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The Opera Aria Painted On The Wall Of A Venetian Orphanage
Yes, this was one of the orphanages where girls were taught music to a high level by the likes of Vivaldi. The music room...
Do Hot Guys Make Sense As Stand-Up Comedians? Conventional Wisdom Says No, But …
"Comedy has been the rare field where square jaws and chiseled features can count against you," writes Jason Zinoman. "The assumption in stand-up has...
Cleveland Ballet Suspends CEO And Artistic Director Amid Investigation Into Alleged Firing Over Body...
Artistic director Gladisa Guadalupe and president/CEO Michael Krasnyansky, who are married, are alleged to have fired a teacher at the company school's outreach program...
Aaron Dworkin Of The Sphinx Organization Becomes Complexions Contemporary Ballet’s “Poetjournalist-In-Residence”
A writer and spoken-word artist as well as musical entrepreneur, "Dworkin will work with Complexions founders and co–artistic directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson...
Meet The First Woman To Become A Permanent Member Of The New York Philharmonic,...
Orin O'Brien, now 88, played double bass in the Phil for 55 years, retiring in 2021. She chose the instrument because she likes being...
Orlando Museum Of Art May Just Settle Its Lawsuit Against Its Former Director Over...
Mentioned almost in passing in the museum's most recent court filing was this sentence: “The parties are currently engaged in settlement negotiations, the outcome...
American Comedy’s Highest Honor, The Mark Twain Prize, Goes To Kevin Hart
"Hart got his start telling jokes during amateur night at a local comedy club in his native Philadelphia. Today, his standup fills stadiums, cracking...
Justin Torres, Ned Blackhawk, Craig Santos Perez, Dan Santat Win 2023 National Book Awards
"Blackouts" by Justin Torres took the fiction prize; nonfiction honors went to Ned Blackhawk's "The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of...
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...
