Новости за 21.10.2015

Thirty-two states have funding formulas or policies to distribute part of their higher education funding based on performance metrics, such as the number of degrees awarded, four-year graduation rates or amount of low-income or minority graduates, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. "In an era of tight state budgets and greater demand for college graduates and a greater emphasis on student success performance funding has emerged as a politically popular approach to higher education funding," said Thomas Harnisch... Читать дальше...

The expression “too soon” is usually applied to tasteless topical jokes, but it serves equally well for operatic productions. On Tuesday night, just three years after its premiere at the War Memorial Opera House, the San Francisco Opera revived designer Jun Kaneko’s colorful, broad version of Mozart’s “Magic Flute.” Kaneko’s designs — with their bright, Magic-Marker projections and patchwork quasi-Japanese sets and costumes — retain their power to charm and delight the eye, and there was a handful... Читать дальше...

Kate Hudson’s agent has shut down rumors they are dating, insisting the two are just “very close friends.” On Monday, Hudson and Michael Kives sparked speculation of a romance when they were photographed holding hands in New York, but Kives insists there is nothing to the gossip, telling TMZ.com, “We are very close friends. No, no, nothing’s going on.” Kives isn’t the only man Hudson has been linked to recently – also in the mix is Nick Jonas, but Kate is keeping mum on that rumor for now. “I don’t... Читать дальше...

The Assassin: A seventh century tale that takes place in China about an assassin hired to kill a political leader. Most Psych 101 students in the ’70s watched the film about Yale Professor Stanley Milgram’s experiment about obedience. [...] it’s a fictional movie starring Peter Sarsgaard as Milgram. Imagine Edgar Allan Poe’s stories brought to life in animation. There’s an evil spirit (Why am I not surprised?) and a family must save their daughter from it. Bill Murray plays a music manager who... Читать дальше...

Jaden Smith attends the Gypsy Sport fashion show during Spring 2016 MADE Fashion Week at Milk Studios on September 15, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Mireya Acierto/Getty Images) Will Smith’s son Jaden dreams of becoming the next art installation sensation in a decade. The star has been planning to disappear from public life in his 30s since he was a teenager, only popping up from time to time to wow the art world. He tells GQ magazine, “No one will know where I am in 10 years. They’ll see me pop up... Читать дальше...

Dixie Chicks, Sheryl Crow, Ben Harper, Ryan Adams and the indie-rock band Spoon are set to go acoustic for the annual Bridge School Benefit Concert, taking place at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 24 and 25. Breaking from the apparent 2002 theme of this year’s lineup will be relative newcomers St. Vincent and Gary Clark Jr., who will join the above acts, as well as headliner and host Neil Young and his band Promise of the Real. Proceeds go to the school Neil... Читать дальше...

Founded in 1990, the Bach Collegium Japan is just what its name implies — a collective of Japanese instrumentalists and vocalists dedicated to historically informed performances of music from the German Baroque, with J.S. Bach naturally first and foremost on the agenda. The one exception is the solo cantata “Mein Herz schwimmt im Blut,” with soprano Joanne Lunn as soloist; otherwise, Suzuki will conduct the Fifth “Brandenburg” Concerto, the Concerto in A for oboe d’amore, and Trio Sonata in C Minor... Читать дальше...

Had a new shoot come out today and was shocked when I found my 19 year old hips and torso quite manipulated. These are the things that make women self conscious, that create the unrealistic ideals of beauty that we have. Anyone who knows who I am knows I stand for honest and pure self love. So I took it upon myself to release the real pic (right side) and I love it Thank you @modelistemagazine for pulling down the images and fixing this retouch issue. A photo posted by Zendaya (@zendaya) on Oct 20... Читать дальше...

Sesame Street is about to get a new resident!

A vintage lemon- and tangerine-colored streetcar makes its way along the tracks on the Embarcadero, a waterfront promenade featuring expansive vistas and lined with manicured palm trees, office buildings and restaurants. Small dining spots here include Delica, which serves up Japanese fare deli style, and Il Cane Rosso, a breakfast and lunch spot that cooks up organic two-egg, olive oil-fried sandwiches made with pancetta, sweet onions and aged provolone in the morning and features Mary’s organic chicken... Читать дальше...

Actress Lark Voorhies. (Photo by Paul Redmond/WireImage) Actress Lark Voorhies has filed for divorce just six months after exchanging vows with husband Jimmy Green in Las Vegas. The former “Saved By the Bell” actress wed Green in April following a whirlwind courtship that began after the couple met on Facebook in 2014. In her divorce documents, obtained by TMZ.com, she’s asking the court to cut any chances of spousal support for Jimmy. Meanwhile, he tells the news outlet his marriage to Voorhies has been a nightmare... Читать дальше...

Actor Freddie Prinze, Jr. and actress Sarah Michelle Gellar in 2001. (2001 Ron Galella, Ltd. Wireimage) Sarah Michelle Gellar’s representative has slammed tabloid editors for reporting the actress and her husband Freddie Prinze, Jr. are heading for a divorce. The “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star has found herself at the center of split speculation in the new issue of Star magazine, in an article which suggests the actors, who celebrated their 13th wedding anniversary last month, “are struggling to keep their marriage alive” amid rumors Prinze... Читать дальше...

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Generation Selfie is sent up and the workshop is given a working over in Graham Gillmore’s “Your Proportions Are Not That Exquisite” and Charles Linder’s “Invisible Fencing Luminaries” at Gallery 16. Text — playfully tweaked in proportion and juxtaposed at times with the naive imagery of old-fashioned children’s books — is at the center of the paintings by Canadian artist Gillmore. Here, the Bay Area artist — who began the Refusalon and Lincart galleries — pokes holes in “Geppetto’s Work Table”... Читать дальше...

Dave Malloy, who began making a name for himself with the raucously experimental bicoastal Banana Bag & Bodice at the Exit Theatre and Shotgun Players, with hits like “Beowulf — A Thousand Years of Baggage,” returns to the Bay Area after scoring rave reviews off Broadway with “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” for which he wrote the music and lyrics, served as music director and played Pierre. Under Construction presents Malloy’s oft-extended song-cycle piece “Ghost Quartet” from 2014... Читать дальше...

The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho has set up shop in Berkeley for the fall, undertaking a two-month stay as the UC Berkeley music department’s Ernest Bloch Lecturer. Unfortunately, nobody is taking on the operas that have brought Saariaho acclaim in recent years, but her orchestral and chamber music will serve just as well. Cellist Anssi Karttunen, a longtime collaborator of the composer’s, will tackle her solo piece “Sept Papillons” and take a lead role in the quasi-chamber concerto “Notes... Читать дальше...

The only problem is that most classic oyster dressing recipes call for mostly white bread, cornbread and vegetables. The oyster dressing was gone in no time and my friends begged me to make it again the next day. Since I had riffed on the dish based on what I liked about oysters, I had to re-create my steps to develop an actual recipe. If you like oysters as much as my mother and I do — and you want a little bread with your oysters instead of a few oysters with your bread — use a lot of oysters. Читать дальше...

(AP) — A 19-year-old University of Connecticut student who went on a drunken, obscenity-laced tirade against food service workers for refusing to sell him jalapeno-bacon macaroni and cheese is no longer enrolled at the university and has been banned from all school property, UConn officials said Wednesday. Under federal law, UConn is barred from disclosing details of disciplinary cases involving students, university spokeswoman Stephanie Reitz said. During one of those arrests, he was accused of using a racial slur against a police officer... Читать дальше...

“Truth” is a journalism horror story, something like “All the President’s Men” but with the wrong ending and plenty of blame on all sides. [...] if you want to do a television expose about the sitting president of the United States (two months before a national election!) you’d better have every fact nailed down. [...] if the thought of the laid-back, blond and unflappable Redford playing the dark-haired, intense and tightly wired Rather sounds weird, in practice it’s not. Somehow Redford finds... Читать дальше...

How it’s possible to spoil a kid inside less than a hundred square feet is hard to imagine —we don’t get that part of the story — but we do get the willfulness, the faces and the ear-splitting shrieks, and all that can be a little hard to take. [...] seven years later, she has a 5-year-old boy and lives locked inside a storage shed in the backyard of the creep who kidnapped her. The camera work, with its hovering close-ups that evoke claustrophobia without inducing it; the strategies that the characters... Читать дальше...

“Experimenter” is a dramatic feature about the life and work of Stanley Milgram, whose extensive Yale study is probably the 20th century’s best known psychological experiment. In 1961, Milgram, a young social psychologist, wanted to study obedience and authority, but he told his subjects he was testing something else, whether punishment helped people learn. Milgram found, to his horror and astonishment, that in two thirds of the cases, the teachers, despite their misgivings, went ahead and completed the full round of shocks... Читать дальше...

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It had been nearly 20 years since she'd sold her house at 1644 Great Highway, but 85-year-old Marjorie Alette couldn't help going back to spy on it.