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...Northern Rock is more than just a bank in this city. While its logo is sewn into the black and white jerseys of Newcastle's players - the bank also sponsors the local rugby and basketball teams - its activities are woven into the fabric of the city, too. Aside from employing thousands of Geordies, the Northern Rock Foundation, which receives 5% of the bank's annual profits, has handed out $350 million over the last decade to more than 1,500 good causes across the northeast. From its $2 million endowment of the gleaming Sage Gateshead concert hall...
...industry sector for the same reason that Detroit can support the production of cars: because it offers a powerful infrastructure, a network of suppliers, expertise and kindred spirits. The camera crews of TV production units have access to countless photo-equipment shops. Fashion designers can find any fabric sample among the garment-industry retailers on Seventh Avenue. The local cultural eco-structure combines nonprofit institutions that can take chances on commercially risky productions with profitmaking enterprises seeking big returns. This means that an actress can work in an off-Broadway production of The Seagull at night and still make...
...from there across the river to Long Island City in Queens and to Williamsburg and Red Hook in Brooklyn. But in recent years those neighborhoods, too, have been gentrifying, pushing the cultural workforce even further afield. And that art-world diaspora causes a more subtle disruption to the fabric of the creative economy. Creative people thrive on interaction. They need to be near one another to reach a kind of creative critical mass...
...know how to meet a challenge. They've done it before. From being dismissed as long past their prime a quarter of a century ago, New York, London and Hong Kong have gone on to extraordinary heights. Tying themselves together, they have also knitted the world into a seamless fabric, financing and transporting the container vessels and the streams of data that have made today's global economy a phenomenon that has increased the life chances of countless millions. Welcome to Nylonkong, and the world it made...
There was also a brilliant scene in which the two watched the Setting Sun, played by dancer Marin J. D. Orlosky ’07-’08 (who also choreographed the production’s dance pieces). Slowly descending two swaths of gray fabric which reached from the ceiling to the stage, Orlosky gave a solo performance that was graceful, composed, and totally compelling...