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The San Francisco Girls Chorus Places Its ED On Leave Following Allegations Of ‘Lewd’...
“Members of the chorus staff received an email containing screenshots of a WhatsApp conversation containing images that were 'pornographic in nature,’ according to Chorus...
The Composer And Violinist On A Mission To Keep Musicians Mentally Well
Kyleen King wants to protect the “sacred catharsis” that audiences feel when they listen to music - and one way to do that, she...
The 1890s French Author Who Predicted The Rise Of The Audiobook
In the short story “The End of Books,” one character says, "I do not believe (and the progress of electricity and modern mechanism forbids...
What Does ‘Escapism’ In Reading Even Mean?
“I am not entirely sure if said snobbishness is about books or readers, and that, right there, is the ugly little thought that made...
Let’s Take A Look At The New Sadler’s Wells East
Rowan Moore: “The last thing choreographers and dancers want, I’m told by people who know, are spaces that swoop and curve in imitation of...
William Butler Yeats’ Ornate Stained Glass Lantern Comes Home From The United States To...
Yeats used the lantern to light his way on a winding staircase in his castle’s tower. A century later, a multimedia artist “carried the...
Abigail McGrath, Founder Of Off Center Theater, Has Died At 84
“‘Just as children need sunshine and parks and schools and libraries,’ Ms. McGrath said, ‘so they need the theater.’” - The New York Times
The New Hot Thing In Yoga Is A String Quintet
And why not? "Composer Ellen Fishman t”The musicians play traditional quartet instruments - two violins, a viola and a cello - but Fishman...
Latin American News Sites Brace For What May Be Coming From Zuckerberg
Spanish language factchecker Laura Zommer says, “Far from censoring, fact-checkers add context. ...We never advocate for removing content. We want citizens to have better...
Whether Or Not The Grammys Are Postponed, The Focus Will Likely Be Raising Money...
"All of this is sadly familiar, as both the 2021 and 2022 Grammy Awards — executive producer Ben Winston’s first shows at the helm — had a similar charitable...
The True Story Behind Brazil’s Oscar Contender I’m Still Here
“As the film’s popularity grows in Brazil, more and more people are reckoning with the country’s brutal history, and seeing parallels with the far-right there today.”...
Stagehands Go On Strike At The Atlantic Theater Company
The strike may have deep impacts for the entirety of the Off-Broadway ecosystem, as stagehands start to unionize across the nonprofit and smaller theatres....
Let’s Be Honest – ‘Marry Well’ Is Still The Best Advice For Writers
“This is not a new story. Ernest Hemingway would not have had the time to write were it not for the rich women he...
Simon Rattle On The Bleak Outlook For The Arts In Great Britain
As the conductor turns 70, he says, “In Britain, I see how hard it is. The country has been used to making do with...
While The Brutalist Gets Architecture Painfully Wrong, It Does Stand Up For Modernism And...
Tussling with history and mythology, the film "goes all in on the idea that we still desperately need the old dyad of genius and...
Roger Pratt, The Cinematographer Behind Brazil And Fisher King, Has Died At 77
Terry Gilliam: “While we were still faffing around, he had run all the way down the mountain, forded the river, run up the other...
This Author Has Written Some Very Scary Stories, But None Have Made Her As...
Nnedi Okorafor, with her Death of the Author coming out this week, was "worried about exposing so much of herself in the novel: her...
Hollywood Was Already In Trouble, And Now It’s Having To Press Pause On Nearly...
“The wildfires added anxiety to filmmakers, performers, crew members and others in the industry who have already been worried about Hollywood productions leaving Los...
Publishing Still Can’t Figure Out How To Support Speculative Fiction Writers
Especially when they’re Black. Why? Diversity syndrome, "a cultural condition where the ‘otherness’ of an author is elevated over the impact of their work,...
Oscars Nominations Are Delayed Amid Fires, But Here’s The Observer’s List
We won’t see the Academy’s official nominations until January 19 to give voters more time amid the fires in Los Angeles, but if it...
Photos Seized From Texas Art Museum
Unwelcome back, bad old days: “Several works by photographer Sally Mann displayed at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth were reportedly removed following...
A Mass Erasure Of Architectural And Cultural Heritage In Los Angeles As The Fires...
“‘It’s staggering and heartbreaking — I don’t know any other way to put it,’ said Ken Bernstein, principal city planner at Los Angeles City...
Houston Symphony Hires Gary Ginstling As CEO
That’s mere months after his surprise departure from the NY Phil. The Houston Symphony board president: "No one wants to work in an environment...
Australian Aboriginal Author Alexis Wright On Finding Her Voice, And Re-Finding Some Fame For...
“The buzz around her latest novel has drawn new attention to her back catalogue around the world,” and that’s obviously great for her, and...
Why Isn’t Mike Leigh’s Rapturously Reviewed Movie Getting Into Awards Conversations?
“The glitziest awards bodies have all overlooked Jean-Baptiste thus far—although, in a rare moment of unanimity, the New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles...
