"It's a way of kicking a can down the road after a couple of seasons amid a global pandemic. Several other orchestras around the country are doing the same." One bit of news: the musicians actually like management's negotiator. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Subjects in the study reported improved quality of life, feelings of wellbeing, and even physical condition — as long as they had necessary technical support. - The Guardian
"During the pandemic, Universal had helped MGM steer Ridley Scott’s starry crime drama House of Gucci to $100 million overseas, Paul Thomas Anderson’s coming-of-age story Licorice Pizza to $15 million," and the Bond No Time to Die to more than $600 million. - Variety
It is a telling bit of weakness as Salzburg faces renewed competition, especially from the growing Aix-en-Provence Festival in France — and even from the likes of Santa Fe Opera. - The New York Times
We should be able to evaluate various figures, past and present, by noting their indecorous or hateful views and continuing to appreciate, even celebrate, their achievements without making them candidates for cancellation. - The New York Times
“I didn’t know this when I started down this path, but leadership, charisma, group psychology and the ability to motivate people and manage egos are really about 98% of the job.” - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Jerry Sadowitz, 61, an American-born Scot, is a veteran of the Fringe and known for his provocative stand-up shows. The venue said it received an "unprecedented" number of complaints from audience members and staff. - BBC
This goes some way to explaining the surprising Western enthusiasm, in the decade since “Gangnam Style,” for not just Korean popular culture but Korean popular culture that attacks its own society. - The New Yorker
For example, participants who read their options and made a selection on paper were significantly more likely to give money to charity, choose a healthy entrée, and opt for an educational book rather than something more entertaining. - Harvard Business Review
What makes the story so tragic, and the comic-television moment so illustrative of his nature, is that Salman, to those who knew him—no, know him—as a friend, was the most amiable of men, the least narrowly contentious, the most rational and reasonable guy they would ever meet. - The New Yorker
The fatwa threatened not only Rushdie and those associated with The Satanic Verses, but freedom of expression more broadly. If Khomeini and the government of Iran could suppress a book, what was to stop repressive regimes in different parts of the world from blocking more publications that offended them? - The New Republic
We accumulate what the philosopher Ruth Garrett Millikan calls “dead facts” — knowledge about the world that is useless for daily living, like the distance to the moon, or what happened in the latest episode of “Succession.” - The New York Times
Posmysz, who as a student worked with others in the Polish resistance to the Nazis, later "gained acclaim for her works on the Holocaust as a journalist, novelist, playwright and screenwriter." - The New York Times
There's so much backlash to Joan of Arc using they/them in a new production at the Globe that the artistic director had to release a statement: "Shakespeare was not afraid to ask difficult questions. ... Shakespeare was not afraid of discomfort, and neither is the Globe." - What's On Stage (UK)
