Some education advocates tout the benefits of what’s called a “balanced calendar,” which spreads vacation time equally across the seasons—a reimagining of what school can be, for the betterment of working parents, teachers, and students alike. - The Walrus
For many, Nanibush’s departure was a catastrophe. Prior to her arrival, the AGO, like many museums, tended to treat Indigenous culture as something ossified and static. Nanibush changed that completely. - The Walrus
Like other performers in our Balkanized, make-your-own-prime-time-entertainment landscape, many comedians act less like artists or court jesters than like notionally humorous leaders of affinity groups or of minor, mostly harmless cults. - The New Yorker
The “Starbucks!” sticker is an effort to physically prevent photography and videos circulating online. But this seemingly innocuous action creates a ripple effect about the meanings created within the production and the social aspect of theatre-going. - The Conversation
"(Her) work for PBS’s 'Frontline' investigative series exposed frailties in the U.S. criminal justice system — the coercive use of plea bargains, the failure to consider DNA evidence, the reliance on informants to prosecute drug cases — and helped free 13 people who had been wrongly charged or convicted." - The Washington Post (MSN)
Even the driest academic monograph or most threadbare opinion piece usually begins with some act of storytelling, whether we hear how a previous generation of scholars has mishandled the question at hand, or are treated to a columnist’s anecdote about what his taxi driver told him. - American Affairs
"When we get folks in from every walk of our community, they can start having a conversation differently than, 'Get out of my way, I’m headed to the store' or 'Move, I need that parking spot.' … People start walking out and go, 'Wait. You saw that? What did you think?'" - Los Angeles Times
Since the 2018 blockbuster “Crazy Rich Asians” became a box office hit, Asian and Asian American stories and characters have proliferated in American pop culture. And after decades of degrading, often emasculating portrayals, Asian and Asian American men like Booster have been at the center of the new work. - The New York Times
"In a world that’s bleak enough already, feel-good, heartfelt comedy feels like a salve; earnest sitcoms seem to counteract the vitriol of the real world. But the dark comedies, by their very nature, feel truer to life than their more wholesome peers. … They plumb humor from everyday tragicomedy." - The New York Times Magazine
The contemporary art influx is a colour blast of creativity in an area that usually attracts tourists interested in historic villas, mountains and high-end lederhosen. - The Guardian
"Diop’s progress through the strict hierarchy at the Paris Opera – he joined the corps de ballet in 2018 – has been stunningly swift. … In March 2023, he was made danseur étoile, the highest of the five ranks, bypassing the premier danseur stage that precedes it." - Financial Times
78rpm discs were the way we learned about each other and entertained the world. It was a time when the world became a much smaller place. - Internet Archive
"Although the outside of Jacobs Music Center appears much the same as it did in March 2020, when the orchestra played its last concert there before the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown" and it was still Copley Symphony Hall, "the inside’s myriad top-to-bottom changes seem transformative and then some." - The San Diego Union-Tribune (MSN)
Two miles of HVAC piping, two miles of plumbing, three tuning chambers, five miles of lifting cable, 300 cable pulleys, 85,000 pounds of rigging equipment, up to 150 workers a day, … - The San Diego Union-Tribune (MSN)
Chris Kirkham, associate director of Hansons Richmond auction house in London: "I was invited to assess some antiques at a client’s home. During the visit the vendor took me to his garage and, lo and behold, out came this treasure trove of Surrealist lithographs." - CNN
