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What Gives Some Peoples The Strength To Fight And Overcome Far Stronger Adversaries?
"Throughout history, those willing to sacrifice for cause and comrades ... have often prevailed against more powerful forces that mainly rely on material incentives...
Beanie Feldstein Is Leaving Broadway’s “Funny Girl” Two Months Early
"Playing Fanny Brice on Broadway has been a lifelong dream of mine, and doing so ... has been a great joy and true honor. ...
America’s First Luthier And (Probably) First Composer Of Chamber Music
"Though the exaggerated myths of early America often don't reflect reality, there are obscure lives whose remarkable stories go untold. From chases on the...
Using Dance To Teach Girls Of Color To Code
The idea behind DanceLogic is that "both coding and dance use repetition and combination, so using dance as a hook to attract girls to...
For The Age Of #MeToo, There’s Still A Lot Of Old-Fashioned Misogyny Being Put...
Arifa Akbar: "It is hard to tell if the industry is merely casting an appraising glance back at the gender politics of the past...
The Most Unlikely Literary Rediscovery Ever? “Don Quixote” In Sanskrit
The 1937 translation was commissioned two years previously by wealthy American accounting executive Carl Tilden Keller, who already had versions of Cervantes's novel in...
Black Mountain College — The Underfunded, Never-Accredited, Long-Defunct Rural School That Transformed American Arts...
It only operated from 1933-1957 in North Carolina's Swannanoa Valley, and its great impact was through its summer program. But to see how important...
Roy Moore Loses His Lawsuit Against Sacha Baron Cohen Over The “Pedophile Detector” In...
Moore, the notorious judge and Senate candidate from Alabama, sued Cohen for $95 million, alleging he was deceived and defamed in the latter's 2018...
What Was (Or What Is) The Chitlin Circuit?
It was a network of theaters, nightclubs, and church halls throughout the US where Black entertainers performed during the segregation era, and where many...
Why Not Just Have A Robot Make Copies Of The Elgin Marbles To Replace...
Oxford's Institute for Digital Archaeology has lidar-scanned some of the sculptures at the British Museum; its robot is now chiseling copies of them from...
A Battle Breaks Out Over Who Gets To Design And Make Philadelphia’s Harriet Tubman...
When Wesley Wofford's touring sculpture of Tubman stopped there this winter, it was wildly popular, and the city commissioned him to make a permanent...
As Boris Johnson’s Prime Ministership Collapsed, British TV News Got Very, Very Weird
Featured on the commercial networks' coverage this week: a "Government Resignations Ticker", an anti-Brexit campaigner belting "Bye Bye Boris", a discussion of the Tories'...
Actor James Caan Dead At 82
"(He) memorably displayed his tough-guy screen presence as the trigger-happy Mafioso Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (among many other roles) but also proved, beyond...
Clint Eastwood Wins $2 Million In Lawsuit Against Defendants Who Used His Name And...
"The verdict is the second in favor of the actor in a pair of suits against CBD manufacturers and marketers that fabricated news articles...
Twitter Sues Indian Government Over Orders To Remove Tweets
"Twitter's suit, filed in the Karnataka High Court in Bangalore, challenges a recent order from the Indian government for the company to remove content...
CBC News Is Launching A New Streaming Service. But Aren’t They Providing Us Enough...
There are the main TV and radio networks, a cable channel (CBCNN), streaming service CBC Gem, the app, the YouTube channel, the "documentary Channel"...
Pay Equity Is Great, But Can Theater In America Afford It Without Shrinking?
Jesse Green surveys the unpaid and underpaid work that has always been part of making theater in the US, especially early in a career...
Sounds Like They’ve Finally Fixed The Acoustics At The Sydney Opera House’s Concert Hall
Ever since the landmark building opened in 1973, its Concert Hall's acoustics have been notoriously bad — and resistant to improvement. Now, a 2½-year,...
A Second Staff Rebellion In Two Years At Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater
This round of upheaval, sparked by the unexplained placing of the artistic director "on leave," has seen the last candidate for executive director withdraw,...
Whistleblower Group Calls For Detroit Institute Of Arts To Lose Accreditation
The founder of the organization Whistleblower Aid says that the museum has "broken IRS rules, Michigan state laws; they've broken their employment policies, their...
Librarians Get Trapped, And Even Targeted, In The Culture Wars
"Accustomed to being seen as dedicated public servants in their communities, (they) have found themselves … labeled pedophiles on social media, called out by...
US Museum Attendance Hits A Post-Pandemic Plateau
"Recent data collected by Artnet from more than a dozen museums around the country suggests that attendance recovery has slowed, with some cultural institutions...
Over 1,500 Edinburgh Fringe Participants Demand Reform
"Hundreds of artists, performers, venues and promoters say it is becoming 'increasingly difficult' to justify the expense of taking part in the event, which...
In Response To Highland Park Shooting, Ravinia Festival Cancels This Week’s Concerts
The festival campus is just a couple of miles away from the site of the murders at Monday's Fourth of July parade. - MSN...
As AI Software Learns To Write Prose, Create Art, And Make Conversation, We Might...
"Current AI systems hold up a mirror to our online minds. Like Narcissus, we can get lost gazing at the reflection, even though it...
