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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 País
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...
How The Geffen Sounds, From Every Seat In The House
The hall "seems to have achieved a rare distinction in its engineering for sound: consistency. No seat in the hall ... is appreciably better...
Dungeons And Dragons, But Make It Mental Health
Because so many people are used to using tabletop role-playing games, some therapists have decided to adapt the tools of the games. - Wired
Singer Carly Simon’s Sisters, Both Musicians, Died This Week
Lucy Simon, 82, was a Tony-nominated Broadway composer; Joanna Simon, 85, was a mezzo-soprano who (according to The New York Times) "stood out for...
More Money Means More Museums
Check out a certain state in particular: "Collectors across the country are choosing to start their own museums, and perhaps nowhere has this trend...
On Anniversary Of On-Set Shooting, Prosecutor Warns Of Potential Indictment
A year after Alec Baldwin fired the gun whose bullet killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, a New Mexico prosecutor said in a statement, "No one...
The Ursula Le Guin Fiction Prize Names Its First Winner
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, author of The House of Rust, won the prize, named for the legendary Portland author and activist - but "Le Guin...
Why We Still Need Physical Archives
For one thing, it's nearly impossible to digitize everything in an archive, or to connect it in context. "Physical documents can help us understand...
British Arts Venues Feel Desperate In The Deepening Cost Of Living Crisis
"Those institutions which made it – sometimes barely – through the pandemic are now contending with huge leaps in fuel prices, increased staffing costs,...
New Yorker Art Critic Peter Schjeldahl Has Died At 80
Schjeldahl was a poet, art lover and sometime artist before he became an art critic. The Fourth of July parties he and wife Brooke...
