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Paul Simon Says He’s Gone Mostly Deaf In One Ear And May Have To...
"Quite suddenly, I lost most of the hearing in my left ear, and nobody has an explanation for it," he said. As if that...
Trump’s Voice of America Chief Repeatedly Abused Power and Tried To Impose Political Loyalty...
Just days after being confirmed as CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Michael Pack was trying to fire executives suspected of insufficient...
The Worst Is Over: U.S. Orchestra Audiences Are Finally Coming Back To Live Concerts
"In interviews, orchestra leaders around the country (said) that things had been deeply disappointing early on this season for them, too — and that...
The Netflix Password-Sharing Crackdown Has Begun
"Netflix is bringing its password-sharing deterrents to the U.S. On Tuesday, the streaming giant began rolling out its paid sharing feature in the U.S.,...
Egyptians Are Flipping Out Again About A Famous Pharaoh Depicted As Black
"A new exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities in the Netherlands has sparked controversy by including a contemporary artwork that depicts the Pharaoh...
It’s The Playwrights Who Saved This Year’s Tony Awards
Many leading playwrights also work as screenwriters — and are thus members of the striking Writers Guild of America. When that union refused to...
International Booker Prize 2023 Goes To Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel for “Time Shelter”
"(The novel) imagines the 'first clinic of the past,' in which Alzheimer's patients can visit different time periods of their lives on different floors."...
A Set Of Ceramic Plates Bought For $8 From The Salvation Army Turn Out...
"It’s every thrifter's dream. Several years ago, a New York woman purchased several ceramic dishes at a Salvation Army store for $8, then found...
Steven Spielberg Want To Make Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” Into A Miniseries
Spielberg and his production company, Amblin Partners, "are shopping it with Patrick Marber adapting (the Closer writer/director was the play's original director when it...
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...
