Today’s AJ highlights: Switzerland is asking UNESCO to add yodeling to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list — a local practice seeking global certification. (AP) In Seattle, the new $800 million waterfront park opens amid high civic expectations and question-marks about payoff. (Bloomberg) In Russia, publishers and bookstores are nervously playing Minesweeper under the Kremlin’s shifting red-lines. (NYT) At the Kennedy Center, a disaster under new management. (NYT) And in Britain the government works to undo arts-education cuts — a rare moment when policy steps in to prop up culture rather than starve it. (The Guardian)
All of today’s stories below (with links).
