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Geoff Nuttall Of The St. Lawrence Quartet Has Died At 56
Nuttall, who also ran the chamber music series at the Spoleto Festival, was a violinist, "a charismatic musician who played boldly," with an "electrifying...
Climate Activists Throw Mashed Potatoes At A Monet
"People are starving, people are freezing, people are dying. We are in a climate catastrophe. And all you are afraid of is tomato soup,"...
Choreography As Group Protest
Emily Johnson's "expansive work often brings its viewer-participants into outdoor public spaces, drawing our attention to the land beneath and around us — to what...
The Secrets Of A Great Writers’ Room
According to Abbott Elementary's Brittani Nichols, writers getting to produce episodes means something important, and it keeps the writers' room bonded, on track, and...
Carmen Callil, 84, Who Founded Virago Press And Introduced Atwood To The UK
Callil "championed female writers and transformed the canon of English literature," including by bringing many women authors back into print. - The Guardian (UK)
Playwright Martyna Majok Wants To Believe In Theatre’s Magic
And her play, new to Broadway, is "about 'the precarity of life' — the way that one bad break, financial or physical or emotional,...
Moshe Safdie Said He Paid A Price For Not Being A Postmodernist
Rowan Moore: "Once, Moshe Safdie was the future. Then he wasn’t. Now, decades later, it turns out that, after all, he was." - The...
Remote Work Is Here To Stay
"The point isn’t that there’s something wrong with working from an office. It’s that there’s something right about working from home." Now, what does...
Author Alice Taylor Says Ireland Has Changed Massively, And For The Better
Even though she's famous for memoir and novels of country life, she says, "I do not miss the deference which was shown to people...
Seattle’s Alt-Weekly Says People Should ‘Power Through’ Tristan And Isolde
Why? At the Seattle Opera, "they fucking love Wagner." - The Stranger
Facebook Threatens To Block News In Canada
Proposed legislation in Canada, "the Online News Act, compels online platforms like Facebook and Google to share revenue with the publishers they aggregate their news from."...
Is Cate Blanchett’s Predatory Conductor The Villain Or The Hero?
"Watching Tár, you’re likely to be spectacularly divided about what happens to Lydia. We experience it all through her eyes, and it’s the nature...
The Art Of Cannabis Cultivation
Artist Pao Houa Her draws parallels "between the heyday of Hmong opium cultivation in Laos in the decades before the Vietnam War and the...
TikTok’s Many Singing And Dancing Users Are Addicted
But that usually doesn't translate to dollars for creators - even ones with millions of views and followers. - El PaÃs
When Streaming Fails, Merch Saves Popular Musicians
Maybe the classical world can take some notes from Billie Eilish? - The Guardian (UK)
Actor Who Fled Iran In 2008 Offers Sympathy, Solidarity To Protesters
Zar Amir Ebrahimi was a young actor when a leaked sex tape forced her to flee her country. Now, she says, "This Islamic Republic...
Salman Rushdie Has Lost Sight In One Eye, Use Of One Hand After Attack
His agent: "He had three serious wounds in his neck. One hand is incapacitated because the nerves in his arm were cut. And he...
Dealing With Memories While Writing Memoir
Memoirist Mary Karr (The Liars Club, Cherry, Lit) says, "Memory is a pinball in a machine—it messily ricochets around between image, idea, fragments of...
Booker Prize Winner Asks People Not To Pirate His Book
Shehan Karunatilaka, who won for his book The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, wrote on Instagram and Facebook, "The book took seven years to...
Actor Josephine Melville, 61, Dies Backstage After Performing A Play
Melville had just performed at the Nottingham Playhouse in the play Nine Night. She also played a recurring character on the British soap EastEnders...
How George Clooney And Julia Roberts Became Our Era’s Tracy And Hepburn
They've never been romantically linked, but they're good buddies - and it's obvious. "The genuine tenderness between them, undergirding even their tensest interactions, is...
Turning An Enslaved Man’s Narrative Into An Opera
In 2017, the Spoleto Festival asked musician Rhiannon Giddens if she wanted to write an opera about Muslim scholar Omar ibn Said. She'd never...
Are The Mysteries Of Spotify’s Payment System Ever Going To Get Solved?
And will it ever, ever be fair to musicians? In August, Congress member Rashida Tlaib's office calculated that "it would take more than 800,000...
Julie Kent Leaves The Washington Ballet For Houston
Kent, an international ballet star, led the Washington Ballet for six years. In her statement about leaving for the Houston Ballet, she said, "It...
Illuminated Manuscripts In Greece Tell A New Story About Ottoman Rule
The manuscripts tell a newly rediscovered story of Mount Athos: "The new rulers took the community under their wing, preserved its autonomy and protected...
