The 78-year-old filmmaker/artist/author's car was struck near Baltimore by a driver running a red light. "Since it hurts when I laugh," he said in a statement, "I will have no witty answer about being in a car accident that no one has said was my fault." - The Baltimore Banner
Data suggest that something is amiss: across Europe, the average proportion of 15-29-year-olds not in work nor education or training exceeds the EU’s 9% target. Last year in France, the figure peaked at 12.5%. Yet a Europe-wide study has found that young people value work just as much as older generations. - Eurozine
The state economic development authority today approved a partnership with a $1+ billion studio complex including 22 sound stages set to rise in the Bergen Point neighborhood of Bayonne, New Jersey at the site of a former Texaco oil refinery. - Deadline
So what does the “silent disco” phenomenon tell us about dance? Researchers have used it to study social dynamics, finding that it interferes with the social bonding effects of dance. Silent disco may even help us to better understand the evolution of musicality and our rhythmic abilities. - The Conversation
Though the OED is published by Oxford University Press, it is, in many respects, the spiritual and intellectual opposite of an elite university. For one thing, its admissions policy is quite forgiving. - Commonweal
I’m not a medical person, but we do know that sound is about vibration. The body is like a resonating chamber; every part of our body can be affected by sound. opening the body up as a resonator in order to perceive sound, you have a good appreciation of resonance. - San Francisco Classical Voice
Arts and cultural organisations that are achieving the strongest audience growth right now are not necessarily those pouring the most money into their branding and marketing campaigns. - ArtsHub
We found, for example, saying “Scientists believe methane emissions soared to a record in 2021” led readers to view methane levels as more a matter of opinion compared to saying “Scientists know…” - PNAS
"The new ESPN+ series 'Tryouts,' … tracks some of the country’s most intense tryouts and auditions. Rather than focusing exclusively on traditional sports, many episodes highlight more niche groups: a Monster Truck competition, Long Beach Lifeguards tryouts, the USA curling team," and, in this case, open auditions for Mark Morris. - Dance Magazine
We found AdVon had been running a similar operation at the magazine Sports Illustrated, publishing product reviews using bylines of fake writers with fictional biographies and AI-generated profile pictures. - Futurism
"Several years ago, a Chinese author spent hundreds of thousands of yuan bribing the Chinese publishing industry (to) criticize and ban his works," so that US publishers would be interested in them. "Authors should be very clear that being banned is not synonymous with artistic success." - Literary Hub
Around 50 people sounded the alarm to the institution after coming across an imitation website purporting to sell tickets to see Van Gogh’s greatest works—but was actually harvesting bank details. - The Art Newspaper
Playwright Suzie Miller's Prima Facie, a one-woman show about a defense attorney in sexual assault cases who is then raped by a colleague, starred Jodie Comer in the West End and on Broadway. A video of the play is being provided to judges in Northern Ireland who handle sexual assault cases. - BBC
Derek Ash, whose great-grandparents, Sam and Rose Ash, opened the first Sam Ash store in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn in 1924, said the company’s 42 locations could not compete in the era of online shopping. - The New York Times
