ArtsJournal http://www.artsjournal.com/ "ArtsJournal is a weekday digest of some of the best arts and cultural journalism in the English-speaking world. Each day ArtsJournal combs through more than 200 English-language newspapers, magazines and publications featuring writing about arts and culture. ... Direct links to the most interesting or important stories are posted every weekday beginning at 5 AM PT on the ArtsJournal news pages. Stories from sites that charge for access are excluded. If you encounter a registration screen after clicking an ArtsJournal link, try logging in as either 'ajreader' or 'ajreader @ artsjournal.com' [spaces added .ed] with the password 'access'." - from the website The site covers the arts world of dance, ideas, media, music, people, arts issues, publishing, theatre and visual arts. Among the many current articles are features on the buzz surrounding the new conductor of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, a fascinating perspective on "Measuring the Origins of Ideas" and a look at one of the Royal Ballet's brilliant principal dancers who has hit the glass ceiling of "height". ~*~*~*~*~ Was this forwarded to you? Want to subscribe? Send an email to 1stpicksites-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe. For a complete list of email commands for our list send an email to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject line of "info 1stpicksites" without the quotes. If you wish to unsubscribe from our list send an email to 1stpicksites-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe To contact the list moderators send an email to 1stpicksites-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ~*~*~*~*~