The conservatory's "response to a student’s report of sexual assault and stalking 'violated Title IX at every stage' and was 'deliberately indifferent,'" the investigation found. - Inside Higher Ed
The link between Albee's best-known play and artists Marie Menken and Willard Maas isn't undisputed although they "were notorious for drunkenly arguing in front of guests at their parties" - and Andy Warhol shot a version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf starring the couple. - The New York Times
But by that, we mean the acknowledgements, "where you learn about the temperament of your author, which is sometimes unexpectedly different from that of your narrator." - LitHub
Their petition reads, "The German state has intensified the repression of its own Palestinian population and those who stand against Israel’s war crimes. ... Palestine solidarity protests are mislabeled as anti-Semitic and banned, activist spaces are raided by police, and violent arrests are frequent." - Hyperallergic
Conor Friedersdorf on the fired University of Wisconsin-LaCross president: "First Amendment law can tell us only so much. How should Gow’s superiors have responded to this exhibitionist sexagenarian’s pornography? They should simply ignore it." - The Atlantic
"Ahead of the special, a voice calling itself 'Dudesy the comedian AI' tells viewers that what they are about to hear is not Carlin, but instead, an impression." Carlin's family is not impressed. - CBC
Cheating isn't a great look in sports - or sports media. "Since at least 2010, ESPN employees attached fake names to awards entries, the network said in a statement, and the scheme may have stretched back to 1997." - Los Angeles Times
Stop clapping so much! Stop drinking so much! Don't use your phone's flashlight to find your seats! And for pity's sake, stop eating potato chips during a movie or play! (And other possibly cranky advice from critics.) - The Guardian (UK)
The latest film & TV awards are the Critics Choice Awards, for which Barbie had 18 nominations. Oscars nominee voting ends Jan. 16, so these awards may have an outsize effect. At the time of posting, The Holdovers had already picked up two wins. - The Hollywood Reporter
A Marvel critic "called the two characters 'repetitive' because both are of Native American descent and have similar powers" - you know, just as a critic would worry when Marvel introduced two white male superheroes. - Los Angeles Times
At the Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Mass., "the first speaker took the lectern at noon after the strike of eight bells. 'Call me Ishmael,' the famous opening words, sent a ripple of applause through the room." - Slate
"The crowning glory of what had once been the royal metropolis of Macedonia, the palace was not just a model building but 'an architectural manifesto of the ideal state.'" That idea dovetails with Greece's center-right government investing in the country's "cultural economy." - The Guardian (UK)
What the Prototype festival brings to audiences: Anything from Biblical translations to "a kind of nostalgic reminder of the loud, messy, nudity-filled, often self-serious, generally baffling shows that were once fixtures of downtown New York." - The New York Times
The former FOX News host who hard-core supported this very book censorship legislation wrote on X/Twitter, "Things are getting crazy with book banning in #Florida." - Yahoo News (Salon)
