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Georgia School District’s Book Bans May Violate Civil Rights Laws, Officials Warn
"The U.S. Department of Education has found that a suburban Atlanta school district's decision to remove some books from its libraries may have created...
Cliff Terry, Longtime Chicago Tribune Film Critic And Editor, Is Dead At 86
"He wrote a stream of reviews but refused, to the displeasure of bosses, to rate films by a star system. 'He always defended that...
EU Fines Meta, Facebook’s Corporate Parent, A Record $1.3 Billion For Sending European Users’...
"Meta has been hit with a record-breaking $1.3 billion fine (€1.2 billion) by EU data regulators, and ordered to stop transferring the Facebook data...
The New Executive Producer of “Jeopardy!” Is Treating It Like A Sport
Michael Davies: "I want to build an elite pyramid of competition that plays a postseason every single year at the same time. … It...
The Contemporary Ballet That Became Modern Taiwan’s National Epic
"Performed by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Legacy is widely considered to be the first contemporary dance to tell the story of modern Taiwan. It...
An Anti-Mafia Museum Opens In Sicily
"The publicly- and privately-funded museum will open in Palermo's 18th-century neoclassical Palazzo Jung palace, sources report. Joining an existing No Mafia Memorial and museum,...
The Art And Practice Of Nude Standup Comedy
"Public speaking is always ranked in polls as among our greatest fears. Stand-up must be worse. But 'The Naked Comedy Show'? This monthly showcase...
The New York Times Tries Out “Enhanced Bylines”
"Stories online will no longer include a traditional dateline that tells where a story was reported from. Instead, certain stories will have 'enhanced bylines'...
TikTok Creators Sue Montana Over Its Ban Of The App
"Five TikTok content creators have filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Montana's first-in-the-nation ban on the video sharing app, arguing the law is an...
COVID Cost California’s Performing Arts Sector Ten Years’ Worth Of Job Growth
"California's performing arts sector lost a decade's worth of jobs within a two-year period, with 2021 employment dropping to 2010 levels, according to a...
Spoleto Festival USA Tries Out A Pay-What-You-Will Ticket Program
"An anonymous donation this year made affordable rates for a quarter of the festival's shows possible, (subsidizing) about 1,300 tickets, valued at about $50,000....
Amid Italy’s Catastrophic Floods, Museums Close, And One Becomes An Emergency Shelter
It's still too early to assess damage to museums and heritage sites in Emilia-Romagna, where 13 people have died and 10,000 are displaced amid...
Salman Rushdie Makes First In-Person Appearance Since Attempted Murder
"Salman Rushdie made an emotional and unexpected return to public life Thursday night, attending the annual gala of PEN America and giving the event's...
Immersive Theater Meets Mexican Masked Wrestling
Aa a joint project of the La Jolla Playhouse and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, designer David Israel Reynoso and theater company...
Culture Is Now Utterly Boring, Argues William Deresiewicz, And It’s Because Of Far More...
"Decent we have, sometimes even good: well-made, professional. But wild, indelible, commanding us without appeal to change our lives? I don't think we even...
As The Hollywood Writers’ Strike Continues, Writer-Directors Are In A Bind
Directors Guild members are bound by the customary no-strike clause while their contract term lasts, and they're supposed to make necessary minor script changes...
Sam Zell, The “Grave Dancer” Mogul Who Nearly Destroyed Great Newspapers, Is Dead At...
While he got that nickname for making his fortune by buying distressed real estate cheap, he earned his greatest notoriety for his leveraged buyout...
A Setting Of The Orthodox Liturgy, Kept Hidden For A Century, Is Heard In...
Konstantin Shvedov composed his setting of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in 1913. It was kept secret through the Soviet years until Irina...
After A 15-Month Struggle, The Topless Dancers Of North Hollywood Have Finally Unionized
"Dancers at a North Hollywood topless bar," Star Garden, "will become the only strippers in the United States to gain union recognition after the...
Europol’s Most Recent Operation Pandora Raids Recovered 11,000 Stolen Artworks And Artifacts
"Pandora VII, which resulted in crackdowns across 14 European countries and was led by Spanish authorities, involved checks across airports, ports, border crossings, auction...
Penguin Random House And PEN America Sue Florida Over Book Bans
"PEN America, Penguin Random House, a group of authors, and a group of parents have filed a federal lawsuit against a Florida school district...
Montana Just Passed A Law Banning TikTok. But Can The State Enforce It?
"The law will prohibit downloads of TikTok in the state and fine any 'entity' — an app store or TikTok — $10,000 per day...
British Museum Faces Another Repatriation Request — For Asante Gold From Ghana
The Asante people's traditional monarch, "the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, who attended the Coronation of King Charles, later met the museum director (to...
World’s Oldest Surviving Hebrew Bible Sells For $33 Million
"The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten (10th-century) parchment volume containing a nearly complete Hebrew Bible, was purchased … on behalf of the American Friends...
This Ancient Amphitheatre Stages The Classics Of Greek Drama In Grand Style
The auditorium, carved out of a hillside in Syracuse on Sicily's southeastern coast, "seats 5,000. The stage is 27 metres wide and 44 deep;...
