No Mass Outbreaks From The UK’s Test Events
Great, 58,000 people and only 28 positives - but at the time of the test events, "virus levels were low and testing before and...
Halo Wines, Eminence Of Washington-Area Theatre Scene, 81
Wines was an actress and director who was enrolled as a child in acting lessons to help her overcome shyness. She "brought consummate artistry...
William Randolph Hearst Bought A Medieval Spanish Monastery And Shipped It To California
But then the 1175 monastery of Santa María de Óvila wasted away some time in crates on a San Francisco pier. - El Pais...
Violinist Jeanne Lamon, Who Led Tafelmusik For 33 Years, Has Died At 71
In Canada, she brought Baroque music played on period instruments into the modern era. "Under her guidance — and with her often leading from...
The Longstanding, Fascist Focused, Whitewashing Of Rome
Rome was hardly white, whether in architecture or demographics. But historically, Europeans and white Americans - and especially Mussolini and his followers - have...
What University Theatre Programs Need To Do For Their Students And Educators Of Color
There are issues: "Many educators of color find themselves entering or working at predominantly white institutions (PWIs) with little guidance on how to push...
The Author Who Wanted To Write A New King Lear
Anne Enright on The Green Road on having a plan for her plot, her idea to write a new King Lear: "The children had...
Gaming May Actually Benefit Your Brain
For one thing, "action games in particular—games where reflexes, reaction time, and hand-eye coordination are challenged, like in the now-retro classics Doom and Team Fortress Classic—provided tangible...
Alone In Rome, Before The Tourists Return
Italy was the first to lock down, and one of the hardest lockdowns. "Now most of Italy is in a 'white zone,' and museums...
Recording Academy Settles With Its Former CEO Deborah Dugan
The move is the latest in a series led by Recording Academy chief Harvey Mason, jr. that reflect an effort to at least calm...
How Abstract Ideas Shape Our Practical Perceptions
They are imbued with grandeur precisely because of their superb indifference to mundane human concerns. Having knowledge is practically useful, but why would we...
Taking A Turn At The Culture Of Trees
It feels as if there has been a dendrocentric turn in culture recently; a new sensitivity to the arboreal and, more broadly, the botanical....
Why Do People Feel Compelled To Correct Others’ Mispronunciations?
Why do people pronounce words differently, why does pronunciation change, and why does so-called mispronunciation upset some people to the point of making it...
By The Bay, Bhangra Meets Bollywood And Struts It On YouTube
"Today, artists like Toor, 31, are changing the way that bhangra and other Indian dance genres are seen, creating dances meant to be consumed...
John Cage, Harry Hay And LA’s Pioneering Place In Gay Rights
Gay Angelenos like to remind their counterparts to the north and east that L.A. played a crucial, perhaps decisive, role in gay-rights history. Five...
What You Get When You Cross Opera With Prestige TV
"Desert In is an operatic experiment. Co-produced by Long Beach Opera and by Boston Lyric Opera, which commissioned the work, the eight-episode streaming miniseries...
The Market Economy Is An Illusion — Why Neo-Liberalism Is Heavily Subsidized
In reality neoliberalism has depended on huge levels of government support for its entire existence. The global neoliberal economic order could easily have collapsed...
Can Writers Make Money From NFTs, Too? Some Are Trying
"It's hard to make sense of what the NFT creative landscape might mean for otherwise underpaid writers. At once, it's a place for writers...
The Impossibility Of Meaningful Work In Venice
"They perfectly embody the circumstance of generations of Italians stuck in precariato (‘precarious work’), unable to work year round, to start a family, to...
It Seems Philosopher John Locke Was Kind Of A Jerk
"John Locke is regarded today as one of England's greatest philosophers, an Enlightenment thinker known as the 'father of liberalism'. But a previously unknown...
Jersey City Residents Question Pompidou Plans To Build Jersey Outpost
“Everyone agrees that the Pompidou is an extraordinary asset for Jersey City. But we just raised a levy on homeowners because we didn’t have...
Pompidou Centre Plucks Head Of Picasso Museum As Its Next Leader
Laurent Le Bon, 52, faces a challenging term. The Paris museum is scheduled to close from 2023 to 2027 for renovations to deal with...
Meet Recycler Joe Rush, The Outrageous Outsider Artist
“My life has been about reclaiming that nomadic spirit. All the festivals we’ve taken part in over the years are really just an echo...
Why Composer John Tavener Is Getting A Premiere Eight Years After He Died
Oboist Nicholas Daniel: "This week, singer Andrew Watts and I will make our fourth attempt to give the world premiere of Sir John Tavener's...
Construction Of Mexico’s Maya Train Is Turning Up All Sorts Of Antiquities. Are They...
The 932-mile railroad project, connecting cities, historical sites, and beach resorts in the Yucatan Peninsula, has turned up more than 13,000 Mayan artifacts so...
