Many people close to the late chef/author/TV star refused to speak with Charles Leerhsen for his Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain. But his ex-wife, who controls the estate, did, and Leerhsen got access to texts and emails from Bourdain's final days. - The New York Times
“Beneath the surface there was always a major concern which would compromise with nothing. Even though, like Baudelaire’s albatross, he had ‘giant wings,’ he was able to walk, provided he could walk slowly at his customary pace. But those ‘wings’ did scare off other birds.” - The Wall Street Journal
"(She's) managed a one-of-a-kind, first-of-its-sort, decades-long career with dreadlocks on her head, no eyebrows on her face and her foot in her mouth ... Goldberg has never held anything back. She knows that this is part of her legacy, but also what it can cost her." - The New York Times Magazine
"What I think is so wonderful about getting older in this work is that you learn how much you don't have to do. You learn simplicity, you learn economy, you learn you don't need to have all this energy to tell the story." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
Michael Kimmelman won't say anything about the acoustics until there are actual concerts, but he recounts the venue's star-crossed history of expensive disappointments and assesses whether the redesigned auditorium and lobby achieve the goal of being more attractive and welcoming. - The New York Times
"North Texas Public Broadcasting, the parent company of news/talk KERA Dallas (90.1), is in the process of acquiring the Denton Record-Chronicle. ... Facilitating the transaction is The National Trust for Local News — a nonprofit dedicated to keeping local news in local hands." - Inside Radio
"The market regulator said that for more than two years, Theodore Farnsworth and former Netflix executive Mitchell Lowe, who were CEOs of Helios and Matheson Analytics and MoviePass, respectively, 'intentionally and repeatedly' disseminated materially false or misleading statements about the business." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
The instrument is one of the 1,900 flutes in the Library of Congress's collection, the world's largest. Last week, Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden tweeted an invitation to the superstar, a trained flutist, to visit the collection and try out a few flutes — and Lizzo did. - CNN
Rima Abdul Malak, the country's minister of culture, announced the record-high budget earlier this week. €208.5 million of that money will go to the Culture Pass program for young adults. - Screen Daily
Skim an Axios story, and it will fly past so quickly you’ll have no idea what it says. You have to read carefully to grasp its basic meaning. Then you have to waste even more time trying to figure out how much to discount for bullshit hype. - The New Republic
“Readings can afford to pay a living wage to its workers. This is a multi-store business that, until 2021, posted profits for 25 consecutive years, and which in the past year has spent considerable amounts of money opening both a new store branch and a warehouse, without consulting workers.” - The Guardian
Developers are increasingly swapping out more mainstream materials like concrete and steel, in favour of wood. It's linked to the country's ambitious efforts to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035 and become Europe's leading circular economy. - BBC
At a time when attitudes toward sex work, transgender individuals, and other sexual minorities are by and large changing for the better, it is perhaps ironic that Silicon Valley’s CEOs are so rapidly closing off the spaces where such communities have long gathered. - Wired
The Cuomo Theatre Collaborative will serve as a new building for small to midsize theatres such as Third Rail and PETE, and will serve as a space to nurture artists and the performing arts. The Cuomo Theatre Collaborative will operate under a model of collective leadership, artist empowerment, and affordable access. - American Theatre
The project aims to nurture the artists and arts leaders of tomorrow by investing in arts education, including artists-in-schools programs, student performances, master classes, internships, and volunteering opportunities. - San Francisco Classical Voice
