The Inspector General
Pittsburgh City Paper: "You may know the etymology of 'politics.' The word combines the Greek 'poli,' meaning 'many,' with 'tics,' which are blood-sucking insects.
I love that joke."9 Tips for Efficient Meetings
Productivity501: "Meetings can be one of the biggest time drains for you as an individual and for a business. A meeting with 7 people all making $20 per hour costs a business $140 per hour. If it is a once-per-week meeting and there are 15 minutes wasted at each meeting, the total yearly waste comes to over $1,800. I don’t know about you, but a one hour meeting with only 15 minutes wasted is actually a pretty good meeting, in my experience. Half of a meeting being wasted is more par for the course, and entire meetings that are unproductive is fairly common."
Mind-Blowing : The Future of Architectural Visualization
FreshHome: "Traditional 3D visualization tools are limited to 2D display technology (computer monitors for instance). Zebra’s holographic images are unlike anything you have ever seen. The image literally “floats” in the air. You will be tempted to reach into the image with the expectation that you will touch the object being presented."
Artists group protests NAC’s use of ‘offensive’ language
The Globe and Mail: "In response to objections from a group of disabled artists, the National Arts Centre has posted an explanation for a reference to “legless cripples” that appears in the NAC’s online promotional material for a just-opened play. But the Radical Disabled Artists Network is still waiting for an apology for language the artists consider offensive."
Full immersion experience is way to go with shows
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "How much a critic should know, and when she should know it have always been hot topics.
Some like to keep themselves -- or like to claim they keep themselves -- distant from pre-performance chatter, gossip, background research and the reviews of fellow critics.
The reasoning is sound enough.
They prefer to judge the show they see on its merits alone."
'Phantom' lives to 'Love' again
Variety: "The longest runner in Broadway history and London's second-longest after world record holder 'Les Miserables,' 'The Phantom of the Opera' has amassed global grosses of more than $2.63 billion. With box office revenues higher than for any film or stage play in history, including 'Titanic,' 'E.T.' and 'Star Wars,' it has been seen in 144 cities in 27 countries by more than 100 million people."
Broadway Vocab 101. Words used to describe numbers.
PRODUCER’S PERSPECTIVE: "I threw out a word a few weeks ago that prompted a reader to pop me an email and ask, 'What the fiorello does XXXXX mean?'
So, in an attempt to prevent future emails like that from readers (and future bad musical-cussing puns from me), I thought I'd introduce a new feature on The Producer's Perspective, called Broadway Vocabulary."
Nude Window Display at Chair and the Maiden Turns Heads
NYTimes.com: "One after the next, they trudged through the horizontal-blowing snow on Thursday, most focusing more on the icy sidewalk than on the body of a naked woman, who stood in a gallery window in Greenwich Village."
There was the occasional elongated stare, or, in at least one case, a mother breaking her prepubescent son out of his trance with a firm tug.
Then, not long after the nude woman, Megan Hanford, assumed her pose, a patrol car rolled toward the gallery, Chair and the Maiden. The police vehicle rolled slowly, paused for a moment, and then kept going.
Monday, March 01, 2010
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