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Mills College, Where American Avant-Garde Music Got Wild (And Ultimately Kinda Cool)
Laurie Anderson, Steve Reich, Dave Brubeck, and Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh are alumni. John Cage, Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, Pauline Oliveros, the Art...
And Just Who Is Joe Kahn, The New York Times’ New Top Editor?
For one thing, he's the first executive editor who may be wealthier than the paper's owners. (He is heir to a large retailing fortune.)...
France’s Top Stage Awards Underscore The Massive Divide Between State-Funded And For-Profit Theatre
"The Molières were designed to bridge the gap between (the) two opposing production models. ... The distinction has long structured French theater and shaped...
What Happens When Big Corporations Take Over Local Newspapers? A New Study Says —
— that there's "an immediate drop in content." The drop isn't exactly a surprise, but what one lead researcher found "shocking" was that the...
National Geographic Discovers Philadelphia’s Thousands Of Murals
Mural Arts Philadelphia started as an anti-graffiti program, drafting the taggers to paint something building owners and community members would be happy, not angry,...
Standup Comedians Say Audience Behavior Just Keeps Getting Worse
"There's something in the water,” said Nish Kumar. ... "I've had a few conversations with other comics and there's a sense that something doesn't...
For This Summer, At Least, Lincoln Center Is Replacing The Mostly Mozart Festival
"Summer in the City", running mid-May to mid-August (and including six Mostly Mozart programs), is the first festival under chief artistic officer Shanta Thake,...
Producers Of “Rust” Get Maximum Fine For Negligence In Alec Baldwin’s Shooting Of Cinematographer
The report from New Mexico's Occupational Health & Safety Bureau found that the crew "demonstrated plain indifference to employee safety" and "willfully violated" established...
Actor Robert Morse Dead At 90
He first gained fame in the Broadway and film versions of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. That show won him his...
“Recreational Puritanism”: A Warning To Right-Wing Book Banners About Their Battle Against The Woke...
John McWhorter: "They miss that their book bans are just as tinny, just as local to petty concerns of our moment and just as,...
The Secret Racial Identity Of Merle Oberon, One Of Hollywood’s Golden-Age Stars
The story spread by publicists: she was born in Tasmania and moved to India as a young girl. In fact, she was born in...
Why Do People Lose Interest In Music When They’re Depressed?
It's a much-commented-on phenomenon, and that lack of pleasure is an important marker for distinguishing depression from plain old sadness. What's going on with...
Climate Change Is Slowly Eating Away Ancient Buildings Of Mesopotamia
There has always been salt in the sand and groundwater of central Iraq, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. But salinity levels are rising...
Mosul Residents Are Learning Historic Building Techniques To Repair The Shattered Old City
"119 local women and 670 men are being trained in traditional stone masonry techniques using 'Mosul marble' — a kind of gypsum alabaster native...
A Nonbinary, Male-Born Dancer Could Be Headed Toward A Career Performing On Pointe (And...
Ashton Edwards, a 19-year-old apprentice at Pacific Northwest Ballet, has been dancing on pointe in class as a matter of course, performs both male...
Michel Bouquet, One Of France’s Most Revered Actors, Dead At 96
"Bouquet appeared in nearly 120 film and television roles" — he was a favorite of filmmakers Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut — "even as...
Shock: Netflix Says It’s Bleeding Subscribers
"Netflix lost 200,000 subscribers in Q1 and expects to lose another 2 million in the current second quarter, the streamer said in its first-quarter...
The Philadelphia Inquirer And The Museum Of The American Revolution Get Gifts Of $50...
The donations, the largest in each organization's history, come from the estate of H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest, the board chair who oversaw the Museum's creation...
Putin’s Government Allocates Millions To Fund Russian Arts Projects Cut Off By Other Countries...
The Russian government will provide 1 billion rubles ($12.1 million) to cultural projects and institutions which have lost money due to "sanctions pressure" because...
Edinburgh Fringe Is Becoming Untenable Because Lodging Is Just Too Expensive, Warn Producers
Francesca Moody, who produced at the festival the original stage version of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag, is one of several frequent participants who said the...
What Makes The Difference Between A Dialect And A Language? Depends On Who’s Answering...
For governments, the quip that "a language is a dialect with an army and navy" is more-or-less true — so Czech and Slovak, Hindi...
A Critic’s Lament For The Humana Festival Of New American Plays
Jeremy Gerard: "There are so many reasons to mourn its passing, but I will dedicate my Kaddish to this: We critics tend to be...
The New York Times Names Its Next Top Editor
Joseph F. Kahn, currently managing editor (the number-two position in the newsroom), and previously Beijing bureau chief and then international editor, will succeed Dean...
Ballet Companies All Do “Swan Lake”. What Makes One Version Different From Another?
"The story is old, the steps are old, and that's all part of Swan Lake's endurance – it's a classical ballet. So how does...
“Spain Is Ugly”, Says An Editor At The Country’s Largest Newspaper
Andrés Rubio, travel editor at El País, has just published a book arguing that Spain's natural beauty and historic cities and towns have been...
