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L.A. Times Has Lost One-Fourth Of Its Print Subscribers In The Past Year Alone
And that figure was measured before LAT owner Patrick Soon-Shiong squashed the editorial board’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. The daily with the largest print...
Even More Layoffs At New York Public Radio
Following a 12% staff reduction last September, the umbrella for NPR news/talk WNYC, classical WQXR, and New Jersey Public Radio is now laying off...
Gene Hackman, 95
“An actor who powerfully embodied ordinary men under stress in dozens of films and twice won Oscars for bringing humanizing depth to corrupt lawmen,...
Actress Michelle Trachtenberg Has Died At 39
“(The) former child star who appeared in the 1996 Harriet the Spy hit movie and went on to co-star in two buzzy millennial-era TV...
What’s More Staggering Than “A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius”? Its Afterlife
“AHWOSG, as everyone called it, launched Dave Eggers’s career, one that’s seen him publish dozens of books, write screenplays, oversee a literary magazine and...
“Clueless” At 30: How A Jane Austen-Based Satire Revolutionized The High-School Comedy
“The popularity of Clueless triggered a rash of insouciantly smart high-school-meets-classic literature movies (including 10 Things I Hate About You, Cruel Intentions, and Easy A, to...
Unpaid Internships In Britain’s Arts Sector Are Likely Illegal, Say Experts
Many organizations are taking advantage of exceptions in British wage laws for student internships as part of a curriculum, and the practice blocks crucial...
Poland’s Previous Government Pushed Museums To The Right. This New Museum Is Pushing Only...
Under the Law and Justice Party, officials fired many museum directors, replacing them with conservatives whose exhibitions promoted traditional social and artistic values. The...
A Renaissance For Print News In London?
Mind you, we didn’t say newspapers. “Two upmarket London news start-ups are finding a growing (albeit small so far) market for paid online news...
The Drama School Preparing Working-Class Actors For Film And TV
“Television Workshop, one of the country’s most successful acting programmes, can be found in a small, unassuming room down a street of former industrial...
The Debut Of The Microphone, 100 Years Ago This Week
“On Feb. 25, 1925, Art Gillham, a musician known as 'the Whispering Pianist' for his gentle croon, entered Columbia Phonograph Company’s studio to test...
Maybe This Is Canada’s Real National Ballet Company
“In Toronto, they tend to go unnoticed, but talk to audiences in Glace Bay, Rimouski, Regina or Kitimat and, from their perspectives, Ballet Jörgen...
Fake Basquiats Case: Orlando Museum Of Art And Family Of Fired Director Drop Lawsuits
Aaron De Groft was axed by the museum’s board after the major Basquiat show he championed was found to be full of forgeries. The...
Perp Pleads Guilty In Scheme To Sell Graceland Out From Under Presleys
Lisa Jeanine Findley pled guilty to mail fraud, in exchange for having an identity theft charge dropped, for a scam which cooked up a...
Twin Actors Who Ran Underground Theater In Syria Return Home After 14-Year Exile
Hidden from the Assad regime’s secret police, Mohamad and Ahmad Malas performed over 200 plays in their apartment — until they were arrested during...
Viennese Institutions Compete To Celebrate Bicentennial Of “Waltz King” Johann Strauss II
There’s an entire new immersive exhibition dedicated to the composer, another show at the Theatermuseum, the city’s 30+ dance schools, and the venue that...
Bollywood’s Leading Composer Plans Infrastructure In India For Broadway-Style Musicals
A.R. Rahman (Oscar winner for Slumdog Millionaire, which he’s adapting for the stage) is starting with a 3,000-seat theater in his hometown, Chennai, and...
Missing Pages Of “The Last Great Yiddish Novel” Come To Light
Chaim Grade was considered one of the greatest novelists in the language, and his last work. Sons and Daughters, was serialized in Yiddish newspapers...
Longtime, Familiar Anchors Are Leaving TV Newscasts. Their Timing Is Not Good.
Lester Holt (NBC Nightly News), Chuck Todd (Meet the Press), Hoda Kotb (The Today Show), Norah O’Donnell (CBS Evening News), Joy Reid and Alex...
Vertical Choreography, Now On Broadway
“Using ... harnesses, ropes and belay devices, (the Oakland-based company) Bandaloop can take dance’s soaring, ethereal qualities to extremes and bring them to unlikely...
Cultural Life Is Returning To Damascus, And The New Islamist Government Is Supportive
“An exhibition by a prominent artist reopened last month at the National Museum, including a large painting with images of bare skin. At the...
Taliban Allow Afghan Women’s Radio Station Back On The Air
“Radio Begum launched on International Women’s Day in March 2021, five months before the Taliban seized power amid the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops. … The...
More Legal Trouble For Gérard Depardieu: An Investigation For Tax Fraud
“The 76-year-old (French) actor, already accused in a string of sexual assault and rape cases, is suspected of falsely declaring his tax residency to...
Those Little Free Libraries Are Actually Doing Some Good: Study
“According to this study, 92% of (disadvantaged) students had greater access to books because of Little Free Library boxes, 49% read more frequently (an...
Three Suspects On Trial For Theft Of Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet
“The satirical work, titled ‘America’ ..., poked fun at excessive wealth. It weighed just over 215 pounds (98 kilograms) and was insured for £4.8...
