The idea that “the unborn” are in any sense people has always been an appalling misrepresentation. Today, in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision stripping away decades’ worth of well-established abortion rights, “Frau” feels more problematic than ever. - San Francisco Chronicle
Dreams of the company building a global base of 700 million or even 800 million paid memberships now seem far-fetched, given the company has stalled out at around 220 million. - New York Magazine
Eric Otto, who has danced and choreographed at companies throughout the eastern and Midwestern US, begins his term this fall. Much of the Toledo Ballet's activity is focused on teaching, and Otto literally grew up at a successful ballet school, one run by his mother. - The Blade (Toledo, OH)
This roadhouse drama has pitted neighbor against neighbor in a remote area where lots are the size of baseball fields and police cars seldom patrol. One longtime resident describes the area as a ring of desert fiefdoms. - Los Angeles Times
Until now, the earliest example of the genre was thought to be Will Eisner's 1978 A Contract with God. What's just turned up is Voyage and Adventures of a Good Little German in Kangarooland, by a new immigrant in Australia sent to an internment camp there during WWI. - ArtsHub (Australia)
Attracted to places like Vilnius, where Moscow and Paris collide at a fraction of the cost — and tens of millions of dollars in production rebates are quickly granted — Hollywood is setting its sights on lesser-known corners of the globe. - Los Angeles Times
Having gotten $69 million for the digital artwork that started NFT madness (which he predicted would be a bubble), the artist formally named Mike Winkelmann has set up a workshop where he's making physical sculpture as well as stuff for screens and generally getting serious about art. - New York Magazine
Writer’s block is a luxury she can’t afford, which is why as soon as she heard about an artificial intelligence tool designed to break through it, she started beseeching its developers on Twitter for access to the beta test. The tool was called Sudowrite. - The Verge
Inside the 602-seat venue, called @sohoplace, "sophisticated acoustic design means there is no need for mics or bellowing onstage – and most impressively, no noise from the nearby transport network. ... Although the opening production will be staged in the round, the space is flexible enough to accommodate several configurations." - The Guardian
Today it's different: The culture of personalities has taken over in all fields, with social media and all this. So I feel that today, when there is so much more equality — and of course, there still could be and should be more — we could finally speak about music. - NPR
Specifically, logopenic primary progressive aphasia, a form of Alzheimer's disease described thus by one of Durang's medical specialists: "instead of starting in the memory parts of the brain, it's starting in the language parts of the brain." His long-term memory and executive function are, so far, unaffected. - Broadway News
"The answer lies in the expectations that Austen fans, a particularly passionate and opinionated crowd, bring to her work. The problem isn't that (the new, much-criticized Persuasion) takes liberties — every iteration does; that's practically the point — but what sort of liberties those are." - The New York Times
"Because every hard-of-hearing person has a different history with music, and because every brain is different, how an individual's vibrotactile sense may fill in for the loss of hearing will vary. Either way, vibration communicated through touch offers a wealth of musical subtlety that researchers are now quantifying." - Nautilus
"It is a game you can train for, one you can become tremendously skilled at, but that skill and work is such a basic requirement that it may as well not matter. People don't win by being good at it, they win by being able to foot the bill." - Van
"Eric Ting is leaving his position as artistic director of California Shakespeare Theater, the company announced Wednesday, July 20, bringing to an end a dynamic, artistically vibrant seven-year tenure that has given the Bay Area some of its finest theater in recent memory." - San Francisco Chronicle
