Alex Ross: Why The South Dakota Symphony Is One Of America’s Most Interesting Orchestras
"I’ve experienced very few concerts at which a classical-music organization seemed so integral to its community." - The New Yorker
Ukrainian Soldiers Make Archaeological Find While Digging Defenses In Odesa
While digging ditches in anticipation of a potential Russian attack, Ukrainian military men discovered several amphorae (bottle-necked ceramic containers) estimated to be up to...
The 389-Year-Old Oberammergau Passion Play Has Recovered From COVID
"Depicting the life, persecution, death and resurrection of Jesus, ... the oldest continuous running amateur theatre production in the world will open on Saturday...
A New Museum In Senegal For Repatriated African Art
Funded by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, the museum and community center called Bët-bi (Wolof for "the eye"), to open in 2025 in...
Rescued From The Clutches Of The Sex Toy Collective, “The Believer” Magazine Will Go...
"After a journey even the creative minds at The Believer could not have imagined, the celebrated literary magazine is back in business and again...
Saved: Dallas’s Classical Radio Station Will (Probably) Be Taken Over By The Region’s NPR/PBS...
WRR — at 101, the oldest radio station in Texas — is owned by the City of Dallas, which wants out of the radio...
With A Billion Downloads, The Economist Has Become A Podcasting Powerhouse
The magazine's flagship audio property, a daily news podcast called The Intelligence, averages 3.9 million downloads each week and 2.5 million unique listeners a...
Simon Preston, Organist And Choirmaster With A Major Recording Legacy, Dead At 83
With Christopher Hogwood's Academy of Ancient Music, Preston and his Choir of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford released landmark period-instrument recordings of Handel's Messiah,...
100+ UK Music Festivals Pledge To Take Tougher Stand On Sexual Violence
One of the key promises is that “all allegations of sexual harassment, assault and violence will be taken seriously, acted upon promptly and investigated”....
Questions About The Arts Donations Of The UK’s Richest Man
While not on any sanctions list, the Ukrainian-born billionaire’s links to sanctioned Russian oligarchs were the focus of discussion among officials involved in a...
How To Buy Music So Musicians Get The Most For It
As a local musician who has put out vinyl (in very limited quantities), I’ve come to realize there are ethics when it comes to...
The Clutter Versus Anti-Clutter Wars
Why do some people revel in collections of novelty eggcups? Or have so many framed pictures you can barely see the (ferociously busy) wallpaper?...
The Women Changing 21st Century Dance
The recent appointments of the women and the recent commissions of choreography by women too numerous to mention, are good news for feminism. But...
The “Like” Problem
Why do people have such a problem with “like”? Is it because it simply won’t go away? In 1992, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a robust...
Texas Judge Doesn’t Think YouTube Is A Website. This Could Be A Problem
HB 20 says that if you run a social network — even a nonprofit one — you’ll have to throw out your community standards...
Immersive Theatre — Another World But With Real-World Concerns
It's no coincidence that Punchdrunk has begun collaborating with Pokemon Go creator Niantic. The company's work offers the same promise as virtual reality: At its...
Disgraced LA Gallerist Ordered To Pay $14.2 Million After Cheating Artists
Douglas Chrismas was considered to be at the forefront of the Los Angeles art scene in the 1980s and 90s at his now-defunct Ace Gallery....
The Prolific Korean Movie Director Who Does It All
He has directed twenty-seven features in twenty-six years. Hong has achieved abundance through a radical reduction of means. He funds each movie with the...
Netflix Explicitly Tells Employees They’ll Just Have To Deal With Content They Find Offensive
In what looks like a reaction - some might call it an over-reaction - to the employee walkouts over Dave Chapelle's transphobic jokes, the...
David Marcuse, Who Provided Progressives With Books And Gathering Places, Has Died At 73
Marcuse ran several bookstores, but Common Concerns, in Dupont Circle during the Reagan and (H.W.) Bush years, was the most important for a community...
Katsumoto Saotome Preserved The Stories Of Firebombing Survivors
Saotome, a novelist who has died at 90, compiled six books of survivors' testimony and founded a museum as well. - The New York...
Toronto Gets A Horror Bookstore
Why an entire bookstore and café devoted to scary things? "Imagine your problems were a ghost, a monster, a serial killer — that the...
The Musician Making New Words In Hmong
Twin Cities spoken word artist and musician "SUNAH hopes to replace negative language some in the Hmong community use to describe LGBTQ people. There...
Chicago’s Alt-Weekly May Have Finally Saved Itself
After the sale of the Chicago Reader "was nearly derailed over a co-owner’s column opposing COVID-19 vaccine requirements for children," and after a lot...
Disney Hasn’t Had This Much Trouble With Its Public Image Since The Early Days...
"The characters in the showdown were as colorful as any drawn on the studio's animation cels: union activists, gangsters, communists and anti-communists, and, not...
