I'd feel better about all these immigrants if I knew their level of pay was similar to what citizens with equivalent qualifications can make. Too often immigrants simply serve as a source of cheap labor and this is especially true at the high end of the spectrum. I suspect this is the reason why so many of these companies are complaining about Trump's new policy. I'd love to be proven wrong, but that's my understanding..
It would be useful, as far as M. F. patrons and artists are concerned, if the specifics of this case could be made public, because at this point I don't know what to think. As an artist who has worked closely with both Michael Olijnyk and Barbara Luderowski, I find it all but impossible to imagine that either of them would be capable of the sort of harassment that's been assumed. What exactly has been alleged and who exactly is being accused?
What I want to know is whether this movie contains the obligatory encounter between an automobile and a fruit stand, including the shaking of the dealer's fist. No car chase movie is complete without one.
This article was written in complete ignorance of anything but the commercial side of music: basically pop, rock and hiphop. Not everyone has been commercially successful, natch, but they all wannabe. There are musicians in this city who care more about music than doing gigs and landing contracts. Do your homework.
As a local artist with an interest in innovation and experimentation I was at first cynical about Pittsburgh. Though lots of attention was devoted to the arts, almost all was of the conservative variety, designed to feed the ego of establishment types. Over the years, however, I've noticed a heartening change, especially in the city's growing openness to originality and diversity in the arts. And contrary to what the author assumes, I've also noticed that many gifted and original artists have moved here -- partly for the low cost of living but also the exciting art scene. My only complaint is with the Pgh. Symphony, which continues to favor old chestnuts and seems reluctant to program even "modernist" works, not to mention anything contemporary -- aside from the occasional, and almost invariably lame, commission.
It is both alarming and heart-rending to recognize what we've morphed into over the last several decades. TV shows soliciting cheap laughs by ridiculing those of us who might be somewhat different or eccentric or even a bit self-deluded now abound. Think Two and A Half Men, or The Big Bang Theory or American Idol for starters. The sort of programming devoted to, as you say, "openly mocking the deluded and talentless."
Yet you have no difficulty praising a film devoted to precisely that sort of thing, someone's idea of a "delightful comedy" based on the very very sad story of pathetic Florence Foster Jenkins, an easily manipulated innocent, cruelly mocked by the sort of people who'd probably have enthusiastically cheered at those Roman festivals where Christians were fed to the lions. I'm sorry but I have no desire to watch such a spectacle. I've heard recordings of her singing and it's no worse than what comes out of the mouths of the great majority of would be "rock stars" of our own era. What a heartless, bitter and cruel society we've become.
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Yet you have no difficulty praising a film devoted to precisely that sort of thing, someone's idea of a "delightful comedy" based on the very very sad story of pathetic Florence Foster Jenkins, an easily manipulated innocent, cruelly mocked by the sort of people who'd probably have enthusiastically cheered at those Roman festivals where Christians were fed to the lions. I'm sorry but I have no desire to watch such a spectacle. I've heard recordings of her singing and it's no worse than what comes out of the mouths of the great majority of would be "rock stars" of our own era. What a heartless, bitter and cruel society we've become.