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Public Radio’s Efforts To Diversify Its Interviewees Are Working
"Journalists at NPR and Minnesota Public Radio say they are seeing the payoff from a heightened focus on tracking the diversity of their sources,...
Taking Standup Comedy Between Countries And Languages
Edinburgh Fringe comedians from Japan, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, Argentina, and Denmark talk to a reporter about establishing connections with a foreign audience, differing...
What Salman Rushdie Has Meant For The South Asian Diaspora
"Rushdie helped change how ... Europe and North America saw desis. He defied stereotypes and resisted all assumptions. He became, through no choice of...
Architectural Digest Airbrushed Cambodian Antiquities Out Of One Of Their Fabulous-Home Photo-Spreads — And...
The feature on the San Francisco mansion of Roger and Sloan Lindemann Barnett includes an image of an interior courtyard with empty pedestals. Those...
Ten Of The World’s Most Ingenious Repurposings Of Buildings
The list ranges from a small watertower in England converted into a home to a steel mill in Shanghai transformed into an eco-park to...
Gina Lollobrigida, 1950s And ’60s Movie Star, Is Running For The Italian Senate At...
"(She) is endeavouring to become a senator with the Sovereign and Popular Italy party (ISP), a new Eurosceptic, anti-Mario-Draghi political alliance that opposes sending...
Are Audiences Really Behaving Worse Than Before COVID? Sure Seems Like It
It especially seems like behavior's gotten worse in Britain, where complaints have soared and one hears and reads stories about groups chatting with each...
Joffrey Ballet Launches The First U.S. Training Program Dedicated To Contemporary Ballet
The new two-year, ten-dancer program will run parallel to the Joffrey’s longstanding Trainee Program in classical ballet, with the primary difference being in the...
More Repairs At Philadelphia’s Grand Old Academy Of Music
The exterior balconies overlooking the main entrance to North America's oldest purpose-built opera house — "still the city's formal parlor for everything from Broadway...
America’s Best Museum Bathrooms, Ranked (Yes, This Is Real)
"A recent poll by the American Alliance of Museums asked museum professionals to submit their nominations for best museum bathrooms, and the results prove...
After Years Of Making Dance About Injustice And Violence, Kyle Abraham Turns To Good...
"You know, I (had) made so many works that look at the injustice that we face as a people," said the gay Black American...
Nicholas Evans, TV Producer And Author Of “The Horse Whisperer”, Dead At 72
He had a thriving career in network TV journalism and some success making films for cable TV until a rough patch in his 40s...
I Walked Into A Pakistani Bookstore And Asked For Salman Rushdie’s Novels
The writer recounting this story lived to tell the tale but feels the need, even now, to remain anonymous. The bookseller's answer was, perhaps,...
Iraqi Police Say They Found A Stolen Picasso During A Drug Raid
An announcement from Iraq's Interior Ministry says that the painting, found in the possession of three suspected narcotics dealers, could be worth "millions of...
Staffers At Mass MoCA Call A One-Day Strike For This Friday
"(A union official) said the museum 'has a very lowball offer on the table in terms of wages.' Two-thirds of the nearly 100 unionized...
Can You Actually Hypnotize Audience Members Into Doing Improv Theater Themselves? These Two Guys...
In fact, Asad Mecci and Colin Mochrie say that (as long as the scene isn't complex) amateur audience members can do as well as...
Sending An American Orchestra To Tour Europe Is Expensive. Why Do It?
In particular, why does an orchestra from a mid-sized city such as Pittsburgh do such expensive tours, and what good does it do for...
Pittsburgh Symphony Musicians Agree To One-Year Contract Extension
"It's a way of kicking a can down the road after a couple of seasons amid a global pandemic. Several other orchestras around the...
Online Arts Events Have Benefits For Isolated Elder People: Researchers
Subjects in the study reported improved quality of life, feelings of wellbeing, and even physical condition — as long as they had necessary technical...
Charlotte Politicians Battle Over Allocating $2 Million In Arts Funding
"When Charlotte City Council last discussed arts funding a month ago, members were sharply divided about ... $2 million allocated to the Arts &...
Was Lady Rochford Really The Villainess Of Anne Boleyn’s Story?
Jane Boleyn, married to Anne's brother George, tends to be portrayed as a schemer whose (likely false) testimony sent her husband and sister-in-law to...
There’s Country Music In Africa? Yes, And There Has Been For Almost 100 Years
"The history of African country music is largely uncharted. When you piece together the fragments, a long and rich musical relationship begins to emerge....
The Mysterious, Endangered Language That Can’t Say “No” (Or “Yes”)
"Nepal's Kusunda language has no known origin and a number of quirks, like no words for 'yes' or 'no'. It also has only one...
Is There Any Such Thing Anymore As A Star Whose Name Can Sell Movie...
"The A-list is a shrinking paddock of ageing thoroughbreds. All five films in the top 100 this year that might be called 'star vehicles'...
Netflix Offers A Whole Bunch Of Games. No One Is Playing Them.
"According to recent findings from analytics company Apptopia, 99 percent of the service's users have never touched a single video game on the platform....
