Colorado’s Storied Tattered Cover Books Is Sold To Barnes And Noble
Tattered Cover has faced a difficult financial situation in recent years. The local bookstore chain has been staving off bankruptcy for years under two...
Dance Data Project Looks At Gender Imbalance In Leadership Of Ballet Companies Worldwide
"This report examines the gender distribution of critical leadership positions including artistic directors, executive directors, assistant artistic directors, heads of schools, and artistic directors...
Actors’ Equity Declares Strike On Projects In Development
The union and the Broadway League (representing producers and theaters) have been negotiating on a new contract governing workshops and readings since January. Lead...
For 14-Year-Old Remark, Author Arundhati Roy To Be Prosecuted By India’s Government Under Anti-Terrorism...
The alleged crime happened when the Booker Prize-winning author was speaking at a human rights conference in Delhi in 2010; she said, "Kashmir has...
Hey, Stranded University Of The Arts Students, Come On Down To Texas A&M!
"Texas A&M University has extended an offer to students affected by the surprise closure of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, allowing them...
Actress Anouk Aimée Has Died At 92
"Best known for her role opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant in Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman — for which she received an Oscar nomination for...
Christine Goerke Steps Down As Associate Artistic Director Of Detroit Opera
"She began her position in 2021 and was instrumental in reshaping the resident program and was responsible for principal casting for mainstage and concert...
Ian McKellen Hospitalized After Falling Off Stage In London
"(He) was playing the roguish John Falstaff in “Player Kings,” an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s two “Henry IV” history plays, directed by Robert Icke....
Why Your Local Bank Branch Looks More Like A Starbucks These Days
Increasingly, customers are visiting physical banks to receive guidance on products such as mortgages, loans and financial planning, while accessing more basic services online....
Tonys Takeaway: Regional Theatre Should Be Bold — Non-Profits Do It Better
One obvious point is that if you’re looking to develop a winner, an off-Broadway or regional theater is the way to go. For all...
Martin Amis And The Primacy Of Words And Style
“Style isn’t something you apply later,” Amis said in 2021, explaining why he couldn’t abide JM Coetzee. “It’s embedded in your perception, and writers...
Technology Didn’t Kill Handwriting. Bad Penmanship Has Always Been A Problem
Even in an age when people frequently wrote by hand, messy and at times illegible handwriting was still a common problem. They even had...
Can We Inherit Memories From One Generation To The Next?
Scientists working in the emerging field of epigenetics have discovered the mechanism that allows lived experience and acquired knowledge to be passed on within...
AI Is Already Killing Web Publishers
The rise of web-connected LLMs is rapidly undermining traditional web publishing. It’s clear industry professionals are deeply concerned. LLMs reduce human web traffic, evade...
Baltimore Should Get An Iconic Bridge To Replace Key Bridge
The city deserves a replacement that is similarly expressive of the working harbor’s importance to the city and its location as a gateway between...
Remembering Poet Thom Gunn
Gunn’s early poetry was erudite, witty, and elegantly wrought, but it was usually coolly detached, framed in meter and rhyme. As he progressed as...
Met Opera Ticket Sales For 2023-24 Were Up
The Metropolitan Opera revealed its finances for 2023-24 season, including the fact that it had sold 72 percent of available tickets. The number was...
Florida Governor Vetoes Millions In Arts Grants
The Governor vetoed $32 million in grants that would have supported 663 arts and culture organizations around the State of Florida through the Division of...
How Hard Is It To Film ESports?
It’s not easy, just like a physical sports game. Some so-called observers “will have the ability to jump between player perspectives, seeing exactly what's...
It’s Summer, So The Debate About The Sweatiest Movie Of All Time Is Too...
Recent movies (Hit Man, anyone?), even when set in New Orleans, just aren’t … sweaty. So what wins the title of sweatiest movie of...
A Dance Dream Fulfilled
As Jawole Willa Jo Zollar fully lets go of the reins, 40 years after founding the dance troupe Urban Bush Women, she’s created one...
In Britain, A Judge Rules That A Character In Steve Coogan’s ‘The Lost King’...
This means that “after a preliminary hearing means that the case can proceed to a full trial where Coogan, Baby Cow and Pathe will...
The Short, Amazing Life Of The CD-ROM
Remember Encarta? That was a Microsoft product. But in 1994, even "the oldest-school tech giant of them all, IBM, found the strangest of bedfellows...
What To Read Next, Based On Your Favorite Tony Nominee
If you loved Appropriate? Well, it’s got to be Mat Johnson’s Loving Day. You’re an Outsiders fan? How about you take a look at...
The Recent Person On The Street Interviews That Caught Up Henry Winkler, Baz Luhrmann,...
“Go to any awards show red carpet and you will find teams and teams of people clutching clipboards. You know what’s on those clipboards?...
