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There’s No One In Charge At The US Copyright Office
Thanks to Elon Musk and DOGE, of course - and no one knows when that might improve. - Wired
The Tiny Chef Got Cancelled, And Then The Creators Responded On YouTube
One person who watched the heartbroken response video: “This is why animation is so important too. AI slop won’t make you feel emotions like...
Spielberg Says He’ll Never Retire
What’s up with movie directors? Well: “Making a film is a battle. ... The process is such a slog that, when a film-maker dies,...
New Yorkers Explain Why They Went To See The New York Phil In Queens
A Dudamel test, and also, well, New York has awesome music in the parks in the summer, basically. - The New York Times
Portland, In A Budget Crunch, Manages To Find Some Money For Hard-Hit Arts Groups
“Arts and cultural organizations in Portland face a double whammy: in addition to cuts in the city’s budget, the proposed elimination of the NEA,...
Diana Oh, Passionate Advocate For Queer Theatre, Has Died At 38
Oh was "a glitter-dusted experimental artist-activist whose theater works intertwined political provocation with profound compassion in rituals of communion with audiences,” beloved by theatre...
Can This Small Museum In England Raise Enough Money To Buy Turner’s First Known...
Maybe! “Although the £100,000 target has been reached, the has said extra money will strengthen its bid when the piece is sold at Sotheby’s.” - BBC
The San Francisco Bookstores Removing JK Rowling From Their Shelves
One of the bookstores writes, “Author JK Rowling publicly committed to using her private wealth from the Harry Potter series to develop the ‘JK Rowling Women's...
Filling The New LACMA With Music
“The celebration, which drew arts and civic leaders for the first of three preview nights, was far grander than the concert on March 26,1965,...
One Man Has Been Tuning Pianos In The Sydney Opera House For Fifty Years
Terry Harper “started on rehearsal pianos in the backroom, while building up his skills and confidence, before finally taking over when his dad retired...
If They Can Make It Here, These Top High School Actors Know, They Might...
That is to say, more than 100 high school theatre stars have been working for a week to put on a Broadway show tonight....
London’s Fabled Ealing Studios Get A Revamp And, Owners Hope, A New Life
“What we dreamed of doing was to make a studio that had all this history, the old stages built in the 1930s and the...
What Jaws Did To, And Also For, Sharks
“Before Jaws premiered in 1975, most shark research was conducted by the U.S. Navy. Much of it involved experimenting and testing repellents to prevent...
Lessons From The Apocalypse
How humanity, or at least some humans, can survive. (Hint: Study archaeology.) - Fast Company
More Fallout From The Broadway Shows That Didn’t Win At The Tonys
Dead Outlaw “was nominated for seven prizes, including best musical, but won none. It is the third new musical to post a closing notice...
The Days When Charles Dickens Was Known As Boz
The writer was so popular that “a ‘Boz Ball,’ attended by 3,000 people, was held in New York in 1842 to welcome Dickens to...
Author Kaveh Akbar Reflects On Making Art During War
“Every Iranian that you know has people in Tehran, people around Iran who are doing poorly,” the author of Martyr! says. For instance, his...
Actor Jay Ellis Found Inspiration In Colson Whitehead’s Books
The star of movies, and now Off-Broadway, says, "I feel like I did not understand or see myself in fiction until I read him....
There Are Just So Many Bros On Broadway Right Now
One (male) audience member: “We want to see a good, solid male psyche. We want to see the full extent of the male experience....
Pixar, Once The Golden Child, Is Having A Very Rough Time With Its Original...
What in the heck is going on? Since the pandemic, “while audiences often say they want to see new stories, box office ticket sales...
Instead Of Replacing Journalists, Can Targeted AI Use Help Indie News Sites Get Better?
Minnesota’s nonprofit Sahan Journal "has been working on ways to support internal workflows with AI. Now, it’s even testing a custom ChatGPT bot to help...
A New Proposal For The US At The Venice Biennale Is, Uh, Not Great
“With its fascist posturing, suggestion of militarized violence, laser light shows, and relentless ego-buffing in the form of giant statuary, it’s like World War Z but...
Marlee Matlin Won An Oscar, But Had To Wait Years For More Good Work...
And - despite CODA co-star Troy Kotsur’s Oscar win in 2022 - that hasn’t changed. “'It’s hard to find work,’ she said, but still...
An Underground Ballet Revival In Ukraine Gives Relief From Relentless War
“In the dark, brick-walled basement of the Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, a dance company has created a space protected from drones...
Massive Stolen Sculptures Recovered In Anaheim
After a mysterious warehouse heist last weekend, sculptures worth about $2 million were recovered on Friday night at a private house. - KTLA
