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Canada’s Giller Prize Will Close Down This Year Without New Sponsor Or Government Funding
“The annual $100,000 prize for fiction ended its 20-year partnership with lead sponsor Scotiabank earlier this year. At that time, Giller Foundation executive director Elana...
Meet The New Champion Of The Left-Hand Piano Repertoire
Nicholas McCarthy, a 35-year-old Briton who was born without a right hand, has not only conquered the well-known works such as the Ravel concerto,...
Making The Gisèle Pelicot Trial Into Theatre
“The three-hour performance (at the Avignon Festival) has been created by Milo Rau, the Swiss director and playwright acclaimed for his theatre interpretations of...
Steve Benson, Provocative, Pulitzer-Winning Editorial Cartoonist, Is Dead At 71
“(He) evolved from a conservative, high-profile member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints into an outspoken atheist and liberal, all while...
Woody Allen Is Now A Novelist
Since the 1970s, Allen has written several books of short stories and essays, as well as a memoir, Apropos of Nothing, published in 2020, but...
Congress Approves Trump’s Clawback Of All Public Radio And TV Funding
The bill reclaims the entire $1.1 billion previously appropriated for the next two years for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The CPB distributes two-thirds...
CBS Cancels “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” In A “Purely Financial Decision”
The cancellation, effective next May, of US late-night TV’s highest-rated program comes as CBS’s corporate parent, Paramount Global, seeks FCC approval of an $8.4...
Wisconsin Has A New Professional Ballet Company
Wisconsin Dance Theatre, based in the southern part of the state between Milwaukee and Madison, just opened its debut production — A Hero’s Homecoming,...
India’s Nationalist Government Is Pushing Hindi To Replace English. Non-Hindi-Speaking States Are Pushing Back...
It’s the latest outbreak of a recurring argument: the central government in Delhi (in Hindi-speaking north-central India) pushes for Hindi in place of the...
Russia’s Private Art Museums Are Targets In Putin’s Crackdown On Dissent
“Many cultural workers and some billionaire museum founders have chosen to leave Russia; others have felt compelled to do so after warnings that they...
Two Orchestras In Southwest Florida Have Recently Closed, While Two Others Are Thriving. Why...
In the past 18 months, the Punta Gorda Symphony and the Fort Myers-based Southwest Florida Symphony have gone under. Meanwhile, the Sarasota Orchestra and...
Leonard Slatkin Returns To Nashville Symphony As Music Advisor
Slatkin held the post — in this particular case, a sort of interim music director position — twenty years ago, from 2006 to 2009,...
Burlesque Is Experiencing Yet Another Revival
“(The 21st-century’s neo-burlesque) feels relevant to 2025 – in step with drag and queer culture, and in line with the broader movement towards diversity...
Battle Between Operators Of South Florida’s Public Radio Station And Owners Of Its License
South Florida Public Media Group has raised funds for the southeast Florida public radio and TV stations since 1974 and managed them since 2022....
Connie Francis, One Of The Best-Selling Pop Stars Of The 1950s and ‘60s, Has...
“(She was) the most popular female singer of the late 1950s and early ’60s, with such hits as ‘Who’s Sorry Now,’ ‘Stupid Cupid’ and...
Rhode Island Passes “Freedom To Read Act” In Response To Book-Banning
“The law contains protections for school and local librarians and staff and is, notably, the first to guarantee writers and readers a right to...
“Gypsy” Starring Audra McDonald Will End Broadway Run Early
The revival, which was nominated for five Tony Awards but won none, had been expected to run until at least Oct. 5; it will...
The Power Of Cutting Loose On The Dance Floor
“A new season at London’s Southbank Centre is inspired by Emma Warren’s book Dance Your Way Home, about the potency of communal movement. She...
KQED, San Francisco Public Radio/TV, Lays Off 15% Of Staff
Approximately 50 positions are being eliminated, including the entire video division, as the Bay Area’s flagship public media outlet faces a projected $12 million...
Australian Artists And Universities Could Have Funding Blocked If They Fail To Fight Antisemitism
“Universities and artists would have funding withheld if they fail to act against antisemitism, AI tools would be banned from sharing Jewish hatred, and...
Poet Andrea Gibson, Subject Of Prizewinning New Documentary, Is Dead At 49
Gibson, spouse Megan Falley, and their four-year struggle with Gibson’s ovarian cancer are the main subjects of the documentary Come See Me in the...
Electrical Recording Debuted 100 Years Ago This Year
“The ascent from one method (purely mechanical recording on a horn) to the other (electrical recording with a microphone) was more significant even than...
US Publishers Charge Libraries Exorbitant Prices For E-Books. Some State Governments Want To Change...
How exorbitant? A license for a digital copy of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 costs $51.99. Connecticut has already passed a law (not yet in...
The Complete Replica Of The Bayeux Tapestry Made In 1885
To call this enormous replica, on display at the Reading Museum, complete is not to call it completely accurate, mind you. The thread is...
The Biggest Mystery In Chaucer Was, It Turns Out, Probably A Typo
Okay, there were no typewriters then; it was a scribal error — and it led to serious confusion about genre. The eureka moment by...
