In the past 18 months, the Punta Gorda Symphony and the Fort Myers-based Southwest Florida Symphony have gone under. Meanwhile, the Sarasota Orchestra and Naples Philharmonic are doing rather well — and there are reasons for the difference. - Naples (Fla.) Daily News
Slatkin held the post — in this particular case, a sort of interim music director position — twenty years ago, from 2006 to 2009, between the tenures of music directors Kenneth Schermerhorn and Giancarlo Guerrero. With Guerrero having stepped down, Slatkin is returning for another three-year term. - WZTY (Nashville)
“(The 21st-century’s neo-burlesque) feels relevant to 2025 – in step with drag and queer culture, and in line with the broader movement towards diversity and inclusivity that we've seen in the last decade. Yet what's surprising about some of the new burlesque offerings is how old-fashioned they seem.” - BBC
South Florida Public Media Group has raised funds for the southeast Florida public radio and TV stations since 1974 and managed them since 2022. The Group wants to buy a station in West Palm Beach, but the owner of WLRN’s frequencies, the Miami-Dade County School Board, is trying to block the purchase. - Inside Radio
“(She was) the most popular female singer of the late 1950s and early ’60s, with such hits as ‘Who’s Sorry Now,’ ‘Stupid Cupid’ and ‘Where the Boys Are,’ and who became an unlikely TikTok sensation at 87 for a song she recorded six decades earlier.” - The Washington Post (MSN)
“The law contains protections for school and local librarians and staff and is, notably, the first to guarantee writers and readers a right to sue for censorship, according to PEN America.” - Publishers Weekly
The revival, which was nominated for five Tony Awards but won none, had been expected to run until at least Oct. 5; it will now close on Aug. 17. - The Hollywood Reporter
“A new season at London’s Southbank Centre is inspired by Emma Warren’s book Dance Your Way Home, about the potency of communal movement. She and other artists involved explain why the dance floor is their happy place.” - The Guardian
What these editors have in common more than some Horatio-Alger-with-a-pica-ruler climb is that they were good at their jobs. They had strong visions and were good at marshaling talent to execute them. They were also the avatars of a major generational turnover in Anglophone culture. - The New York Times
Approximately 50 positions are being eliminated, including the entire video division, as the Bay Area’s flagship public media outlet faces a projected $12 million deficit. Last year the station had an $8 million shortfall and laid off 34 staffers. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
There are certain books where even if you’ve already solved the murder, even if you already know how it’s all going to turn out, you still don’t mind reading it again because the pleasure there isn’t really the ending but rather the journey. - LitHub
The 2-year-old company is turning this aging warehouse into a modern stonecutting factory capable of quickly producing highly detailed decorative facades, museum-grade marble sculptures, and towering stone monuments. The company will soon be trying its robotic arms at an even grander project: reinventing the way buildings get built. - Fast Company
“Universities and artists would have funding withheld if they fail to act against antisemitism, AI tools would be banned from sharing Jewish hatred, and the government would have new grounds to deport visitors under a wide-ranging plan put forward by Australia’s antisemitism envoy.” - The Guardian
“We’re having trouble attracting young people, whereas in other countries, like China, buyers are on average in their thirties,” Magda Danysz, vice president of the CPGA, told Le Monde. “Priorities have changed in France too; it’s the experience more than the object.” - ARTnews
