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Lyricist Alan Bergman, Who Co-Wrote Hit Songs, TV Themes, And Film Scores, Has Died...
“Blending Tin Pan Alley sentiment and contemporary pop, the Bergmans” — Alan and his wife, Marilyn (who passed in 2022) — “crafted lyrics known...
San Francisco’s Flagship Art Museums Lay Off 5% Of Staff
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, umbrella organization for the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor, is eliminating 12 positions. A statement explained...
Donald Trump Sues The Wall Street Journal And Rupert Murdoch for $10 Billion
“Donald Trump sued Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal reporters on Friday over an explosive report that the president wrote...
Minnesota Orchestra’s New CEO: Isaac Thompson Of Oregon Symphony
“Isaac Thompson has been named president and chief executive officer of the Minnesota Orchestra, returning to his home area after two years of holding...
What Happens When You Expose Octopuses To Art?
The Japanese artist Shimabuku wanted to find out — so he started making artworks for them. - CNN
Stephen Petronio Company To Give Its Last-Ever Performances At Jacob’s Pillow Next Week
The 69-year-old choreographer announced earlier this year that this season, the company’s 40th anniversary, is its last. Two years ago, he announced that the...
The Most Dangerous Book In America?
“What has been labeled the ‘bible of the racist right’ has influenced American culture in a way only fiction can. … There is no...
Detroit Opera, Facing Big Budget Shortfall, Cancels Next Season’s First Production
Following steep drops in donations and especially government funding, the company has called off all performances of Puccini’s Girl of the Golden West this...
Canada’s Giller Prize Will Close Down This Year Without New Sponsor Or Government Funding
“The annual $100,000 prize for fiction ended its 20-year partnership with lead sponsor Scotiabank earlier this year. At that time, Giller Foundation executive director Elana...
Meet The New Champion Of The Left-Hand Piano Repertoire
Nicholas McCarthy, a 35-year-old Briton who was born without a right hand, has not only conquered the well-known works such as the Ravel concerto,...
Making The Gisèle Pelicot Trial Into Theatre
“The three-hour performance (at the Avignon Festival) has been created by Milo Rau, the Swiss director and playwright acclaimed for his theatre interpretations of...
Steve Benson, Provocative, Pulitzer-Winning Editorial Cartoonist, Is Dead At 71
“(He) evolved from a conservative, high-profile member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints into an outspoken atheist and liberal, all while...
Woody Allen Is Now A Novelist
Since the 1970s, Allen has written several books of short stories and essays, as well as a memoir, Apropos of Nothing, published in 2020, but...
Congress Approves Trump’s Clawback Of All Public Radio And TV Funding
The bill reclaims the entire $1.1 billion previously appropriated for the next two years for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The CPB distributes two-thirds...
CBS Cancels “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” In A “Purely Financial Decision”
The cancellation, effective next May, of US late-night TV’s highest-rated program comes as CBS’s corporate parent, Paramount Global, seeks FCC approval of an $8.4...
Wisconsin Has A New Professional Ballet Company
Wisconsin Dance Theatre, based in the southern part of the state between Milwaukee and Madison, just opened its debut production — A Hero’s Homecoming,...
India’s Nationalist Government Is Pushing Hindi To Replace English. Non-Hindi-Speaking States Are Pushing Back...
It’s the latest outbreak of a recurring argument: the central government in Delhi (in Hindi-speaking north-central India) pushes for Hindi in place of the...
Russia’s Private Art Museums Are Targets In Putin’s Crackdown On Dissent
“Many cultural workers and some billionaire museum founders have chosen to leave Russia; others have felt compelled to do so after warnings that they...
Two Orchestras In Southwest Florida Have Recently Closed, While Two Others Are Thriving. Why...
In the past 18 months, the Punta Gorda Symphony and the Fort Myers-based Southwest Florida Symphony have gone under. Meanwhile, the Sarasota Orchestra and...
Leonard Slatkin Returns To Nashville Symphony As Music Advisor
Slatkin held the post — in this particular case, a sort of interim music director position — twenty years ago, from 2006 to 2009,...
Burlesque Is Experiencing Yet Another Revival
“(The 21st-century’s neo-burlesque) feels relevant to 2025 – in step with drag and queer culture, and in line with the broader movement towards diversity...
Battle Between Operators Of South Florida’s Public Radio Station And Owners Of Its License
South Florida Public Media Group has raised funds for the southeast Florida public radio and TV stations since 1974 and managed them since 2022....
Connie Francis, One Of The Best-Selling Pop Stars Of The 1950s and ‘60s, Has...
“(She was) the most popular female singer of the late 1950s and early ’60s, with such hits as ‘Who’s Sorry Now,’ ‘Stupid Cupid’ and...
Rhode Island Passes “Freedom To Read Act” In Response To Book-Banning
“The law contains protections for school and local librarians and staff and is, notably, the first to guarantee writers and readers a right to...
“Gypsy” Starring Audra McDonald Will End Broadway Run Early
The revival, which was nominated for five Tony Awards but won none, had been expected to run until at least Oct. 5; it will...
