"Alan Paul, the associate artistic director of the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, will ... (take) over the nonprofit theater company in Western Massachusetts known for producing notable new musicals and popular revivals and helping turn the Berkshires into a cultural oasis." - The New York Times
But what exactly is content? Who produces it? Why and how did it come to be viewed as “essential”? And how will content continue to structure our economy, culture, politics, and everyday lives in the future? - Public Books
David Treuer (Ojibwe) meets the creators and writers of Reservation Dogs and explains the ways in which the FX series is wildly, blessedly different from just about every other depiction of Indians ever seen on American screens before. - MSN (The Atlantic)
In the mid-1960s, with his daily morning show at New York's WBAI, Josephson helped invent freeform radio. In the 1980s, he pioneered the job of independent public radio producer, bringing to the air shows like Bob & Ray, Jazz From Lincoln Center, Alec Baldwin's Here's the Thing, ... - MSN (The Washington Post)
Office occupancy downtown is still less than a third of what it was before COVID arrived, so the public-private "community benefits district" for the neighborhood commissioned a plan, just recently submitted, to redesign and rezone the streetscape to attract more people downtown during and after business hours. - Bloomberg CityLab
After Darger died in 1973, his landlords began promoting the art he'd made for 40 years and left behind in his apartment. (Darger had no will or immediate family.) Now that his work is valuable, distant relatives have sued for rights to it, and a court has sided with them. - ARTnews
In the late 1970s, artists were settling, illegally, in vacated factory space in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood. Marson, an architect and developer, spotted a provision in zoning regulations that could render the lofts legal — and he spent years fighting the city to make that provision stick. - The New York Times
On display at one of the art festival's venues is a facsimile of a 1988 brochure about the PLO; inside the brochure are drawings by Syrian artist Burhan Karkoutly which depict Israeli soldiers as robots with Stars of David on their helmets. - Artnet
If we can tear ourselves away from the hype and hysteria that passes for online culture, and stretch out our historico-philosophical telescopes, there really are some interesting things about the broader range of communicating through networks. - 3 Quarks Daily
A win for the government would not appear to bode well for Simon & Schuster. Penguin Random House is already a giant and will be just fine either way. But S&S finds itself in a tricky position that belies its mojo over the past two years. - Vanity Fair
“What we are calling for is an active ‘Parthenon partnership’ with our friends and colleagues in Greece. I firmly believe there is space for a really dynamic and positive conversation within which new ways of working together can be found.” - The Guardian
It turns out that when a multilingual person wants to speak, the languages they know can be active at the same time, even if only one gets used. These languages can interfere with each other, for example intruding into speech just when you don't expect them. - BBC
Over the years, he said, studio executives have rejected his pitches for stories, telling Leguizamo — who is of Colombian descent — that Latino people apparently don’t want to see “feel-good movies,” he said. - Los Angeles Times
The amphitheater at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center was built as the summer home of the company, which, not so long ago, had a four-week season there every year. But in 2022, SPAC's first full season since the pandemic began, City Ballet has only five nights. - Times Union (Albany, NY)
