination. New Scientist 01/15/13
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people
England's Forgotten Genius Of Architecture, Sarah Losh "She was able to pursue her desire to build because she was independently wealthy, unmarried and locally influential, and she acquired the knowledge to do it because her older male relatives honored and encouraged her intelligence." Salon 01/13/12
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theatre
Making Theater Without Sight Or Sound "The Israeli theater ensemble Nalagaat, which is made up of deaf and blind performers, tells stories through pantomime and by baking bread." The New York Times 01/16/13
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visual
Munich To Get Its Own Fourth Plinth Scandinivian artists Elmgreen and Dragset, who are behind the project: "For ages the Fourth Plinth was a problem for London. It just stood there, empty. Then it became one of the most fantastic art projects. ... Maybe Munich does not have enough problems, so we are bringing them one." The Art Newspaper 01/15/13
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ideas
Inside History's Single Largest Gathering of Humanity In Allahabad, "at the confluence of the Yamuna, Ganges and (mythical) Saraswati Rivers, as many as 100 million people will participate over the next month in an ancient Hindu festival known as the Kumbh Mela." Urbanists are studying the logistics of what they're calling a "pop-up megacity", and social scientists are finding that participating in these gatherings really does bring long-term benefits. Time 01/15/13
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ideas
A Portrait Of Fascism As A Living, Breathing Person László Krasznahorkai: "To be honest I wouldn't have been surprised if he hadn't knocked but beat at the door, or simply kicked the door in, but now that I hear the knocking, it's clear there is no difference between his knocking and beating or kicking the door in, I mean really no difference, the point being that I am dead certain it is him, who else; he of whom I knew, and have always known would come." The New York Times 01/12/13
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issues
For The Arts, Social Media Become More Than A Marketing Tool "Social media portals such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others are not only changing the way arts organizations interact with audiences, [a] Pew study shows, they are also helping define how arts are presented. ... The study also identified two curious downsides to the rise in social media use among audiences." The Sacramento Bee 01/13/13
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media
Hollywood Vs. Jihadis: It Didn't Start With Zero Dark Thirty Films on this theme "are always informed, and their reception shaped, by politics of the era in which they were created. It's as true now for Zero Dark Thirty as it was for a series of films in the 1980s that made none of the claims of journalistic rigor that director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal have made." Consider, for instance, Rambo III. The Atlantic 01/15/13
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music
Latvia, A Nation Of Singers Composer Gabriel Jackson: "And singing is what Latvians do. I don't know what percentage of the population is in a choir but it must be pretty high; it's certainly taken very seriously and every Latvian I know can sing, and does. ... But it's not just the ubiquity of singing and the skill of its practitioners that's impressive, it's the sheer sound of Latvian choirs that is so remarkable." Gramophone 01/07/13
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people
Cellist Yuli Turovsky, Founder Of Montreal's I Musici, Dead At 73 "Turovsky founded I Musici in 1983, fulfilling a dream he had had since arriving in Canada with little money and few contacts. He was director and conductor of the string orchestra for 27 years. ... He made more than 30 recordings and toured internationally with [the ensemble]." CBC 01/15/13
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publishing
Meet Greece's National Poet, 'Feisty' 81-Year-Old Kiki Dimoula "Her poetry - spare, profound, unsentimental, effortlessly transforming the quotidian into the metaphysical, drawing on the powerful themes of time, fate and destiny, yet making them entirely her own - has earned her a near-cult following in Greece. One of her Greek writer contemporaries, Nikos Dimou, has called Ms. Dimoula 'the best Greek woman poet since Sappho'." The New York Times 01/12/13
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theatre
Effing The Ineffable: Love, Vladimir, And Estragon How did these two men find each other? Why do they stay together? Even they do not know. Or, at least, they cannot say. ... When we say that love is ineffable, as Beckett knew, what we mean is that, when we love, we don't know what the hell we are doing. We can't stop talking through it, trying to figure it out." The Smart Set 01/14/13
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Where Light Sculpture Meets Astronomy "The light playing across the 4.5-metre-tall standing stone is that of cosmic particles as they dance through the Earth's atmosphere. Or rather, as they are detected at the Super-Kamiokande observatory at the University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research." New Scientist 01/14/13
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ideas
We're Losing Something In The Digital Revolution - The Ability To Forget "When today's present turns into the distant past, today's everyday life won't fall into oblivion anymore. For the self-perception of society, the lack of historical memory loss is even more consequential than the current loss of privacy." The European 01/11/13
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music
Understanding The 20th Century By Way Of Its Music "Audiences who are interested in geopolitics, the history of the 20th century, the economic situation [can find] a route via these things, for them to care who Bela Bartok was." The Economist 01/14/13
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ideas
Inside History's Single Largest Gathering of Humanity - Time 01/15/13
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A Portrait Of Fascism As A Living, Breathing Person - The New York Times 01/12/13
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We're Losing Something In The Digital Revolution - The Ability To Forget - The European 01/11/13
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issues
The Judging Culture - What's It Take? (And What's It Worth?) - Variety 01/16/13
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Philadelphia's Prince Music Theater Gets New Start As Performing Arts Center - The Philadelphia Inquirer 01/15/13
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For The Arts, Social Media Become More Than A Marketing Tool - The Sacramento Bee 01/13/13
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Bad Month For Entertainment Retailers - Blockbuster UK Files Bankruptcy - BBC 01/16/13
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Canadian Movie Box Office Up 9 Percent In 2011 - The Globe & mail (Canada) 01/16/13
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Are Golden Globes Worth More Than Oscars At The Box Office? - Reuters 01/15/13
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Is Satellite Radio The New Star-maker? - The New York Times 01/15/13
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As TV Shows Have Become More Violent, Questions About Why... - The New York Times 01/16/13
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Hollywood Vs. Jihadis: It Didn't Start With Zero Dark Thirty - The Atlantic 01/15/13
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music
Why HMV Really Failed - The Guardian (UK) 01/15/13
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HMV Failure Doesn't Spell End Of Music Shops (Far From It) - The Guardian (UK) 01/16/13
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HMV's Failure - Part Of A Bigger Shift In The UK Economy - The Independent (UK) 01/15/13
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Last Record Shop Standing - What The Loss Of HMV Means To Buying Music - The Independent (UK) 01/15/13
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Why Starting A Musical Instrument Young Makes A Difference: Neurology - New Scientist 01/15/13
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Latvia, A Nation Of Singers - Gramophone 01/07/13
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Understanding The 20th Century By Way Of Its Music - The Economist 01/14/13
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people
Japanese Filmmaker Nagisa Oshima Dead At 80 - The New York Times 01/16/13
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England's Forgotten Genius Of Architecture, Sarah Losh - Salon 01/13/12
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Cellist Yuli Turovsky, Founder Of Montreal's I Musici, Dead At 73 - CBC 01/15/13
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theatre
Making Theater Without Sight Or Sound - The New York Times 01/16/13
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Effing The Ineffable: Love, Vladimir, And Estragon - The Smart Set 01/14/13
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visual
Jumping Ship - Another Curator Leaves LA's MOCA - Los Angeles Times 01/16/13
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Mexican City Fights Back Against Looting Of Historic Churches - The New York Times 01/16/13
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Munich To Get Its Own Fourth Plinth - The Art Newspaper 01/15/13
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Where Light Sculpture Meets Astronomy - New Scientist 01/14/13
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