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What Worries “60 Minutes” Staffers About The Paramount-Trump Settlement
“(Many) believe weeks of leaks about Paramount’s legal machinations and of the 60 Minutes staff’s aversion to any kind of settlement have already undermined...
Milwaukee Ballet Drops Live Orchestra For Two Of Next Season’s Productions, Including “Nutcracker”
Citing “operating costs (which) continue to rise while revenue earnings have not kept pace,” company management announced that it would use recorded music for...
Will America’s Polarized Politics Derail Next Year’s 250th Anniversary Celebrations?
Will the occasion underline the country’s divisions, as with Trump's military parade and the No Kings protests? Or can Americans come together over the...
Paris’s Asian Art Museum Sued For “Tibet Erasure”
“Four pro-Tibetan groups in France have filed a legal complaint against Paris’s state-run Musée Guimet, accusing it of attempting to erase Tibet’s cultural identity...
Average Ticket Price In London’s West End Up By Nearly One-Quarter
What’s more, the difference between the shows with the highest and lowest average ticket prices is narrower than one year ago. - The Stage
The Last Of The Vatican’s Raphael Rooms Has Now Been Restored
“A decadelong project to clean and restore the largest of the four … spectacularly frescoed reception rooms of the Apostolic Palace … uncovered a...
In Wartime Ukraine, Shakespeare Is Booming
“A King Lear and two Othellos are in repertoire in major Kyiv theatres; there is also A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the capital, a...
Why Alicia Graf Mack Left Juilliard To Run The Ailey Company
“I’ve always been aligned with the mission and values of Ailey. So when I heard they were searching for a new artistic director, given...
“Performative Reading” And The Cynical Young’uns Making Fun Of It
“It’s called performative reading not just because someone might be pretending to read, but rather that they want everyone to know they read. The presumption is...
Revisiting The Birth of Ms. Magazine
In the early 1970s, when many American women still couldn’t open bank accounts in their own names and the terms (and concepts) “domestic violence”...
Milwaukee Symphony Musicians Accept New Three-Year Contract With Annual Pay Increases
“The (agreement), which continues through the 2027-28 season, extends a long history of harmonious labor relations at the symphony. For more than 30 years,...
Dutch Catholic Group Protests 200-Year-Old Condom On Display At Rijksmuseum
The prophylactic in question, on view as part of an exhibition titled “Safe Sex?”, is printed with a pornographic illustration of three priests and...
Frederick M. Nicholas, L.A.’s “Mr. Downtown Culture,” Has Died At 105
“A war hero, attorney and real estate developer, … (he) led the design and development of major L.A. landmarks, including the Museum of Contemporary...
San Francisco Opera Orchestra Signs Two-Year Contract Which Expires Next Summer
That is to say, the new agreement is retroactive to August 1, 2024, which is when the previous contract expired; the orchestra had been...
Ford Foundation Names Dean Of Yale Law School Its Next President
“Heather Gerken has been the dean of the Yale Law School since 2017, and is currently serving her second term, which was scheduled to...
Paramount/CBS News Settles Trump’s $20 Billion Lawsuit For $16 Million
“Paramount said the $16 million sum ‘includes plaintiffs’ fees and costs,’ and will not be paid to Trump directly, but instead will be allocated...
Australia Has A New National Funding Body For Literature. Will It, Can It, Make...
“Writing Australia, Creative Australia’s new literature body, launches today, bringing the history of Australian cultural policy full circle: writers were the first artists in...
Mark Brokaw, Award-Winning Broadway/Off-Broadway Director, Dead At 66
“A prolific director of Off-Broadway, Broadway and regional productions, beginning in the 1990s (he) worked with some of the brightest emerging playwrights, including Douglas...
The Taliban Want Tourists To Come Back To Afghanistan — And, Slowly, They Are
“By plane, motorbike, camper van and even on bicycles, tourists are beginning to discover Afghanistan, with solo travelers and tour groups gradually venturing in. …...
CBS/Paramount Global And Trump Reportedly In “Advanced” Settlement Discussions For “60 Minutes” Lawsuit
Trump filed the suit last year, alleging that 60 Minutes producers deceptively edited an interview with Kamala Harris to benefit her campaign. (Trump won...
With Their Primary Venue Closed, Where Will Chicago’s Experimental Dance Companies Perform Now?
Links Hall, long the hub of contemporary dance in Chicago, closed permanently in June. This raises two questions: Is there a crisis coming for...
Rising Star Jakub Hrůša Will Be Czech Philharmonic’s Next Chief Conductor
The 43-year-old Hrůša is currently chief conductor of Germany’s Bamberg Symphony; he becomes music director of the Royal Opera House in London this fall....
Leadership Changes At Both Of Utah’s Top Contemporary Dance Companies
At Repertory Dance Theatre, Linda C. Smith is retiring after 42 years as artistic director, 39 of them as executive director as well; two...
Ever Dream Of Looting Western Museums And Returning African Artifacts Yourself? This Video Game...
“Relooted (is) a side-scrolling puzzle platformer — think early Tomb Raider or Prince of Persia games — where players join a crew of Robin Hood-esque thieves staging elaborate...
Netherlands Repatriates 119 Benin Bronzes To Nigeria
“The Netherlands (has) returned 119 artifacts looted from Nigeria, including human and animal figures, plaques, royal regalia and a bell. … During the handover...
