Says artistic director Oskar Eustis, "Our audience is down by about 30 percent, we have expenses up anywhere from 30 to 45 percent, and we have kept our donor base, but it's static. Put that all together, and you get budget shortfalls — big budget shortfalls." - The New York Times
"Disney is going to be 'expansive' in its thinking about the traditional TV business, leaving the door open to a possible sale of the networks. 'They may not be core to Disney,' Iger said. … Cable TV channel ESPN is in a different bucket, however. - CNBC
"The Charles River Jazz Festival started (in 2021) as a slapdash (post-pandemic) passion project with a $2,000 budget, four local acts and 500 attendees. … Now the all-day festival touts major sponsors, local vendors, food trucks, a lineup of Grammy- and Emmy-nominated artists and a board of directors." - WBUR (Boston)
"SAG-AFTRA members will not be able to attend premieres, do interviews for completed work, go to awards shows, attend film festivals or even promote projects on social media while the strike is in effect. They are also not allowed to attend conventions such as Comic-Con or 90s Con." - Variety
"The $97.6 million in bonds will be backed by property taxes, which surged in recent years as the city became a magnet for the wealthy. The sale is part of a broader effort by the barrier-island city to ditch its reputation as a spring-break destination." - Bloomberg CityLab
"The so-called Bus & Truck Touring Agreement pertains to IATSE crew members working on tours presented by (four corporations which) are not Broadway League producers. As part of the new agreement, IATSE said it had won the right for single occupancy housing while on the road." - The Hollywood Reporter
The global music industry surpassed 1 trillion streams at the fastest pace, ever, in a calendar year, Luminate's 2023 Midyear Report has found. The number was reached in three months, a full month faster than 2022. - Yahoo!
“So many of my friends who have nearly a million followers, who are doing billion-dollar franchises, don’t know how to make rent,” Glenn told me. That struggle has brought sag to the precipice of a potential strike. - The New Yorker
Sort of like ChatGPT, it pulls information from various websites, rewords it, and puts that text on top of your search results—pushing down any links you see. In the process, it stifles traffic to the rest of the internet, lessening the very incentive to post online. - MSN (The Atlantic)
While classical music has long been mired in cases of sexual abuse, the psychological and emotional abuse experienced by many young musicians is harder to pin down and often goes under the radar. - Evening Standard
With the Writers Guild strike now in its 73rd day, this will be the first time that actors and writers have been on strike at the same time since 1960, when Ronald Reagan was president of the Screen Actors Guild. - Deadline
The contemporary Flemish architecture is an enjoyably polyphonic architecture, that enjoys all kinds of complexities and contradictions. It’s boom is even more surprising as it apparently came out of nowhere. - Metropolis
Quite a few museums have started communicating with the public on Meta's new Twitter alternative, but none (so far) with quite the enthusiasm or cheek of the Whitney. An example: "Twitter as deserted as an Edward Hopper painting rn." - Artnet
"As far back as the ancient Greeks people like Plato were complaining about what he called a vicious theatrocracy, where audiences who were previously happy to sit quietly suddenly wanted to use their tongues and start cheering and screaming. - BBC
It's how people have been socialized to present themselves. "Doctors have a culture of sloppy writing; teen girls have a culture of dotting their i's with tiny hearts. Girls don't write that way because they're feminine; (it's) because they've learned that tiny hearts are associated with femininity." - MSN (The Atlantic)
