“Glimmerglass Opera, the 35-year-old summer opera festival in Cooperstown, N.Y., has named Francesca Zambello as its general and artistic manager.” The well-known and well-traveled director “will likely give the small company, which presents four operas a season, a higher profile.” Wall Street Journal 03/11/10

“Though he was not widely known outside Brazil and enjoyed mass popularity only intermittently in his homeland, Mr. Alf, born Alfredo Jos

Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning novel about Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII won the fiction award, with Richard Holmes earning the nonfiction prize for The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science. . Joyce Carol Oates accepted an award for lifetime achievement. Wall Street Journal 03/12/10

“A new randomized trial shows that on average, three months after receiving a series of 10 massage sessions, patients had half the symptoms of anxiety.

The company is “still trying to assess the extent of damage to 48 years of costumes and sets stored over three floors in an old Kensington wool store. Hail blocked drain pipes, sending contaminated water flooding through the sawtooth ceiling windows of the 108-year-old building.” The Age (Melbourne) 03/11/10