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Love, Canter, Action
Gr 9 Up–Nora’s mother died unexpectedly, and she’s forced to live with the father she’s never known and his wife. As the child of an extramarital affair, Nora finds the living situation awkward. Her future changes in an instant when the horse ranch she works at is sold.
Should performers do more to engage their audiences?
The perennial question in classical music of how to engage new audiences often rears its head: in a recent survey commissioned by Town Hall Symphony Hall Birmingham, 37 per cent of under 25s surveyed thought classical music ‘needed to bring an end to elitist language and traditions’. For me these traditions and language seek to respect the music, and many appreciate them as such, but perhaps in today’s climate they are in danger of being misunderstood and inadvertently end up excluding.
How to NOT Raise a Narcissist
Source: Patrick Hawks/Flickr You’ve met that child: The one who insists on special treatment, who thinks the rules don’t apply to him, who brags and seems insensitive to anyone else’s feelings or wishes, who has loud, public tantrums if he doesn’t get his way… This child may have some superficial charm, but if you spend much time with her, you walk away feeling irritated and thinking, “Who does she think she is?!” Or worse.
Psychology Today
SleepFor many of us, sleep is the sweet balm that soothes and restores us after a long day of work and play. But for those for whom sleep is elusive or otherwise troubled, the issue is far more fraught. Most people, at some point in their lives, experience difficulty falling asleep.
Kurt Thometz's Little Black Bookshop
How a white kid from rural Minnesota who was raised to be racist grew up to become one of the country's foremost collectors of black literature. Kurt Thometz, a private librarian to the ultra-rich and a rare book collector with an affinity for African literature, surrounds himself with more than 15,000 obsessively organized books in an 1891 brownstone on West 160th Street in Upper Manhattan.
Print Ain't Dead in NYC
In a digitally-crazed city that never stops moving, one New York photographer reveals that everyone from pop stars to the homeless still gets lost in print. Back in the early ’70s, probably 1971 or 1972, I picked up a copy of André Kertész's On Reading, which had recently been published. I was impressed by, and a bit envious of, his black-and-white photographs of people in different cities around the world, all in the act of reading.
What is a Library?
“Harlem Shake in a library? Yes!” cries the caption of a YouTube video uploaded this spring by the regulars of the Queens Library for Teens. The Harlem Shake at the Queens Library for Teens. While watching dozens of teenagers decked out in parrot masks and Bugs Bunny costumes dancing, jumping and spinning on rolling chairs across the frame, anyone is likely to wonder: This was allowed in a library? And upon entering the space where the clip was filmed, many people do ask: This is a library?
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