"What started as a favor done on a business-trip whim has since become the great project of Andy Hunter's professional life. In its first few years of existence, Bookshop defied even its founder's expectations and demonstrated how helpful its model could be for small businesses." - Wired
"Ms. Perry, a prolific writer who sold more than 26 million books worldwide, had already become well established as a novelist when her sinister past was exposed in 1994, (in connection with) the release of Peter Jackson's film Heavenly Creatures." - MSN (The Washington Post)
"The Afghan heritage site Mes Aynak is currently at risk of being destroyed due to a delayed mining project. The site, just 25 miles southeast of Kabul, is believed to contain the second largest untapped copper mine in the world. The deposits are estimated to be worth $100 billion." - ARTnews
The unnamed motorist, who claims not to remember the incident, drove into the Palm Beach backyard of billionaire art collectors Steven and Lisa Tananbaum, knocked the sculpture — Hirst's 2017 work Sphinx — off its pedestal, and plunged over the property's five-foot seawall. "Rich-on-rich crime, or revolutionary act of climate awareness activism?" - Hyperallergic
Polling from the firm Morning Consult that US podcast consumers, in the aggregate, prefer YouTube to audio-only platforms. Staffers from Slate, ESPN, and NPR tell Nieman Lab how and why they're posting their podcasts to the video site. - Nieman Lab
"Dallas Theater Center will lay off an undisclosed number of staff, it announced Tuesday, a cost-cutting measure that comes as the organization has struggled to rebound from the pandemic and its chilling effect on attendance. The layoffs take effect in May." - MSN (The Dallas Morning News)
"The funding (from Arts Council England) would support the ENO's 'reimagined artistic and business model' to have a primary base outside of the capital while allowing it to continue to 'own, manage and put on work at the London Coliseum'." - London Evening Standard
"The cuts, which were announced in March, would have reduced roles in the BBC Symphony, Concert and Philharmonic orchestras by 20%. On Thursday, the corporation said that while it needed to make savings, it was committed to working with the Musicians' Union to explore alternatives." - The Guardian
There is a difference between a theatre show and a concert. "It's a musical and you're there to hear the lyrics, hear the words, emotions, everything. - BBC
This process comes with legal risks, including intellectual property infringement. In many cases, it also poses legal questions that are still being resolved. For example, does copyright, patent, trademark infringement apply to AI creations? - Harvard Business Review
“At this point I have lost my faith in the decision-making at Twitter,” said NPR CEO John Lansing in an article posted on NPR’s website. “I would need some time to understand whether Twitter can be trusted again.” - Deadline
“I’m absolutely sure that this is one of the most important works of our time,” says Susanna Mälkki, who conducted that premiere with the London Symphony Orchestra in the pit, and is in London to conduct the Covent Garden dates. - The Guardian
Lawrence A. Johnson, founder of the Classical Review network of websites, decries what he sees as the deadly dull state of the art form in the city, especially but not only at Lyric Opera. Then he suggests a few ventures that might bring badly-needed change. - Chicago Classical Review
