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Vienna Phil Lets Its Female Concertmaster Keep Her Job
"Albena Danailova has been acting concertmaster since September 2008, making her the first woman ever in that position with the orchestra. The Bulgarian-born musician had been promoted from [the] first violin [section] - she was also the first woman ever to hold that job." The notoriously tradition-bound orchestra only began admitting women to its ranks in the 1990s....
How Ed Asner Came To Be Playing FDR Onstage
"I was on this same cruise ship and didn't have anything to do on that particular trip, and the resident cruise ship genius said there was this script that Dore Schary wrote subsequent to Sunrise at Campobello on FDR's last years.  I've never done a one-man show, and I wanted to see if I could meet the challenge, and of course, I adore Roosevelt."...
'Nordic Noir' - Scandinavia's Fad For Crime Fiction
"The neat streets of Oslo are not a natural setting for crime fiction.  And Reykjavik, Iceland's capital, is now associated more with financial misjudgment than gruesome murder. Yet in the past decade Nordic crime writers have unleashed a wave of detective fiction that is right up there with the work of Dashiell Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, Elmore Leonard and the other crime greats."...