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
Comparing the number of unique listeners of Aftenposten’s podcasts with those who have used the AI-generated listen-to option on its text articles, the publisher found there was little difference between the two – with younger audiences in particular being drawn in by the audio option. - Press-Gazette
Their small staffs have more tasks to juggle, they depend more on volunteers (meaning unpaid labor), the size of foundation grants is based on the size of budgets (meaning they get less), and there's little money to get word to audiences. Yet they keep soldiering on. - MSN (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
A feature-length film, according to the Academy, is anything over 40 minutes. But that has little to do with the length attributed to most movies. It’s vanishingly rare for any feature film to be less than around 82 minutes. - Vox
