William Kraft, Who Helped Make Los Angeles A Hotbed Of New Music, Dead At...
At the L.A. Philharmonic, Kraft was principal timpanist, composer-in-residence, and associate conductor; he co-founded the L.A. Phil New Music Group, with which he started...
How California’s Gig-Economy Law Changed LA Theatre (Perhaps Forever?)
According to a dozen LA-area artistic directors interviewed, the annual budget of small arts organisations has spiked by an average 40%, disproportionately punishing companies...
Inside San Francisco’s Emerging Black Composers Project
The joint program of the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music is now working with its first class of fellows,...
Why Is Joe Rogan’s Podcast Such A Big Deal? It’s Not Politics. It’s Demographics.
"Rogan is not just a purveyor of right-wing ideologies. He has built an empire by introducing these ideas — and a wide range of...
How Brazil’s Version Of Joe Rogan Got Himself In Hot Water, Too
Bruno Aiub, who uses the nom de microphone Monark and who models his very popular podcast (titled Flow) on Rogan's, made an argument this...
Arts Venues Grapple With Whether To Require (And How To Enforce) Audience Masking
"Venue staff are increasingly on their own, leaving ushers, house managers, security staff and box office managers in the crosshairs of different audience members'...
Is This Broadway’s Worst Job? Front-Of-House COVID Compliance Officer
Says one, "There are so many moments where I'm shocked by humanity. Once when I called out for proof of vaccination and photo IDs,...
Harper Lee’s Executor Will Not Get To Take The “To Kill A Mockingbird” Film...
Those people being the heirs of star Gregory Peck and the producer and director of the 1962 film version. Executor Tonja Carter (as she's...
UK Seizes Three NFTs And Arrests Three People On Tax Evasion Charges
"Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, the IRS equivalent in the United Kingdom, announced earlier this week that it had seized three NFTs and about...
Research: Stress Might Have Gotten A Bum Rap
A growing body of research suggests that it is our beliefs about our feelings, as much as the feelings themselves, that determine their effects...
Record Store Day Was Supposed To Help Small Stores. It’s Backfiring
This year, RSD offers 411 new releases, a fact that should leave those in the physical music business seething. Thanks to Brexit and the...
Canadian Minister Of Culture Says Streaming Companies Need To Step Up Support Of Canadian...
In a debate Wednesday in the House of Commons about a bill to regulate online streaming, Rodriguez said updating the broadcasting law is long...
Ever Wanted To Live Inside DisneyLand? Here’s Your Chance…
Disney Imagineers will help design these sub-developments, and this first effort “will welcome homeowners of all ages and will include at least one section...
How Is It That Dance Takes Over The Body And The Mind?
History and culture offer a treasure trove of attempts to interpret dance’s unique power over our bodies and minds. - LitHub
How The Typewriter Imposed Changes On Chinese
Chinese scholars and activists developed new means of analysing and ordering the written language to equip it for, among other things, literacy campaigns, library...
The Prado Digs Out And Displays Two Goya Sketches For The First Time In...
"Pursuing a more 'panoramic approach' to the painter’s oeuvre, the Madrid institution has placed Las Majas in a new gallery alongside two little-seen sketches...
What The Post-Plague Years In Medieval Europe Can Teach Us About Post-COVID
As we move toward a new, post-pandemic era, the tensions in the labor market of the 14th century may have something to teach us...
Paul Theroux Is (Re-)Figuring Out His Relationship With V.S. Naipaul
"More than fifty years of writing about Naipaul! Yet only in the last few years, the dust having settled"— Naipaul died in 2018, and,...
Bookstore Sales Up 28 Percent In 2021
The rebound was not quite enough to bring 2021 bookstore sales back to 2019 levels, falling 1% below 2019 sales of $9.13 billion. -...
The Simple Reason A Bunch Of Comedians Are Suing Pandora
"Let's say (Robin Williams is) singing the words 'reality, what a concept' — in that case … a royalty would have been generated and...
Facebook… Er, Meta… Is Revamping Its Art Program
Open Arts was initially founded as a residency program at Facebook. Artists were commissioned to create work along with employees on site at the...
Could Swahili Become The Lingua Franca Of The Entire African Continent?
"With more than 200 million speakers, Swahili, which originated in East Africa, is one of the world's 10 most widely spoken languages and, as...
New Midwest Powerhouse? Iowa Public Radio To Take Over Licenses Of Six University Stations
IPR began managing broadcast operations at the stations in 2007 and now the Board of Regents of the universities will decide on a proposal...
The Set Of “Slave Play” Had To Be Completely Redesigned For Los Angeles, And...
This staging, on the Mark Taper Forum's thrust stage, is the first time since playwright Jeremy O. Harris first workshopped the play at Yale....
How Has The Dance World Changed In The Past Few Years? Matthew Bourne’s Answer...
"In a general way, I think men dancing has become a much more acceptable sort of profession. That change has had a lot to...
