"The New York Philharmonic, saying it hoped to use culture to help ease political tensions, announced plans on Thursday for a summer tour in Asia, including stops in Hong Kong and Taiwan and a visit to mainland China by a small group of musicians." - The New York Times
"Going forward, BuzzFeed will concentrate its news efforts in a single profitable news organization — HuffPost, which it acquired from Verizon in 2020, per (CEO Jonah) Peretti's memo. The company's flagship BuzzFeed.com site will remain in place." - Variety
This “ghostwriter” is essentially taking the likeness of two artists and creating a song they had nothing to do with. It’s particularly an issue because it’s something that music fans are enjoying. - The Root
An Egyptian lawyer has reportedly filed a complaint demanding that legal measures are taken to block Netflix outright in Egypt, to prevent the show from airing. They claim the docudrama, which drops May 10, violates the country’s media laws. - Variety
Public libraries—once as popular with libertarian autodidacts as leftists—have become targets of the Republican Party. Local-library systems, and local librarians, are being vilified nationwide as peddlers of Marxism and child pornography. - The New Yorker
Beyond the rights and wrongs of the images themselves, we should be asking if it is fair that photographers might find themselves losing out financially to systems that are only made possible in the first case because of their photographs. - The Art Newspaper
There are powerful, immediate financial incentives to study, say, computer science rather than Victorian literature, but economic incentives only partially explain today’s flight from the humanities. - Washington Post
"A host of researchers (is) probing subtle differences in white matter to better understand ... its role in making us who we are — including how much white matter dictates variations between people's everyday behavior, and whether it's implicated in how some patients recover better than others from life-threatening brain injuries." - Nautilus
As the artistic director and chief executive officer at Roundabout, Mr. Haimes had an extraordinarily long and effective tenure. He led the organization for four decades, turning the nonprofit company into a major player on Broadway, where it now runs three of the 41 theaters. - The New York Times
Human bodies are basically built to see and move forward; human brains tend to conceive of time in that forward way. Octopuses can move in any direction and see almost 360 degrees. They also, unlike most humans, die quickly after reproducing. Can cephalopods offer us a new model of conceiving time? - Aeon
His lawyer argued in court in 2019 that her client was merely “a drunk kid in a bright green ugly Christmas sweater” who was initially charged under the wrong law. - The New York Times
"The updated categories are: Outstanding Leading Performer in a Play, Outstanding Leading Performer in a Musical, Outstanding Featured Performer in a Play and Outstanding Featured Performer in a Musical. Each of these categories will have twice as many nominees as the former categories (and) will have two winners each." - Broadway News
A law passed in November not only widened an existing prohibition on material considered to promote an LGBTQ+ lifestyle but also restricts the “demonstration” of LGBTQ+ behaviour. - The Guardian
"But if you weren’t lucky enough to know somebody who knew the real story," she asks, "why would you know that? I didn't know that, until I was an adult. And that shifts your whole view of what we've been told about American music." - Variety
