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The Metropolitan Opera Sold 61% of Its Tickets This Past Season. That’s Actually A...
Sure, that's down from the last full season, which was 2018-19. (Think about that.) What's more, tourists, who used to account for up to...
Behold The Harpejji, A Cross Between A Piano And A Guitar
"It's long, flat and electrified, with strings stretched over frets along a wooden body. Beneath them are black and white markers corresponding to the...
Tourists Are Long Gone From Timbuktu. Here’s How Some Tour Guides Are Piecing Together...
With a years-long civil war in Mali cutting off access, you simply cannot get to the historic city from abroad. But you can still...
Just Like Its Protagonist, The Story Of Pinocchio Keeps Changing
Joan Acocella reminds us how utterly different the character and narrative in the original novel by Carlo Collodi are from Walt Disney's 1940 movie....
Intentional Profanity: How To Use Bad Words Mindfully And Derive Maximum Benefit
Swearing can abuse people or amuse them, inspire doubt or trust (or both) in others, and measurably relieve stress or pain — if you...
Optimistic Pigs, Tool-Making Birds, Ball-Playing Bees: (Re-)Considering Animal Minds
"The challenge, then, becomes finding a way of thinking about animal minds that doesn't simply view them as like the human mind with the...
A Gay “Fantasticks”? Yes, And Adapted By The Original Writer
When Flint Repertory Theatre artistic director Michael Lluberes contacted Tom Jones, the musical's playwright/lyricist, requesting approval to do the show with two young men...
Composer Timo Andres Salutes His Teacher, The Late Ingram Marshall
"With an unlikely fusion of loose, stream-of-consciousness forms and old-school contrapuntal technique, he constructed monoliths of sound, then obscured them. ... I felt I'd...
The Sydney Morning Herald Apologizes And (Kinda Sorta) Admits That It Tried To Out...
After a wave of outrage over the original story erupted not only on social media but among the newspaper's staff, the column in question...
Gannett Will Eliminate Daily Editorial Pages At All Of Its Regional Newspapers
"Beginning in the spring and accelerating this month, the 250-title chain is cutting back opinion pages to a few days a week while refocusing...
All About The Smile (And Its History)
"The smile has always been with us then, and it would appear it's always been the same. It seems only one step further to...
Too Much Good Weather Is Bad For The Arts, Researchers Find
Well, at least in Australia: both researchers and museum execs there report that attendance goes up when it's rainy, and new-ish major arts festivals...
Australia’s National Broadcaster Is Sacking Almost All Of Its Archivists
"Archivists and librarians at the ABC are in shock after management unveiled plans to abolish 58 positions and make journalists research and archive their...
Tourists Have Just Been Wrecking The Spanish Steps In Rome Lately
Last month a Saudi man took a wrong turn and drove his rented Maserati down the steps — then he tried to reverse the...
Broadway To Rename A Theater After Lena Horne
The Nederland Organization, owner of what's now called the Brooks Atkinson Theatre (where the musical Six is currently playing), will officially rename the venue...
UK’s Costa Book Awards Are Abruptly Shut Down
"The coffee shop chain has said the 2021 awards, which were announced in February this year, were the last. ... The awards were established...
Two Unpublished Stories By Shirley Jackson Are Now In Print
"'Charlie Roberts' and 'Only Stand and Wait' were both published on 9 June in Strand magazine, a US-based print magazine that publishes short fiction...
Ranan Lurie, Once The World’s Most Widely Syndicated Political Cartoonist, Dead At 90
"At his peak, Mr. Lurie's evocative caricatures appeared in about 1,000 publications with more than 100 million readers in 100 countries. ... He welded...
Minnesota Public Radio Gets $56 Million To Expand Classical Music Programming
The largest donation in MPR's history, the anonymous gift, to be placed in a separate endowment, will be divided between new media technology and...
Ben Stevenson To Retire As Artistic Director Of Texas Ballet Theater
Or, as the announcement puts it, he will become "artistic director laureate" in July after 19 years at the Fort Worth company's helm. Associate...
26-Year-Old Klaus Mäkelä Named Chief Conductor Of Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
The young Finn won't have the full job title until 2027, though he'll be "artistic partner" of the orchestra — widely considered one of...
How Evolutionary Psychology Got All Tied Up In The Culture Wars
"As its perspective has spread out into popular culture, pop EvoPsych has inflected highly charged debates about gender, race, violence, and social class. It...
A Wave Of State Legislation Is Trying To Forbid Teaching Critical Race Theory At...
"So far, 70 bills — which PEN America calls 'educational gag orders' — have been introduced in 28 states, with 56 more coming in...
NPR Fills Audie Cornish’s Host Chair At “All Things Considered”
"Juana Summers, a veteran political correspondent whose peripatetic career has taken her to news media start-ups including Mashable and traditional news organizations such as...
Werner Herzog Says He’s Found His True Medium, And It’s Prose
The director/author/entrepreneur, who turns 80 on Labor Day, "thinks of himself primarily as a writer — he has written poetry and kept journals throughout...
