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Japanese City Cancels Major Cherry-Blossom Festival Because Tourists Behave So Badly
City officials in Fujiyoshida, not far from Mount Fuji, said residents had been littering, entering private homes to use the bathroom, and even defecating...
“& Juliet” — How A Jukebox Shakespeare Musical That Flopped In Britain Became An...
“Today, (after almost four years in New York,) the musical is still packing in crowds, a feat for a show that isn’t a revival...
Pianist And Conductor Tamás Vásáry Has Died At 92
“The Hungarian pianist … was one of the finest interpreters of Liszt and Chopin in the second half of the 20th century. He also...
Farewell To The Mass-Market Paperback Book
First introduced in the 1930s, mass-market books (once called “pulps”) sold in huge quantities for decades. Yet sales have been slowly-but-steadily sinking since the 1990s,...
Los Angeles To Host Major New Jazz Festival
Concert promoter and former city councilman Martin Ludlow always wondered why a city full of excellent musicians had no equivalent of the big jazzfests...
Minnesota Orchestra Reports Record Earned Revenue — And $4.2 Million Deficit
In fiscal year 2025, earned revenue (ticket sales, hall rentals, concessions) reached a record high of $12.1 million. Orchestra Hall reached 82% paid capacity,...
“Great American State Fair” To Replace Smithsonian Folklife Festival On National Mall This Summer
The Folklife Festival normally brings artisans and performers from various spots to the Mall for several weeks. This year, the Smithsonian says it will...
Buffalo AKG Art Museum Gave Its Director A Low-Interest $335K Loan For A House....
“Janne Sirén, director … since 2013, used a museum loan to help finance a $710,000 home — more than half of which remains unpaid,...
Newspaper Bloodbath Continues As Atlanta Journal-Constitution Lays Of 15% Of Its Staff
“About 50 AJC employees (will) be losing their jobs, with about half of the cuts coming from the newsroom.” - SaportaReport (Atlanta)
Washington Post Lays Off Art Critic Sebastian Smee And Entire Photography Staff
All eight of the paper’s in-house photographers have lost their jobs, as has the Pulitzer Prize winner Smee, who has been with the Post...
Boosterism? Why, It Made America What It Is Today!
“Boosters don’t describe real things so much as what they hope will become real things, often presenting growth as inevitable and betting on optimism...
The Difference Between Human Hierarchies And Other Primate Hierarchies
Evolutionary anthropologist Thomas Morgan: “People can be coercive, but unlike other species, we also create hierarchies of prestige – voluntary arrangements that allocate labor and decision-making...
A.O. Scott Annotates The Court Order Freeing The Five-Year-Old Held By ICE
“Judge Biery’s decision … is much more than dry judicial reasoning. It’s a passionate, erudite, at times mischievous piece of prose. … In fewer than...
The Blazing Avant-Garde Theater Actress Who Up And Disappeared
Libby Howes came to New York in 1975 and fell in with The Wooster Group. Her work there thrilled viewers, and Helen Shaw was...
Audiences Singing Along At Broadway Musicals — Is It Getting Out Of Hand?
"Encouraging audience enthusiasm while upholding basic theater etiquette has become a tricky balance, but attracting fans itching to sing along is also a badge of popularity. …...
“Resistance Theater” Spreads As Trump’s Second Term Goes On
“The Unquiet series, organized by Sara Candela, a poet, is part of a larger movement in which artists, writers and theater groups across the...
What Gustavo Dudamel Told Domingo Hindoyan About L.A.
Dudamel is the outgoing music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Hindoyan is the incoming music director of Los Angeles Opera; they have known...
Sony Spent $457 Million To Buy The “Peanuts” Franchise. Now What Will The Conglomerate...
It’s going to “leverage the iconic IP across music, film and global distribution platforms,” as one would expect. On the music side, this means...
30th Anniversary Performance Of Michael Flatley’s “Lord Of The Dance” Canceled And Then Uncanceled...
Amidst ongoing lawsuits between Flatley, creator of the Irish step-dancing spectacle, and Switzer Consulting, whom he contracted to manage the show’s touring operations, Switzer...
Former Muppets Exec Sues Jim Henson Company
"Jason Lust, a former senior executive … who helped shepherd some of The Jim Henson Company's most successful modern movies and TV series, …...
Alvin Ailey Company Gets Dedicated $10 Million Endowment For Artistic Director
Daria L. Wallach, a retired financier and the chair of the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation’s board of directors, and her husband are the donors....
This Opera Lampooning Trump Features Zombies, Vampires, And A Libretto By A Nobel Prizewinner
Elfriede Jelinek, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature, and composer Olga Neuwirth, who received the 2022 Grawemeyer Award, have created Monster’s Paradise...
Ukraine Punishes Two Prominent Ballet Dancers For Performing In “Swan Lake” Abroad
“The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture slammed Serhiy Kryvokon and Natalia Matsak’s performance as ‘promoting the cultural product of the aggressor state’. The National Opera...
Author Neil Gaiman Breaks Silence To Insist That Sexual Assault Allegations Are “Completely And...
The accusations were made in 2024 podcast from Tortoise Media and a New York magazine article early in 2025; several media adaptations of Gaiman’s...
A New Fund For Training The Arts Teachers Now Required In Every California School
Since Prop. 28, the Art and Music in Schools Act, passed in late 2022, California has struggled to locate enough qualified arts teachers to...
