“His quiet civic leadership covered everything from the arts in Dallas to the National Park Foundation, where he was a vice chairman emeritus. He led the effort to build a world-class symphony hall in Dallas, eventually named after him.” - The Dallas Morning News (MSN)
“Hank is trapped between his state’s past and present, between the egotism and insecurity that is the Texan’s peculiar yin and yang. He is committed to an authenticity that, like that of so many Texans living in urban areas — around 84 percent of us — is more than a little performative.” - Texas Monthly
The prime suspects are generally considered to be the writing-directing team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, none of whose films have ever scored higher than 7% on Rotten Tomatoes. But no less than David Zucker, co-creator of Airplane! and the original Naked Gun films, points at a different culprit. - Slate (MSN)
“The restoration aligns with federal responsibilities under historic preservation law as well as recent executive orders to beautify the nation’s capital and re-instate pre-existing statues,” the agency said in a statement. - NBCNews
The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission has some 908 individual remains and 79,628 funerary objects in its collection, which are subject to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). - PennLive
What a close comparison in fact illuminates is not just how pernicious A.I. can be to intellectual life, but also how it can undermine the very principles of the Enlightenment itself. - The New York Times
Many listeners know it as the label which introduced the Western world to Arvo Pärt, though its catalog ranges from Keith Jarrett playing Bach on harpsichord to Meredith Monk to the Danish String Quartet playing Beethoven and Schnittke to saxophonist Jan Garbarek improvising along with Renaissance sacred music. - The New York Times
You'll still find books today, even in a world filled with podcasts. Why is that? If we can listen to almost anything, why does reading still matter? - Science Alert
While the underlying mechanism is unclear, neuroscientists theorize saying something out loud separates and distinguishes it from “mere” thoughts. (You didn’t just think it. You also heard it.) - Fast Company
Disney and Metaphysic spent 18 months negotiating on and off over the terms of the contract and work on the digital double. But none of the footage will be in the final film when it’s released next summer. - The Wall Street Journal
Dafen, a village near Shenzhen, was for 30 years the source of up to 70% of the global supply of painted replicas of famous artworks. But business has fallen off by more than half since the COVID pandemic. So the painters of Dafen have started (imagine this!) creating their own art. - Artnet
The internal announcement by the RBO chief executive, Alex Beard, was made after almost 200 Royal Opera and Ballet members signed an open letter criticising the organisation’s stance on Gaza. - The Guardian
Michael Abramowitz, the director of Voice of America, has been fired after refusing to accept what he called an “illegal” reassignment to run a broadcasting station in North Carolina, according to a new court filing on Monday. - Washington Post
Users enter a prompt in plain English, such as “create a smooth jazz song with a ‘60s vibe and powerful lyrics, but relaxing for a Friday afternoon,” and the startup’s AI model generates a tune within minutes, complete with vocals and instrumentals. - The Wall Street Journal
