California lawmakers have revived legislation to charge online platforms for the news articles they publish, a proposal that stalled last year amid divisions within the journalism industry and intense opposition from Google and other tech companies. - Yahoo!
A very popular performer at the Paris Opera Ballet, he left after getting caught in the middle of a notorious battle between Rudolf Nureyev and Maurice Béjart. Following a very successful freelance career, he ran the ballet troupes in, successively, Bordeaux, Avignon, Marseilles and Nice. - ResMusica (via Google Translate)
These situations aren’t that bad, and so you don’t do anything about them, whether it be to take action or kickstart psychological processes to cope. - Psyche
Sure, it doesn't have any particular melody or even a beat, but music it is. Various musicians liken it to Phil Spector's "wall of sound," ambient music, synth punk, drone music, a theremin … There's even a sax player who publicly jams with cicadas. - Chicago Tribune
The contracts for Benjamin von Blomberg and Nicolas Stemann, who had jointly run Zurich's Schauspielhaus since 2019, were not renewed following a right-wing media campaign claiming the "wokeness" of their productions drove audiences away. So last week they threw a final soirée called "House of Wokeness." - The Art Newspaper
The suspect was caught trying to sell the manuscript, which contains Bernini's designs for the altar canopy in St. Peter's Basilica, to a buyer who turned out to be a Vatican official. The suspect claims what he had isn't the missing manuscript and was a gift. - National Catholic Reporter
Last month Ghanaian artist Joseph Awuah-Darko made public accusations against Wiley; now Black Lives Matter activist Derrick Ingram has accused Wiley of rape while they were dating for several months in 2021, and filmmaker/poet Nathaniel Lloyd Richards says Wiley groped him during a date in 2019. - Artnet
"National Amusements, which owns a majority voting stake in embattled entertainment giant Paramount Global, said Tuesday that it has ended talks on a possible merger of Paramount with movie production company Skydance Media." The Redstone family, primarily Shari, owns the controlling interest in NA. - AP
The Free Library Foundation's management insisted that none of this season's remaining events were cancelled — and then, as authors have withdrawn, has quietly cancelled them. A few have gone ahead, but not smoothly. - Publishers Weekly
Activists from the group Animal Rising went to the new portrait of the British king (the red one), covered his face with a sticker of Wallace from the animated series Wallace & Gromit, and attached a speech bubble saying, "No cheese Gromit, look at all of this cruelty on RSCPA farms." - CNN
All repatriation cases matter greatly to those involved, but that of the Parthenon marbles has become famous far beyond the dispute between the key parties of Greece and the UK. Why, then, do they resonate so deeply? - The Conversation
What I’m trying to say is that, if one thinks about it for a moment, it becomes clear that “Latin America” does not exist as a material reality. Much like the utopia of transnational friendship envisioned by the Mexican architects of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the region exists only in the imagination. - The Millions
Whatever is going on in the life of the critic is going to show up in her reading; it can’t not. Reading, writing, and thinking have experiential texture. The place and context in which I do those activities shapes them. - Yale Review
Starting back in the 1980s, an illegal demimonde of teens began. Their initial goal was to strip the copyright protections off video games. By the 90s, some of the same teens got the notion to apply that practice to the data on coveted CDs. - The Guardian
