"Duty managers are also equipped with bodycams, which – along with the training – often helps to lower the temperature when customer interactions become heated." - The Stage
"In a five-year renovation, Het Loo" — the hunting lodge built by King William III to rival Louis XIV's Versailles — "has been lifted several millimetres, its courtyard dug and drained 10 metres deep, and a new concrete basin poured in to provide another 5,000 m2 of exhibition space." - The Guardian
In 2004, the longtime ABT star was personally invited by President Saakashvili to direct the State Ballet of Georgia, which had fallen into late-Soviet and post-Soviet decay. Now she's leading a troupe full of dancers she trained herself on an international tour. - The New York Times
"(His) cartoons were an unmistakable fixture in The New Yorker and other magazines for more than 60 years. … He considered his work a form of doodling sociology. He was especially interested in people who were irony deficient." - MSN (The Washington Post)
"We value small businesses, yet we give too much of our business to the large and the powerful," says the award-winning author, "and often, increasingly, we have hardly any choice. … (I don't) believe corporations should have as much control over our lives as they do." - The Guardian
"The owners of 54 Below, a popular forum for both Broadway stars and rising performers and composers, say they intend to raise close to 20 percent of an annual budget approaching $10 million from supporters ... to offer discounted tickets and subsidize artists' production costs (and) livestreaming." - The New York Times
"The DVD service, which still delivers films and TV shows in the red-and-white envelopes that once served as Netflix’s emblem, plans to mail its final discs on Sept. 29, … ending an era that began a quarter century ago when delivering discs through the mail was considered a revolutionary concept." - AP
Effective immediately, Alexander Shelley, a 43-year-old native Londoner who's also Principal Associate Conductor of that city's Royal Philharmonic, has been appointed artistic and music director of the Naples Philharmonic and Artis—Naples. He succeeds Andrey Boreyko, who stepped down last summer. - Naples (Fla.) Daily News
My findings suggest that girls are internalising and aspiring to the beauty ideals that they are consuming via social media. There is a pressure to adopt a polished, physical appearance through filters, which may have emotional repercussions. - The Conversation
A projection system, true to its name, projects images onto the big screen. An LED wall is akin to a sophisticated, massive TV screen, and its use would render the projection booth a thing of the past. - The Hollywood Reporter
While Apple Music Classical is a step in the right direction, classical music’s streaming problem will not be so easily solved. - MusicBusiness Worldwide
Baumgarten’s theory of good poetry had a kind of absurd, computer-sciencey brilliance to it: good poetry is simply a large quantity of sensate thought. The trick to this absurd-sounding idea is that, to think a lot but all at once, we have to think associatively, self-referentially, vividly, temporally. - Aeon
Each year a number of key trends stand out. For 2023 it was applications of artificial intelligence (AI) for game development, with the future shape of the gaming experience – with and without virtual reality (VR) – high on the agenda. - The Conversation
Do you study creativity by analyzing people commonly acknowledged to be creative and figure out what they all have in common? Or could someone who has never actually created anything be creative, in the way that innately intelligent people can end up in unskilled jobs? - The New Yorker
"While she didn't do it alone, Virginia Johnson" — who had previously danced with the company for 28 years — "played an important role in reviving the organization's gem, its storied professional company, which had been forced to go on hiatus for several years because of financial difficulties." - The New York Times
