The universe is stranger than we can imagine, Albert Einstein is said to have said. Indeed, we should not even be sure there is a universe: we can see stars and nebulae and planets and whatever, but no one has ever seen a universe. - 3 Quarks Daily
"'It's hard to tell how healthy the art house market is right now because, since theaters reopened, we haven't had many of those real prestige, art house titles available,' (says one executive). Which makes Venice all the more important as a bellwether for the indie business." - The Hollywood Reporter
Sources also say that both sides were eager to avoid another protracted, distracting and brutally expensive legal battle, to put it mildly: The fight over the previous, 2018-22 rate period went on for more than three years and cost many millions of dollars in legal and other fees. - Variety
"He is an artist for whom Americanness truly matters, as much as the tradition of Western classical music — both heritages treated not with nostalgia, but with awareness and affection." Joshua Barone profiles Adams ahead of the world premiere of his Antony and Cleopatra in San Francisco. - The New York Times
The Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language project at Lancaster University, deploying large-scale computer analyses, has been transforming what we know about Shakespeare’s language. - The Conversation
The paper's Book World was closed in 2009 and reviews in the hard-copy edition were moved to the Style and Outlook sections. (Online, there was little visible difference.) Book World will return to print — for DC-area readers, at least — on September 25. - Literary Hub
The program would be somewhat akin to Amazon Prime, which offers advantages such as free shipping, discounts at Whole Foods and a complementary streaming video service for a monthly or annual fee, the people said. Internally, some executives have referred to Disney’s initiative as “Disney Prime." - The Wall Street Journal
"A judge for the Central District of California has dismissed a lawsuit by choreographer Kyle Hanagami against Epic Games. Hanagami filed the suit in April, alleging that Epic had used his choreography for the 2017 music video "How Long" by Charlie Puth without permission or attribution." - PC Gamer
"Shakespeare and Shakespeare's Globe will always be viewed by some as fundamentally conservative because, on one level, they exist as symbols of England's past glory. The fact (that) it is a forward-looking modern theatre therefore inevitably comes into conflict with its existence as a patriotic symbol." - The Stage
"The rampant and cruel misinformation that has spread about (Naomi's) death, and about our relationships with her, ... will only worsen if the details are disclosed by the Tennessee law that allows police reports, including family interviews, from closed investigations to be made public." - The New York Times
"'I agree with the defense that the statute is facially invalid,' said retired judge Pamela S. Baskervill (about the) Virginia law that a Republican legislator used in his attempt to declare Maia Kobabe's graphic memoir Gender Queer and Sarah Maas's fantasy romance A Court of Mist and Fury 'obscene for minors.'" - Slate
"Unionized workers ..., in talks since October of 2020 on their first labor contract with museum management, voted Tuesday night to authorize a strike should leaders deem it necessary." The vote count was 164 to 0 with one abstention. - MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
"On Wednesday ... Matt Shakman announced he will step down from his role in February (and) will program the company's 2023-24 season before he departs. He ... said it was getting trickier to balance his work in theater with his film and TV endeavors." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
"Ministers had hoped that the festival would attract 66 million people, but with just over two more months to go, four of the events have so far only drawn 238,000 visitors, according to official figures." The problem: people perceive it as a Festival of Brexit. - The Guardian
Its inaugural edition happened in 2019, when four artists and students in a visual arts class were selected to cover the 400-square-foot blank “canvases” with images of sanitation workers, recycling, and flowers. Almost 100 artists applied, and Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia at the time called the designs “truly … works of art.” - Hyperallergic
