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How Asian-American Parents Teach Their Kids Heritage Languages They Themselves Can Barely Speak
"In the U.S., bringing a heritage language back into a family usually comes down to the efforts of individuals. The parents I spoke with...
England’s Second City Is Bankrupt. Arts Groups Fear It Might Sell Off Its Cultural...
"After Birmingham city council declared itself in effect bankrupt this month, there has been growing speculation about what assets could be sold to help...
Filmmaker Agnieszka Holland Sues Poland’s Minister Of Justice For Defamation
"The three-time Oscar-nominated Polish director is going ahead with her defamation suit against minister Zbigniew Ziobro after Ziobro refused to apologize for public comments...
Agnieszka Holland On Her Award-Winning Refugee Film, “Green Border”, And Why Poland’s Government Is...
"The decision to do the film the way I did (came from) working in a country that uses police, and its military forces to...
Archaeologist Helping Manhattan DA Identify Looted Antiquities Complains That His Work Never Gets Credited
“They are taking my work and presenting it as theirs,” said Christos Tsirogiannis. “They are showing off with my academic work and not giving...
Juilliard’s Acting MFA Program Will Become Tuition-Free
The change, which takes effect in fall 2024, "follows other acting programs that have stopped charging tuition, including the Yale School of Drama, which...
Actor Michael Gambon Is Dead At 82
"(His) extraordinary acting career took him from Laurence Olivier’s nascent National Theatre to screen roles in The Singing Detective and the Harry Potter films....
Daniel Barenboim’s Successor In Berlin Will Be —
— the man everyone presumed it would be. Christian Thielemann will become general music director of the Berlin State Opera, and chief conductor of...
Think Our Politicians Indulge In Too Much Performance? Consider The Emperor Nero
"For a start, the boundary between the emperor and his acting parts was a significantly blurry one. … The awful black hole at the...
Google Search Is Arguably The Internet’s Most Important Innovation. Now It’s Also A Tragedy.
"Unlike its streamlined, efficient former self, Google Search is now bloated and overmonetized. It's harder now to find answers that feel authoritative or uncompromised....
At 88, Yvonne Rainer Is Touring Her Final Choreographic Work
"'I just don’t have any more choreographic ideas,' she said. She went on to describe dancing Trio A in her 80s, when getting up...
Some US Regional Theater Companies Are Bouncing Back Well From The Pandemic. Here’s Why.
How the Barter Theatre in rural southwestern Virginia, Signature Theatre in metro DC, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and TheatreSquared in Fayetteville, Arkansas kept up contact...
New York Public Radio Will Lay Off 12% Of Its Staff
"LaFontaine Oliver, New York Public Radio's president and chief executive, said in a memo to employees that a 'free fall in the advertising market'...
One Of Ethiopia’s Most Sacred Objects, Looted 155 Years Ago, Is Returned
"A sacred tablet that was stolen by British troops during the 1868 Battle of Maqdala in Ethiopia was restituted in a service at a...
This Writer’s Books Were Used To Train Meta’s New AI Program. So He Asked...
Fred Kaplan, defense columnist for Slate: "When pressed with an even mildly confounding question, the machine just makes stuff up. Which makes me wonder:...
Here Are The 183,000 Books Which Authors Suing Meta Over (Is Yours One Of...
Alex Reisner has put together a searchable database of the volumes that Mark Zuckerberg's tech colossus used, without permission, to train LLaMA, its generative...
And What-All Is In This New Agreement Between The Studios And The Writers Guild?
The answer: not everything the writers wanted, but a lot more than anyone thought would be there six months ago — "a deal far...
The Hollywood Writers’ Strike Is Officially Over
"The governing boards of the eastern and western branches of the Writers Guild of America and their joint negotiating committee all voted to accept...
Pole Dancing Is Catching On Even in Egypt
"In many Western countries, pole dance classes achieved mainstream popularity years ago. Egypt's pole-dancing culture has been slower to grow — partly due to...
This Baritone Was Singing The Role Of God. He Had A Heart Attack And...
At the Ambronay Festival in France, Alejandro Meerapfel, a 54-year-old Argentine, was performing in an oratorio called Il Dono della vita eterna (The Gift...
Elect Us And We Will More Than Triple Arts Funding, Canada’s Liberal Party Tells...
"The Manitoba Arts Council would receive $20 million in funding annually — up from $6 million a year — if the Liberals are elected...
Libraries In Northern Ireland Are Now So Underfunded That They Can’t Buy Books
"Libraries will also operate with reduced opening hours. The service said the funding situation is presenting 'significant challenges', and that the board's decision to...
Conductor John DeMain Announces Retirement From Madison Symphony Orchestra
"The 2025-26 season marks the Madison orchestra's 100th anniversary. The symphony will conduct a search for a new leader, and DeMain intends to depart...
SAG-AFTRA Members Vote To Authorize Another, Different Strike
A motion by the actors' union to authorize a strike against video game companies passed with 98% of votes cast. The previous Interactive Media...
Actors’ Equity Moves To Unionize Broadway Production Assistants
"Many PAs, the union (says), are early-career stage managers, and PAs 'are among the only Broadway workers without current union representation.' The new bargaining...
