While he's also angry that the concert started late, the arena was hot, and Madonna was lip-synching, his legal complaint says, "During the performance plaintiff was forced to watch topless women on stage simulating sex acts. Plaintiff felt like he was watching a pornographic film being made." - The Guardian
With funding from the state, Télé-Louisiane has been airing, on Louisiana Public Broadcasting, a weekly news-and-culture program called La Veillée and a children's cartoon, Les Aventures de Boudini et Ses Amis. Legislators have eliminated Télé-Louisiane's funding, and supporters are rallying to reverse that decision. - The Acadiana Advocate
TikTok, that's how. With The Shadow Work Journal, Keila Shaheen has become "perhaps the first self-published nonfiction author to break out in a big way on the platform, a feat she accomplished by fully harnessing its potential not just for marketing, but for direct sales." - The New York Times
"The bill calls for ... making the tradition illegal by the start of 2028. The new law now needs to be signed by President Gustavo Petro, who has been a longtime opponent of these events. Bullfighting … is still legal in a handful of countries, including Spain, France, Portugal, Peru, Ecuador and Mexico." - AP
"Canada’s National Ballet School says it may be forced to rescind or defer offers for its competitive teacher-training program because its status as a career college has caught it in a tangle of jurisdictional red tape over new student immigration rules." - The Globe and Mail (Canada)
"The Forman Arts Initiative, an arts organization that awards grants to local creatives and arts nonprofits, plans to renovate four buildings on American Street (in West Kensington). The multipurpose space will hold a gallery, performing arts venue, and garden area, in addition to FAI’s offices." - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
The decision comes just a week after the Hay Festival cut funding ties with the investment firm. Both festivals cite "intolerable pressure," referring to boycott threats and withdrawals by participants who object to Baillie Gifford's financial ties to the fossil fuel industry and Israel. - The Herald (Scotland)
No media consumer is an easier mark than the guilt-ridden parent, whose perseverations about not paying enough attention can be amplified a millionfold by graphic pop-culture warnings about teen temptations. What’s so different about leaving kids to spend seven hours a day on screens? - Racket News
By interpreting buildings in horror mode, the authors unveil the systemic greed, unsustainable growth, and unchecked power embedded in their foundations. - LA Review of Books
There are several factors behind the proliferation of live video in theatre. Partly, it is just because directors have been excited to explore the creative opportunities it offers. - The Stage
Repeating items over and over, called maintenance rehearsal, is not the most effective strategy for remembering. Instead, actors engage in elaborative rehearsal, focusing their attention on the meaning of the material and associating it with information they already know. - Nautilus
Calligraphy, a centuries-old art form, is seeing a surge of interest, including among young people more familiar with coding than cursive. - The New York Times
The purchase, which has already been completed, adds more than 40,000 academic titles published under the Rowman & Littlefield and Lexington Books imprints, which cover the subjects of academic arts, humanities, and social sciences, including in such subject areas as business and psychology, in which Bloomsbury is "building a presence," the company said. - Publishers Weekly
"She moves in jaw-dropping ways: unexpected, angular, sometimes comical, intense, mesmerising, with blistering technique. … That’s just her dancing. Then there are the productions – the worlds Molina creates for herself, which stray far beyond flamenco norms." - The Guardian
"When was the last time you passed a worksite and heard their radio playing music that had something to do with their work, or with the rhythm and tempo of their work? Music has become detached—or, to use a Marxist term, alienated—from work and from the worker." - Nautilus
