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In South Florida, Two Public Media Giants Are Battling It Out In Court

It’s South Florida Public Media Group versus a South Florida NPR school board affiliate, playing out both at the FCC and in the Miami-Dade County Court. - Inside Radio

Who’s Going To Pay Out For The Kevin Spacey Cancellation And Implosion Of House Of Cards?

“The question at the center of the case: What actually killed Spacey’s appearance from the sixth season of the show? … A win for MRC will have major implications for production insurance coverage moving forward.” - The Hollywood Reporter

Benjamin Millepied’s New, Mixed-Genre Romeo And Juliet Comes To The Armory

The choreographer: “You fall in love with characters that you see live in the flesh, in front of your eyes. … But then when the camera brings you close to them, it creates a different kind of intimacy.” - The New York Times

The Actors Awards Live Stream With Updated Winners And More

The awards formers known as the SAG Awards stream live on Netflix on Sunday night. Though there are both TV and movie nominations, Oscar watchers are aware that "the guild’s awards are usually one of the most accurate bellwethers for the Oscars.” - Los Angeles Times

A Day At The Art Institute With The New 30-Year-Old Conductor Of The Chicago Symphony

Klaus Mäkelä is "stepping into one of the most visible cultural perches in the city and in classical music at large. He appears to bring to his new job in Chicago a curiosity about the arts that goes beyond his own medium of music.” - Chicago Sun-Times (Archive Today)

The Vatican Has Removed What ‘A Chalky White Film Of Salt’ Coating The Last Judgement

That is to say, people’s sweat had gotten all over Michelangelo’s masterpiece, and now it’s being cleaned off while the sweat accumulates on a screen. - Associated Press

The Debate Over What To Do With Portland’s Earthquake-Unsafe 3,000-Seat Theatre

Protesters have begun telling the city council exactly what they think of the idea to abandon the big theatre. “If you don’t renovate the Keller, it has no other use. … The only other choice is demolition, which would leave a hole in the heart of downtown.” - Oregon ArtsWatch

The Library Of Congress Has Found The Likely First Depiction Of A Robot On Screen

“The 45-second-long, one-reel short Gugusse et l'Automate – Gugusse and the Automaton – was made nearly 130 years ago. But the subject matter still feels timely.” - NPR

When The Reviewer Isn’t Sure If The Play Is Great Or Terrible

"There is a way to describe this show that will make it seem, at worst, exactly like every cliché of venturing into Brooklyn to see a one man play/spoken word poem/performance piece in a small black box off the L or G train.” - Culturebot

Millions Of People Are Hooked On ‘Microdramas,’ With Episodes That Last About One Minute

On a K-microdrama set, “filming was moving at breakneck speed. Everything was shot in vertical mode, and nothing was subtle.” - BBC

How The BAFTAs And The BBC Absolutely Bungled Their Response To A Racist Slur

“Black people and people with Tourette’s have been grappling with the ugly language and the fallout from a night that was supposed to be a celebration.” - The New York Times

The Los Angeles Olympics Logo Needs To Settle Itself Down

“If you're going through all the trouble to create what I assume will be hundreds of logos by the time the games roll around, why would you not brand LA28 using 'LA' as a customized emblem? Why is it only the 'A' that changes out?” The answer may surprise you. - Torched LA

Neil Sedaka, Composer And Songwriter Of So Many Pop Hits, Has Died At 86

Sedaka “went from classical music prodigy to precocious songwriter to teenage idol to pop music fixture in a celebrated career that spanned seven decades.” - The New York Times

Dear Sony, Please Stop Trying To Make Spider-Man Happen Without The Main Character

“For those fortunate enough to have missed these films, Sony’s Spider-Man Universe is, or was, a series of movies about people (mostly villains or antiheroes) who have at some point met the masked wallcrawler in the comics. Spider-Man himself does not appear in them.” - The Guardian (UK)

The Snow Sculptures Of New York’s Latest Storm

“Collaboration was key. What came first? The snow baby sitting on the bench or the lounging mermaid beside him? Did the same person who built the snow pyramid also build the snow sphinx?” - The New York Times

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