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Salsa In Syria: Social Dancing Classes Offer Damascans A Brief Escape From The Stresses...
"For (the) students, ballroom dancing is a form of release, finding rhythm in music away from their country's many social and economic pressures. For...
The Costa Book Awards Really Did Make A Difference (A Eulogy)
"The USP of the Whitbreads, which morphed into the Costas 14 years before they were abruptly scrapped this month, was that they didn't buy...
For The First Time, An LGBTQ Studies Scholar Wins The $500,000 Kluge Humanities Prize
The honoree is historian George Chauncey, best known for the multi-award-winning Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male...
The L.A. Times Sets Up Its Own “Meme Team” (And You Won’t See Its...
It's called The 404, and "video — especially on TikTok — (will) be the first priority. Other areas of concentration will be images (think:...
What’s Behind The Closing Notices For Long-Running Broadway Musicals?
Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, and Tina did solid business before the pandemic. Yet with tourism to New York City still down, they've...
The Bind Facing Black American Playwrights: How Do You Offer Deliverance, Or Even Hope,...
"How can these stories end? What does deliverance look like in a world in which the odds are stacked against these Black characters, and...
The San Antonio Symphony Is Dead, But Its Musicians Will Keep Giving Concerts
"After playing three concerts this spring, the Musicians of the San Antonio Symphony is making plans for a fall season in which it hopes...
Yes, San Antonio Can Have The Professional Symphony Orchestra It Deserves
"Not only is a reborn symphony possible, but ... it is essential to the quality of life in San Antonio, and preservation of the...
Despite The Symphony’s Death, There’s A Thriving Chamber Orchestra In San Antonio
"Unlike the symphony, it's a young institution. Unlike the symphony, it has diversity and inclusiveness deep in its DNA. ... Its performing artists hail...
Librarians Find A Dürer Just Sitting There In An Old Book On Their Shelves
"During a recent inventory audit, researchers at the Oldenburg State Library (in Germany) found on the title page of the book (the) small drawing....
James Rado, Co-Creator Of The Musical “Hair”, Dead At 90
Contrary to popular lore, Rado and collaborator (and then-lover) Gerome Ragni weren't out-of-work actors writing themselves roles (they played Claude and Berger), they were...
The Obamas Move Their Media Company From Spotify To Audible
The agreement between the company, called Higher Ground, and Spotify was not renewed because of disagreements over both content and distribution. The new deal...
How Hollywood Turned Graham Greene’s Novel “The Quiet American” Upside-Down
"Greene usually liked to see his novels adapted, but not this time. What Greene was trying to say about American ignorance and arrogance in...
The Long Effort To Decipher Linear A And Linear B, Two Of The World’s...
The scripts come from the Bronze Age civilization on Crete during the 2nd millennium BCE. It was a long and somewhat tricky process to...
The Enlightenment Libertine: Making Sense Of Casanova
"Giacomo Casanova practiced many trades — violinist, gambler, spy, Kabbalist, soldier, man of letters — but his main line of work was deceiving fools....
How A Major Orchestra Goes About Choosing A New Concert Piano
The Pittsburgh Symphony was looking to buy a new Steinway concert grand for its concerto soloists. The price: $198,000. Fortunately, Emanuel Ax was there...
Turns Out The Inability To Dance To A Steady Beat Is Genetic, Say Researchers
"A new study by Vanderbilt Genetics Institute researchers ... found a genetic link to our ability — and inability — to move to musical...
Guaranteed Public School Arts Funding Could Become Law In California
The initiative on this year's general election ballot "would require the state to find a source of revenue to fund K-12 arts education equal,...
US Orchestras Really Are Playing More Music By Women And Minority Composers, Finds Report
"Compositions by women and people of color now make up about 23 percent of the pieces performed by orchestras, up from only about 5...
As Of July, At Broadway Theatres, Masks Will Be Optional
"In a statement, Charlotte St. Martin, president of The Broadway League, said audience members were still encouraged to wear masks, but would not be...
Cut Our Funding In Favor Of The Regions, Says UK’s National Theatre, And We...
"Cutting us back because of where our postcode is will have a direct and negative effect on the nationwide work that this move is...
Another Call, This Time From Sudan, For Britain To Return Looted Art Objects
"Museum officials from Sudan are calling for the repatriation of cultural artifacts and human remains that were stolen by British soldiers and other colonizers...
George Lamming, Giant Of Caribbean And Post-Colonial Literature, Dead At 94
Returning to Barbados after university in England, "(he) became a moral, political and intellectual force for a newly independent country seeking to tell its...
Vienna Philharmonic Musicians Reveal The Secrets Of Their Orchestra’s Unique Sound
There are plenty of factors, and these people are oh so proud of them all (despite the fact that one of them is subtlety). ...
Reclaiming The Lindy Hop’s African-American Roots
It's named after pioneering pilot Charles Lindbergh, it was a staple of social dancing in the 1930s, and it regained popularity in the swing...
