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Scottish Ballet Develops A New Therapy Program For MS Patients
"The Orkney Islands has the highest prevalence of multiple sclerosis in the world – with one in 170 Orcadian women living with MS –...
Beyond The-Scottish-Play-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named: Theatre Superstitions Continue To Thrive
Never wish an actor "Good luck." (That's why they say "Break a leg.") Never bring mirrors onstage. Don't wear green. (We didn't know about...
“Unprecedented”: Ancient Phoenician Burial Complex Discovered In Andalusia
"Archaeologists exploring the site – which was discovered amid the Roman ruins in the town of Osuna, 55 miles (90km) east of Seville –...
Pianist Alexander Toradze Suffers Heart Failure During Performance, Finishes Anyway
Toradze had been feeling ill most of last weekend and needed assistance to walk onstage Saturday night to play Stravinsky and Shostakovich with the...
If Florida Wants To Take Away Disney World’s Special Status, It Has To Pay...
"The Reedy Creek Improvement District claimed that dissolving the special tax district would violate a pledge (made) by Florida to bondholders under the law...
BBC To Sharply Reduce The Amount Of Programming It Produces
"Director General Tim Davie is preparing to announce deep cuts to BBC output in the coming week. ... The corporation estimates it needs to...
What Happened When People Who Hate The BBC License Fee Went Without Without All...
They changed their minds, of course: "70% of the households who initially wanted to pay nothing or less than the £159 ($200.54) per year...
Exquisitely Elongated Time In Noh Drama
"Attending a performance, the first thing you might notice is the way time itself immediately slows down and takes on a stretched-out quality. You...
The Native American Artist Who Insisted That Indians Get To Define Indian Art
The furious response that Yanktonai Dakota artist Oscar Howe wrote when rejected for the 1958 Philbrook Indian Annual competition because the abstract painting he...
How Sasha Waltz Choreographed A Semi-Improvised Analog To Terry Riley’s Semi-Improvised “In C”
Riley's landmark Minimalist score consists of 53 short phrases for an unspecified number of musicians, each of whom decides how long to repeat a...
One Of Turkey’s Most Important Arts Philanthropists Is Sentenced To Life In Prison
"The founder of the Istanbul nonprofit art center Anadolu Kültür and the creator of Depo Istanbul, an independent art space serving as a platform...
There’s Now An Entire American Right-Wing Comedy Ecosystem
They mostly (excepting Joe Rogan) fly beneath mainstream radar, but "rightwing satirists, podcasters and standups … feature on each other's podcasts, TV shows and...
In Which John McWhorter Discovers That New Classical Music Does Not Have To Be...
Oddly, the linguist/op-ed pundit, who's demonstrated genuine musical sophistication in previous columns, cites Korngold (d. 1957), Rozsa (d. 1995), and William Bolcom, but, besides...
California’s Two Biggest Classical Music Radio Stations Join Forces, Rebrand, And Refocus
KUSC in Los Angeles and KDFC in San Francisco, both now part of the KUSC Radio Group, have rebranded as Classical California, with simulcast...
Chicago Reader, The City’s Alt-Weekly, Can Now Become Nonprofit As Co-Owner Steps Away
"Leonard Goodman, a Chicago attorney and member of the billionaire Crown family, ... had demanded more representation on a nonprofit board set up to...
$800 Million. That’s How Much The Massachusetts Arts Sector Has Lost Since COVID Arrived
"More than 1,000 cultural organizations surveyed throughout the state have lost $781 million in revenue, according to data collected and published by the Mass...
Farmer At Work Digs Up 4,500-Year-Old Sculpture
A late Bronze Age stone head depicting Anat, the ancient Canaanite goddess of love and war (and the sister of Baal), was discovered by...
Venice Announces Schedule And Amount Of Daytrippers’ Fee
As of January 1, 2023, anyone who wants to visit the historic city without spending the night in a local hotel (cruise ships don't...
Was This Quasi-Guerrilla Marketing Campaign For A Life-Of-Jesus TV Series A Mistake Or A...
The showrunner for The Chosen, Dallas Jenkins (son of a co-author of the Left Behind novels), put up billboards advertising the show that were...
Philadelphia’s University Of The Arts Has Completed Its First-Ever (!) Capital Campaign
The project raised $67 million, well surpassing the original $50 million goal. The University of the Arts never had a strong donor culture (that's...
More Evidence That Shakespeare Was An Inveterate Plot-Stealer
"A rare 16th-century book offers 'compelling evidence' that William Shakespeare's Cymbeline was inspired by a now-lost play by Sir Thomas North, an Elizabethan courtier...
“Decolonizing Flamenco”: Black Artists Illuminate The African Roots Of The Quintessentially Spanish Dance Form
"All have trained in Spain with esteemed maestras. Launching their unique international careers, they utilize flamenco as the basis for traditional and experimental work....
How A Fundamentalist Christian Polemic On Wifely Submissiveness Became (Ahem) Gospel Among Some Orthodox...
"The Surrendered Wife's popularity highlights how an insular religious group with carefully preserved boundaries can in fact be quite porous to outside influence —...
How CNN+ Fell Apart Just Weeks After It Was Launched
Or, to put it more clearly, how the new streaming service — into which the previous bosses had poured hundreds of millions — was...
Yes, CNN+ Collapsed, But CNN Has A Long Record Of Successful Innovation
"Some of those experiments, like Headline News (now HLN), paid off in a big way; others were here and gone in about a year....
