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For The First Time In Years, Burning Man Is Not Sold Out
"For more than a decade, tickets to Burning Man have sold out almost immediately – sometimes in a matter of minutes. But this year,...
Gena Rowlands Has Died At 94
"(She) conveyed bewitching allure and wrenching vulnerability on-screen — notably in A Woman Under the Influence and many other movies directed by her husband,...
“Radical Courage” — How André De Shields Managed To Have A 50-Year Career In...
"The combination of the family" — he's one of 11 children — "and the city (Baltimore) provided me with what I call 'radical courage.'...
David Robertson Has A Metaphor For Conducting
“As a composer, getting a musical idea down on the page feels like a butterfly lover who catches this miraculous, beautiful thing. You then...
We Should Teach Schoolkids Meditation Skills The Same Way We Do Sports And Arts
"Where do we learn and refine the skills to be an artist or an athlete? We go to school. … (Schools) provide resources to...
“I Think One Of The Funniest Things You Can Do Is Try To Dance...
"As a dancer and a comedian, Sarah McCreanor, known as Smac, likes to up the ante. Why mimic a dance or a person when...
The Unnerving Experience Of One-To-One Shows At The Edinburgh Fringe
"Giving an audience member 'a hand in guiding the show' is key to the success of a one-person performance. 'You have to sort of...
A Disney Theme Park Is Apparently Closing One Of Its Most Beloved Attractions: Muppet*Vision...
At a major fan gathering last week, executives teased a soon-to-come Monsters, Inc. attraction. Sharp-eyed observers spotted that the location shown in the promotional...
Vienna Offered Free Museum Admission To Cancelled Taylor Swift Ticketholders — And They Came
Thousands of fans left at loose ends after Swift's Vienna show was called off (due to terrorist threats) flocked to the Austrian capital's museums....
Esa-Pekka Salonen Is Soon To Be, For The First Time In Many Years, A...
By now he can do anything he likes, and he got the first of many job offers five minutes after announcing his departure from...
The Boston Globe Hires A Podcasting Staff, Then Decides Not To Make Podcasts
"(The newspaper) hired three people this spring to launch a new weekly podcast, but the news organization scrapped that plan in July and is...
More Pre-Merger Carnage: Paramount Is Closing Its TV Studio
"Paramount Television Studios will cease operations at the end of the week, president Nicole Clemens and Paramount co-CEO George Cheeks told staff Tuesday morning....
French Customs Officers Thwart $1.4 Million Sale Of Counterfeit Leonardo Da Vinci Portrait
"Spanish police have arrested a man whose alleged plan to sell a fake Leonardo da Vinci painting" — purportedly a portrait of Gian Giacomo...
Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson And How She Made Robert Louis Stevenson Possible
"Theirs was an unlikely Victorian love story: He was a university-educated writer from a prominent family in Scotland; she was a high school graduate...
The Big Jobs Facing The New South African Government’s Minister of Culture
"A string of ministers have been tainted by claims of favouritism, corruption and elitist practices when it comes to funds. … We asked some...
“Population Stereotypes,” Or How To Convince A Crowd Of People That You’re Psychic
"When asked to make a mental note of the first number that comes into their heads, (people) … expect the frequencies of response to...
This Rural Wisconsin Company Knows How To Do Summer Theater Right
At the American Players Theater, about an hour west of Madison, they do around nine mostly classic plays (no musicals) each season, running in...
News Publishers Increase Their Efforts On Reddit As Traffic Soars
"Some, such as Yahoo, Puck, and New York Times Opinion, have launched new Reddit accounts in the last several months. Others, such as Rolling...
We Broke The Law By Losing 2,000 Items, Finds British Museum’s Internal Audit
"The British Museum has finished investigating its own conduct and concluded … that it was not compliant with UK legislation dictating how national treasures...
Warner Bros. Discovery Has Stripped The Cartoon Network’s Website Of Its Content
Cartoonnetwork.com used to offer clips and even some full episodes of its shows such as We Bare Bears and Steven Universe. As of August...
AI Has Dramatically Speeded Up Work On Reassembling The Epic Of Gilgamesh
Many parts of the ancient Babylonian tale are still missing, and searching through hundreds of thousands of surviving cuneiform fragments to separate portions of...
We Fired All Our Dancers, But Not Because They Unionized, Says Dallas Black Dance...
Company management posted on Instagram on Monday that last Friday's abrupt mass sacking happened because "a video surfaced that violated their contractual terms and...
Another Jackass Gets Caught Leaving His Mark On The Walls At Pompeii
This particular jackass is a 37-year-old British man who carved his initials and those of his two daughters on a wall at the House...
Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Appoints New Music Director
Ilya Ram, a 33-year-old Israeli-American, is currently music director of the Akademische Philharmonie Heidelberg, a position he will keep. He begins his tenure in...
To Greet The Democratic Convention, The Chicago Transit Authority Puts New Public Art All...
"The project, called 'Track(ed) Changes,' along with the related community events, jibes with the city’s promise to Chicagoans to broaden the limelight and to...
