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The Brad Pitt-And-The-Starchitects-Save-The-Lower-Ninth-Ward Fiasco Has Hit Another Low
The Make It Right Foundation was supposed to provide well-designed replacement homes for wiped-out Katrina victims in the impoverished New Orleans neighborhood. The houses...
The Professional Ballerina And PhD Physicist Who Dances With Robots
"Merritt Moore … is walking, talking, dancing proof that you can build a career in both science and art. She has a PhD in...
Nobody In Hollywood Would Finance A Film Titled “How To Blow Up A Pipeline”
"Shot in the deserts of Texas, the film takes (climate activist Andreas) Malm's call to action and builds it into a heist movie. …...
How Bookshop.org Helped Save Independent Bookstores From Being Completely Crushed By Amazon
"What started as a favor done on a business-trip whim has since become the great project of Andy Hunter's professional life. In its first...
Anne Perry, Murder Mystery Author Who Took Part In A Notorious Murder Herself, Is...
"Ms. Perry, a prolific writer who sold more than 26 million books worldwide, had already become well established as a novelist when her sinister...
The Taliban Are Actually Moving To Protect An Ancient Buddhist Site
"The Afghan heritage site Mes Aynak is currently at risk of being destroyed due to a delayed mining project. The site, just 25 miles...
Today In Schadenfreude: Florida Woman Runs Her Rolls-Royce Smack Into A $3 Million Damien...
The unnamed motorist, who claims not to remember the incident, drove into the Palm Beach backyard of billionaire art collectors Steven and Lisa Tananbaum,...
The Popular New Place For Catching News Podcasts? YouTube
Polling from the firm Morning Consult that US podcast consumers, in the aggregate, prefer YouTube to audio-only platforms. Staffers from Slate, ESPN, and NPR...
Dallas Theater Center, Struggling With Attendance And Finances, Announces Layoffs
"Dallas Theater Center will lay off an undisclosed number of staff, it announced Tuesday, a cost-cutting measure that comes as the organization has struggled...
English National Opera Accepts £24 Million Funding Deal To Leave London
"The funding (from Arts Council England) would support the ENO's 'reimagined artistic and business model' to have a primary base outside of the capital...
BBC Reverses Decision To Cut Number Of Musicians In Its Orchestras
"The cuts, which were announced in March, would have reduced roles in the BBC Symphony, Concert and Philharmonic orchestras by 20%. On Thursday, the...
“What Chicago Needs Is A New Opera Company. Make That Two Or Three New...
Lawrence A. Johnson, founder of the Classical Review network of websites, decries what he sees as the deadly dull state of the art form...
Young Adults In Upper Egypt Work To Keep The Nubian Language From Vanishing
"In the 1960s, much of Old Nubia was destroyed by the construction of the Aswan High Dam. … Between 50,000 and 130,000 people were...
Martin McDonagh Complains That Some Theatres Refuse To Produce His Plays Because They Have...
"'Only in the past few years have I had theatre companies refuse to do my plays, because they don't like some of the wording,'...
Disappointed By Streaming, Hollywood Is Kissing And Making Up With Movie Theaters
"The exhibition industry is finally looking like its pre-pandemic self again. That's partly attributable to studios releasing new installments of successful franchises, but it...
British Theatres Discover A New Target Audience: Female Novel-Readers
"(There is) a string of new stage shows based on hit books by female authors that were enjoyed largely by female readers. Waiting in...
Italy Will Impose Steep Fines On People Who Vandalize Or Damage Cultural Sites
"At a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the government approved proposed legislation championed by the culture minister that would impose fines starting at €10,000 (nearly...
Sexual Harassment Allegations Rock India’s Top Bharatanatyam School
Students, both female and male, at the Kalakshetra Foundation's Rukmini Devi College of Fine Arts in Chennai have alleged sexual advances by faculty members...
Thirteen Women Accuse Gérard Depardieu, France’s Biggest Film Star, Of On-Set Sexual Misconduct
"The accusations were made by female actors, make-up artists and production staff, some of whom spoke on the basis of anonymity, and allegedly occurred...
Auctioneer In Counterfeit Basquiat Scheme Cops Plea And Faces Prison
"A former Los Angeles auctioneer," Michael Barzan, "has agreed to plead guilty in a scheme where he created fake artwork and falsely attributed the...
A County In Texas Considers Closing Its Public Libraries Rather Than Returning To The...
"After a federal judge ordered the return of more than a dozen books improperly pulled from the Llano County Public Library shelves for their...
Elon Musk Backs Down, Says Twitter Will Change Its Labeling Of BBC From “Government-Funded”...
"I know the BBC for example's not thrilled about being labelled state-affiliated media. If we use the same words that the BBC uses to...
In Praise Of Long, Complicated Sentences (Take That, Strunk And White!)
"Within a long sentence — clause upon clause, the commas and semicolons, em-dashes and colons, parentheticals and appositions piling up — there can be...
The Revival Of Cambodia’s Arts Capital (Which Is Not Phnom Penh)
"The wealth from (agriculture provided) plentiful funds to carve the most beautiful Buddhist temples, craft the finest musical instruments and produce high-quality motion pictures....
The World’s Oldest Piece Of Tartan Is Found In A Scottish Peat Bog
"The (16th-century) textile was found in the 1980s in Glen Affric, a region in the Scottish Highlands about 19 miles west of Loch Ness....
