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The City Of Portland Takes (Back) Its Performing Arts Venues
“The three downtown buildings with five theaters are owned by the city but have been managed by the elected regional government for more than...
One Performer Killed, Another Gravely Injured At Live Circus Stunt In Italy
“Fatal accidents inside the Globe of Death — a popular circus stunt in which multiple motorcyclists ride around inside a globe-shaped metal cage in...
Let’s Talk About Why This Norwegian Film Is Perfect For Painful U.S. Family Thanksgivings
“Love and affection run past the margins, brushing up against shame and fear for a conclusion that’s akin to lingering a bit longer after...
The Phillips Collection Sells Off Art, Riles Its Board, And Angers The Family
Robert Storr, former dean at the Yale School of Art and advisory board member: “‘Selling off the family silver is not a strategy for...
This Scottish Folk Pioneer Is Fighting To Get His Own Music Back
Dick Gaughan had a deep influence on Rufus Wainwright, Billy Bragg, and Richard Hawley. But the label Celtic Music has kept his work under...
Dear Everyone Who Completely Ruined Their Gmail Thanks To Viral Posts And Articles
Google says that no, they’re actually not training their AI on your email. (And if they were, would opting out of “smart features” actually...
The Met Says There Was A ‘Security Lapse’ That Let Protestors Disrupt Carmen The...
A security guard (now suspended from his job) was not at his post. “That allowed the two protesters to walk on a narrow ledge...
The Words English Speakers Use Only In Highly Specific Circumstances
Diametrically together? Bode excellently? - Mental Floss
What The Ed Sheeran Documentary Shows About Culture Is, Honestly, A Little Depressing
Not because of the skill of the one-take camera crew. “We know, of course, that being a very famous person these days involves having...
So Long, Jim Henson Company Studio, And Thanks For All The Fraggles
No Muppets will be on sale - thanks to their purchase by HBO - but among the hundreds of items up for auction as...
More Than Half Of The Novelists In Britain Think That Software, AKA AI, Will...
“Many participants reported that their work had already been used without their permission to train large language models, and more than a third (39%)...
When Oprah Picks An Argument With You Even As She Picks Your Book
Novelist Ann Packer is OK with that. “As any veteran author knows, books that get people talking have a better chance of bubbling up...
Gamers Are Running Scenarios In Fortnite To Prepare For ICE Raids
One of the organizers: “It’s a way to get folks to know or get used to what might look like. … What their...
Protesters Interrupt Performance Of Carmen At The Met
“While it was not immediately clear what they were protesting, eyewitnesses said one of them had denounced David H. Koch, the billionaire industrialist, a...
The Wicked Sequel Is Doing Solid Box Office Numbers, But Can It Win Over...
“One oddly uniting factor among Best Picture sequels is how few of them managed to compete in the acting categories.” - Vulture
Ireland’s Alt-Music Scene Was Nowhere – And Now It’s Spreading Throughout The World
“A generation of gen Z and millennial artists are reckoning with what it meant to come of age through recession, austerity and the tail...
Who Is AI Nostalgia Slop Even For?
“It’s hard not to see the platform as a place where users are encouraged to double down on familiar archetypes instead of making something...
What Happened To Al Rockoff’s Historic Photos Of Cambodia Is A Cautionary Tale Of...
A man who said he would help Rockoff - one of the last photographers in Phnom Penh as the Khmer Rouge marched in -...
High Visibility Can Be Great For Representation, And Hell On The First Person Through...
It’s great that wheelchair user Marissa Bode plays wheelchair user Nessarose Thropp, but “after the release of the first Wicked film in November 2024,...
London’s Royal Ballet And Opera Makes Bank, Or Maybe Sustainable Income, On Its New...
Dynamic pricing is common, and as one performing arts critic pointed out, it “can shift in both directions, with prices increasing when tickets start...
How Large Data Sets And AI Analysis Are Absolutely Murdering Our Private Lives
“Personal data isn’t just a record of who we are. It’s our actions, transactions, locations, conversations, preferences, inferences, and vulnerabilities. It’s our identities, our...
How Theatre Artists Survive Dictatorships
“If you press your ear to the plays of the 20th century, they’ll tell you secrets of human acts gone by and strategies to...
The Growing Popularity Of Madrid As A Film Set Isn’t Exactly Thrilling Its Residents
“While city officials celebrate Madrid’s popularity as a film and television set, residents of the most in-demand neighborhoods are not particularly thrilled to find...
The Studio Museum In Harlem Reopens, After Seven Years, In Its Own New Home
The museum director: “In many ways I do feel the timing of our opening now is ideal. … We’re opening in a moment that's...
Have Screens Actually – We Mean It, This Time – Destroyed Education, Worldwide?
“It seems ridiculous to have to say this, but digital distraction is terrible for academic performance.” - The New York Times
