Britain To Put 30% Cap On Markup Of Event Tickets
"(The move) follows years of campaigning by politicians, musicians and the theatre industry to stop professional 'resellers' hoovering up tickets at the expense of...
Anita Bryant, 84
"(She was) a beauty queen, singer and wholesome pitchwoman for Florida orange juice whose crusade against gay rights in the 1970s transformed her into...
The Hams That Saved A Historic French Organ
Hams produced by monks, no less. And the best of them are left to cure in the church's dry, windy bell tower. - Atlas...
British Fiction Generated Record Sales In 2024
BookTok, Science Fiction & Fantasy, and the indomitable Richard Osman led Fiction, with the category accounting for the year’s top five titles, 16 of...
New Discoveries At Luxor Could “Reconstruct” History
Artifacts found at the tombs included bronze coins with the image of Alexander the Great dating to the Time of Ptolemy I (367-283), children’s...
Could (Should?) Cities Be Built Of Wood?
 I’ve been waiting years for the emergence of a bold timber architecture with designs that take advantage of the material’s expressive personality, its strength...
Why Mexicans Are Not Happy About The International Success of “Emilia Pérez”
"Mexicans began observing that Emilia Pérez was a film about Mexico where just one main actor was Mexican, made by a French director who...
Why Boulez Matters (On The 100th Anniversary Of His Birthday)
 The very precise way he used his hand helped communicate to players across the arena of an orchestra exactly where they were in the...
Zeppo, The Prodigal Marx Brother
It's not just that the baby of the family was the most reluctant to be a performer and the first to deliberately abandon the...
Hollywood Presses Pause As Wildfires Engulf LA
Amid the ongoing wildfires in Southern California, a number of glitzy Hollywood events and red carpet premieres have also been cancelled. - CNN
How Boston’s Faneuil Hall Came To Embody The Complicated Idea Of America
Figures from every corner of politics have used the hall for events and rallies, amplifying the legend “that this is where the idea of...
The Role Of Public Philosophy In Difficult Times
The practice of public philosophy is thriving today in a surprising number of forms. Different approaches give rise to meta-level questions about the nature...
“Show Boat,” American Theater’s Most Unstable Musical
"Some changes over the years have been dramaturgical, and some political, but all have been motivated by the belief that Show Boat is worth...
Tracking The Rising Costs Of Streaming Subscriptions
In the audio-visual world, they have a name for the phenomenon depicted above – where rival platforms repeatedly increase their prices, inspiring their competitors to...
NBCUniversal, Fox Corp., Warner Bros. Discovery, DirecTV and Comcast Team Up On New Ad Platform
Universal Ads, as the new venture is called, was announced Monday as a collaborative effort to combat the domination of Google, Meta and other...
Is The Bay Area’s Theater Ecosystem Contracting? A Look At The Numbers
"The Chronicle sought multiple sources of data over time, including the number of theaters and shows, the amount of work for artists, theaters’ tax...
Explaining Substack
"Even as the platform gains influence, it raises questions: Is Substack empowering writers to build sustainable careers, or is it just the latest iteration...
A Group Of Artists Put Up Billboards (Arty Ones) To Try To Energize Voters....
"Dancing between art, philanthropy and activism, For Freedoms addresses issues including racism, misogyny, violence and free speech, most visibly by commissioning artists to make...
Brooklyn Mack Leaves Helm Of His Hometown Ballet Company After Severe Funding Cuts
The star dancer has resigned as artistic director of Columbia (SC) Classical Ballet, at whose school he first studied dance and which he helped...
Sally Mann Photographs Of Children Removed From Museum As Police Investigate Obscenity Charge
Though they depict no sexual activity, Mann's nude portraits of her young children have attracted controversy ever since they first appeared 35 years ago....
Threat Of Ushers’ Strike At Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center Called Off
"Ushers at the Kimmel Center, the Academy of Music, and Miller Theater have struck a tentative deal on a new labor contract. If approved,...
Oscar Nominations Postponed Due To L.A. Fires
"Voting for the nearly 10,000 Academy members opened Jan. 8 and was originally set to close on Jan. 12. Deadline is now Jan. 14....
How Zora Neale Hurston’s Final Novel Finally Made It Into Print
"In (The Life of Herod the Great), Hurston looked to redefine the legacy of Herod, who reigned as king of Judaea from 37 BCE...
What Two YouTubers’ Stories Tell Us About The New Economics Of Creativity
Colin Furze demonstrates that in certain corners of the creative economy an individual with minimal overhead can work on select attention-catching projects and earn...
Considering (Or Not) The Politics Of Shostakovich, “The Hamlet Of Soviet Music”
"How can we reconcile the apparently gung-ho socialist sentiments expressed in Symphonies No. 3 and 4 with the bitter disillusionment and sarcasm that explode...
