The stores will sell merchandise based on hit Netflix shows, so you can finally snag that Lincoln Lawyer coffee mug you’ve always dreamed of. - Engadget
In 1989, a group of thieves disabled an alarm system and broke into the Haggs Castle Museum of Childhood and stole a cache of items, all missing until now. Robert Gemmell Hutchison's painting Children Wading (1918) was located after being consigned to a Yorkshire auction house by unsuspecting owners. - BBC
"In this, the 148th season of the company, the tiny core of remaining artists" – most of them escaped to Lithuania and are touring Europe to earn cash – "is battling on in Kharkiv to bring live music, song and dance to the city." - The Guardian
The city's own Baroque-instrument ensembles seem to run out of energy and money after no more than ten years. (The venerable Music of the Baroque persists in playing modern instruments.) But Cleveland-based Apollo's Fire now has a growing concert season and school residency in Chicago. - Chicago Sun-Times
"An audit showing unpaid bills. More than half of CapRadio’s board later resigned. Potential conflicts of interest came to light. News from competitors ... was how staff members said they often first learned about each instance. ... Sadness, worry and exhaustion poured out from employees." - MSN (The Sacramento Bee)
"In fact, according to PBS’s chief programming executive, … just one program on its fall lineup was impacted by the strikes: John Leguizamo’s American História: The Untold History of Latinos. PBS replaced it with another docuseries, Becoming Frida Kahlo." How'd they manage that? Separate union contracts. - Variety
The college's president granted that the Review is "a superb literary journal, does really extraordinary work … (but) its purpose is not the education of students." Many former interns at the Review disagree. Others say the college has done little do leverage the magazine's high reputation. - Inside Higher Ed
Pyotr Pavlensky was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and fined €20,000 for broadcasting sex videos of politician Benjamin Griveaux, this driving him out of the Paris mayoral race. (Background: Eight months after claiming political asylum in Paris, Pavlensky set fire to the Bank of France.) (in English) - Le Monde (France)
After Learning to Paint and Patrolling the Ruins of Pompeii, a Robot Dog Is Helping Humans Visit an Abandoned Monument in a State of ‘Curated Decay’ - Artnet
When repeated listenings do deliver, the satisfaction can be deeper than the feeling the easier kind of music brings, at least for me. - The New York Times
FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement that “by hiding the total price, these junk fees make it harder for consumers to shop for the best product or service and punish businesses who are honest upfront.” - The Verge
In the 20th century, Americans saw war through the eyes of professional photojournalists and camera operators. Today, it is those doing the fighting or those caught up in it who produce its fastest-moving images, as soldiers and civilians alike film conflicts and distribute their acts of witness or advocacy. - The New York Times
Okay, not ballet, strictly speaking. For the tenth anniversary of his company, Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, artistic director Joshua L. Peugh has re-investigated his Southwestern roots and given them an LGBT twist to make the new piece Ten-Gallon. (The other half of the program is his queered Nutcracker.) - Dance Magazine
