The US-born Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi was escorted out of the 16th-century Villa Aurora by police on Thursday after receiving an eviction order amid a long-running inheritance dispute with the three sons of her late husband, Nicolò, who was the property’s last owner. - The Guardian
By 2027, there is a projected loss of $113 billion for streaming video providers serving U.S. customers due to content theft, according to a report from research firm Parks Associates. - Variety
"These sleuths, with the help of a small, anonymous global team of volunteers from various fields – who communicate mostly online – have brought back to India several millions worth of antiquities from countries like Australia, Singapore, Germany, UK and the US." - BBC
Musk’s takeover of the platform has not only strained the dinner-party metaphor (a new host comes in and dominates the conversation, demanding money from you and accusing the hosts from before of being F.B.I. stooges?); it has also strained the sense of conviviality. - The New York Times
"Juan José Santibañez has almost single-handedly revived ancient construction techniques in the area, created a market for artisanal brickmakers from miles around, and proven that genuine sustainability can be a source of pleasure, not just a grimly abstemious virtue." - Curbed
I don’t mean to sound self-aggrandizing, but it is legitimately hard to capture the cultural relevance of BuzzFeed to the media landscape of the mid-2010s, and the excitement and centrality of the organization’s approach to news. - The Atlantic
His Stonewall Inn Editions was the first gay imprint at a major publisher (St. Martin's Press), where "(he) released canonical titles by ... Larry Kramer, Paul Monette, Edmund White and Randy Shilts, including And the Band Played On, his bestselling 1987 chronicle of the AIDS epidemic." - MSN (The Washington Post)
Experts estimate that arts workers spend between 20 and 30 percent of their income on necessary work-related expenses, including headshots and management fees. If passed, PATPA would allow workers to claim these expenses on their taxes. - Broadway News
"Not long ago, some were predicting more and more films would be diverted from theaters and sent straight into homes. … (Yet) companies like Amazon and Apple are sprinting into multiplexes, taking a distinctly different approach to the staunchly streaming-focused Netflix." - AP
I am partial to having opinions myself, provided they are carefully justified, and I am not convinced that verdicts are always artifacts of incuriosity: Even when we have deemed an artwork beautiful or ugly, we have yet to discover what makes it flow or falter. - Washington Post
Smuin Contemporary Ballet may be named after a male (its founder, who died in 2007), but it now has women as artistic director, associate artistic director, managing director, and ballet master, and its programming has featured female choreographers for years. - San Francisco Chronicle
"The ease of the task depends on where they are on the call sheet. Big names get the red carpet treatment. … Somewhat lesser lights may get a relocation stipend, but they have to do their own house hunting. Others take a gamble and pay their own way." - The New York Times
"Ernest Moret, a French foreign rights manager with Editions La Fabrique was stopped as he attempted to enter the UK at St. Pancras train station under the pretense that he may have 'engaged in terrorist acts.' The acts? Protesting efforts by the French government to raise the retirement age." - Literary Hub
"A former student alleges that then–artistic director Mitchell Nestor 'raped and sexually assaulted' her in the early 1970s. The lawsuit … names the school and late founder Lee Strasberg's wife, Anna, as defendants. Nestor is believed to be deceased." - Vulture
After making several previous missteps, prosecutors in New Mexico decided to withdraw the involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor upon the discovery of new evidence about the gun in the incident. However, the state attorneys made a point of saying that they don't consider Baldwin to be exonerated. - AP
