Bob Collins
Two people staged a murder inside a New York elevator this week, then filmed people’s reactions.
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You don’t usually hear about the kids in the school band getting into trouble. They tend not to jump on tables at lunch doing the Harlem Shake, or suspended from band for making sex tapes, and they’re not usually the schoolyard bullies. Band — music programs — must be doing something right, or the programs just seem to attract a decent brand of child.
People in 205 countries today are taking up the idea of walking out of work or school to dance, raising awareness of the fact that one in three women worldwide will be raped or beaten in her lifetime.
1,000 words: The cellist
Question: At a time when fake things — fake performances, fake girlfriends — ends careers and images, how is it that lip syncing escapes scorn?
A month after the horrific shooting in Connecticut, two musicians have done what they could do to help the town.
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Nate Minor
What would YOU do in this situation? Bob Collins is off for the rest of the day.
There must be more boring ways of spending a day than sitting and waiting for glaciers to melt and collapse.
Who’s not in? Plenty of people more talented and meaningful than a few of the musicians who are.
We have officially reached the point in America in which important concepts can only be explained Gangnam style.
On Brubeck
The Fargo Theatre is one of many trying to come up with money to modernize its equipment before industry standards change next year.