The exact comments that triggered the investigation have not been disclosed, nor has the reasoning for the musicians’ removal from the orchestra – including if that reasoning was directly related to the initial comments. - The Globe & Mail
"The misogyny has far outweighed the disability discourse. There was potential for ... a vital discussion around disability justice – which as an organisation (Shakespeare's Globe is) engaged in. But the level of hate and anger towards me was dangerous. Bad things happen to people when this stuff is allowed to run rife." - The Guardian
While links to external websites do appear below the AI-generated answers, some publishers and groups such as the News Media Alliance are afraid that they will attract precious few clicks, since the AI will have already provided the most obvious answer to the user’s question. - Columbia Journalism Review
John S. Jacobs escaped his master in 1839, joined a whaling crew and eventually landed in Australia, where he published The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots — a memoir of enslavement and escape and a ferocious critique of the US Constitution — in a Sydney newspaper in 1855. - The New York Times
Among the practices the department plans to challenge are exclusive ticketing contracts that Ticketmaster has with many of the venues where high-profile acts perform. - The Wall Street Journal
The seven-time Tony and five-time Olivier nominee (he's won one of each) will step down in September of 2026, concluding an 11-year tenure that has seen the Old Vic present 25 world premieres and transfer multiple productions to the West End and Broadway. - Playbill
"Nicole Christine Saunders, 54, faces charges of scheme to defraud, grand theft over $100,000 and criminal use of personal identification information. … Police said the business fell victim to a complex fraud scheme, allegedly orchestrated by Saunders, their office manager over four years." - Naples Daily News
"Approximately 14 percent of Pixar’s workforce, or around 175 employees, will be let go. … The layoffs are part of Disney chief Bob Iger’s overarching mandate to return to a focus on quality versus churning out content for streaming, which was a priority for his short-lived successor, Bob Chapek." - The Hollywood Reporter
The accusations against the 52-year-old Frenchman — currently music director of the orchestra and opera in Cologne as well as founder/director of the widely-hailed period-instrument orchestra Les Siècles — were revealed by Le Canard enchaîné, a magazine famous for both satire and serious investigations. - Van
"In addition to laying off staff across 13 departments," including 11 people from the newsroom, "GBH will also stop producing (the shows) Greater Boston, Talking Politics, and Basic Black, (because they) 'no longer draw enough viewers to justify the cost of making them for television.'" - The Boston Globe (MSN)
Funding to the California Arts Council would fall by 38%, and the state would rescind $12.5 million previously promised to the Equitable Payroll Fund, which was created to help small arts companies comply with so-called gig-work bill AB5. The state faces two years of 11-figure budget deficits. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
"Shelby County Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins issued a temporary injunction against the proposed auction that had been scheduled for Thursday in Memphis, where the king of rock ‘n’ roll’s former home is located." Elvis Presley's granddaughter says the debt allegedly racked up by Lisa Marie is based on fraudulent documents. - AP
Even if nostalgia is a less “dangerous emotion” today than it seems to have been to the Swiss soldiers, it well deserves to be taken seriously and sympathetically. - The Guardian
Your phone mirrors the world back to you. But what you see is the world you want to see—a “frictionless,” “responsive,” “immediate,” “obedient,” “commercialized,” “optimized” simulacrum of your own will accomplished. - The Point
The reason for the return to larger-cast shows gets at the heart of what makes the 89-year-old company unique. OSF is one of the biggest nonprofit theaters in the U.S., but it’s based in Ashland, Ore., which has a population of just over 21,000 — about one-sixth the size of Berkeley. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
