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“A Variety Show In Human Form”: Billy Crystal Knows Almost Everyone And Can Do...
"(He) somehow managed to know nearly every significant cultural figure of the past half-century. Mickey Mantle confided in him. … Martin Scorsese taught him...
The YouTuber Who Ended Up As Your Favorite Pop Star’s Favorite Choreographer
"Under the name @seanalator, Sean Bankhead built a YouTube channel to showcase his unique style; a routine set to Beyoncé’s 'Run The World (Girls)'...
Don’t Like Music? Of Any Kind? There’s A Name For People Like That.
"That’s not a matter of preference, such as not caring for sports or pets; it’s a pathological condition. Accordingly, it’s been given one of...
The 19th-Century Science Fiction Novel That Inspired A Communist Utopian Movement In America
"Étienne Cabet's fictional 1840 travelogue, Voyage en Icarie (Travels in Icaria), … was so popular and affecting that it led hundreds of French citizens...
How Cirque Du Soleil Became The Backbone Of Live Entertainment In 21st-Century Las Vegas
The French-Canadian company ... opened its first permanent show, Mystère, at Treasure Island three decades ago. … Cirque has since grown into a billion-dollar...
As Newspapers Drop Their Editorial Cartoonists, Nonprofit Newsrooms Are Hiring Them
As the CEO of the San Diego-based nonprofit newsroom inewsource says, "People want to ‘see’ more in the news, as is evidenced by the...
A New Public Radio Show Aims For America’s Center, Geographically And Politically
Jeremy Hobson, the creator of the weekly evening show called The Middle, "found much of modern public radio’s heavily produced, pre-recorded nature grating, as...
Actress Frances Sternhagen, 93
She's known to wider audiences for playing formidable mothers in the series ER, Cheers, Sex in the City, and The Closer, but her greatest...
After $167 Million in Renovation And Asbestos Removal, Bristol, England Has An Excellent New/Old...
After a baby seagull under the roof dislodged a bunch of asbestos in 2017, what was then a very decrepit Colston Hall was closed...
London’s Royal Court Theatre Opens An Online Archive Of Every Play Ever Staged There
"Almost 2,000 plays by more than 1,000 writers are accessible on the theatre’s Living Archive, along with lists of their casts and directors. Vicky...
Can We Just Do Away With The Genre of Literary Fiction?
"Genre is a confining madness; it says nothing about how writers write or readers read, and everything about how publishers, retailers and commentators would...
Who Says We Can’t Write New Music In A Thoroughly Baroque Style?
"Nuova Pratica, a group of up-and-coming performer-composers who aim to re-open the book on Baroque composition, … reject the idea that what they do...
This Public Radio Sleep Podcast Is Guaranteed To Send You Into Dazed Oblivion
"Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep, a pledge-drive special released in October, features station staffers reading snooze-worthy documents related to public broadcasting and...
Robert Battle Brought The Alvin Ailey Company Into The 21st Century
Gia Kourlas: "He updated Ailey’s repertory without hogging the choreographic spotlight for himself. And his taste in choreography was mercifully broad. After years of...
The Ukrainian History Global Initiative: 90 Scholars Come Together To Reclaim The Nation’s Story...
"The historians want Ukraine’s history to take its place among a wealth of global stories – from the part it played in the history...
How The Borders Brothers Transformed The Bookstore Business
"By adding to the (original) store space piecemeal, the brothers drifted into the 'superstore' concept by accident. Mathematically, the formula they discovered was astounding...
Italy’s Last Government Appointed Foreign Directors To Run Some Leading Museums. The Current Government...
"The then-culture minister, Dario Franceschini, sought applications from foreigners to shake up the museum sector, … appoint(ing) seven foreigners and several Italians with experience...
The Guardian Signs A Movie/TV Deal With Sony Pictures Entertainment
"The deal will give SPE’s film and television production groups, which include Columbia Pictures, TriStar, Screen Gems and 3000 Pictures as well as TV...
Tim Dorsey, Who Put Florida’s Weirdness Into Dark Comic Novels, Is Dead At 62
One of a trio (along with Carl Hiaasen and Dave Barry) of erstwhile newspaper reporters who became famous for satirizing their home state in...
New York City Ballet Finally Settles On A Contract With Its Orchestra
"The three-year contract, … (coming) after months of wrangling, … includes an increase in compensation of about 22 percent over three years, a central...
Ex-CNN Boss Jeff Zucker May Well End Up Running Britain’s Telegraph And Spectator
He's the media executive fronting the bid by RedBird IMI, a joint venture between two investment funds, based in New York and Abu Dhabi,...
He Holds Modern Dance History In His Hands: Meet The Chief Archivist At Jacob’s...
"In 1990, then-director Sam Miller named (Norton Owen) director of preservation, where he now oversees the scholar-in-residence program, PillowTalks, pre- and post-show talks, and...
Architect Rafael Viñoly’s Curved-Keyboard Piano Makes Its Carnegie Hall Debut
“It looks like you’re looking at a normal piano through funny mirrors,” says Jonathan Biss, who will play Beethoven’s “Emperor Concerto" on it with...
Ancient Treasures From Crimea, Stuck In Limbo For Years In The Netherlands, Have Been...
"The collection, mostly from Crimean museums, was on loan to Amsterdam's Allard Pierson Museum when Russia annexed Ukraine's peninsula in 2014. Both Ukraine and...
Chicago’s Arts Institutions Are Still Struggling Post-COVID
"A decline in subscription rates, shockingly higher costs, and donations that haven't kept pace with inflation have thrown some arts organizations off-balance and spiraled...
