"Florida officials filed an application with the nation’s highest court on Friday asking that the prohibition against enforcing the anti-drag show law only be limited to the Orlando restaurant which challenged its constitutionality" after lower courts blocked wider enforcement. - AP
Since 2021, the agency has given general operations funding only to organizations with budgets under $250,000. In March, the CAC lifted that cap — and then reinstated it in August. Many larger organizations spent time completing the very involved application, then learned they weren't eligible after all. Why? - MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
Some organizers said they were calling off the Palestinian-themed events because of security concerns. Others cited sensitivity, calling the cancellations and postponements understandable, if unfortunate, responses at a moment when emotions are raw. - The New York Times
"The idea was, Well, if women were qualified for these jobs or wanted these jobs, they would just rise into them. They would just take them. So, everyone’s kind of allowed to fool themselves into thinking this is how things are supposed to be." - Slate
The union says not actor adults, but yes, their kids, can dress as characters from struck movies. (For instance, Barbie or Ken, or perhaps Oppenheimer?) - Los Angeles Times
The woman said Elfman abused her while she was a young, aspiring composer. The accusations include his "exposing his genitals to her and masturbating in front of her while she slept." - Los Angeles Times
Teachers are too afraid to teach the book or the reality. "If such policies continue, new generations of Americans will be deprived of the wisdom of history — all of history: the stirring, the cautionary, the truth." - The New York Times
"'I’m always saying to , you could be the heroes in this,' said Fran Drescher, president of SAG-AFTRA. ... 'The eyes of the industry are looking at you. Lean into what is hard but what is right.'" - Los Angeles Times
“I hope that it becomes the equivalent of An Inconvenient Truth to the conversation about climate change,” says Dan Pallotta, main subject of the documentary Uncharitable, "so that it begins to become civically incorrect to judge charities on superficial, knee jerk reactive measures.” - AP
“My reasons are simple: The person who will be governor in January has already asked LSU to fire me,” tweeted journalism professor Robert Mann. “And I have no confidence the leadership of this university would protect the Manship School against a governor’s efforts to punish me and other faculty members.” - Slate
"When the venture was first announced in December 2014 ... the building was due to be called the Factory." Now the organization running it is called Factory International, though the building is named Aviva Studios, thanks to the naming-rights gift that got the place finished. - The Stage
Nearly 60% of Americans say they have had to cut back on spending on live entertainment this year because of rising costs, according to a Wall Street Journal/Credit Karma survey of about 1,000 U.S. consumers conducted at the start of September. - Wall Street Journal
That number represents a six-point drop from the most recent survey in 2017, amplifying alarm bells that the arts community is struggling to regain its pre-lockdown audience. - Washington Post
For those without college degrees, life expectancy reached its peak around 2010 and has been falling since, an unfolding disaster that has attracted little attention in the media or among elected officials. - The New York Times
