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Ukraine Bans Russian Music In Public Places

The ban doesn't apply to composers who wrote music before the fall of the USSR. - BBC

The 92nd Street Y Is Getting A New Everything, Including A New Name

92NY's CEO: "The 92nd Street Y is a lot like New York City. ... Amazing things happen here. But, like New York City, for a number of years we underinvested in maintenance and capital." - The New York Times

The Right-Wing Religious Website Telling Its People To Ruin Library Pride Month Displays

"This right wing strategy of attacking visibility isn’t limited to LGBQT+ books. According to Ginny Wehrli-Hemmeter, director of events and marketing at Anderson’s Bookshop, a large independent bookstore in Naperville, Ill., 'Any book with a cover showing a person of color on it gets covered up.'" - LitHub

The Truth About Screaming Teenage Fans

"We have seen so many screaming girls. Every time we see them, we’re like, 'They’re screaming.' And that’s it. Yet the screaming fan doesn’t scream for nothing and screaming isn’t all the fan is doing. It never has been." - The Guardian (UK)

How Ghostwriting Affects A Writer’s Own Novels

Daniel Paisner: Ghostwriting has "helped me see what it takes to succeed at the very highest level—or, at least, they’ve left me thinking about it. Also: what it means to stumble, how to hold a dream out in front of you and find a way." - The Millions

Director Of Crash Arrested On Sexual Assault Charges In Italy

Paul Haggis "is accused of sexually assaulting the woman over the course of two days while in for an entertainment industry event." - Los Angeles Times

Brits Drop Music Subscriptions As Cost Of Living Goes Up

More than one million subscriptions to Apple, Spotify, and other services have been cancelled - with a large percentage of people saying that's to save money. It's suddenly a nervy time to be in streaming. - BBC

Yo-Yo Ma Plays A Surprise Pop-Up Concert To Benefit An Arts School In Boston

"At the pop-up concert outside the cafe, wind threatened to blow sheet music away, and buses pulled in and out of the nearby terminal, but that didn’t deter the nearly 100 people who gathered to listen." - MSN (Boston Globe)

The Cliburn Competition Awards Musicians From South Korea, Russia, And Ukraine

The competition was overshadowed by Russia's attacks on Ukraine; silver medal winner Anna Geniushene fled Russia for Lithuania and has been critical of the war, and bronze medalist Dmytro Choni is from Ukraine. Yunchan Lim, who won gold, is the youngest winner ever, at 18. - The New York Times

To Understand A Person’s Heart, Look At How They Organize Their Books

"The arrangement seems to have been made entirely at random, unless you know the quirk by which it was conceived. Books are placed next to one another for companionship, based on some kinship or shared sensibility that I believe ties them together." - The Atlantic

Sarah Hall On Writing While Single-Parenting And Homeschooling During Lockdown

Hall wrote by hand in the mornings: "I go into, as I call it, Sarah Connor mode from The Terminator: out there, here’s my child, what do I need to do? Get buff! I got pains in my hand because I wasn’t used to writing so much." - The Guardian (UK)

Two Cast Members Of Netflix’s The Chosen Ones Die In A Crash Near Their Set

Two actors were killed when their van flipped off the highway, and six other actors and crew members were injured. "One person said that actors on the set had complained about transportation issues, including tired drivers." - Los Angeles Times

The Reality Of AI Is Stranger And Far More Interesting Than That Viral Google Story

Part of the issue is language. "On the one hand, PaLM and other large language models are capable of understanding in the sense that if you tell them something, its meaning registers. On the other hand, this is nothing at all like human understanding." - The Atlantic

Ukraine, Under Attack, Will Not Be Allowed To Host Next Year’s EuroVision

Though the Ukrainian entry won the 2022 version of the competition, the war makes Ukraine as a host impossible, according to the European Broadcast Corporation - which is now looking to Britain, home of this year's runner-up. - The New York Times

Why Were Van Gogh’s Empty Chair Paintings Never Shown Together?

Blame Gauguin - often a good answer for Van Gogh mysteries, of course. And in this case, Gauguin plus Theo Van Gogh's widow. - The Observer (UK)

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