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The Alabama Radio Station Whose 200-Foot Transmission Tower Was Stolen Is Back On The...
WJLX (1240 AM) in Jasper has an FM-frequency repeater, but without the AM station's tower providing the original signal and programming, the repeater was...
Alvin Ailey Company Performance In Birmingham, Alabama Cancelled Mid-Show Due To “Cold Temperatures Backstage”
The performance on Feb. 17 began 40 minutes late, the company did one piece, then there was another 40-minute wait before the audience was...
Britain’s Second City, Effectively Bankrupt, Announces Elimination of All Arts Funding
In Birmingham, which faces a long-brewing cash crisis, "grants to regularly-funded arts organisations will face 50% cuts this year and 100% next financial year."...
The Terrifying Logistics Of Getting An Entire U.S. Symphony Orchestra Packed Up And Onto...
"(It's) a finely tuned and precisely orchestrated operation, requiring months of advance planning and permitting, a crew of nearly a dozen workers and an...
Another Frank Gehry Arts Center Is Under Construction In Downtown L.A.
"Preliminary work has begun on a $335-million expansion of the Colburn School of performing arts designed by Gehry that includes a mid-size concert hall...
Cairo Restores And Reopens A Large Portion of The Saladin Citadel
"Cairo's citadel, one of the Egyptian capital's most prominent landmarks, opened another wing housing two semi-circular towers to the public on Sunday. … (The...
The Titles Most Often Stolen From San Francisco Public Libraries, And A Possible Solution
It turns out that the volumes most frequently pilfered from SFPL shelves aren't, say, bestselling thrillers; they're books about addiction and recovery. So city...
At 61, Jodie Foster Is Finally Unclenching And Letting (Some Of) Her Guard Down
"At a certain point, the survival tool, which has kept you safe and kept you warm, which has kept you with your family, it’s...
The Big Hong Kong Arts Complex Designed By Norman Foster’s Firm Is Running Out...
The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, which operates M+ and the Hong Kong Palace Museum as well as a traditional Chinese opera center and...
Trying To Learn To Cry On Cue, The Way Actors Do
Journalist Rachel Handler talks to a somatic psychotherapist, an acting coach to major stars, that coach's son, and several actors and directors, all in...
Merging American Sign Language Into Choreography Aimed At General Audiences
"(There's) a wider shift in the performing arts, one that is more artistically fulfilling for Deaf and ASL-fluent artists and that also repositions accessibility:...
This Upstart Has Surpassed Netflix To Become Africa’s Number-One Streamer
"Showmax — (a South African company) spun out of Africa’s largest entertainment (conglomerate), MultiChoice, in 2015 — had 2.1 million subscribers on the continent...
France Has Expanded Eligibility For Its “Talent Visa” To Include Performers and Artists
The "passeport talent," launched in 2017 for certain highly-skilled individuals, now includes entrepreneurs, investors, and staff employees (as well as freelancers) judged likely to...
The Oldest Rock Art In South America Is Far Older Than Was Thought
"After more than a decade of work, scientists from Argentina, Chile and the United States have successfully dated the Huenul 1 cave paintings in...
Ron DeSantis Is Now Backing Away From All The Book Bans He Helped Start...
"Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday came out in support of a proposal to limit book bans in schools. ... In a press conference, DeSantis...
Maine’s Portland Museum Of Art Lays Off More Than 10% Of Its Staff
"The 13 layoffs include salaried and hourly employees on (the) roughly 100-person staff. Front-line support staff … will not be impacted by staff reductions."...
Inside The Rural Alabama Radio Station Whose Entire Transmission Tower Was Stolen
"Many in Jasper, a city of about 14,000 (located) 40 miles northwest of Birmingham, fear the culprits have taken more than a heap of...
Verbier Festival Hires A Second CEO
Hervé Boissière, a former senior executive at Naïve Records who went on to found Medici.TV, where he is CEO, and who's also executive director...
Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson Has Dementia
Following the death of his wife last month, the 81-year-old pop legend has had two co-conservators appointed. He's described in court documents as "unable...
How To Get Broadway Out Of Its Winter Doldrums? Let Audience Members Ride The...
In the current staging, Sweeney's barbershop is above the stage; when he slits a customer's throat, he pulls a lever that sends the victim...
Remember When That Microsoft Chat-Bot Told A New York Times Writer It Loved Him...
Kevin Roose: "My column about the experience was probably the most consequential thing I’ll ever write — both in terms of the attention it...
CNN’s New Boss’s “Revolution”: Smaller Budgets And Slashed Salaries For Stars
"CNN boss Mark Thompson is looking to fund his digital-first transformation by cutting anchor salaries — currently more than $50 million — as he...
The Choreographer Who Came Up With Emma Stone’s Totally Insane Dance In “Poor Things”
Buenos Aires-born, Berlin-based dancemaker Constanza Macras also choreographed the warped courtly dance and the chase/fight in the woods in The Favourite. She says that...
Insurers Say The Biggest Danger To Museum Artworks Is — Well, Not Climate-Protesting Art...
It's "a scourge of selfie-takers backing into paintings and other objects. As many visitors are increasingly more interested in stunting for the ’gram than...
England’s Arts Funder Gives In To Backlash Against Its Warning About Grantees’ “Political Statements”
"A series of recent updates to (Arts Council England) policies … were met with fury from artists, writers and musicians. … Within hours, ACE...
