Companies have been accused of signing people up for subscriptions without their consent, renewing their subscriptions without notice, and imposing a gantlet of obstacles to anyone seeking to unsubscribe. - Los Angeles Times
Interest in adult ballet has increased by 75% over the last three to five years... And the number of adult ballet summer intensive programs have nearly doubled since the pandemic, according to the weekly online ballet-centric magazine Pointe. - Los Angeles Times
The resurrection of dead franchises and the creation of new ones based on recognizable intellectual properties all target one core emotion: nostalgia. Hollywood is not facing a lack of ideas; rather, it's facing a nostalgia epidemic. - Highbrow Magazine
First to get the idea was conductor Alan Pierson, a friend of Greenwell's since music-student days at Eastman. Pierson sent the book, What Belongs to You, to composer David T. Little, then they got tenor Karim Sulayman to star and choreographer Mark Morris to direct. - The New York Times
The use of parody and humour to pour scorn on the series is a common practice among fans. New digital technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) allow fans to create a sense of realism that again demonstrates their knowledge and love of the original works. - The Conversation
“The kind of idea in my work with music dealing with three parameters — timbre, pitch, and time,” said Trimpin. “But my interest to give it a fourth dimension or parameter — adding space, movement, and motion. - San Francisco Classical Voice
Speaking of his own experiences as a child in 1970s Trinidad as well as conducting children's concerts at the BBC Proms in London and in North Carolina in the 2020s, Ryan says the secret is the same. - The Guardian
"My recent research findings suggest that people are often well-advised to decide intuitively, in terms of how it makes them feel. There is emerging evidence that the act of deciding – and, in particular, making gut decisions – is emotionally rewarding." - Psyche
Fandom has changed over the last decade to become more of a discourse, but while celebs have had to hear more and more of what fans have to say, now fans are getting a peek at what their actions mean to their favorite stars — and a lot of it is not so flattering. - Vox
"The large number of new figures has allowed the researchers to differentiate between two main types, and to offer an explanation of the possible reasons or functions that led their creators to draw them on the ground more than 2,000 years ago." - El País (Spain) (in English)
"The rugged terrain of Chile’s Atacama Desert is etched with giant images of llamas, cats, fish, birds, and humans. … At Alto Barranco in the Tarapacá region, ... the most persistent damage comes from motorcycles and 4×4 vehicles, whose tire tracks are erasing the geoglyphs." - Artnet
"PEN America officials said that the organization has counted more than 10,000 cases of book censorship in public schools during the 2023-2024 school year, nearly triple the number from the previous school year." - Publishers Weekly
"The American Library Association released its preliminary data documenting attempts to censor books and materials in public, school, and academic libraries, finding that the number of tracked challenges fell significantly for the first eight months of 2024." - Publishers Weekly
With DBDT management having fired all the dancers (with an unconvincing explanation) after they tried to unionize, both the National Labor Relations Board and the city of Dallas are investigating the company. There will be no quick resolution: NLRB investigations take months. - KERA (Dallas)
Lisa Nandy said that, under the 14 years of Conservative government which ended this past summer, "there's been a vandalism of the arts" and pledged that the Labour government would get arts funding spread throughout the country and arts education back into state schools. - The Guardian
