What a farce that idea is. "Nearly 25% of the 1,200 most popular songs of the last 12 years were penned primarily by 12 men. Those 12 men are shaping audience perceptions and beliefs about romance, relationships, wealth, health.” But this is fixable! - Los Angeles Times
“The malaise that has begun to suffuse TikTok feels systemic, market-driven and also potentially existential, suggesting the end of a flourishing era and the precipice of a wasteland period.” - The New York Times
The suit accuses CIM staff of "illegal disclosure of Maestro Kalmar as the target of a federal Title IX investigation, including false and defamatory statements and inferences that he engaged in sexual misconduct.” The suit says the former Oregon Symphony director’s career has been ruined as a result. - Van Magazine
The artist, who died at 67 after nearly five decades of illustration and creation for D&D and other games, was so influential that “her name has become a verb — 'Jaquaysing the dungeon' means creating a scenario with myriad paths.” - The New York Times
Stolen - and recovered, that is. “They are made of stone or glass, variously coloured and tiny - often barely the size of a thumbnail. They are a fascinating window into the ancient Mediterranean world." - BBC
The University of Iowa’s independent school newspaper, The Daily Iowan, just bought two nearby small-town weekly papers. The two community papers will keep their staff members but also provide opportunities for students to gain more real-world experience. - Nieman Lab
Best Actor for Andrew Scott, for All of Us Strangers, was impressed by its status at number one in Ireland and the UK. "'For a gay love story, it ain’t nothing,’" he said. 'Don’t say those films don’t make money.'" - The Guardian (UK)
Rogoff, who died last week at 92, was "able to capture in vivid, richly metaphoric language the unique brilliance of a stage performance. Rogoff understood that the actor was on the front lines. … He appreciated that the actor is where literature and the stage meet." - Los Angeles Times
The story played out after the first gloriously thick ice weekend with increasingly dire warnings on Instagram, over text, and on the Art Shanties’ other official channels: The ice was only getting thinner, so “the artists, wearing life jackets, began dismantling huts one by one.” - The New York Times
In Boston as in many other places, "financial struggle has become a grim common denominator among theaters with different aesthetic identities and sense of mission.” Which companies will survive? - The Boston Globe (MSN)
One old pay phone booth in Maryland is for bird calls, thanks to a musician and audio producer. Of the calls, he says, “Some of those will just blow your mind. You know, you hear the sound of that, you'll think, what planet? And you're like, this planet." - NPR
“No one like Milo Rau exists in American theater, because commercial producers need to make money, and no government body is willing to match the generous artistic subsidies handed out by European governments. … Some of that subsidy will end up going to plays that disgust the audience." - MSN (The Atlantic)
Hunt "often marked her works with 24-karat gold leaf, which she attributed to the gilded artworks of the African diaspora, the Art Deco movement, and Austrian painter Gustav Klimt." - Hyperallergic
