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A Brief History Of May Day In America
The roots of May Day, or International Workers Day, stretch back over a century to a turbulent and pivotal time in U.S. labor history...
How San Diego’s Dance Organizations Are Facing Down A Barrage Of Challenges In 2025
“We spoke to four local company leaders about challenges unique to dance organizations that present shows, in addition to operating schools and serving the...
The “Secret” Public Radio Service That Has Survived The Switch To Digital Signals
It’s a separate service which even public radio fans might not know is there: subchannel broadcasting with dedicated programming for the blind and visually...
André Lewis On His 30 Years At The Helm Of Royal Winnipeg Ballet
“(Artistic) vision is most clearly expressed through the repertoire you do. It was really important for us, I felt, to go into contemporary full-lengths,...
Alice Coltrane Was Not A Saint, And We’ll Lose Touch With Her Music If...
“Alice Coltrane, despite having been one of John’s pianists, is maneuvered into the margins by subgenre euphemisms like ‘spiritual jazz,’ by which many mean,...
People Have Already Found Loopholes In The Oscars’ “Must Watch All Nominees To Vote”...
“Today, some members, particularly in the Executive and Marketing and PR branches, simply press play on the Academy app to satisfy the system’s viewing...
Tony Award Nominations 2025: ‘Buena Vista Social Club,’ ‘Death Becomes Her’ And ‘Maybe Happy...
Oh Mary!, Sunset Boulevard, John Proctor Is the Villain, George Clooney, Nicole Scherzinger and others are among the nominees. (Conspicuously missing are Denzel Washington...
Just What-All Happens To The Sistine Chapel During A Papal Conclave?
For s start, it’s closed to the public, since the Chapel has been the site for the voting since 1492 and the cardinals are...
Artist Behind “Blackest Black” And “Pinkest Pink” Disputes Loses Lawsuit Brought By Yves Klein’s...
Klein’s son, along with the corporation which owns Klein’s trademarks and rights to the color International Klein Blue, sued artist Stuart Semple for infringement...
Novelist Barbara Pym Worked For British Spy Agency, Researcher Says
Former British diplomat Claire Smith argues that, if you look carefully at correspondence from Pym’s wartime work as a censor, you’ll see evidence that...
After Bullying And Harassment Scandals, Formal Review Of BBC Finds This
“A BBC review has found no evidence of a ‘toxic culture’ but a ‘minority of people whose behavior is simply not acceptable,’ the U.K. public broadcaster...
How The Met Opera Makes The Severed Head For “Salome”
It has to look like Peter Mattei, who’s singing John the Baptist, so they start by making a mold of his head. Then they...
“AI Narration Is, In My Opinion, Immoral,” Writes David Sedaris
“I’m as interested in an artificial voice as I am in an artificial author, which is to say not at all. … This is...
How Did Pop Wizard David Foster Figure Out Broadway Songs For, Of All Characters,...
“The cartoons were perplexing to me because the music they used is so far beyond what I would relate to,” he explains. “Don’t get...
Majority Of Parents Don’t Enjoy Reading To Their Kids: Study
“Only 40% of parents ... agreed that ‘reading books to my child is fun for me’, according to a survey conducted by Nielsen and...
Orphaned University Of The Arts Dance Program Is Coming Back To Philly, But Not...
“The former UArts undergraduate dance program, that landed at Bennington College in Vermont, had planned to return to Philadelphia for the 2025-26 school year. But...
Andrew Karpen, Pillar Of U.S. Independent Film Industry, Has Died At 59
He was the COO of Focus Features beginning in 2002 and became president and co-CEO in 2006. In 2014 he left Focus to found...
Fort Worth Police Took $7,000 Trip To New York To Investigate Sally Mann For...
After seizing some of Mann’s photos of her children from an exhibition in Fort Worth, five FWPD officers spent four days and $6,988.77 in...
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Sues Trump Administration For Trying To Fire Board Members
“In its complaint, ... the CPB and the three board members — Laura Ross, Thomas Rothman and Diane Kaplan — said the president does...
Mellon Foundation Provides “Emergency Funding” For State Humanities Councils Defunded By NEH
“The Mellon Foundation has announced $15 million in ‘emergency funding’ for state humanities councils across the country. The support comes after the Department of...
Federal Court Orders Trump Administration To Release Radio Free Europe Funding
“U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth … granted the temporary restraining order for the U.S. Agency for Global Media to disburse ($12 million) for April...
All U.S. Holocaust Museum Board Members Appointed By Biden Have Been Fired
“The Trump administration has terminated members of the board that oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum appointed by President Joe Biden — including Doug...
The 19-Year-Old Bisexual Diarist Who Became The Literary Sensation Of 1902 America
“Originally titled ‘I Await the Devil’s Coming’, The Story of Mary MacLane records four months in the life of its author. Nothing much happens in...
A Rabbit On The Couch In A Psychoanalyst’s Office
“The premise may seem absurd but that is precisely the point – absurdism is a way of dealing with themes that have proved ......
A Dancer-Turned-Neuroscientist On Finding Flow
“This passing of the boundary between ‘doing steps’ and really dancing … is truly exhilarating. I’ve experienced it many times when dance took me...
