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Friday, May 18, 2012 The Pittsburgh Opera Honored Gov. Corbett. Should They Have Judged Him? Last week, the Pittsburgh Opera became the center of a local firestorm for their decision to honor Gov. Tom Corbett and his wife for their service to the opera. In a blog post that went unexpectedly viral, University of Pittsburgh fellow Jessie Ramey held up the governor's record of cutting education funding as reason to disqualify him from any honorifics, especially those in the field of the arts, where his actions, she said, could have lasting damage. Ramey reposted her piece on our site, and the reaction from HuffPost Culture readers was phenomenal. This was clearly a local story with universal resonance, centered around a simple, provocative question: should arts organizations judge their benefactors? Philosopher Wants To Make High-Brow Porn Farmer Carves Peach Pits Into Incredible Figurines 10 Design Tweeters To Know Right Now Saving A Flooded City With... More Water? 'The Sounds Of Aronofsky' Is Brilliant And Disturbing (VIDEO) BLOG POSTS Michael Giltz: Theater: New Play Cock Not as Provocative as Title, Sad to Say If you call your play Cock, it better be a button-pushing bit of provocation that toys with gender and sexuality in ways both funny and shocking. We keep waiting, not unreasonably, for Cock's big moment, a soliloquy to sex, a panegyric to the penis, a colloquy on cock. Marc Lafia: Empires: Individuals in Search of Society The new empire still plays by the games of the old empires: of divisiveness, of scarcity, of might and fear, even while we have never had such abundance and innovation. It is this paradox that our documentary Empires sets out to unravel. Michael Kleinmann: Male Underwear Models: Just People According to a new study, men and women in sexy underwear ads are processed astonishingly differently by the human brain. Zaki Hasan: On Time Passing It's funny how a seemingly arbitrary milestone can end up becoming the cue ball that sends a whole mess of thoughts about age, personal growth and professional goals bouncing around your head. Michael Vazquez: Bonnaroo Flashbacks: Crowd-Surfing with Crystal Castles, Phoenix M.I.A., Florence, David Byrne, Erykah Badu, Neon Indian, MGMT (VIDEOS) Exactly three weeks from my favorite festival, herewith, a scrapbook of old clips and thoughts from Bonnaroos past.

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