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Chicago Symphony Is Bouncing Back From COVID Better Than Many Of Its Neighbors
Paid attendance and box office income are both nearing pre-pandemic levels, though they're still slightly below those of 2019. Says CEO Jeff Alexander, "We're...
Chicago’s Cultural Attractions Could Draw More Visitors Even From Cook County — If Those...
"Even residents are wary of the city’s ongoing crime surge. Barely half (53%) of Cook County residents feel safe spending time in downtown Chicago...
Many Of Chicago’s Minority-Led Small Theater Companies Are Growing — For Now
"Although the pandemic was devastating for all arts organizations, non-majority-run organizations received a lifeline (via) government funding. … These theater companies, many of them...
Is Cookie Monster On “Sesame Street” Eating Real Cookies?
Well, yes … more or less. They are home-baked by Muppet wrangler Lara MacLean and contain entirely edible ingredients. Mind you, that doesn't mean...
“Authentic” Is Merriam-Webster’s Word Of The Year 2023
"Authentic cuisine. Authentic voice. Authentic self. Authenticity as artifice. Lookups for the word are routinely heavy on the dictionary company’s site but were boosted...
Marty Krofft, Co-Producer Of “H.R. Pufnstuf” And A Slew Of Other Children’s TV Shows,...
"Sid & Marty Krofft Pictures became a household name in the 1970s, helping launch them into creating and producing family and kids shows for...
Architect Yasmeen Lari Vowed To Build One Million Flood-Resilient Homes For Poor Pakistani Villagers....
"The latest update from the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan, founded by Lari, is that the rebuild programme has so far provided 333,000 homes for...
At Last, Native American Playwrights Are Getting The Chance To Tell Their Peoples’ Own...
Larissa FastHorse (The Thanksgiving Play), Mary Katheryn Nagle (Manahatta), and Madeline Sayet (Where We Belong) are three writers at the center of what they...
How Public Radio’s Podcasts Are Like The Oakland A’s In “Moneyball”
Ben Brock Johnson, the executive producer of podcasts at Boston's WBUR, says his station "isn’t alone in the discovery that swinging for the fences...
Argentina’s New President Wants To Privatize All State-Owned Media Outlets
"Javier Milei, a libertarian economist and self-described "anarcho-capitalist," … described the public media outlets he wants to make private as amounting to 'a covert...
Maintenance Worker Stabbed To Death At One Of The Netherlands’ Top Concert Halls
At around 7 a.m. Sunday at the TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht, a 41-year-old worker for the venue's cleaning contractor was attacked and murdered by a...
Syracuse City Ballet Fires Most Of Its Dancers After They Spent A Week On...
Out of eight professional dancers in the company, five were fired and another put on administrative leave. The dancers say they have had concerns...
Cultural Tourism Adds $11.4 Billion To Ontario’s Economy: Study
"The report, titled the Ontario Arts and Culture Tourism Profile, is based on data from Statistics Canada. A key takeaway from the document is...
Behold A 6,400-Square-Foot 4th-Century Mosaic Recently Uncovered In Turkey
"The villa (that contained the floor mosaic) has roots in the Roman and Byzantine eras and was used long after the Turks arrived in...
Sarah Palin’s School District Sued By ACLU, Parents, and Students Over Book Bans
"On November 17, eight local plaintiffs joined by the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska and advocacy group the Northern Justice project filed suit...
Award-Winning Palestinian Writer Who Was Arrested In Gaza Has Been Released
"Palestinian poet/essayist Mosab Abu Toha, whose 2022 poetry collection Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza won an American Book...
Two Former Dancers Sue Richmond Ballet For $21 Million Over Eating Disorders
"In a pair of lawsuits filed in Richmond Circuit Court, the dancers say the company required them to maintain a 'dangerously unhealthy weight' to...
Forbidden By The Taliban To Attend School, These Afghan Girls Are Being Taught By...
Lucy Ferriss: "Asma is one of 120 students whom I and a dozen other college professors, spread across four continents and five academic divisions,...
This Black Woman Composer Achieved Success In The 1950s Before Ill Health Claimed Her
"For (Julia) Perry, who died in 1979 at age 55, the 1950s and ’60s were replete with success, the summit of a career that...
Author Herbert Gold, 99
"(His) verbal inventiveness and keen eye for complicated emotional transactions ... or struggling to connect the world of their Jewish immigrant parents with the...
Now That These Mosaics Have Been Repatriated To Lebanon, A Scholar Says They’re Fake
"Eight out of nine mosaic panels that the US authorities recently … are not what they seem, according to claims made by Djamila Fellague...
Garth Fagan Is Stepping Away From The Leadership Of His Dance Company
After 53 years at the helm, he is turning Garth Fagan Dance over to principals Natalie Rogers-Cropper (executive director) and Norwood “PJ” Pennewell (artistic...
The Oscar-Winning Playwright-Screenwriter Running The Geffen Playhouse
Tarell Alvin McCraney (who wrote Moonlight) calls it "your friendly neighborhood playhouse": "I really want to make sure L.A. artists or artists who call...
Don’t Worry, We’re Not Out Of Clay For Our Claymation, Say Makers of “Wallace...
"After reports that the manufacturers of Aardman’s favoured modelling clay had gone out of business, meaning the animators had enough supplies for only one...
Joss Ackland, Versatile Actor With A Seven-Decade Career, Is Dead At 95
"A self-described workaholic, (he) brought a mellifluous voice and commanding presence to more than 200 movies and television shows, in addition to starring in...
