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Clowns March Through Bolivia’s Capital To Protest New School Law
“The (fully-costumed) clowns gathered in front of the Ministry of Education in La Paz to oppose a decree published in February. The new mandate...
When Does Bach Cease To Be Bach? Or, What The Hell Did Jean Rondeau...
Next month the hipster harpsichordist is doing the cycle three different ways: the usual manner, for solo keyboard; arranged for strings, flute and continuo...
For Better And (Definitely) For Worse, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Life Reflected His Architecture
“As the architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable once noted: ‘There is a kind of collective schadenfreude in the revelation of defects in great buildings and flaws...
NPR Moves Further Into Video With New Podcast
The network is launching the new video podcast and cross-platform show NPR Newsmakers, which will feature long-form interviews with some of NPR’s highest-profile reporters...
Norway’s Main Easter Pastime Is Going To A Rural Cabin And Reading Crime Novels
Ever since a publisher’s clever marketing trick in 1923, Norwegians have associated the period around Easter with crime fiction. The phenomenon is called påskekrim (Easter...
When Addiction And The War On Drugs Became Central Elements Of Crime Fiction
“Are they evil or are they sick? While novelists writing in the years of the War on Drugs were asking this question about serial...
Cyberattackers Strike Uffizi Galleries In Florence
The museums’ management acknowledged an attack earlier this year, but denied any major security breach or theft of data. The statement came after Corriere...
Wallace Shawn And Deborah Eisenberg Step In To Perform In Shawn’s Play On Three...
Shawn and Eisenberg, an author and actress who has been Shawn’s partner for five decades, performed with scripts in the Off-Broadway production of What...
Workers Who Built Monumental Hindu Temple In New Jersey Allege Abuse, Health Damage
The 185-acre Baps Swaminarayan Akshardham, completed in 2023 and known for its intricate carvings in white stone, has for years faced allegations of visa...
New Artistic Director At Bravo! Vail Music Festival
Composer Chris Rogerson will lead the summer festival in the Colorado resort town, taking over after the 16-year tenure of pianist Anne-Marie McDermott. Rogerson...
Smithsonian Board Seats Left Vacant Amid Pressure From Trump’s White House
“A month after the terms of two Smithsonian trustees ended, their replacements have yet to be named as the traditional process of filling its...
Is The Historical Performance/Period Instrument Movement Still Controversial?
“Nearly half a century on, although performances on period instruments (let alone fortepianos) are hardly the norm, historically informed performance has increasingly moved toward...
Wallace Shawn On Reviving His Monologue “The Fever” In The Trump Era
“When I did it before, nobody was really explicitly saying the opposite of what I was saying. I was attacking implicit assumptions, unthought-through assumptions...
Denver’s Arts District Is Thriving. Here’s Who Keeps It Running And How.
“As of January, the RiNo Art District has split from the business and infrastructure groups it once operated alongside. Now, three separate entities share...
University Partnership Gives This Ballet Company’s Dancers 80% Off Tuition
After being in the company for a full year, any full-time member of Boston Ballet can take courses toward a degree from Northeastern University,...
“The Dawn Of The Three-Minute Heist”: Considering The Fallout From The Latest Museum Robbery
“How and why is this incident different from the Louvre theft, which targeted the royal jewels? How will investigations play out? Perhaps most importantly,...
The “South Park” Guys Have A Successful AI Company. They Named It Deep Voodoo.
“If a studio or production house needs something shape-shifting or face-switching, chances are they’ll call Parker & Stone. And chances are something strange —...
Last Year Rome’s Cinecittà Studios Hemorrhaged Money. Hollywood Has Saved Them.
“Italy’s Cinecittà Studios are back in the black with a small but significant €1.1 million ($1.2 million) operating profit for the fiscal year of 2025,...
Jeremy O. Harris Was Quite Productive During His Three Weeks In A Japanese Prison
In a paywalled essay in Vanity Fair, the playwright/actor/screenwriter/impresario writes that he read 23 books, finished an outline he owed to a film studio,...
Lara St. John Says She Paid No Damages To Settle Jonathan Carney’s Defamation Lawsuit
“No monies were paid to settle the litigation or to secure Mr. Carney’s signature,” the violinist wrote. “There has never been a personal campaign...
America’s First Fully Nonprofit Newspaper Is Dropping Its Online Paywall
“The Salt Lake Tribune is in a unique position among American newspapers, having converted to nonprofit status in 2019. In the years since, it’s achieved financial stability and...
2,500-Year-Old Golden Helmet Stolen Last Year Has Been Found
A gang of robbers used explosives to break into the Drents Museum in the northern Netherlands in January of last year. They smashed display cases and...
Lego Set To Release Its Largest-Ever Set, Of Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia In Barcelona
News of the upcoming set, part of the company’s Architecture series, was leaked by a long-time leaker known as Chief Wiggum, whose predictions have proven...
50 Years Ago, This Fairuz Song Became Lebanon’s Great Anthem Of Hope. Now The...
Through year after year and decade after decade of turmoil, Fairuz’s “Bahebak Ya Lebnan” (“I Love You, Lebanon”) inspired hope and pride in the...
Why Are Arguments About “Project Hail Mary” All Over Social Media?
“With the movie’s release came a flurry of social media posts, as audiences debated everything one could possibly imagine to be a potential topic for debate....
