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What’s Ari Shapiro Doing Next After Leaving NPR? He Honestly Does Not Know
“There’s no big reveal. Maybe the reason people just assume that there’s some big next thing is that they can’t imagine that you would...
Higher Ticket Sales, Younger Audiences, Artistic Stability, Successful Fundraising — Things Are Looking Up...
The situation wasn’t good for the orchestra in the ‘00s and ‘10s: the messy opening of the Kimmel Center, difficulties with its conductors, musician...
Iceland Tries To Make Peace With The Tourism Boom It Sought Out In The...
In 2010, to boost an economy still reeling from a 2008 banking crisis, Iceland’s government took advantage of the global attention brought by a...
Merriam-Webster Adds More Than 5,000 Words To Its Collegiate Dictionary
The 12th edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary comes 22 years after the book’s last hard-copy update. To make room for the new words (including “hard...
Chinese Distributor Altered Australian Film To Make Gay Male Couple Straight
Early this month, moviegoers who saw preview screenings of the horror movie Together, starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, posted on Chinese social media...
A Donald Trump-And-Jeffrey Epstein Statue Appears On, And Disappears From, DC’s National Mall
“The bronze-painted installation, titled Best Friends Forever, depicts the two men smiling at each other, each with an arm and leg raised as if in...
Houston Symphony Extends Music Director Juraj Valčuha‘s Contract
The 49-year-old Slovak conductor, previously chief conductor of Italy’s RAI National Symphony Orchestra and the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, took up the position...
NJ PBS To Close Down Next Summer
The contract between the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority and New York City PBS station WNET — which has operated NJ PBS since 2011,...
Ballet Dancer Sues London Police For Stomping On His Foot And Ending His Career
“Alexander Loxton, who played the ‘older Billy’ in the West End musical Billy Elliot as well as dancing with the Royal Ballet …, says he suffered a career-wrecking...
Drunk Bats, Lizards Eating Pizza, And Cows Painted With Zebra Stripes: The 2025 Ig...
In addition to prizes presented in ten categories, the 35th first annual award ceremony — the theme: digestion — featured appearances by actual Nobel...
YouTubers Sue Burning Man For Using Nevada Police To Block Filming Of Cleanup
“The owner of a popular YouTube channel has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that organizers of the Burning Man festival prevented filmmakers from recording...
Andrew Lloyd Webber Visits The New Immersive Version Of “Phantom”
Masquerade is a $25 million reconfiguring of the long-running Broadway hit, spread out over six floors in midtown Manhattan. This version is told mostly...
Yusuf/Cat Stevens Says His Upcoming US Tour Is In “Serious Jeopardy”
“A post on the singer’s Instagram on Friday said the U.S. leg of the tour ‘is in serious jeopardy due to significant delay in U.S....
Reviving Jerome Robbins’s Original Choreography For “West Side Story”
“Joshua Bergasse spoke … about his role reproducing choreography, how an iconic Broadway musical translates to an opera stage, and the efforts to achieve...
What’s Maurizio Cattelan Up To Now? A Scavenger Hunt!
The prankster artist known for the solid-gold toilet (titled America) and the banana-taped-to-the-wall (Comedian) will have participants search for copies of his new piece...
Yuja Wang Appointed To Newly-Created Faculty Position At Curtis Institute
The superstar Chinese-American pianist, who herself studied at Curtis, won’t be a professor of piano giving weekly lessons. Her title, as of September next...
Scammer Who Tried To Sell Graceland Out From Under The Presleys Sentenced To Prison
Lisa Jeanine Findley, 54, who has gone by many other names in a criminal career spattered with financial grifts, was sentenced to four years and...
2025 Booker Prize Shortlist Includes Kiran Desai, David Szalai, Katie Kitamura
The finalists include three American authors, two Britons, and one Indian, Desai, who won the prize in 2006. - The Guardian
Claudia Cardinale, Glamorous Movie Star Of The 1960s And ‘70s, Is Dead At 87
She starred in over 100 films and television pieces, but was best known for Federico Fellini’s film 8½, Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of the historical novel...
Hearst Newspapers To Acquire Dallas Morning News
A large majority of shareholders voted to reject a bid by notorious newspaper destroyer Alden Global Capital in favor of a somewhat lower (but...
What You Get When A Moral Philosopher Designs A Video Game
“Bennett Foddy … began his career as a moral philosopher at the University of Oxford. But on the side he was making hilarious, preposterous...
Picasso Took Up Writing Poetry In His 50s. Was His Verse Any Good?
He made the perhaps-foolhardy decision to ask his first patron for her opinion. That patron was Gertrude Stein. She did not hold back. -...
Why Wayne McGregor Refuses To Explain His Choreography
“’It really bores me, this transactional conversation,’ he says, meaning the choreographer explaining their intention; the audience expecting something explicit to be communicated. …...
After Eight Centuries, The World’s Oldest Surviving Pipe Organ Is Played Once Again
The organ was brought to Bethlehem sometime after the Crusaders’ conquest in 1099, and it was buried for safekeeping shortly before Saladin’s army reconquered...
Why Authoritarians Really Hate Satirists
“Satirists pose a danger to the likes of Putin and Donald Trump because they expose that their claims to greatness are illusions and validate...
