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Superstar Fantasy Author George R.R. Martin Has Co-Authored A Peer-Reviewed Physics Paper
The paper, just published in the American Journal of Physics, derives a formula to describe the dynamics of a fictional virus that is the...
Sundance Film Festival Is Leaving Park City, Utah. What Will That Mean For The...
"The organizers have said, essentially, that the event has gotten too big for Park City. When Sundance arrives every January, it balloons the ski...
Site-Specific New York Company On Site Opera Shuts Down
"For more than a decade, (the) small but nimble group brought opera to unexpected places: the Bronx Zoo, Madame Tussauds, cafes and soup kitchens....
Climate-Protesting Theatre Vandals Interrupt West End “Tempest”
On Monday evening, two members of the group Just Stop Oil climbed onstage at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, fired a confetti cannon, stopped Sigourney...
Artistic Director Of Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre To Step Down
Weyni Mengesha will depart as of August 31 after seven years in the post. A statement said she is leaving in order to focus...
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Pioneering Native American Artist, Has Died At 85
"For five decades (she) mapped the Native American experience in dynamic and complex artworks. … The past few years have seen a reawakening (for)...
Ballets By Female Choreographers Performed By US Companies See Slight Decline
Women choreographed 30.6% of works presented by the largest 150 companies in the 2023-24 season, down 1.5 percentage points from the previous season. However,...
Smithsonian To Close Its Diversity Office Following Trump’s Order
"The organization is also freezing federal hiring immediately and instating a five-day return-to-office policy," both pursuant to othr executive orders from the White House....
Mona Lisa To Get Its Own Room In Extensive Renovation At Louvre
"The renovation project, branded 'Louvre New Renaissance,' will include a wide new entrance near the Seine River, to be opened by 2031, (President) Macron...
This Broadway Play About Fighting Over Vaccines Is Very Tricky — Because The Audience...
The third scene of Eureka Day depicts a board meeting at a private school in Berkeley (!) after a student gets mumps. The board...
Little-Known Bernini Sculpture Is On Public View For First Time In Centuries
"Triton (1653) is on permanent loan to the (Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam) courtesy of a private collector. A terracotta study model, it depicts the Greek...
Australia’s Contemporary Dance Pioneer Is Still Performing At Age 91
Elizabeth Cameron Dalman more or less created the country's contemporary dance scene when she co-founded and directed Australian Dance Theatre in Adelaide in 1965....
Is This The Worst Page On The Internet? Or An Important Lesson About The...
"The name of this monstrosity, which was released earlier this month, is Stimulation Clicker, and it is more than a game. It is a...
McVulnerability (Beware The Influencers Who Cry On Camera)
"(Their) weepy confessions are, ostensibly, gestures toward intimacy. They’re meant to inspire empathy, to reassure viewers that influencers are just like them. But in...
Bring Intermissions Back To The Movies!
The Batman (176 minutes). Oppenheimer (180 minutes). Avengers: Endgame (182 minutes!). The Irishman (a whopping 209 minutes!). Do Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan want...
Texas Public Schools Have Big, Busy Arts Programs. It’s Time They Be Funded Properly.
Last year those programs nearly did get a budget boost, and a key legislator keeps trying, arguments and studies ready. - Texas Monthly
Classical Concert Top Tens For 2024: Busiest Orchestras And Performers, Most-Played Composers, Etc.
There won't be too many surprises at the top of the lists — Daniil Trifonov and Yuja Wang as busiest pianists, Mozart and Beethoven...
Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Co., Now Reopened, Has Ambitious Plans
Its most famous alumnus, David Schwimmer, has joined the board, plans to return to its stage, and is doing fundraising around the city. He...
British Museum Was Partly Closed This Weekend Following Cyber-Vandalism By Ex-Employee
The alleged perpetrator was an IT contractor fired earlier this month. He returned on Thursday to breach and shut down the museum’s security and...
WH Smith To Sell Its Non-Airport Bookstores
The company's bookstore division, which has 500 retail outlets in cities and towns throughout the UK, has seen declining revenue for years, leading to...
Ten Surprising Facts About Andy Warhol
For instance, he was a gym rat when he was younger, and even after he was shot he could do 46 pushups. And he...
“Twin Peaks”: An Oral History
"When they did the premiere of Twin Peaks: The Return, the executives had not seen it, and they said: 'Mr. Lynch, would you say...
Christopher Stowell Is New Artistic Director Of Royal Winnipeg Ballet
A former principal at San Francisco Ballet and artistic director of Oregon Ballet Theatre, he was most recently Karen Kain's associate artistic director at...
Sleep Tourism Is Becoming A Thing
"Sleep-deprived travellers are choosing their hotel on the basis of its pillow menu or booking themselves into away-from-it-all sleep retreats with tailored sleep-inducing activities....
The Gwyneth Paltrow Skiing Trial Has Become An Off-Broadway Musical
The show, titled Gwyneth Goes Skiing, has already played in London, the Edinburgh Fringe, and Park City, Utah, where the actual events took place....
