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France’s Electricians’ Union Threatens To Unplug Cannes Film Festival To Protest Macron’s Pension Reforms
"Members of the National Federation of Mines and Energy – a branch of the powerful CGT union – have announced '100 days of action...
“We Are Facing A Long-Term Fight For Existence”: Read Simon Rattle’s Speech On Britain’s...
"There is nobody here tonight, even musicians, who does not recognise the enormous challenges faced by the world at present and this country in...
A Pair Of Amateur Investigators Tracks Down Art Treasures Looted From India
"These sleuths, with the help of a small, anonymous global team of volunteers from various fields – who communicate mostly online – have brought...
An Architect Uses Traditional Oaxacan Materials And Techniques To Create Beautiful Modern Buildings
"Juan José Santibañez has almost single-handedly revived ancient construction techniques in the area, created a market for artisanal brickmakers from miles around, and proven...
Publisher Michael Denneny, A Central Figure In Gay Literature, Has Died At 80
His Stonewall Inn Editions was the first gay imprint at a major publisher (St. Martin's Press), where "(he) released canonical titles by ... Larry...
Streaming Studios Find That A Theatrical Release Is Great Marketing
"Not long ago, some were predicting more and more films would be diverted from theaters and sent straight into homes. … (Yet) companies like...
The San Francisco Ballet Company That’s Really Putting Gender Equity Into Practice
Smuin Contemporary Ballet may be named after a male (its founder, who died in 2007), but it now has women as artistic director, associate...
How Do Actors Find Places To Live When They’re On Gigs Away From Home?
"The ease of the task depends on where they are on the call sheet. Big names get the red carpet treatment. … Somewhat lesser...
French Publishing Exec Arrested And Interrogated On His Politics While Traveling To London Book...
"Ernest Moret, a French foreign rights manager with Editions La Fabrique was stopped as he attempted to enter the UK at St. Pancras train...
Lee Strasberg Institute Sued By Former Student Alleging Sexual Assault
"A former student alleges that then–artistic director Mitchell Nestor 'raped and sexually assaulted' her in the early 1970s. The lawsuit … names the school...
Prosecutors Drop Manslaughter Charges Against Alec Baldwin In “Rust” On-Set Shooting
After making several previous missteps, prosecutors in New Mexico decided to withdraw the involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor upon the discovery of new...
Amid US-China Tensions, New York Philharmonic Will Tour To Hong Kong And Taiwan
"The New York Philharmonic, saying it hoped to use culture to help ease political tensions, announced plans on Thursday for a summer tour in...
BuzzFeed News Is Being Shut Down
"Going forward, BuzzFeed will concentrate its news efforts in a single profitable news organization — HuffPost, which it acquired from Verizon in 2020, per...
Our Brains Aren’t Just Gray Matter, They’re White Matter, Too — And Its Shape...
"A host of researchers (is) probing subtle differences in white matter to better understand ... its role in making us who we are —...
Could We Learn To Move Through Time As An Octopus Moves Through Space?
Human bodies are basically built to see and move forward; human brains tend to conceive of time in that forward way. Octopuses can move...
Drama Desk Awards Eliminate Separate Actor And Actress Categories
"The updated categories are: Outstanding Leading Performer in a Play, Outstanding Leading Performer in a Musical, Outstanding Featured Performer in a Play and Outstanding...
Even Rhiannon Giddens Didn’t Know That Black People Invented The Banjo
"But if you weren’t lucky enough to know somebody who knew the real story," she asks, "why would you know that? I didn't know...
Sydney Modern Has Had Its Splashy Opening, And Now The Kvetching Has Begun
Most critics are impressed, the public likes it, but some observers have complaints: it looks like a mall, the gallery spaces are cramped, the...
Building A Canon Of American Prison Literature
"The American Prison Writing Archive … plans to increase the number of (its) digitized first-person accounts to more than 10,000, start a book series,...
There Will Be Ten Female Conductors At This Summer’s BBC Proms
"The opening and closing nights will be led by Dalia Stasevska and Marin Alsop respectively. … Meanwhile, 11 of this year's 21 premieres are...
What The Dominion Case Has Revealed About The Nature Of Fox News
"All this makes clear what Fox News really is. It's a service provider. That service is the maintenance of a reality bubble and the...
18 Months After On-Set Shooting, Alec Baldwin’s “Rust” Restarts Production
"Filming on the Western movie Rust could resume this week in Montana, the production company said Wednesday, in the aftermath of the fatal shooting...
North Carolina Lawmakers Propose “Mickey’s Freedom Restoration Act” (In Case Disney Gets Tired Of...
"Certain 'state governments,' the bill reads, 'have recently begun to prioritize 'culture war' politics over economic development.' It also quotes Walt Disney CEO Bob...
Britain Has A Growing Problem With Library Book Censorship, Too
"Research (has) found that a third of librarians had been asked by members of the public to censor or remove books, indicating that such...
Florida Legislature Proposes Law To Let Citizens Sue Local Governments For Removing Confederate Memorials
"A new Florida bill would make local governments financially liable for removing public statues. The 'Historical Monuments and Memorials Protection Act' would allow civilians...
