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The 100 Greatest Children’s Books of All Times (A BBC Culture Poll)
"BBC Culture polled 177 books experts from 56 countries in order to find the greatest children's books ever. From Where the Wild Things Are...
In Sydney, A Controversy Over How Often, And Why, To Permit Special Light Shows...
"The Sydney Opera House has reviewed the rules for lighting its iconic sails, as figures reveal they were lit up a record one night...
Head Of Disney’s Theme Parks Division Says Company Won’t Cut Customer-Facing Staff Jobs
"As Disney pledges to enact $5.5 billion in cost-saving measures, Disney Parks Chairperson Josh D'Amaro said his department will also be making cuts, but...
Tschabalala Self Sculpture Of Black Woman Spray-Painted White By Vandals
"The work, titled Seated (2022), first appeared near King's Cross in London last year and is now being exhibited by the De la Warr...
Gia Kourlas Is Giving Balanchine Too Much Of A Pass For His Abusive Behavior
"Far too often, women in ballet have been disbelieved, gaslighted, judged, or blamed for the harms inflicted on them by their abusers. Kourlas continues...
Covering Cannes As A Journalist Is Glamorous And Exciting. It’s Also Grueling And Stressful
"One minute, your heart and mind are overthrown by a life-changing film (or) a miraculous performance. ... The next you're nearly sobbing with...
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...
