"No longer are just books under fire, but also the library administrators, teachers and long-beloved librarians who are defending them. They're being shouted down by parents, vilified on billboards, reported to the police, and trolled online, leaving many fearing for their safety." - NPR
"It isn’t just American actors and writers who want to be paid fairly. It’s all of them. ... Actors in South Korea, where Netflix is spending billions to amp up its post-Squid Game presence, are also angry about the lack of residuals and low pay." - Los Angeles Times
AM/FM radio is the top audio source in the U.S., with double the time spent listening of any other audio platform, according to the most recent quarterly Share Of Ear update from Edison Research. - Inside Radio
A DJ will be able to adjust what musicians are playing what melodies and licks to create a unique arrangement on the spot. This will allow the DJ to manipulate instrumentation and assign solos on the fly in response to the crowd’s energy. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Now accessible through the embattled country’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) is a new “War & Art” database of paintings, sculptures, and other artworks that have been bought and sold by sanctioned Russians since 2014, when the Russian-Ukrainian war began. - Artnet
In discussions about money, gender identity, public health and a variety of social issues, rappers and rightwingers have a lot more in common than you’d immediately think. - The Guardian
Here, when you write for a show that becomes an unprecedented success, there is no such windfall. There is only a check for $259.71. - Yahoo (Los Angeles Times)
The first full fiscal year of the COVID-19 pandemic saw a drop in aggregate spending by the largest 150 classically-based companies of 31.62% from FY 2020 and 39% from FY2019. - Dance Data Project
The reason the symphony has maintained such heft since then is because it supposedly represents timeless values. It has a tricksy ability to tread a line between repelling meaning – ie it’s pure music, not about anything except music – and attracting meaning like iron filings to a magnet. Not just any old meaning, though. - The Guardian
In 2019, the country's right-wing Liberal-National government, encouraged by then-Treasurer Josh Frydenberg (a descendant of survivors), pledged millions of dollars to fund the building or renovation of a Holocaust museum in every capital city, from Darwin to Canberra to Perth to Melbourne and Sydney. - Tablet
"A nonprofit startup called Archivi.ng is attempting to digitise every edition of every newspaper – 50 in all – published in Nigeria since 1 January 1960, the year of independence from Britain. The archive will launch its first tranche of documents in September." - The Guardian
The first issue of their 20-page, print-only broadsheet, which bills itself as “a magazine about America in the form of a 19th century newspaper,” went on sale last week in selected bookstores, record stores, coffee shops, and dry-goods emporiums across all 50 states. - AirMail
Through high-profile revivals and star-studded screen adaptations, Wilson’s work lives on powerfully and prolifically. Patti Hartigan’s book reminds us what it took for the man to become a monument. - Los Angeles Times
"In the Hamilton Simulator, players use their own avatars as they rub shoulders with the musical's characters through 10 levels set during the Revolutionary War. It starts at the New York docks and the goal is to free the city from the British yoke" — using the musical's songs as weapons. - AP
