Tag: 04.08.21
On Zoom, Using Ancient Greek Theater To Process Modern Traumas
"Ancient stories, and texts that have stood the test of time, can be portals to honest and dignified grappling with present wounds and longings...
The MTV Show ‘The Real World’ Jump-Started Reality TV As We Know It, But...
In 1992, television wasn't all about the latest competition or race or humiliation reported to the camera. So when The Real World started, it...
A Monument To Jefferson Davis In The Hands Of Anti-Racist Activists Becomes A Toilet
The monument, stolen (or "liberated," if you prefer) from a cemetery in Alabama, will now be returned to its former owners, United Daughters of...
How Blockchain Is Transforming Partnerships
Blockchains may radically transform many facets of business life, but they’re a tool particularly well suited for collaborations. Put simply, blockchains are digital ledgers...
Twyla Tharp Talks Dance With Terry Gross
"This last year, with the pandemic and its disruptions in terms of routine, discipline, just ordinary day-to-day activities, the body doesn't know itself at...
Workers Start Cutting 1000 150-Year-Old Oaks To Rebuild Notre Dame’s Timbers
Experts have felled 59 of the trees at the Villefermoy forest in the Seine-et-Marne region, and a further 26 oaks will be donated by...
How To Draw More People Into Cities Again? Build More Culture Spaces
"Culture has been a potent driver of Chicago for decades, of course, but this still is a unique moment, especially with the new availability...
Even Japanese Poetry Is Getting Messed Up By Climate Change
The natural world has always been a key subject of Japanese verse, and there's even an established body of words — kigo — that...
Netflix Makes Deal With Sony To Stream Its Movies (And Preclude Sony From Starting...
Sony and Netflix also inked a first-look deal for movies made exclusively for streaming, boosting the slate of Netflix originals. Sony said those films...
Impromptu Arts Relief Funds That Sprang Up In Pandemic’s Early Days May Be Around...
As lockdowns arrived and spread, many mutual aid networks, mostly small-scale, were put together on the fly to help the many thousands of suddenly...
First Day For Performance Venues To Apply For Federal Pandemic Relief Was A Disaster
"As the government prepared on Thursday to start taking applications for a $16 billion relief fund for music clubs, theaters and other live event...
One Of Philadelphia’s Leading Pianists Held For Trial On Sexual Assault Charge
" now-21-year-old Temple student said that Mikhail Yanovitsky, 56, hugged, kissed, and fondled her while she practiced piano in a classroom at Temple's...
This $1,780 Painting May Actually Be A Caravaggio
The 44"-by-34" depiction of Christ with the crown of thorns was thought to be by José de Ribera, a minor 17th-century Spanish artist, and...
Protestors Occupying French Theatres Carefully Dance Through A Minefield
"After trade union representatives in Paris entered the shuttered Odéon Theater, a movement to occupy playhouses spread rapidly. … Yet with the infection rate...