Many of Scotland’s best known arts organisations, including the Edinburgh fringe and national jazz orchestra, are in uproar over plans for deep cuts in culture funding. - The Guardian
Here's what was and wasn't in the video that DBDT bosses claim is the reason they fired all the company's dancers, how the sackings actually happened, whether the dancers' allegations that DBDT is union-busting are credible, and the conditions that made company members want to unionize in the first place. - Dallas Observer
The beverage-heir-turned-entertainment-mogul's purchase offer ($4.3 billion, since raised to $6 billion) is lower than Skydance's $8 billion deal, but Bronfman says his plan to make Paramount a standalone company would avoid the complications of a merger, increase the stock price and be a better deal for second-tier investors. - TheWrap (MSN)
"The latest twist in the chaotic auction came late Wednesday as Paramount's independent board members were mulling whether to keep the door open for Bronfman's bid for the struggling company that owns CBS, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Showtime and the namesake Hollywood movie studio." - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
"Since (CEO Mena Mark) Hanna took over, nearly all of the nonprofit’s established artistic and business leaders have been replaced. And in recent months the board has seen an exodus, especially since chairwoman Alicia Mullen Gregory was ousted from her leadership position in July." - The Post and Courier (Charleston)
The opera and ballet mecca has seen two big price increases this year alone; admission now costs well over double what it did in 2023. Many angry patrons blame new general director Valery Gergiev, with some noting that prices at St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater, which Gergiev has run for decades, remain reasonable. - Gramilano
The orchestra will have a venue with a 550-seat auditorium, spaces for education and community programs, and 8,000 square feet of office space — the first time all of these functions will be consolidated. The NJSO will continue to give concerts in five other venues around the state, including NJPAC in Newark. - NJ.com
Lionsgate's trailer featured clips from The Godfather and Apocalypse Now along with unflattering quotes about those movies from famous critics — the idea being that reviewers were wrong about those Coppola films and they'll be wrong about this one, too. But the quotes are invented and most of those critics are dead. - Vulture (MSN)
Describing a particularly vertiginous exchange in which “somewhere between $125k and $175k is created out of thin air, a few phone calls and an expensive dinner,” Whitfield outlines two possible responses to making money like that: it can make you feel very clever, or it can make you feel like a fraud. - The New Yorker
The debate is much older than the internet, but in online reading communities such as Goodreads, or on the literary sides of Instagram or TikTok, the acronym “DNF,” for “Did Not Finish,” abounds—as do arguments about when doing so is appropriate. - The Atlantic
The sculpture by Daniel Arsham, a brand-friendly New York-based artist with his own fashion line, is really bad — but it’s interestingly bad. When you look at it, it just sort of collapses in your brain, like a bouncy castle pierced by a falling tree branch. - Washington Post
"It was in the battle scene. My foot got caught in a chair, and trying to shake it off I started to slide on some newspaper that was scattered over the stage, like I was on a skateboard." - Saga
“Anthropic has enjoyed enormous financial gain from its exploitation of copyrighted material,” the complaint states, noting that Anthropic projects it will generate more than $850 million of revenue in 2024. “Anthropic’s commercial gain has come at the expense of creators and rightsholders.” - Publishers Weekly
The treasure trove that is the extensive archive of correspondence and contracts amassed by Orwell’s original publisher, Victor Gollancz, could be scattered to the winds in what has been described as an act of “cultural vandalism”. - The Guardian
"The lawsuits, which seek a total of $23 million in damages, claim the institution’s environment led the former dancers to develop eating disorders and other health issues, including one who alleged they lost their menstrual cycle." - WRIC (Richmond)
