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Amazon In Talks To Buy MGM For $9 Billion: Report
"Chatter that Amazon (and other tech giants) have been sniffing around MGM has circulated for some time. But sources indicated that Amazon's interest in...
It’s Official: AT&T Is Spinning Off WarnerMedia To Merge With Discovery
"Under the terms of the deal, AT&T will spin off entertainment arm WarnerMedia and combine it with Discovery, creating a TV, film and streaming...
Radio City Music Hall Set To Reopen At 100% Capacity, No Masks Required
The first scheduled event is the finale of this year's Tribeca Film Festival on June 19. Only vaccinated people will be admitted. And how...
David Ludwig talks technology in the arts
The Artistic Advisor to the President and Chair of Composition Studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, also Artistic Director of Curtis Summerfest, speaks...
Revisiting TikTok Before It Was TikTok, A Long, Long Time Ago
"From 2014 to 2018, the Chinese app Musical.ly was where kids — as in, literal children and very young teenagers — would lip-sync to...
Analyzing The 17-Year Cicadas’ ‘Grand Magic Insect Symphony’ — And Joining In
"Only the males can vibrate a section of their abdomen called the tymbals to make either phaaaaaroah drone sounds or chchchchhwhhhs noise waves, depending...
Jazz Trombone Great Curtis Fuller Dead At 88
"Mr. Fuller was among the dozens of musicians to emerge from the fertile mid-century jazz scene of Detroit, where he learned to play intricate,...
Nobel Committee Was Nervous About Giving Prize To Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Fifty years on (as is the rule), documents on the deliberations for the 1970 prize have just been made public, and some committee members...
San Diego Symphony Has A New $85 Million Outdoor Venue
The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, located on the downtown waterfront, seats up to 10,000 people and (because it's San Diego and they can)...
NPR Is Starting To Put Its Most Popular Podcasts On Traditional Radio
The traffic started out the other way, of course, with over-the-air programs being released as or adapted into podcasts. "But podcasting has turned into...
Hollywood Is Now Producing Companion Podcasts To Movies And TV Series
Why? Money, of course: to put it in business-speak, the companion podcast "offers a new way for creators to diversify IP assets." What's the...
‘There’s Something Going On’ — Who Will Really Be Running LA’s MOCA?
"As the Museum of Contemporary Art prepares to reopen after a historic pandemic closure, it finds itself in the midst of restructuring, moving director...
As Broadway Prepares To Reopen, Here’s How It Will (And Won’t) Be Operating Differently
"Ticket-buyers are being told they will be required to wear face masks (although it's not clear how changing advice from the Centers for Disease...
Bayreuth Festival: Christian Thielemann May Have Lost His Other Job, Too
At the beginning of this week it was announced that the conductor (who was, when he was younger, hailed as a new Herbert von...
St. Paul’s Cathedral In London Is Running Out Of Cash And Could Close
With the pandemic having cut off the revenue from tourist admissions, the landmark's income is down by 90%. The engineer in charge of maintenance...
The Sounds Of Japan’s Ancient Music, Recorded More Than A Century Ago
"Let's set the scene. It's February 28, 1903, and 12 musicians from the Imperial Household Orchestra are seated in front of a gramophone horn...
Do we know how changing prices affects the income-diversity of audiences?
Real care has to be taken with comparing data on prices and audience characteristics, because the prices were set in the first place as...
A New York Times Critic Sees His First Play Since COVID — In The...
Jose Solís: "Theater in my hometown? 'A lot has changed since you've been gone,' said Inma López, a producer and ensemble member at Casa...
What Goodreads Has Done To My Reading, And Why I’m Giving It Up
"Quantifying, dissecting and broadcasting our most-loved hobbies sucks the joy out of them. I find myself glancing towards the corner of the page to...
Chicago’s Goodman Theatre Prepares To Live-Stream From Its Stage
"'The whole process here is to recreate the experience for the audience,' said Falls. 'The audience chooses which performance they want to see,...
Can Los Angeles Re-Establish Itself As A Cultural Capital Post-Pandemic?
"In many ways the challenges here are more intense and complex, in no small part because the virus hit at a time when so...
Benin Bronzes Are Still Being Made Today (Who Knew?)
In Benin City, in what was historically the metalworkers' quarter on and around Igun Street, skilled artists continue to make figures with the traditional...
In Egypt, 250 Ancient Tombs Discovered, Some More Than 4,000 Years Old
The burial places, all cut into rock, were found by accident in one part of a larger necropolis in Upper Egypt. Some date back...
Metropolitan Opera Returns To Stage (But Not Its Own) For First Time Since COVID...
"Members of the company's orchestra and chorus, joined by prominent soloists and led by its music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, will give two concerts at...
Phylicia Rashad Named Dean Of Howard University’s New College Of Fine Arts
The award-winning actor, herself a Howard alumna, will be the first dean of the re-established college. The nation's leading historically Black university folded its...
