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What You Get When You Train AI On Werner Herzog Movies
You get a film titled About a Hero, interspersing an AI-written narrative starring Herzog (as a character) investigating a mysterious death with interviews with...
Federal Judge In Texas Temporarily Halts The Onion’s Purchase Of Infowars
"The bankruptcy judge overseeing the Chapter 7 liquidation of Infowars and Jones’ assets on Thursday temporarily halted the transfer of Infowars to The Onion...
Even Northern California Has Issues With Censoring High School Plays
School district officials cancelled Santa Rosa High School's production of Dog Sees God, which depicts the characters of the comic strip Peanuts in high...
Director Of Smithsonian’s American Art Museum Was Removed After Years Of Staff Complaints
Stephanie Stebich raised more than $100 million for the museum in her seven years there and maintained good relations with the board and senior...
Arthur Frommer, Who Pioneered The Budget Travel Guide, Has Died At 95
Beginning in 1957 with "Europe on $5 a Day," Frommer’s philosophy changed the way Americans traveled abroad. His advice became so standard that it’s...
Shen Yun Under Investigation By New York State For Labor Practices
The company is alleged to use underage student performers to work on and off stage for workweeks of well over 40 hours, with extremely...
James Sewell Ballet Will Close After 35 Years
The Minneapolis-based company will shut down next March. "It’s the latest blow to the Twin Cities dance community, less than a year after ......
Giller Prize, Canada’s Top Literary Award, To Anne Michaels For “Held”
The jury described the book as "a novel that floats, a beguiling association of memories, projections, and haunted instances through which the very notion...
An Evangelical Theater Company Is Getting Noticed Well Beyond Its Small-Town South Carolina Home
"What began with … piling the family and their sets into a van and putting on shows for churches and home-school groups has evolved...
How Mason Bates Turned Michael Chabon’s Most Famous Novel Into An Opera
He did it without Chabon, for starters: while the author happily gave rights to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, opera is simply...
How UArts’ Dance Program Was Saved After The School’s Abrupt Collapse
Late last spring, Donna Fay Burchfield, dean of the University of the Arts School of Dance, was as shocked as everyone else when she...
So, Just What Does The Onion Plan To Do With InfoWars?
"Plans (are) to relaunch it in January as a parody of conspiracy theorists. 'Our goal in a couple of years is for people to...
Sacramento’s Public Radio And PBS Stations Sue Each Other Over Transmission Tower
"The legal battle arose after Capital Public Radio’s Endowment board, a nonprofit separate from the radio station, donated the tower used by CapRadio to...
Is This America’s Oldest Working Auctioneer? (He’s Certainly One Of The Quirkiest)
Michael R. Corcoran, 96, of Newport, RI, has an inimitable way of "whipping through hundreds of lots while engaging crowds with a blend of...
Is Chicago’s Arts Funding Going Up Or Down?
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2025 budget allocates $73 million for the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (which administers city arts grants) — 11%...
In Portland, Smaller Groups Say The City Is Giving Too Much Of Its Arts...
"Fifteen small arts organizations complained in a Nov. 1 open letter that the city of Portland plans to unfairly decrease their collective share from...
How, And Why, “Rust” Got Finished After Alec Baldwin Accidentally Shot The Cinematographer
It fell to director Joel Souza, new cinematographer Bianca Cline, and a cast and crew of about 250 people to complete Rust. Now they...
Sotheby’s Settles New York Tax Fraud Case For $6.25 Million
"Sotheby's will pay $6.25 million and adopt reforms to settle New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit accusing the famed auction house of fraudulently...
Notre-Dame Restoration Has A $148 Million Surplus (!)
"Restoration chief Philippe Jost says €140 million (around $148 million) still remains from the funds as the cathedral prepares to reopen next month. The...
Paris Opera Ballet Suspends Its Competition For Promotions
"Union representatives of the Paris Opera Ballet are calling for the abolition of the internal promotion competition for dancers. For the first time, the...
Timothy West, Icon Of British Stage And Television, Is Dead At 90
"(He) brought a commanding presence to historical figures like Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and King Edward VII, and to notables of classic theater like...
A Revered Master Of Hula Wins $450K Gish Prize
Vicky Holt Takamine, who has spent decades mastering and teaching hula and working to preserve native Hawaiian culture, has been awarded the 31st annual...
How Roger Ailes Commandeered A Save-The-Earth Hippie Musical And Inadvertently Birthed A Pop Juggernaut
Yes, the future chief of Fox News, fresh off getting Nixon re-elected, took control of a California show called Mother Earth, revamped it (badly)...
Big Corporate Streamers May Be Having Trouble, But Niche Streaming Services Are Thriving
"About two dozen smaller, low-cost specialty streaming services have generated significant subscriber growth over the last couple of years. … This includes streamers from...
“The Broadcast Land Grab”: Trump’s Next Administration May See Wave Of TV Station Acquisitions
"The incoming Trump administration has made it clear that deregulation will be at the top of its priority list, and the companies that own...
