¶ Sign of a slow news day: two tabloid-worthy tales on the front page of the Times. The arguably ewwier one is a  report by Timothy Williams on the countrywide thefts of human hair, which “perplexed” law enforcement officials. (You’ll be relieved to know that the hair in question is not attached to human scalps.) Mr Williams ventures, by way of explanation, the new respectability of hair extensions. ¶ More sordid, somehow, is Daniel Wakin’s pickup of an Irish Times exposé of bogus symphony orchestras touring the American heartland under the auspices of Columbia Artists Management, who would undoubtedly staff their class acts with roller derby queens if they thought they could get away with it. A tale of switcheroo immigration manifests in which the members of the Dublin Philharmonic are mostly Bulgarians. (Maybe they meant Lublin Philharmonic.) The Photoshopped image of the “Tschaikowsky St Petersburg State Orchestra” (which they’ve never heard of on the banks of the Neva) is particularly toasty.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 at 8:00 pm.