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Grade Inflation At Elite Colleges: Students Are Obsessed With “Points Taken Off”
Harvard administrators have released a statement saying that grade inflation had crossed a catastrophic threshold. Many Harvard undergrads treated the statement as a catastrophe...
It’s Official: The Big, Weird, Brutalist Fountain In San Francisco Will Be Removed
“A divided San Francisco Arts Commission on Monday approved a plan to at least temporarily remove the Vaillancourt Fountain from Embarcadero Plaza, a final...
For First Time, Diary Collection Wins Baillie Gifford Prize For Nonfiction
“How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Helen Garner charts the Australian writer's life from her early career in bohemian Melbourne to raising...
Prix Goncourt, France’s Top Literary Prize, Goes To 20th-Century Family Saga “The Empty House”
“Laurent Mauvignier Tuesday won France's top literary award, the Goncourt, for his family saga spanning the 20th century and recounting the story of his grandmother...
Medieval Tower In Rome Collapses, Kills Worker
During renovations on the 13th-century Torre dei Conti, the structure started to collapse, trapping two workers. During the 11-hour rescue operations, passersby watched as...
Some Folks Are Not Happy About Philadelphia Art Museum’s Rebrand, And That Includes Some...
“Critics say the new logo and its angular griffin look severe — more like a soccer team, a clothing brand, or a beer label...
Anne Sexton’s Horror Short Stories, Rejected By The New Yorker
Editor Roger Angell called the three stories “interesting and wholly original” but said “they seem to work in very different ways on different readers.”...
The Persistent, Pernicious Myths About Shakespeare And Marlowe
The Romantic ideal of a singular creative genius remaking the rules of his era doesn’t really match William Shakespeare, who was (for a theater...
Movie Theater Owners Are Freaking Out Over Possible Sale Of Warner Bros. Discovery
“Multiple theatrical executives … conveyed a sense of grave concern, if not panic, over the possibility of a studio that grossed more than $4...
Ohio Law Could Void Cleveland State University’s Transfer Of Its Student Radio Station To...
“The Cleveland State University-Ideastream deal over WCSB 89.3 could be invalidated because the college did not follow Ohio public meetings law, an expert on...
A New Hall Of Fame For Dance, Complete With Its First Inductees
“A new Dance Hall of Fame has been established to honor the significant contributions to the discipline of dance. Included in the freshman class...
Arts School In New Jersey’s Largest City Abruptly Closes
Without warning, a note appeared on the website of the Newark School for the Arts that it is “closed until further notice.” Founded in...
Actress Diane Ladd, Three-Time Oscar Nominee, Has Died At 89
She received nominations for Best Supporting Actress for Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Wild at Heart, and Rambling Rose; she performed in the latter...
Las Vegas Philharmonic Makes Surprise Announcement Of New Music Director
After artistic advisor Leonard Slatkin finished conducting Saturday night’s concert, he introduced the audience to the orchestra’s next music director, Japanese-American conductor Rei Hotoda....
Revered Pianist Maria João Pires Retires From Performing
The 81-year-old — who found viral fame through an old video where she’d been told to prepare the wrong Mozart concerto but pulled off...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandal Who Targeted Degas In D.C. Gets 18 Months
“A federal judge in Washington, D.C., sentenced Timothy Martin after a jury found him guilty in April on two counts of conspiracy and injuring...
Climate Protestors Who Vandalized Stonehenge Acquitted
“Niamh Lynch and Rajan Naidu sprayed orange cornstarch-based powder over three of the megaliths at Stonehenge; … Luke Watson helped plan the protest and...
“No Thinking, No Rationale, No Explanation” — Yet Precise: Sharon Eyal’s Choreographic Process
“Everything you see on the stage starts with Eyal herself improvising, which is then mapped on to the dancers. ... Each movement idea could...
About AI, Many Podcasters Are Rather Ambivalent
Like other creative types, a lot of podcasters are skeptical of or even downright hostile to the idea of using AI bots, which only...
A Play About Thomas Jefferson And Sally Hemings Nearly Broke This Theater Company Apart....
Eight years ago at the Marin Theatre near San Francisco, Thomas Bradshaw’s play Thomas and Sally sparked in-person protests, an open letter with 1,800 signatures, and a...
The Grand Reveal: At Long Last, The Grand Egyptian Museum Has Its Grand Opening
The $1 billion, 5 million square-foot complex. for which planning first began in 1992, includes 12 main galleries holding over 50,000 items, a conference...
Why So Many People, Including New York’s Governor, Mispronounce Zohran Mamdani’s Name
John McWhorter: "Mispronouncing someone’s name certainly can be a form of ridicule or dismissal. … But malice is not the only possible explanation for...
Doctors May Now Prescribe Attendance At A Montreal Symphony Concert
“Physicians will get prescriptions that they will give to patients. ... And we will give each patient that calls us two tickets for free,”...
Some Of The Loot From The Paris Treasure Heist — The One Last Year...
Last November, thieves used axes to break into the Musée Cognacq-Jay and steal seven antique snuffboxes, all highly bejeweled and all on loan from...
Dictionary.com’s 2025 Word of The Year Is — Well, Is It Even A Word?
Boomers, X-ers, and most Millennials will just see it as a pair of numbers. Gen Z-ers may recognize it as what their younger relatives...
