Rogers posted a notice on its website Friday saying the outage was impacting both its wireless and home service customers and is also affecting phone and chat support. - Toronto Star
Many institutions have moved, or are on the verge of moving, significant portions of their collections off-site. Some are embarking on large-scale book de-accessioning projects, a process by which books are removed permanently from a collection. - The Walrus
"Though the exaggerated myths of early America often don't reflect reality, there are obscure lives whose remarkable stories go untold. From chases on the high seas, imprisonment in Egypt, and a (possible) personal connection to Franz Joseph Haydn, John Antes is one of these obscure figures." - Early Music America
While it might share a name with the historic Forbidden City institution, the $450 million Hong Kong museum is far from being a mere satellite branch of the Palace Museum in Beijing, which houses China’s Imperial Collection. - Artnet
hat about the ways the museums are using the money they already have: Are they using it to effect positive change in the world—or are they adding to its problems? This is the question being asked by Upstart Co-Lab, a New York-based nonprofit advocating for impact investing. - Artnet
The idea behind DanceLogic is that "both coding and dance use repetition and combination, so using dance as a hook to attract girls to the program could lead to an interest in coding." Saturday classes feature 80 minutes of dance class followed by an hour of programming lessons. - Chalkbeat Philadelphia
For nearly a year now, SF Symphony has operated without a CEO and has been without a chief financial officer since January — not a time for making major changes — and yet last week, apparently a reorganization of the administration began, involving a good number of layoffs. San Francisco Classical Voice
Arifa Akbar: "It is hard to tell if the industry is merely casting an appraising glance back at the gender politics of the past or if this is the legitimising of sexism under the cover of irony and knowing humour. Is yesterday's humour today's abuse – or vice versa?" - The Guardian
It’s hard to overstate the unlikelihood of a director as innovative and internationally celebrated as Sharon taking the reins of a decidedly regional (and in certain respects conservative) opera company like Detroit’s. - The New York Times
He took the helm of the Guggenheim in 2008, following the resignation of firebrand director Tom Krens. Only the fifth leader in the institution’s history, Armstrong inherited Krens’s ambitious expansion plans, which had seen the Bilbao outpost open in 1997 and the inking of a deal with Abu Dhabi. - Artnet
Human reviewers manually examine thousands of Twitter accounts at random and use a combination of public and private data in order to calculate and report to shareholders the proportion of spam and bot accounts on the service, Twitter said. - Reuters
There’s a preponderance of copaganda and superheroes saving the day and a category of narrative best described as wealth-aganda — stories focused on the interior lives of the rich, from the aspirational to the ridiculous to the unscrupulous. - Chicago Tribune
The 1937 translation was commissioned two years previously by wealthy American accounting executive Carl Tilden Keller, who already had versions of Cervantes's novel in Icelandic, Japanese, and Mongolian. The translators were two Kashmiri pandits who knew no Spanish and worked from an 18th-century English version. - The Guardian
It’s an irony that arguably the most radical movement in European thought should have been appropriated by the conservative forces of the market, but it’s also predictable. - Aeon
