"The improvisational comedy enterprise … will house its new nearly 12,000 square-foot entertainment complex in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Set to open on Nov. 16, the venue will feature two cabaret-style live theaters, seven Training Center classrooms, and a full-service restaurant and bar." - The Hollywood Reporter
"(The conglomerate) says it has more than 1,000 acres of land for future development at its six existing theme park sites around the world. It … also plans to nearly double the capacity of its cruise line, adding two ships in fiscal 2025 and another in 2026." - Reuters
"(He) sold an estimated 50 million albums worldwide, becoming a staple of easy-listening charts while cultivating a sunny and often sentimental folk-pop sound. Although he was considered a one-hit wonder ('The Last Farewell') in the United States, he had a devoted fan base across Europe." - MSN (The Washington Post)
Jens Haaning sometimes incorporates actual currency in his works, and in 2021 a Danish museum gave him the equivalent of about $76,000 to recreate two of those pieces. Instead, he kept the cash and turned in two blank canvases titled Take the Money and Run. The judge is not amused. - Hyperallergic
Among them, this year’s survey finds that while the same proportion of Australians attended events and festivals as in 2019 and 2022, they are now attending less frequently. Weekly attendance has dropped across all art forms, with Australians choosing only to attend every few months. - ArtsHub
The Flower Fairies' influence has endured: they continue to be popular around the world – big in Japan and in Italy, where Gucci released a children's range featuring Barker's prints in 2022. Billie Eilish recently had Flower Fairies tattooed on her hand, while their whimsical, floral aesthetic can be seen in the TikTok "fairycore" trend. - BBC
The two-year contract includes pay raises, a reduction of one-week in the schedule and a promise to reconsider how auditions for the orchestra are conducted. - Yahoo!
"I was certain the FBI didn’t have some mysterious database of all U.S. libraries that could spit out the borrower record of any one user. Besides, why would the government care what people read? My skepticism, it turns out, was unfounded." - LitHub
The internet, or more precisely, the smartphone, poses a problem for novels. If a contemporary novel wants to seem realistic, or true to life, it must incorporate the internet in some way, because most people spend their days immersed in it. - 3 Quarks Daily
A spokeswoman for YouTube said in an email that Mr. Brand, whose channel on the platform has 6.6 million subscribers, was suspended for violating YouTube’s “creator responsibility policy.” - The New York Times
A long-term cultural programme in Thamesmead in south-east London has provided artists with low-rent studios and access to affordable housing. Since it began five years ago, it has also produced more than 1,000 job opportunities. - The Art Newspaper
"'It's the right time when you find the right person,' Stoner Winslett said. 'It's about what's best for the Richmond Ballet and the community.' Associate artistic director Ma Cong, who joined Richmond Ballet in 2020, will become its new artistic director." - Richmond Times-Dispatch
The venue will house a proscenium theatre with a capacity of 600, as well as a 200-seat studio theatre, two rehearsal studios and function spaces. It also features a soundshell, designed for festivals and outdoor events. - Limelight
"A lot of drawing teachers say that everyone can learn to draw. A lot of drawing teachers haven't met me, I thought. … Then, in 2019, I ... (had) the realization that computers have done for drawing what word processors did for writing. Call it the magic of undo." - The New York Times
“The good modern city doesn’t exist in any dataset that will be sampled by AI. What AI will sample is Chinese cities and cities built with massive highway interchanges. It’ll take a bad city and try to make it less bad.” - Bloomberg
