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What One Finds In Alice Munro’s Notebooks
"In them one finds a little bit of everything: fragments and false starts, alternate endings, even drawings. The notebooks were where Munro tinkered and...
Investigation Into Competition-Fixing In Irish Dance Is Dropped, And Everyone is Angry
Because one key witness is ill and has stopped cooperating, the investigation has collapsed, the accused get no chance to clear their names, reformers...
Co-Producers To Be Barred From Crowding Onstage To Accept Tony Awards
Co-producers meaning, in this case, the many individuals who provided or raised money to run the production — and these days, it takes a...
Jaap Van Zweden’s Strange, Abbreviated Tenure At The New York Philharmonic
He departs this month after only six seasons, three of those cut short by the COVID pandemic. And, while proud of his work there,...
TikTok Places Limits On Reach Of State-Affiliated Media Outside Their Home Countries
As part of an effort to control interference with elections, "state-affiliated media accounts will not be put on the 'For You' page, which is...
What Is This About A TikTok Dance Cult?
A three-part Netflix documentary titled Dancing for the Devil looks into a Southern California management company called 7M and its affiliate Christian church, Shekinah....
Over 600 Looted Artifacts, Worth $80 Million, Returned To Italy From The US
"Ranging from life-sized bronze statues to tiny Roman coins, from oil paintings to mosaic flooring, the pieces span the 9th century BC to the...
Someone Tells The New York Times He’s The Guy Behind The Foreclose-On-And-Auction-Off-Graceland Scam
Little about this matter has turned out to be what it first appeared, and there's little independent confirmation besides the email address that messages...
Conductor Jan Latham-Koenig Given Suspended Prison Sentence For Attempting To Solicit Sex From A...
"(He) had admitted arranging sex acts with someone he thought was a teenager, but was in fact an undercover police officer. … On Tuesday,...
One Of Every Four Ancient Rock Art Sites In Wyoming Has Been Vandalized
There are over 1,100 such sites known in the state; most have been discovered during preparation for coal and oil projects. Vandalism to the...
Weeping And Wailing On Broadway (And This Is Good News)
Critic Elisabeth Vincentelli reports that audiences being moved to actual tears (and, yes, even wailing on occasion) has become surprisingly commonplace this season —...
Missy Mazzoli Is Composing An Opera About The Opioids Crisis
The Galloping Cure, with a story and libretto by Karen Russell (author of the novel Swamplandia!) and Royce Vavrek (possibly America's busiest librettist), will...
How An Antiquities Dealer On A Small Danish Island Discovered The British Museum Thefts
"In 2020, Danish antiquities dealer Dr. Ittai Gradel began to suspect an eBay seller he had been buying from was a thief who was...
At New York City’s Public School For Dance
"Ballet Tech … isn’t just a dance school; it’s an academic one, too. A collaboration between the New York City Department of Education and...
Britain’s Leading Literature Festival Drops Its Principal Sponsor After Withdrawals And Boycott Threats
The British investment firm Baillie Gifford became lead sponsor of the Hay Festival in 2015, but this year a number of the marquee participants...
With Its Director Problem Dealt With, What’s Coming For Nashville’s Arts Agency For 2025?
"Freshly under interim leadership, the Metro Arts Commission would receive $5.5 million, … on par with last year's budget. … The release of these...
Embattled Director Of Nashville’s Arts Funder Pushed To Resign (With $200K Payout)
Daniel Singh, who, over two years as director of the agency Metro Arts, alienated many staff members and presided over an extremely messy round...
Pittsburgh Symphony Provides $125 Million In Economic Impact To Its Region
"For every dollar the symphony spends, it generates about $4 in the local economy, leading to a total of $125 million in regional impact...
Hackers Who Paralyzed Christie’s Threaten To Leak Clients’ Confidential Info
"Brett Callow, a threat analyst at Esmisoft, a cybersecurity firm based in New Zealand, posted on X an image of a post from (the...
Caleb Carr, Military Historian And Author Of “The Alienist,” Has Died At 65
"The scarred and gifted son of founding Beat Lucien Carr, (he) endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and...
Surprise Palme d’Or Winner At 2024 Cannes Film Festival
The top prize went to Sean Baker's "sex worker screwball comedy" Anora; the Grand Prix went to Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light,...
France’s Post Office Has Issued Scratch-‘n’-Sniff Stamps. They Smell Like Baguettes.
The bread scent comes from microcapsules embedded in the ink. The major challenge was to get the ink onto the stamps without breaking those...
“Stereophonic” Was Going To Be David Adjmi’s Final Play, And It Made Him Crazy....
"During the audition process, as characters recited certain lines over and over, Adjmi realized the play had become autobiographical. At one point, he felt...
For A Century, Egyptology Was Dominated By Europeans And Americans. Can The $1 Billion...
When it fully opens later this year, 1¼ miles north of the Pyramids, the GEM will be, at over 5 million square feet, the...
García Márquez Didn’t Think “One Hundred Years Of Solitude” Could Be Adapted. Will Netflix...
Netflix’s VP of Latin American content. asked if the miniseries will work out like those multi-generation-family hits Game of Thrones and The Crown, replied,...
