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Barnes & Noble To Acquire Bay Area Mini-Chain Books Inc.
“Books Inc. is seeking bankruptcy court approval to be acquired by Barnes & Noble for $3.25 million. The privately held company, which filed for voluntary...
Trump Wants Federal Takeover Of 9/11 Museum And Memorial
“(Two White House) officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the discussions have been preliminary and exploratory, and it was unclear exactly...
San Francisco Symphony Musicians Authorize Strike
“(The move) escalat(es) a bitter contract dispute just weeks before the orchestra is set to open its new season. The vote, announced Thursday, Sept. 4, allows...
St. Louis Symphony Musicians Ratify New Four-Year Contract
“The contract, ratified a year before the current one expires, includes a $10,000 salary increase in the first year and at least 3% raises...
How John Williams’s Score Made “Home Alone” What It Is
Director Chris Columbus: “(It) not only propels the story forward but from a narrative standpoint, he’s taking the audience’s hand and inviting them inside...
Lear deBessonet, Lincoln Center Theater’s New Director, On Reaching Out To All Of New...
“We’re doing an outdoor public campaign that involves subways and taxi tops and things like that in the outer boroughs, which are very purposefully...
How Nielsen Is Revamping Its Ratings System To Account For Streaming Video
“Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel … The new measurement tool combines Nielsen’s existing panel with data from cable, satellite set-top boxes and smart TVs...
Sweden Has Completed And Released Its Cultural Canon. (Abba Isn’t In It!)
“What are the 100 things that unequivocally define Swedish culture? Flat-packed furniture from IKEA? Of course. Pippi Longstocking? Indeed. The touchstone films of Ingmar...
The New Owners Of “The Onion” Brought Back Its Print Version. That Gamble Is...
“The Onion has more than 53,000 subscribers paying as much as $9 a month. The publication has a new deal to sell its papers at...
Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky Was Apolitical. The Invasion Of Ukraine “Changed Everything”
When he directed the Bolshoi Ballet (2004-08) and after, he had a grand plan to stage the entire canon of great Russian ballets and...
Exec Who Led Disney To Become A Broadway Powerhouse Is Stepping Down
“Thomas Schumacher, who led Disney Theatrical Group for decades and helped it produce enduring musical theater hits like The Lion King and Aladdin, changing Times Square and Broadway...
Rosalyn Drexler, Pop Artist With Amazingly Varied Career, Is Dead At 98
Her 1960s paintings about Hollywood actors, movie violence, and gender are now thought to be key to the Pop art movement, though she was...
Nazi-Looted Old-Master Painting Recovered In Argentina After Being Spotted In Real Estate Listing
The painting, Portrait of a Lady by 18th-century artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, was spotted in a photo from a house in Mar del Plata owned...
Canadian Province Suspends Its Book-Banning In Schools
“It’ll be paused for a couple of hours while the ministerial order is rewritten,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told reporters on Tuesday. “The direction...
Ousted National Portrait Gallery Director To Lead Milwaukee Museum Of Art
“Kim Sajet, who left her role as director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery after a high-profile clash with President Donald Trump in June, has landed...
At 93, Dan Rather Is Still Covering The News
Seven days a week, he has a video call with two fellow editors for his online outlet, called Steady — and then he gets...
How High Plains Public Radio Is Expanding Rural News Coverage Despite Funding Cuts
Over three years, the broadcaster will build the High Plains Civic Media Network, a system of part-time contributors (some of them volunteers), coordinated by...
Actors’ Equity UK Loses Years-Long Lawsuit Against Casting Directory Spotlight
“(The judge) ruled against Equity’s claim that Spotlight is an employment agency … (and) concluded that Spotlight, a website widely used by U.K. talent...
Kabuki Is, Amazingly, The Subject Of Japan’s Latest Megahit Movie
“Kokuho, which means ‘national treasure,’ has already grossed more than 10 billion yen ($68 million), making it the second-highest grossing Japanese live-action film of...
James Patterson’s Latest Plan To Give Away His Riches: The “Go Finish Your Book”...
“After years of giving millions of dollars to literacy programs, bookstore employees and librarians, James Patterson has now launched an initiative on behalf of emerging authors:...
The Surprising Thing About The New LACMA’s Concrete Walls
Turns out the walls are easier to drill into, and to accurately level the art being hung, than drywall. What’s more, they can be...
USA Today Visits Five Smithsonian Museums To See If They’re Really Too “Woke”
The Nation’s Newspaper checks out the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the National Museum of American History, National Museum of Natural History,...
A Canadian Province Banned “The Handmaid’s Tale” From Schools. So Margaret Atwood Wrote A...
“In a social media post, Atwood wrote that since her famed work was no longer permissible in Alberta schools, she had written a ‘suitable’...
Climate-Protesting Architecture Vandals Throw Paint On Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia
“Two activists, representing the campaign group Futuro Vegetal, targeted the basilica on Sunday, August 31, spraying the colored powder over a column while shouting...
The Dances Are A Big Revenue Driver For The Game “Fortnite.” Do The Choreographers...
Hundreds of these dances, known as emotes, have been released on Fortnite, where players can buy them for a few dollars each. Epic Games,...
