Monthly Archives: May 2024
Brooke Shields Elected President Of Actors’ Equity
"Shields got 2794 votes, vs. 1940 votes for stage manager Erin Maureen Koster and 834 for Chicago-based actress Wydetta Carter, according to a tally...
Where Are The Movies That Can Earn $100 Million On Opening Weekends?
"For the first time in over a decade — excluding the worst of the COVID-19 crisis — no movie opening during the first six...
Stolen $5.4 Million Portrait By Francis Bacon Recovered
"Spanish police have recovered a painting by the late artist Francis Bacon that was stolen from a banker's Madrid home in 2015. The €5m...
How A Gifted Black Musician Lost Tenure At The Kansas City Symphony, And How...
Principal percussionist Josh Jones was told over and over that his audition was the best people had ever heard, and he regularly got high...
Oh, Great, They’re Using Rupert Murdoch’s Newspapers To Feed ChatGPT
The deal between OpenAI and News Corp. means that ChatGPT will be drawing text and info from The Wall Street Journal and Britain's The...
What, Exactly, Are Editors Supposed To Do?
That editors edit, which would seem to go without saying, turns out to be a pretty facile summary of a role whose essential ambiguities...
Let Your Phone Condense And Describe Books. What Could Go Wrong?
The most potent enemy of reading, it goes without saying, is the small, flat box that you carry in your pocket. In terms of...
Sony Chief: Company To Focus On Entertainment Rather Than Devices
Yoshida said the company is now emphasizing the creative process itself instead of prized products of the past like the Walkman portable music player...
What Accounts For The Difference In Energy From One Person To Another?
“Some people are more alive than others. Even permanently so.” I find that true to my own experience, even if it is hard to...
Entertainment Jobs Are Leaving Hollywood
Production has been slipping away from Hollywood since the 1950s, but the effects have never been more apparent than at present. - Los Angeles...
The Sad State Of Wisconsin’s Public Arts Support
"In the state of Wisconsin, we have very little public sector support for the arts. So, whereas in other cities, these gaps that exist...
Well, Here’s This Week’s British Royal Family Portrait For People To Freak Out Over
This one is a formal painting of HRH The Princess of Wales (that's Kate Middleton to you and me) by Zambian-British artist Hannah Uzor...
BBC To Release To Previously Unheard Louis Armstrong Performances
Unheard performances by Louis Armstrong at the BBC in 1968, regarded by Armstrong aficionados as some of the jazz legend’s greatest work, are to finally be...
Is The Voynich Manuscript, Undeciphered For 600 Years, Actually About Gynecology?
"Macquarie University research fellow Keagan Brewer and his co-author Michelle L. Lewis seek to corroborate previous suspicions that the enigmatic illustrated text served as...
Calgary Philharmonic Removes Two Musicians For Their Comments
The exact comments that triggered the investigation have not been disclosed, nor has the reasoning for the musicians’ removal from the orchestra – including...
Michelle Terry On The Vicious Abuse She Faced For Casting Herself As Richard III
"The misogyny has far outweighed the disability discourse. There was potential for ... a vital discussion around disability justice – which as an organisation...
How Google’s Search AI Will Kill Web Publishers
While links to external websites do appear below the AI-generated answers, some publishers and groups such as the News Media Alliance are afraid that they will...
A Slave Narrative Full Of Righteous Fury Reappears, Un-Bowdlerized, After 169 Years
John S. Jacobs escaped his master in 1839, joined a whaling crew and eventually landed in Australia, where he published The United States Governed...
US To File Anti-Trust Suit Seeking To Break Up LiveNation And TicketMaster
Among the practices the department plans to challenge are exclusive ticketing contracts that Ticketmaster has with many of the venues where high-profile acts perform....
Director Matthew Warchus Announces His Departure From London’s Old Vic
The seven-time Tony and five-time Olivier nominee (he's won one of each) will step down in September of 2026, concluding an 11-year tenure that...
Former Office Manager Of Florida’s Naples Ballet Charged With Stealing Over $100,000
"Nicole Christine Saunders, 54, faces charges of scheme to defraud, grand theft over $100,000 and criminal use of personal identification information. … Police said...
Pixar Is Being Restructured By Disney, With Major Layoffs
"Approximately 14 percent of Pixar’s workforce, or around 175 employees, will be let go. … The layoffs are part of Disney chief Bob Iger’s...
Conductor François-Xavier Roth Accused Of Unsolicited Sexting
The accusations against the 52-year-old Frenchman — currently music director of the orchestra and opera in Cologne as well as founder/director of the widely-hailed...
WGBH, Boston Public Radio/TV Outlet, Lays Off 31 Staffers And Suspends Three TV Programs
"In addition to laying off staff across 13 departments," including 11 people from the newsroom, "GBH will also stop producing (the shows) Greater Boston,...
Gov. Newsom’s Proposed Budget Would Cut California State Arts Funding By Well Over One-Third
Funding to the California Arts Council would fall by 38%, and the state would rescind $12.5 million previously promised to the Equitable Payroll Fund,...
