However it happened, it's clear those who stole a world-famous portrait of Sir Winston Churchill from the Château Laurier planned the heist meticulously. It took more than eight months for anyone to realize the photo hanging from the wood-panelled walls of the Reading Lounge was a fake. - CBC
Two months since the announcement of a “strategic partnership”—in which Imagine will “create scripted and non-scripted film and television properties derived from The Post’s vast archives, current reporting, and ongoing investigations,” and CAA will broker the deals—the arrangement is already bearing fruit, with four projects “actively in development." - Vanity Fair
We see others as crippled by ignorance and cowed by superstition; we don't see the extent to which we are, in our own ways, oppressed by our rationalism and lack of "superstition" (in a spiritual sense). - Salon
Given that the world we live in forces us to deal with pandemics, economic problems, wars and climate change it can seem overwhelming that we are supposed to be happy. It’s unrealistic to think we should always look at the bright side of events. - The Conversation
After our time training together in the '70s, Richard went on to join two of the finest ballet companies in the world at the time. He danced like a comet. And after that, astonishingly, he became a doctor. Ballet dancers, at that time, rarely went to college. You'd train about to age 18, then audition for a professional troupe...
Informed that the English village where he lived was considering ending mail delivery on Sundays, the great novelist wrote, basically, that if he couldn't receive his fan mail seven days a week, well, he just might have to sell his house and leave town. - BBC
"As (Liz) Truss continues to gain support in the Conservative Party leadership contest against former chancellor Rishi Sunak, she has reportedly confirmed that Dorries is likely to stay where she is." A source said that Dorries "has a lot of unfinished business on her desk." - Yahoo! News
The Gagosian Gallery closed last year, and Pace will close its Palo Alto gallery next month. Working artists have had to leave their Bay Area studios for less expensive regions. And last month the San Francisco Art Institute, which has counted a long line of distinguished artists among its alumni and faculty over the decades, shut its doors after...
A group of 24 college professors got together to attempt to think this difficult question through. They couldn't agree. - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Americans on both sides of the political aisle were opposed to banning books, although it also found stark differences when it came to how issues of race should be taught in the classroom, and it’s this divide that has muddied the banned-book debate currently raging in schools. - FiveThirtyEight
"Female choreographers, on average, make up 35% of a venue's programming and 40% of a company's programming at all venues. On average, women make up 34% of venues' leadership boards. ... and 49% of these companies board leadership when artistic and executive directors are considered." - Dance Data Project
"People with more experience of playing a musical instrument showed greater lifetime improvement on a test of cognitive ability than those with less or no experience. ... This was the case even when accounting for socio-economic status, years of education, childhood cognitive ability, and health in older age." - The Guardian
"The book list includes novels that have been taught for generations, including To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. It also includes the Harry Potter series and the biblical Song of Solomon. ... But the list is a fiction." - USA Today
"A (pair) of locals confronted a driver for the production on Friday and said they would only 'allow' filming to continue if they were paid $50,000. ... The driver refused to pay and the group threatened to 'come back later this evening (and) shoot someone' if production continued." - The Hollywood Reporter
