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Compared To AI, CliffsNotes Look Pretty Good, Says Professor
“CliffsNotes for students who struggle to get through Brontë, Woolf, or Shakespeare seem laughably analog in the time of ChatGPT, but CliffsNotes offer genuine...
Joe Hickerson, A Key Figure In The Preservation Of American Folk Song, Is Dead...
“At the height of folk revival, Hickerson began what became more than a quarter-century tenure at the Library of Congress in 1963, swiftly establishing...
Author Of John Williams Bio Clarifies That No, Williams Does Not Actually Dislike Film...
Tim Greiving: “As the recipient of those quotes, I want to try and clear it up. … It’s true that he said to me,...
Old Master Portrait Looted By Nazis Spotted In Real Estate Ad, Then Disappears
Portrait of a Lady, by Baroque artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, was part of the trove of works belonging to Amsterdam art dealer Jacques Goudstikker which...
Alessandra Ferri’s Plans For Vienna State Ballet
Interestingly, Ferri has no prior connection to the Vienna State Opera. ... She sees this as a positive, especially in light of the two...
Minneapolis Institute Of Art To Hold Its First-Ever Exhibition Of Crop Art
Crop art — works using corn kernels, sunflower seeds, or other agricultural products as their media — has long been a feature of the...
Alaska’s Public Radio Stations Could Be Hit Hardest By Federal Defunding
There are 27 rural public radio stations in the state, most of them serving small communities with little other media and hundreds of miles...
Theater Audiences Are Slowly Coming Back In Philadelphia (As Long As They Can Get...
About 71% of theaters there have seen audience numbers improve since the COVID shutdowns, though only 41% are back to pre-2020 levels. The major...
The Lion King’s Longest-Running Rafiki Retires After 25 Years
Tshidi Manye has played the mandrill shaman who sings “Circle of Life” in roughly 9,000 performances, a large majority of them on Broadway. -...
Shirley Ririe, Utah’s Pioneer Of Modern Dance, Has Died At 96
With colleague Joan Woodbury, who died in 2023, she founded the state’s first contemporary troupe, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, in 1964 and developed it into...
A “Hamilton”-Style Hip-Hop Musical About Scottish Hero William Wallace (Yes, Braveheart)
“Hip-hop, (songwriter Dave Hook) argues, has never blandly replicated itself, but always adapted to new circumstances. … By giving hip-hop a Scottish voice and,...
Chicago Reader Saved From Closure By Owner Of Seattle Alt-Weekly The Stranger
The 54-year-old paper, one of the US’s oldest alt-weeklies, made major layoffs and narrowly avoided shutting down in January. The Reader has now been...
Starling Lawrence, Editor With A Nose For Bestsellers, Dead At 82
“For more than five decades at W.W. Norton, (he) waded into the so-called slush pile ... to discover unsung authors and to help fashion...
Simon & Schuster CEO Is Stepping Down To Launch New Imprint
Jonathan Karp became CEO in 2020 and steered the publishing house through COVID, an antitrust case and a change in ownership. He’s moving on...
A New Artistic Director At Louisville Ballet
Anthony Krutzkamp, a Kentucky native, is currently both artistic and executive director at Sacramento Ballet, where he achieved record ticket sales, formed a second...
Philadelphia Is About To Suffer Massive Transit Cuts. What Will That Mean For The...
With funding stalled in the state legislature, transit agency SEPTA instituted a 20% service cut in the city last week and will make drastic...
Van Gogh Museum Says It May Have To Close Without More Money From Dutch...
“The museum … needs a refurbishment to preserve its more than 200 paintings and nearly 500 drawings by Vincent van Gogh, but two years...
South Dakota Public Broadcasting Cuts Its Workforce By 25%
Following Congress’s elimination of federal funding of public TV and radio and state-level finding cuts, SDPB is laying off 15 staffers and eliminating five...
Fired Trinity Wall Street Music Director Arrested For Possession Of Child Porn
Julian Wachner, who established Trinity Church Wall Street as a dynamic force in New York’s classical music scene, only to be dismissed following an...
Edinburgh International Festival Sees Best Ticket Sales In A Decade
“2025’s EIF season, themed ‘The Truth We Seek’, sold 88% of available tickets. The figure is up by 29% on last year, when EIF...
Did Three Malevich Paintings Really Turn Up Under A Retiree’s Bed When She Moved?
So says the owner of the works, Yaniv Cohen, who claims he was given them by his wife’s grandmother, whose father acquired them secretly...
Glasgow’s Leading Theatre Reopens After Seven-Year Renovation
The Citizens Theatre closed in 2018 for what was supposed to be a three-year rehabilitation. The COVID pandemic, and the ensuing inflation, both delayed...
John Williams Doesn’t Think Very Highly Of Film Music (Including His Own)
“Film music, however good it can be – and it usually isn’t, other than maybe an eight-minute stretch here and there … The music...
Edinburgh International Festival Says Demand To Give Up Baillie Gifford As Sponsor “Threatens Our...
“The festival said (the) demand for it to end its commercial partnership with the Edinburgh-based fund manager ‘ultimately reduces the very spaces where difficult...
Memoir Of Jeffrey Epstein’s Most Prominent Accuser Will Be Published Posthumously
Virginia Giuffre spent several years completing Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice with co-author Amy Wallace. On April 1,...
