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San Francisco Symphony Musicians’ New Contract Hits The $200K Mark
The agreement, retroactive to Nov. 24, 2024 and ending on Nov. 20, 2027, maintains the starting weekly base salary of $3,450, with biannual increases...
Polluted Air Is Leaving Black Crust All Over Delhi’s Red Fort
“Fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide in the capital’s air are accelerating the decay of the sandstone fort, built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan...
Louvre Discontinues Tours Guided By Nintendo 3DS
“For the past decade, visitors to the Louvre could rent a Nintendo 3DS console for personalized tours, audio commentary and additional information about more...
Agreement Is Near On Keeping TikTok Available In U.S.
In 2024, due to data security concerns, Congress passed legislation requiring the Chinese company ByteDance to either sell TikTok to an American owner or...
A Training Regime Designed To Strengthen Feet For Pointe Work
Working with a physician and several dancers, Lynne Charles (who had a 35-year-career as a principal ballerina) developed 4Pointe, a somatic method to strengthen...
What’s Happened To Cultural Institutions In Russian-Occupied Mariupol
“In the months and years since the siege that destroyed it, the city has been turned into a showcase of the concept of the...
Cleveland’s Ideastream Public Media Gets $1 Million Gift For Dedicated Jazz Studio
“Since its launch in February 2024, (the station’s) JazzNEO (channel) has been operating without a dedicated studio and airing all pre-recorded programming. The new...
Trump Administration Orders National Park To Remove Historic Photograph Of Enslaved Man’s Scarred Back
“The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, according to four people familiar with...
How A Small Theater Company In Brooklyn Keeps Going Following Funding Cuts
A reporter crunches some numbers and looks at the basic operation of The Brick, a 54-seat theater in a former auto-repair shop in the...
Robert Redford, 89
“His wavy blond hair and boyish grin made him the most desired of leading men, but he worked hard to transcend his looks —...
National Museum Of Yemen Damaged By Israeli Aerial Bombing
Photos and video show the museum’s courtyard littered with rubble; while doors and windows were blown out, the building is standing. The museum reopened...
For $1 Million, The Atlantic Settles Lawsuit By Writer Of Retracted Story
In 2020, the magazine published a story by freelance journalist Ruth Shalit Barrett about wealthy parents pushing their children into niche sports to gain...
Penn State Will Shut Down NPR/PBS Affiliate WPSU
A committee of Trustees of the university, which owns and operates the station, unanimously rejected a plan to transfer ownership of the station licenses...
The New U.S. Poet Laureate Is Arthur Sze
“The Library (of Congress) announced Monday that the 74-year-old Sze had been appointed to a one-year term, starting this fall. The author of 12...
Layoffs And Cancellations At D.C. PBS Station WETA
“The workforce reduction includes layoffs of 12 active workers and the elimination of nine vacant positions, representing approximately 5% of the employee roster of...
Naples Opens A Subway Station Designed By Anish Kapoor
From the street, it certainly looks like Kapoor’s work; coming up from the train platform, it looks like something by James Turrell. - Dezeen
The Lion Of Venice Statue In St. Mark’s Square Was Evidently Made In China
“By studying copper isotopes taken from samples of the statue, scientists were able to identify that the metal originated from the Yangtze River in...
The “AI-and-I” Essay Has Become A Genre Of Its Own
For example, between April and July, The New Yorker published over a dozen such pieces: essays about generative AI and the dangers it poses to literacy,...
Supercool Film Studio A24 Has Moved Into Off-Broadway Theater
Two years ago A24 bought the Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan’s West Village for $10 million; following a thorough remodeling, the house has reopened...
National Ballet Of Cuba’s Expert Dancers Are Fleeing The Country’s Collapsing Economy
“Many from the Ballet Nacional are quietly choosing to leave behind difficult conditions: Blackouts that make rehearsal spaces and exercise rooms swelteringly hot. Scarce...
Owner Of Miami-Dade’s Public Radio Station Sues Nonprofit That Operates It
The Miami-Dade County School Board, owner of the broadcast license for WLRN, argues that South Florida Public Media Group, which manages the station, violated...
Appeals Court Upholds Order To Pause Trump’s Dismantling Of Institute Of Museum And Library...
“The Court noted throughout their decision that the defendants did not provide sufficient evidence that they weren’t creating harm or overstepping Constitutionality in implementing Trump’s...
Arvo Pärt, Aged 90, Has Ended His Composing Career
The confirmation is tucked into a profile of the wildly popular composer, who has been in poor health and is reportedly developing dementia. -...
How Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabuli Style Works
A music scholar explains how the artistic formula — famously described by the composer’s wife, Nora, as “1+1=1” — gets translated into the notes...
U.S. Copyright Chief Can Keep Her Job For Now, Rules Court Of Appeals
“By the order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Shira Perlmutter remains the register of copyrights and the...
