On any given week, arguably more people attend arts events than professional sports. Movies, theatre, dance recitals, and concerts collectively draw large numbers.
Then why is the daily sports section of our local newspapers twelve to eighteen pages on a regular basis while the daily arts sections are small, four to six page sections full of wire copy — if you can find them at all?
Chris Lavin, senior editor for special sections at the San Diego Union-Tribune, attempts to answer the question. Read the text of his speech to the national convention of the Association of Performing Arts Service Organization.
Monthly Archives: February 2004
Agatston isn’t a diet doctor; he’s a doctor who prevents diseases
The South Beach Diet: A doctor based at Miami Beach’s Mt. Sinai Medical Center, noted cardiologist Arthur Agatston’s hard cover South Beach Diet book has sat atop the New York Times’ non-fiction bestseller list for a year.
Not your run-of-the-mill low-carb diet, Dr. Agatson contends that by following his nutritional plan you will dramatically reduce your potential for coronary heart disease and diabetes, and will feel much, much healthier.
The diet on which Bill Clinton lost 38 pounds in the first three months — and having experienced some personal success with Agatson’s nutritional plan (while stuffing myself with cheese, nuts, veggies, meat, poultry and fish) — the South Beach Diet is something you may want to check out.
The best part: you lose that dangerous and disturbing belly fat first!
In America
A Capra-esque tale of whimsy leavened with wrenching drama and heartfelt sentiment, Irish born director Jim Sheridan’s In America, a multiple Academy Award nominee, is sure to move any audience to tears by movie’s end.
A 2003 critics’ favourite, this semi-autobiographical immigrant story of lives lived on the knife edge of hope, poverty and despair tracks the arrival of the director’s family into America in the early 1980s, in a story that would pierce the defenses of all but the most dogmatically cynical viewers.
Another must-see film to catch prior to Oscar night, February 29th.
Rufus Wainwright’s hypnotic masterpiece
Transcendent, spiritual, hauntingly beautiful and infused with an operatic, fugue-like melancholy, Rufus Wainright’s 2003 CD release, Want One, was (quite simply) one of the best albums released last year.
Full of rapturously romantic and lavishly sophisticated melodies, Want One expands the boundaries of pop music. In his gorgeous and deeply moving third release, while dabbling in pop, cabaret, Tin Pan Alley, the Broadway musical, and in surrendering occasionally to his folk roots, pop music’s favourite, most talented troubadour has created a pop album for the ages.