Little did I know when I said that you should heed arts and culture news from Chicago on Monday. You still should, but in the meanwhile, here’s what has been announced today at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra: The CSO Association today announced that it has appointed two of the world’s greatest conductors to titled...
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Last Wednesday’s performance of Verdi’s Requiem by Roosevelt University was not as relaxing as it should have been. Nothing wrong with the music, especially nothing wrong with soprano Jonita Lattimore, who sounded heavenly, but the reason it wasn’t quite as relaxing was the unruly audience. I don’t mind clapping at not exactly the right...
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As is typical of me, I have decided to do a complete redesign of the Web site (not the blog). I have recently discovered the Style Guide for the Branch Libraries of the New York Public Library, which is an apprehensive guide for markup and design requirements. When HTML first appeared, frames were a...
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I have completed the first part of the major update to my Web site. Not a drastic visual change, although the start page has a cool new feature. I took the coding from the M5 Industries Web site when I was browsing around for Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters, one of my new favorites. The part...
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What Would George Orwell Say? Catherine Bennett of The Guardian writes about the use of quotations from George Orwell’s writings. Increasingly, she claims, Orwell quotes are the most promising secular substitute for Bible quotes. Guilty as charged. I’ve probably used them one too many times as well. Writing about the English language? Check. Writing...
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Philip Young writes in his blog posting “Honest journalist, slippery PRs?” about tensions between journalists and public relations practitioners. What sparked his post is a remark in a Guardian column by Christina Odone who writes that “Journalists are in the business of exposing the truth, PRs are in the business of twisting it.” I...
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“Paris got fashion. We got whiskey. Sorry Paris.” is a line from one of the Jack Daniels commercials. With “got” they could mean receiving or coming into possession, but most likely they simply mean has. Maybe they thought it would go over well with the target market, but I’m clearly not their target market,...
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Although not entirely complete, I’m going to start to use this new format you are seeing now for Dutch Perspective. It is part of the reason why I haven’t posted anything in more than a week. Instead of a content management program, which might offer more options but is also harder to navigate, I...
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