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The Legal Battle Over A Highway Tunnel Near Stonehenge Is On Again
Six weeks after the UK government gave final approval for the $2.3 billion project, a group arguing that the tunnel could irreparably harm the...
At Film Festivals During The Hollywood Strikes, Stars Must Walk A Tricky Tightrope
"Although the festivals won't be as deprived of stars as feared, the agreements mean there will be a patchwork of talent: Who is and...
Federal Judge Puts Hold On Texas Book Rating/Ban Law
"During a brief online status conference on August 31, federal judge Alan D. Albright said he will issue a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of...
Authorities Seize Ancient Roman Statue From Cleveland Museum of Art
"A headless bronze statue believed to depict the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius was ordered seized from the Cleveland Museum of Art by...
Major Layoffs At Steppenwolf Theatre
"Steppenwolf Theatre Company, one of Chicago's most storied arts institutions and long a crucial part of the city's identity, said Thursday that it was...
Tiananmen Musical Announces Casting While Its Star Is Touring China. He Drops Out The...
Zachary Noah Piser, a Chinese-American actor, was to play the lead in Tiananmen: A New Musical when it debuts in Phoenix in October. The...
Film Producer And Alleged $245 Million Fraudster Remington Chase Is Dead At 65
"Chase's death leaves a long trail of litigation, with numerous parties accusing him of defrauding them out of investment funds, real estate and loan...
Star YA Author John Green Never Wanted To Get Caught Up In The Library...
"But a recent dust-up over whether his books are appropriate for teens feels more personal, and like an escalation of a growing movement to...
“She’s A High Priestess Of Silence And Stillness” — Playwright Annie Baker
"Her scripts call for comfortable pauses, uncomfortable pauses, weird pauses, confused pauses, horrible pauses. … It's worth contemplating what's going on between the lines...
Trying Out Virtual Reality At Birmingham Royal Ballet
"A pioneering 'virtual stage' launched by Birmingham Royal Ballet will use immersive technology to help neurodivergent audiences access their shows for the first time....
John Eliot Gardiner Withdraws From All Concerts For The Rest Of This Year
After making headlines worldwide by punching a bass soloist after a performance last week, the conductor says, "I am taking a step back in...
The Myth That Has Let Conductors Like John Eliot Gardiner Get Away With Punching...
"Replace charismatic leadership with technocratic good manners and the whole edifice comes tumbling down," wrote one London critic. Responds Michael Brodeur, "This brings us...
Can Visual Design Defeat NIMBY? (On The Aesthetics Of Wind Farms)
"How can developers appease locals worried about supposedly industrial wind farms taking over their idyllic landscapes? If other forms of infrastructure offer any clues,...
Bookstores’ Author Events Are Changing In The Post-Pandemic Era
"Many publishers have scaled back on national author tours, … (so there's) a different kind of thinking about store programming: bookstores are scheduling earlier,...
A Cut Or Just A Rearrangement? New England Media Moves Its Flagship Radio Stations...
The two highest-power frequencies in the western Massachusetts network, one FM and one AM, are moving to the news/talk format familiar on most NPR...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandal Strikes Canada’s National Gallery
"Climate activists have once again targeted a famous work of art, with a member of the group On2Ottawa throwing pink paint on Tom Thomson's...
New Jersey Symphony Cuts Staff And Concert Dates
The weeks of core classical programming will be reduced, 15% of administrative staff jobs will be eliminated, remaining staff are getting mandatory furloughs, and...
“Collaborative Metamorphosis”: An Author And A Translator Talk About How They Work Together
Author Carlos Fonseca: "I now always say that I have a little (of translator)Megan McDowell in my mind, even when I write in Spanish."...
Recovering, After Five Centuries, The Music Of Europe’s First Published Black Composer
Vicente Lusitano had been dimly remembered, largely by music historians, for "a notorious dispute which he won, then lost, but is now winning again."...
Street Dancers All Over L.A. Are Bringing New Excitement To The Shuffle
"A passionate cohort of dancers (have) repackaged the footwork for a new generation. MC Hammer's running man and underground raves in the '80s popularized...
Britain’s Obscenity Law Vs. Nabokov’s “Lolita”
Once Graham Greene reviewed the novel (in its original printing from Paris) in the The Sunday Times in 1955, George Weidenfeld knew he wanted...
Putin’s Government Brings Its Ukraine War Propaganda To Russian Cinemas
A recently released film titled The Witness, about a touring violinist, caught in Kiev as the invasion begins, who sees (entirely fictional) atrocities committed...
The Collateral Damage Of The Hollywood Strikes
"From studio rentals and set construction to dry cleaning for costumes and transportation to sets, it's hard to find a corner of the Los...
Playwright Tina Howe, A Tony And Pulitzer Finalist, Is Dead At 85
Her breakthrough was 1981's Painting Churches, which won an Obie and, after its 1983 Broadway transfer, became a Pulitzer finalist. Also a Pulitzer finalist...
What’s The Delay With Building Philadelphia Ballet’s New Headquarters?
"Nearly a year after a ceremonial groundbreaking for (the company's) new headquarters on North Broad Street, no actual ground has been broken and construction...
