Word: metropolitanism
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...Metropolitan Opera has been forced to cancel more than a third of its scheduled season by labor disputes, which were finally settled three weeks ago. Looking over his plans, Music Director James Levine concluded that "the losses for the future seem remarkably small." The house reopens next Wednesday, and the Met will begin performing such works as Alban Berg's Lulu, Tristan und Isolde and-holiday-minded families will be happy to hear-Hansel and Gretel. Two of the four new productions originally announced for this season-Queen of Spades and Così Fan Tutte-have been postponed...
Instead, employers should pay for the system through a payroll tax. First proposed by city manager James L. Sullivan, the payroll tax would not only take some of the pressure off the cities and towns in the metropolitan area, but also shift the cost to those industries and firms that most directly benefit from...
...bicycle, formerly a Christmas-tree item or a Sunday diversion, has become a serious vehicle of transport in some American cities. But when bikes move into heavy traffic, problems of incompatibility arise. The circulatory system of the metropolitan U.S. is designed for cars and trucks, with pedestrians granted their margin on the sidewalks. In the culture of freeway or gridlock, the bicycle is a fragile but aggressive intruder. Today around the nation the shaken fist and flourished finger are exchanged between bikers and cabbies and bus drivers and commuting motorists-and, above all, pedestrians who chance to step...
Expanding and restoring the 60-year-old baroque theater has cost $6 million. Bulldozers broke down the back walls of the stage in July, when the Metropolitan Center Inc. took a 40-year lease on the old Music Hall and began renovations...
...help raise capital and create ambience for the theater, the Metropolitan Center will open a small windowside cafe in the theater lobby, Lodge said...