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Meet The Boston Typewriter Orchestra
Says one member, "We call them instruments, some people call them office machines, some people call them sculptures. It's got a limited range of...
Now The Crypto And Blockchain Guys Are Coming For The Book Industry
"This is the future an emerging number of publishing startups are after — aiming to change the value of a book from a $10...
Oklahoma City Library Workers Are Officially Warned Not To Help Patrons Find Abortion Information
"Library workers across Oklahoma's Metropolitan Library System (MLS) were shocked this week after receiving instructions to avoid using the word 'abortion' and not to...
Salt Lake’s Odyssey Dance Theatre Is Closing Down After 28 Years
The company, founded by former Ballet West principal Derryl Yeager and his wife, Cheryl, was unusual in having as its annual cash cow not...
Teenagers Really Are Getting Their News From TikTok And Instagram
New research finds that 29% of UK teens use Instagram as their main news source; another 28% use TikTok and YouTube. Says one, "The...
A New $1.4 Billion Cultural/Retail District On The Shenzhen Waterfront
"Known as K11 Ecoast, the forthcoming complex" — to be built by Hong Kong real estate mogul and art collector Adrian Cheng — "is...
Joni Mitchell Performs Her First Full Live Set In 20 Years
The 78-year-old folk legend, who has spent years recovering from a 2015 brain aneurysm, made a surprise appearance in what had been billed as...
The Climate-Activists-Gluing-Themselves-To-Artwork Phenomenon Has Arrived In Italy
Following the lead of the British group Just Stop Oil, two young protesters from the organization Ultima Generazione (Final Generation) glued their hands to...
The Things You Find When You Dig A New Elevator Shaft In Old Jerusalem
"Archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem say they have made numerous discoveries, including an ornate first-century villa with its own ritual bath, after...
Chicago’s Goodman Theatre Appoints An Alumna As Its Next Artistic Director
"Susan V. Booth, a former Goodman literary manager and currently artistic director of the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, will be the new artistic director...
Actor Paul Sorvino Dead At 83
Over a five-decade career in theater, film, and television, he played a wide variety of men who were tough in one way or another,...
Six Months After Firing Its Artistic Director, Toledo Ballet Hires A New One
Eric Otto, who has danced and choreographed at companies throughout the eastern and Midwestern US, begins his term this fall. Much of the Toledo...
The World’s First Graphic Memoir Has Been Found — And It Dates From World...
Until now, the earliest example of the genre was thought to be Will Eisner's 1978 A Contract with God. What's just turned up is...
A Visit To Beeple’s New $10 Million Studios
Having gotten $69 million for the digital artwork that started NFT madness (which he predicted would be a bubble), the artist formally named Mike...
London’s West End Has Its First New Theatre In 50 Years
Inside the 602-seat venue, called @sohoplace, "sophisticated acoustic design means there is no need for mics or bellowing onstage – and most impressively, no...
Playwright Christopher Durang Diagnosed With Progressive Aphasia
Specifically, logopenic primary progressive aphasia, a form of Alzheimer's disease described thus by one of Durang's medical specialists: "instead of starting in the memory...
Why Is Adapting Jane Austen For The Screen So Tricky?
"The answer lies in the expectations that Austen fans, a particularly passionate and opinionated crowd, bring to her work. The problem isn't that (the...
How Evelyn Glennie’s Brain Works: The Neuroscience Of Deaf People’s Experience Of Music
"Because every hard-of-hearing person has a different history with music, and because every brain is different, how an individual's vibrotactile sense may fill in...
Want A Career In Classical Music? You Need To Be Either Rich Or Very,...
"It is a game you can train for, one you can become tremendously skilled at, but that skill and work is such a basic...
Cal Shakes Director Eric Ting Resigns
"Eric Ting is leaving his position as artistic director of California Shakespeare Theater, the company announced Wednesday, July 20, bringing to an end a...
HarperCollins Staffers Stage One-Day Strike, Demanding Less-Appallingly-Low Pay
"Around 100 employees and additional supporters (were) marching in front of the company's corporate headquarters in Manhattan in the sticky heat for higher wages,...
Russian Feminist-Queer Artist-Activist Acquitted Of Pornography Charges
"Yulia Tsvetkova, 29, spent months under house arrest after authorities in the remote city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur launched a criminal case into the 'spread of...
Bollywood’s Latest Blockbusters Are Not Doing Big Box-Office
"Expectations that pent-up demand from movie-hungry audiences would lead to packed cinema halls have been belied by millions of dollars in lost revenue, as...
Ukraine’s Historic Churches Are Being Ravaged By Russia’s War — And There’s Too Much...
"Ukraine's churches are the hardest hit of all heritage sites in the war-torn country, new data suggests. But a coalition of priests and religious...
Fired Artistic Director Of Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater Says He Won’t Return If Invited...
In a statement released this week, Ken-Matt Martin writes, "I have decided that I need to take a break from nonprofit theatre administration and...
