“The restoration of Simone’s childhood home could serve as an example of how privately funded projects can preserve Black history during a time when federally funded programs are under threat.” - The Guardian (UK)
Domed screens, with comfortable seats and bar food, are actually the present for some (sports) fans. But the test run was “when the domed screen transformed into a high-resolution recreation of Michelangelo’s fresco paintings in the Sistine Chapel.” - The New York Times
“Philosophy allows us to understand the world we live in. But I don’t think that it’s therapeutic, that it’s better to read Socrates than take Prozac. If you want to live better, fall in love, take Prozac or do whatever you want, but don’t turn to philosophy.” - El País English
In 1987, the choreographer and ballet teacher “founded Dances Patrelle, for which he created over 50 works, blending dancers from his ensemble with guest performers from prominent companies like the American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet and Dance Theater of Harlem.” - The New York Times
The round-up includes books translated from French, Danish, Bulgarian, and Japanese, but the critic says, “for my money, contemporary Chinese writing is the most interesting literature being produced today.” - Irish Times (Archive Today)
“Resistance was easy. Uncomplicated, too. Like so many who have grown skeptical of AI, I value my life. I don’t want AI-generated music taking a moment of it away from me.” - Washington Post (MSN)
The current political climate isn’t helping. “Women in the film industry now find themselves in uncharted territory. … Hollywood has never needed permission to exclude or diminish women, but the industry now has it.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
Singers can specialize, or they could be like mezzo Marina Viotti, who was a heavy metal singer and who sang at the opening of the Paris Olympics, and is now "a rising opera world star with a versatile range that includes Baroque, bel canto and operetta.” - The New York Times
Leonardo DiCaprio (not present for the most global military of reasons) said via a prerecorded speech, “Movies still matter, not content, but cinema. Stories made by people meant to be shared in a dark room in a communal experience.” - Seattle Times (AP)
“Milanese café owner Achille Gaggia cracked the code after WWII, with a small, steamless lever-driven machine that upped the pressure to produce the concentrated brew that is what we now think of as espresso.” - Open Culture
“The strength required by dance admits vulnerability, and proves that fluidity, not rigidity — movement, progress, exchange — is beauty. It is a courtship of athleticism and physicality from which one emerges revitalized, lofted, ecstatic.” - The New York Times
Brian King Joseph wrote on social media, "Getting fired or getting blamed or shamed or threatened or anything like that, simply for reporting sexual misconduct or safety threats at work, is not OK.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
