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The Debut Of The Microphone, 100 Years Ago This Week
“On Feb. 25, 1925, Art Gillham, a musician known as 'the Whispering Pianist' for his gentle croon, entered Columbia Phonograph Company’s studio to test...
Maybe This Is Canada’s Real National Ballet Company
“In Toronto, they tend to go unnoticed, but talk to audiences in Glace Bay, Rimouski, Regina or Kitimat and, from their perspectives, Ballet Jörgen...
Fake Basquiats Case: Orlando Museum Of Art And Family Of Fired Director Drop Lawsuits
Aaron De Groft was axed by the museum’s board after the major Basquiat show he championed was found to be full of forgeries. The...
Perp Pleads Guilty In Scheme To Sell Graceland Out From Under Presleys
Lisa Jeanine Findley pled guilty to mail fraud, in exchange for having an identity theft charge dropped, for a scam which cooked up a...
Twin Actors Who Ran Underground Theater In Syria Return Home After 14-Year Exile
Hidden from the Assad regime’s secret police, Mohamad and Ahmad Malas performed over 200 plays in their apartment — until they were arrested during...
Viennese Institutions Compete To Celebrate Bicentennial Of “Waltz King” Johann Strauss II
There’s an entire new immersive exhibition dedicated to the composer, another show at the Theatermuseum, the city’s 30+ dance schools, and the venue that...
Bollywood’s Leading Composer Plans Infrastructure In India For Broadway-Style Musicals
A.R. Rahman (Oscar winner for Slumdog Millionaire, which he’s adapting for the stage) is starting with a 3,000-seat theater in his hometown, Chennai, and...
Missing Pages Of “The Last Great Yiddish Novel” Come To Light
Chaim Grade was considered one of the greatest novelists in the language, and his last work. Sons and Daughters, was serialized in Yiddish newspapers...
Longtime, Familiar Anchors Are Leaving TV Newscasts. Their Timing Is Not Good.
Lester Holt (NBC Nightly News), Chuck Todd (Meet the Press), Hoda Kotb (The Today Show), Norah O’Donnell (CBS Evening News), Joy Reid and Alex...
Vertical Choreography, Now On Broadway
“Using ... harnesses, ropes and belay devices, (the Oakland-based company) Bandaloop can take dance’s soaring, ethereal qualities to extremes and bring them to unlikely...
Cultural Life Is Returning To Damascus, And The New Islamist Government Is Supportive
“An exhibition by a prominent artist reopened last month at the National Museum, including a large painting with images of bare skin. At the...
Taliban Allow Afghan Women’s Radio Station Back On The Air
“Radio Begum launched on International Women’s Day in March 2021, five months before the Taliban seized power amid the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops. … The...
More Legal Trouble For Gérard Depardieu: An Investigation For Tax Fraud
“The 76-year-old (French) actor, already accused in a string of sexual assault and rape cases, is suspected of falsely declaring his tax residency to...
Those Little Free Libraries Are Actually Doing Some Good: Study
“According to this study, 92% of (disadvantaged) students had greater access to books because of Little Free Library boxes, 49% read more frequently (an...
Three Suspects On Trial For Theft Of Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet
“The satirical work, titled ‘America’ ..., poked fun at excessive wealth. It weighed just over 215 pounds (98 kilograms) and was insured for £4.8...
Sorry, There Will Be No 45-Foot Naked Woman In San Francisco’s Union Square
“R-Evolution” by sculptor Marco Cochrane had been scheduled to open the evening of Feb. 6 at a public party in the square, but the...
This Broadway Musical Is Based On A Real-Life Story So Crazy That Audiences Wouldn’t...
Operation Mincemeat, about a plot to convince the Nazis that the Allies were about to invade Greece instead of Sicily, recently arrived on Broadway...
Adobe Architecture May Be The Key To Rebuilding A Fireproof Los Angeles
Since the latest wildfires, interest in natural buildings has spiked, particularly after a widely-shared photo showed a backyard SuperAdobe that emerged from the Eaton fire intact....
How To Solve The Problem Of The Kimmel Center’s Plaza?
The glass-domed plaza between the Philadelphia arts center's venues was intended to be a welcoming public space. Yet it tends to be desolate during...
Point Park University In Pittsburgh Hives Off A Separate School Of Dance
“The new school, which became official at the start of 2025, now hosts a commercial dance department as well as a concert dance department,...
MoMA Signs Partnership Agreement With M+ Museum In Hong Kong
“After a year of discussions, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and M+, a contemporary art museum in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon...
Panels Of El Greco Altarpiece Are Reunited For First Time In Two Centuries
An exhibition at the Prado in Madrid has gathered together panels of the altarpiece Doménikos Theotokópoulos painted for the Monastery of Santo Domingo el...
Iowa Lawmakers Present New Bills To Punish Public Libraries For “Obscenity”
“House File 274 would repeal a section of the Iowa Code that addresses obscenity exemptions for public libraries and educational institutions, while Senate File...
Salman Rushdie Stabbing Trial: Defense Rests Without Presenting Evidence
“(Hadi Matar,) the New Jersey man on trial (for) the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie, declined to testify in his defense Thursday as his lawyers...
How Has Manhattan’s Congestion Pricing For Cars Affected Broadway?
“Broadway has seen more foot traffic and bigger audiences in the first month since the curtain went up on the congestion pricing era — though it’s...
