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Happy Banned Theatre Week, From California

At Santa Monica College, "the campus police chief told if protesters breached backstage during a performance, they could grab fire extinguishers to defend themselves." - Los Angeles Times

Alfred Molina On Playing A Lawyer In The Scopes Monkey Trial

"We've had a lot of excited conversations after the play with members of the audience who are responding very energetically to the questions that the play brings up." - LAist

The Challenges Of Describing Dance

Making ballet accessible to those with low vision or those who are blind isn't simple. It's so much more than just the movement - but it's that too. - The New York Times

That Freshman Year Class Where You Learn To Make A ‘Selfie’ Quilt

"At the end of the first week, I hand out needles and thread." - Inside Higher Ed

Joan Armatrading Has Entered The Classical Music Chat

"Armatrading’s creative life is built on asking questions." - The New York Times

This Finnegan’s Wake Reading Group Has Finished The Book, 28 Years On

There's a reason Finnegan's Wake often has reading "gropes" instead. "Fialka leans into that visionary aspect, describing his group as 'more a performance art piece than a book club.'" - The Guardian (UK)

Who Is Blocking Latinx Representation In Hollywood?

"Every culture, country or ethnic group is a fragile project held together by duct tape and shared myths. In the most literal sense, we are the stories we tell." - Los Angeles Times

The Secret Life Of A Times Square Busker

"A stream of passengers walked by, searching for anything to look at other than the 32-year-old man struggling to fit an egg-shaped cardboard headpiece imprinted with the visage of a Nintendo mascot onto his neck." - Slate

In Portugal, A DJ Priest Spins Up Electronica For His Parishioners

To be fair, he also caters to non-parishioners, and even non-believers, at the dance hall. - MSN (AP)

Director Michael Winterbottom On Finding His Passion

"In my teens, I went to ... fortnightly foreign-language film screenings religiously. I was always desperate to escape, and these films briefly transported me all over the world." - The Guardian (UK)

Making A Hugely Popular Dance Game Accessible

Just Dance has more than 500 choreographed routines from around the world - and has now added dance routines for people using wheelchairs. - BBC

Who Won The National Translation Awards?

"In the title poem, 'one long-serving intellectual screamed at his friend / When I’m talking about democracy / you shut the hell up.'" - LitHub

Artists Rally In NYT Headquarters To Call Out The Newspaper’s Gaza Coverage

"About 150 artists and cultural workers including photographer Nan Goldin and poet Eileen Myles flooded the lobby of the New York Times headquarters in midtown Manhattan." - Hyperallergic

Want To Know The Roots Of Inequality?

Look no farther than the art of Europe in the Middle Ages. - Fast Company

Face It, Prestige TV Is Over

"It’s a story of dizzying success, followed by hubristic overreach and cautious retreat." - The Observer (UK)

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