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Disney To DeSantis: We Add $40 Billion To Florida’s Economy
"The Walt Disney Company on Tuesday released a study showing its economic impact in Florida at $40.3 billion as it battles Florida Gov. Ron...
A Father Makes Theater Of His Son’s Murder In The Parkland School Shooting
"Manuel Oliver donned a paper mask of the face of Joaquin, who was a 17-year-old senior when he was killed. He grabbed a hammer...
There’s A Big Controversy (As Usual) About The Latest Official Scrabble Tournament Word List
Actually, there are two controversies. One is about restoration to the list of some of the epithets that were deemed offensive and eliminated in...
Texas School District That Cancelled “Oklahoma!” Rather Than Let A Trans Student Appear In...
"The school board in Sherman voted unanimously Monday to reinstate the original show and cast after a meeting in which dozens criticized them and...
Making Millions Of Dollars Dealing In Fake Robert Burns Documents
"In the 1880s, almost a century after Burns died, Edinburgh forger Alexander 'Antique' Smith produced hundreds of fake manuscripts, selling them to booksellers, pawnshops...
The Streaming Audio Channel Where Classical Meets Video-Game Music
Jennifer Miller Hammel, who created the channel, called Arcade: “We tried to eliminate that roadblock of, Well, is this going to be too scary...
The First-Ever Lifetime Disturbing The Peace Award Goes To Salman Rushdie
The honor is conceived and presented by the Vaclav Havel Center in New York City, which advances the late playwright and Czech president's legacy...
With Attendance Down By More Than A Third, SF-MOMA Eliminates 20 Staff Jobs
"The decision, effective immediately, includes laying off seven staff members and leaving 13 open positions vacant." - MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
The NFL Is Making A Move Beyond Televised Games Into Football Documentaries
The league has already made single- and multi-episode docs about famous football players and coaches with Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Roku, and intends to...
Former CEO Countersues Orlando Museum Of Art Over Basquiat Exhibition Fiasco
Aaron De Groft argues that the museum's board and outside attorneys greenlit the show, which turned out to be full of forgeries, even after...
Despite Near-Record Ticket Revenue, Chicago Symphony Has A Seven-Figure Deficit
"The CSO swung to a $1.4 million operating deficit from (a surplus) of $1.7 million last year. Driving the red ink was a 15%...
Can You Tremble And Convulse Your Way Into Insanity? And Then Back To Sanity?
That is the question that video and performance artist Liz Magic Laser and her mother, choreographer and dancer Wendy Osserman, explore in their exhibition...
Social Scientists Tried To Figure Out Which Words The Brits Find Most Funny And...
Psychologists Chris Westbury and Geoff Hollis "wanted to see how a word’s phonology (sound), spelling, and meaning influenced whether people found it amusing, as...
The Best Design For Public Housing Projects Was Developed In Vienna A Century Ago
The success of the Austrian capital's well-known Gemeindebauten is due not only to government funding and conscientious management. The popularity of the enormous apartment...
Nepal Bans TikTok To Protect “Social Harmony”
Communications and IT Minister Rekha Sharma said the decision was made because some content shared on the app "disturbs social harmony and disrupts family...
Read A New Play By Anna Deavere Smith: “This Ghost Of Slavery”
"For this work, Smith’s decision to blend her contemporary interviews with historical accounts of Maryland in the mid-1860s is apt. The echoes of history...
America’s (Unnecessary) Fear Of Black History: Lonnie Bunch
"In all my years doing research at the National Archives, I had never cried. …" The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and co-founder of...
The Fisk Jubilee Singers And The Birth Of The Spiritual
Vann R. Newkirk II, based on the diaries of Ella Sheppard, the group's first pianist and composer, and on materials in the historically black...
Kevin Wynn, Choreographer And Beloved Teacher, Is Dead At 67
"A choreographer of complex maelstroms that moved at lightning speed and an uncommonly dedicated teacher who influenced generations of dancers," He impressed critics and...
Boring? Nobody Calls Our Public Radio Station Boring!
"Leading WPLN's mission to stamp out boring public radio is its midday news show This Is Nashville. 'We loosened it up to give it...
At Newfields/Indianapolis Museum Of Art, CEO Is Out After Only 15 Months
Dr. Colette Pierce Burnette came to Newfields in August 2022, in the wake of an outcry over a racially fraught job description for director...
How Three Black American Dance Artists Make Careers In Europe
Trajal Harrell (Zurich and Athens), Esther Cowens (Berlin), and Wanjiru Kamuyu (Paris) tell a reporter how they found themselves working across the Atlantic, the...
Swathed In 10,000 White Marble Sculptures, An Enormous New Hindu Temple Rises Deep In...
"The path to God runs down the New Jersey Turnpike. About an hour from the Holland Tunnel, … a mirage appears: swirls of stone...
The Craft And Art Of Wigmaking For Theatre
"Some hairpieces are bobby-dazzlers: towers of Restoration foppery, ravishingly long Rapunzels. Others slink by unnoticed, disguised in realism. Who makes them? Who pins them...
A Grand Old Master Of Classic Afghan Song Returns To The Stage At Age...
Sadiq Fitrat Nashenas, one of the last living stars of a golden era for Afghan music, fled the Taliban in 1991, settled in London...
