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Miss Manners Weighs In On Female Orchestra Musicians’ Concert Attire
A Gentle Reader complains about the seeming informality of some all-black women’s attire on orchestral stages. Miss Manners replies, “Surely women musicians can find...
Bringing Malaysian Shadow Puppet Theater Into The 21st Century
Like its better-known counterparts in Bali and Java, the wayang kulit of Kelantan in northern Malaysia tells the stories of the Hindu epics Mahabharata...
Why Is Velázquez’s “Las Meninas” So Important? Because Of The Tricks It Plays On...
“A deconstruction of the relationship between viewer and viewed, depiction and depicted, Las Meninas comprises a nesting doll of paradoxes that play with pictorial space to...
Ballet Shoe Company Faces One-Two Punch: Catastrophic Fire And High Tariffs
The pointe shoe manufacturer Virtisse, based near Philadelphia, saw its entire inventory — 25,000 pairs, worth over $3 million — literally go up in...
The Reason American Small-Town Newspapers Are Closing Isn’t Lack Of Money
As the only outlet covering their communities, these papers still have an audience willing to pay for them, and many of them are profitable....
Journalist William Langewiesche, “Master Of The White-Knuckle Narrative,” Has Died At 70
“A globe-trotting correspondent for The Atlantic, Vanity Fair and The New York Times Magazine, … (he) worked as a commercial pilot before becoming one of...
“Golden Girls” Gossip: Bea Arthur And Betty White Despised Each Other
Said co-producer Marsha Posner Williams, “When that red light was on, there were no more professional people than those women, but when the red...
France’s Most Notorious Rape Trial Is Put Onstage Only Six Months After It Ended
At the Vienna Festwochen, director Milo Rau and dramaturg Servane Dècle presented The Pelicot Trial, a seven-hour reading of excerpts from the courtroom proceedings,...
One Of Gaudí’s Most Famous Barcelona Houses Has Its Rear Façade Restored
“In a project Casa Batlló has described as a ‘remarkable rediscovery,’ the back façade has been returned to its original state following a years-long...
Curtis Institute Raises Nearly $200 Million To Keep Tuition Free
“’What will it take to keep Curtis tuition-free?’ asked Curtis president Roberto Díaz in 2016, when the Institute was still in the early days...
West End “Evita” Has “Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina” Sung To A Crowd Outdoors...
“The audience inside — who have paid up to a whopping £250 ($336) a ticket — are left with a livestream of the number. Those on...
Tom Bodett’s Commercials For Motel 6 Are Legends. Now He’s Suing To Get Paid...
The hotel chain discovered Bodett through his spots on All Things Considered, and their relationship worked very well for almost 40 years. Then the...
This 13th-Century Yemeni Citadel May Not Survive Its Own Restoration
“From its perch 5,000 feet above sea level, the ancient al-Qahira Castle has watched over Yemen’s third-largest city, Taiz, for more than 800 years....
This Family Has Kept The Whirling Dance of Sufism Alive In Syria
“The al-Kharrats say they are the only family in Syria who have continuously performed the Sema, as the dance is known, ... through years...
Martial-Arts Classics Starring Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, And Jet Li Will Get AI-Powered Remakes
“At the Shanghai International Film Festival on Thursday, a collection of Chinese studios revealed that they are turning to AI to re-imagine around 100 classics of...
Man Drives Mercedes Down Rome’s Spanish Steps, Gets Stuck
Firefighters who helped the 80-year-old driver from his vehicle say that he was uninjured and disoriented but not intoxicated. A crane removed the car...
Together: Inside The Sonia Friedman-Hugh Jackman-Ian Rickson Low-Cost Theatre Project
While the actors are high-profile, the production costs are kept down: small casts, minimal sets, simple tech, smaller Off-Broadway venue. A quarter of the...
Cambodia Bans Thai Films And TV
“Cambodia escalated its cold war with Thailand on Friday when it announced a ban on Thai movies and TV shows and a boycott of...
Is Art Basel Being Overshadowed By Its Own Spinoffs?
For decades it was the contemporary art world’s do-not-miss fair, but the Swiss mother-ship now faces competition from Art Basel events in Qatar, Hong...
Audience Members Explain Why They Went To L.A. Opera Despite Protests, Troops, And Curfew
Steven Lass: “L.A. is not scary. You could be in a bad place at the wrong time, but that can happen anywhere.” Jason Roblee: “They...
With Its Own Building Closed For Renovations, Pompidou Center Moves Into Newly-Restored Grand Palais
The Beaux-Arts landmark on the Champs-Elysées, built for the Paris Universal Exhibition (World’s Fair) in 1900, has been renovated for the first time in...
One Of Philadelphia’s Biggest Arts Funders, Left Homeless By UArts Collapse, Has New Home
“The Barnes Foundation will be the new home for The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, a major funder of local arts programming, after...
Indoor Skydiving — Not Only Is It Really A Thing, It’s Turning into A...
In glass-sided vertical wind tunnels, powerful fans shoot air upward at approximately the speed a human body would fall from an airplane. …But over...
Alt-Weeklies Are Not, In Fact, Dead (Despite The Long Casualty List)
The many postmortems after The Village Voice closed in 2017, plus the disappearance of alt-weeklies in Philadelphia, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Baltimore, the Bay Area, and...
Some Broadcast TV Series Are Getting Impressive Viewer Numbers On Streaming For Weeks After...
“The 35-day figures for the 2024-25 season show that for series that originate on broadcast or cable networks, five weeks of streaming can grow a show’s...
