Particularly problematic are the flat roofs and terraces that make Fallingwater so indelible — and provide the perfect place for water to pool. - Washington Post
Fringe has long since eclipsed the original festival it was founded alongside. It typically sells upwards of 2.5 million tickets a year. But 80 years on, performers and spectators alike say rising costs threaten the Fringe's free-for-all vibe. - NPR
ChatGPT, as ever, was upbeat, inexhaustible, and, crucially, unfazed by failure. It made suggestions. It asked its own questions. Some avenues were promising; others were dead ends. - The New Yorker
Virginia Giuffre spent several years completing Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice with co-author Amy Wallace. On April 1, shortly after a serious automobile collision, Giuffre wrote to Wallace asking that the book be released “in the event of my passing”; she committed suicide later that month. - AP
Police officers found Carroll wounded in Southaven, Mississippi, immediately south of Memphis, at the offices of the merchandise company for a fellow comedian with whom Carroll had recently toured. Carroll died of his injuries at a Memphis hospital. One suspect has been arrested. - The Guardian
“Streaming platforms have shown that documentaries about crime get views, and terrestrial television has long since allowed drama to be dominated by crime. The movies are now taking the hint.” - The Guardian (UK)
Stephen Nakagawa, a former dancer with the Washington Ballet, was hired just days after the Kennedy Center fired its entire dance programming staff. Nakagawa had written a letter to the center’s president, Richard Grenell, saying he wants to help “end the dominance of leftist ideologies in the arts.” - The New York Times
Diego Borella, an assistant director on the Netflix series, had a sudden heart attack as he and colleagues were preparing to shoot a scene at the Hotel Danieli in Venice for season five. Borella was 47. - The Hollywood Reporter
“The figures showed around 2.6 million tickets were sold for 3,893 shows — a similar level to last year and well below the peak of three million sold in 2019, before the COVID pandemic.” The ever-rising cost of performing at, or even attending, the Fringe is thought to be the main factor. - The Scotsman
“Over the course of his tenure, Abrams has transformed the mission of the Louisville Orchestra, molding it into what he describes as a ‘public service institution.’” - The Violin Channel
If the merger proceeds and is successful, it could become a national model for regional theater companies in other cities and states around the country, which are all facing similar financial challenges. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Mr. Gelb undermined his focus on new works with a comically misguided guest essay for The New York Times that managed to antagonize every remaining American classical music critic and informed opera lover. - Parterre
Owners of 24 Broadway Theaters are taking their opposition to a new Times Square casino right to theaters goers by stuffing a pamphlet into copies of the iconic “Playbill” magazine urging patrons to personally protest the proposed Midtown gambling hall. - New York Post
Rather than asking AI to hurl itself over the abyss while hoping for the best, we should instead use AI’s extraordinary and improving capabilities to build bridges. What this means in practical terms: - The Atlantic
Algorithmic culture taps into the casual randomness with which we apportion our care; it takes advantage of the fact that what we bump into today might obsess us tomorrow. Its webs, meanwhile, are woven by machines that are owned by corporations. - The New Yorker
