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The New Pause-Subscription Streaming Subscriber

 New data from subscription analytics provider Antenna offer a deeper look at the subscription pausing habits customers are developing as services like Netflix, Disney+ and Apple TV+ become the go-to way of watching TV in many households, instead of cable. - The Wall Street Journal

At 77, Playwright David Hare Is In A Hurry

"I have written three new plays that are going to be on in different places and I have done that partly because of my sense that I don’t have much time. I am trying to write a lot of stuff while I can." - The Observer (UK)

Toronto’s Only Purpose-Built Dance Venue Will Close After 41 Years

The Fleck Dance Theatre, located within the Queen's Quay Terminal building at the Harbourfront Centre, will be shuttered at the end of next March after Harbourfront Centre management declined to renew its lease. - Ludwig Van

Hulu Series About Amanda Knox Films In City Where It All Happened, And Locals Are Furious

The docudrama is being shot in Perugia, where Knox was studying in 2007 when her apartment-mate, Meredith Kercher, was murdered; Knox was wrongfully convicted of the crime and spent four years in prison. Perugians have hung banners around town reading "Respect for Meredith." - Variety

Cleveland Voters Pass Cigarette Tax Increase To Fund Arts

Ballot Issue 55, which was approved by Cuyahoga County voters by an almost 3-to-1 margin, more than doubles the existing surcharge on tobacco products. As the prevalence of smoking has declined, revenue from the tax had fallen by half over the past two decades. - Cleveland Scene

The Bells Of Notre-Dame In Paris Are Reunited

"The bronze bells of the Notre-Dame Cathedral have not pealed together since 2019, when a furious blaze consumed the centuries-old landmark right before the eyes of horrified Parisians. For Paris on Friday, they tolled once again." - The New York Times

There Will Be No Liberal Equivalent Of Joe Rogan

"The impulse from liberals to replicate the juice by developing their own Rogan equivalent is understandable but ultimately myopic. The idea is little more than fantasy wish-casting, driven by a top-down desire to inorganically bring into the world something that can only exist organically." - Vulture (MSN)

Painter Frank Auerbach, 93

The child of Auschwitz victims, he was sent to Britain by the Kindertransport project and studied in London. After years of hardship, he got a major solo show in 1978, won the Golden Lion at the 1986 Venice Biennale and became one of his generation's leading painters. - The Guardian

Huge Art Forgery Enterprise Busted By Italian Police

"The seizures in Italy, France, Spain and Belgium netted 2,100 fake works attributed to more than 30 famed artists, including Andy Warhol, Amedeo Modigliani, Banksy, Pablo Picasso, Joan Mirò, Francis Bacon, Wassily Kandinsky, Henry Moore and Gustav Klimt," potentially worth €200 million. - AP

Rationalizing: The Art Of Procrastination (As Explained By Artists)

I have guitars in my writing room. But I don’t think of it as “procrastinating” but as, you know, “getting ready.” - LitHub

Prominent Italian Dealer Arrested For Trafficking Thousands Of Stolen Artifacts

Prosecutors say Edoardo Almagià kept a list of trafficked antiquities in his NYC apartment, hidden inside a Renaissance-era chest beneath a marble statue of a deer. - Smithsonian

It’s Official: AI Has Broken The Way We Will Find Things Online

Months of prophesying about generative AI have now culminated, almost all at once, in what may be the clearest glimpse yet into the internet’s future. - The Atlantic

Does More Education Fend Off Cognitive Decline? Study Says No

Although education is linked to better cognitive skills and health, it does not appear to alter the brain’s physical structure in the long run. Researchers suggest that any initial structural impact may be temporary or too small to detect with MRI technology. - Neuroscience News

Youngstown (Ohio) Symphony Music Director Suddenly Quits After Only Four Months

According to a press release, Sergey Bogza has resigned due to “personal, health and family reasons.” - WKBN

Azerbaijan “Repurposes” Copyright To Suppress Public Artwork

By making claim of copyright on images of public art it doesn't like, the country "disappears" images from the public record. - Hyperallergic

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