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Satanic Temple Threatens To Sue Sabrina The Teenage Witch For Copyright Infringement

MEDIA Posted: November 6, 2018 2:04 pm

Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves announced on Twitter that his organization would be “taking legal action” against Netflix and the producers of the series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina for “appropriating” the Temple’s copyrighted image of the occult figure Baphomet, a “central icon” of the faith.

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Read the story in San Francisco Chronicle Published: 10.30.18

The 21st-Century Canon: What Are The Most Influential Books Of The Last 20 Years?

WORDS Posted: November 6, 2018 7:36 am

“We invited scholars from across the academy to tell us what they saw as the most influential book published in the past 20 years. (Some respondents named books slightly outside our time frame, but we included them anyway.) We asked them to select books — academic or not, but written by scholars — from within or outside their own fields. It was up to our respondents to define ‘influential,’ but we asked them to explain why they chose the books they did. Here are their answers.”

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Read the story in Chronicle of Higher Education Published: 10.30.18

Alas – The Internet Is Designed To Spread Hate Faster Than Love

AUDIENCE, IDEAS Posted: November 5, 2018 9:31 am

Social media platforms — and Facebook and Twitter are as guilty of this as Gab is — are designed so that the awful travels twice as fast as the good. And they are operating with sloppy disregard of the consequences of that awful speech, leading to disasters that they then have to clean up after.

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 10.30.18

Barnes And Noble Countersues Fired CEO Who Sued Company For Breach And Defamation

WORDS Posted: November 2, 2018 10:01 am

“In a legal filing, Barnes & Noble hit back at Demos Parneros, claiming the recently fired CEO actively sabotaged a potential sale of the company earlier this year, bullied fellow executives, and sexually harassed multiple women at the company. And raising the legal stakes, lawyers for B&N have filed a counterclaim [to Parneros’s lawsuit], asking the court to order Parneros to pay damages for his alleged breach of fiduciary duties, and seeking to potentially claw back more than $1 million paid to Parneros ‘during the period of his disloyal conduct.'”

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Read the story in Publishers Weekly Published: 10.30.18

World’s Longest Art Gallery – 144 Miles – Debuts In Southeastern Ohio

VISUAL Posted: November 2, 2018 7:35 am

The Ohio Art Corridor is a series of outdoor artworks displayed in small cities and towns such as Lancaster, Zanesville, Circleville, McConnelsville, and Athens. The plan is for the gallery route to eventually stretch to 230 miles.

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Read the story in USA Today Published: 10.30.18

Baltimore Symphony Musicians Go Public With Fight Over New Contract

MUSIC Posted: November 2, 2018 5:46 am

They’ve begun playing in street medians and leafleting concertgoers to bring attention to the fact that they’ve been working without a contract since early September. “The players are seeking a multi-year agreement that, in addition to a boost in compensation …, will implement previously negotiated terms regarding the number of full-time musicians in the BSO. The twice-extended contract called for a total of 83. (In 2000, the total was 96, plus two librarians.)”

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Read the story in Baltimore Sun Published: 10.30.18

Myths Of The Gig Economy

IDEAS Posted: November 1, 2018 12:33 pm

he gig economy has not only turned millions of Americans into contractors, but it’s given the more successful entrepreneurs the tools to grow even faster. A fast-moving startup can secure talent as it needs it, outsource more quotidian tasks like payroll, and stay lean and mean; indeed, I see entrepreneurs employ this approach through my work at EY supporting creative, successful startups. But there are lots of myths about gig work, whether full-time or part time.

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Read the story in Harvard Business Review Published: 10.30.18

Houston Symphony Musicians And Management Sign Three-Year Contract

MUSIC Posted: November 1, 2018 7:36 am

“The contract calls for a 4 per-cent raise in the 2019-2020 season followed by a 4.1 per-cent increase in salary in the 2020-2021 season. There is no raise for the current season where the musicians’ base salary is $97,940 per year.”

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Read the story in Houston Chronicle Published: 10.30.18

Menil Collection’s New Drawing Institute Opens This Weekend In Houston

VISUAL Posted: November 1, 2018 5:47 am

The $40 million Menil Drawing Institute “gives Houston the first free-standing building designed for the acquisition, study, conservation, storage and display of modern and contemporary drawings — a broadly-defined genre that encompasses numerous media, including sculpture that could be considered ‘drawing in space.'”

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Read the story in Houston Chronicle Published: 10.30.18

Italian State Television Suspends Cooking Show Chef Because He Cooks Foreign Food

MEDIA Posted: November 1, 2018 4:30 am

“Vittorio Castellani, also known as Chef Kumalé, says RAI told him in a telephone call last week that his role [on the program La Prova del Cuoco (The Chef’s Test)] had been temporarily put on hold because producers of the programme, hosted by Elena Isoardi, the girlfriend of Italy’s far-right deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, wanted to give more space to ‘multi-regional’ Italian rather than ‘multicultural’ food.”

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Read the story in The Guardian Published: 10.30.18

Met Museum Plans After It Leaves The Breuer Building?

VISUAL Posted: October 31, 2018 1:32 pm

Aside from cost-cutting, the museum has cast the decision to leave the Breuer as an opportunity to expand Modern and contemporary programming in its monumental Fifth Avenue home ahead of the David Chipperfield-designed expansion of the Modern and contemporary galleries, planned several years down the line.

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Read the story in The Art Newspaper Published: 10.30.18

Meet Philosopher Martha Nussbaum, Winner Of This Year’s $1 Million Berggruen Prize

PEOPLE Posted: October 31, 2018 1:02 pm

Martha Nussbaum, 71, is the author or editor of more than 40 wide-ranging books covering topics including the place of the emotions (including negative ones like disgust) in political life, the nature of human vulnerability, the importance of liberal education and connections between classical literature and the contemporary world. She is also known for helping to advance the so-called capabilities approach to economic development, which holds that progress should be measured by things like increases in life expectancy and education, rather than simply by increases in income.

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Read the story in The New York Times Published: 10.30.18

Literary Hoax, ‘The Most Underappreciated Genre In History’

WORDS Posted: October 31, 2018 12:03 pm

Counterfeits such as James Macpherson’s Fragments of Ancient Poetry and Clifford Irving’s Autobiography of Howard Hughes “incubate the circumstances of their composition, weaponizing the prevailing nostalgias and channeling the anxieties of their era while providing a window into the hearts of their author. They are, in other words, literature.”

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Read the story in Literary Hub Published: 10.30.18

A Cemetery With A Playwright-In-Residence

THEATRE Posted: October 31, 2018 10:01 am

Playwright Patrick Gabridge is artist-in-residence at the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass. “[His] mandate is to bring theatre to the graveyard in a way that avoids the clichés about ghosts and ghouls, and instead focuses on the beauty of the space’s environment and the significance of its history.”

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Read the story in American Theatre Published: 10.30.18

Why Do Various Foods Disgust Some People And Not Others? There’s A Museum Devoted To The Question

IDEAS Posted: October 31, 2018 9:02 am

“What’s interesting,” says Samuel West, an organizational psychologist who’s the lead curator of the Disgusting Food Museum, “is that disgust is hard-wired biologically. But you still have to learn from your surroundings what [in particular] you should find disgusting.”

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Read the story in New York Times Published: 10.30.18

Man Tries To Kill Colleague At Antarctic Research Station Because He Kept Giving Away The Endings Of Books

WORDS Posted: October 31, 2018 8:30 am

Russian investigators are probing a version of the alleged crime that both men were avid readers to pass the lonely hours in the Antarctic station. But Savitsky had become angered that Beloguzov ‘kept telling his colleague the endings of books before he read them’.

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Read the story in Daily Mail (UK) Published: 10.30.18

Steven Spielberg Signs Up Lena Dunham To Write A Screenplay About A Syrian Refugee, And The Twitterverse Gets Angry

MEDIA Posted: October 31, 2018 8:03 am

“@lenadunham constantly talks about representation as crucial to enrich storytelling. Yet, in practice, she has shown a disregard for actually elevating those voices. Now, she’s been signed on to write a Syrian refugee’s story? Hollywood, was no female Arab writer available?” That was one typical response to the news that Spielberg and director J.J. Abrams had hired Dunham to pen the script for their film version of A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival.

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Why John Luther Adams Is A Composer And Not An Activist

MUSIC Posted: October 31, 2018 7:35 am

“Throughout my life I’ve steered an uneasy course between my desire to help change the world and my impulse to escape it. The vessel in which I navigate these turbulent waters is music. … And yet, it’s impossible for me to regard my life as a composer as separate from my life as a thinking human being and a citizen of the Earth.”

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Read the story in The Guardian Published: 10.30.18

William J. Murtagh, ‘The Pied Piper Of Preservation’, Dead At 95

PEOPLE Posted: October 31, 2018 7:04 am

“As entire city blocks were razed in urban renewal projects, interstate highways were paved across the countryside and architectural marvels such as New York’s Penn Station were demolished to make way for bigger, newer structures, Dr. Murtagh helped lead a growing resistance effort that culminated in the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. In its aftermath, he was appointed the first ‘keeper’ of the National Register of Historic Places — a job that made him the curator of America’s now-sprawling catalogue of significant districts, objects, buildings, sites and structures.”

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Read the story in Washington Post Published: 10.30.18

Fired Violinist William Preucil Will Be Replaced On Suzuki’s Teaching Recordings

MUSIC Posted: October 31, 2018 5:46 am

The now-former concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra was dismissed for good last week following an investigation into his alleged sexual misconduct with students. The news has distressed many teachers and parents of children studying violin with the Suzuki Method, as Preucil was the violinist playing on the official Suzuki instructional recordings. (His parents were among the first teachers of the method in the US.) So Suzuki International and Alfred Music have announced that they’ll be issuing new recordings with another violinist as soon as practical.

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Read the story in Washington Post Published: 10.30.18

Sasha Waltz On The Battle Over Her Appointment To Staatsballett Berlin And How They Worked Through It

DANCE Posted: October 31, 2018 5:15 am

“Waltz says that the Staatsballett dancers’ initial resistance to her leadership was rooted in miscommunication and fear. ‘After we met them and answered, like, 50 questions, there was a big change and an opening up,’ she says. ‘Now it’s a different atmosphere, there’s a strong engagement in the company. There’s a lot of new dancers and they’re all willing to transform and be active in this practice.'”

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Read the story in Dance Magazine Published: 10.30.18

Venice’s Museums Reopen After Worst Flooding In A Decade

VISUAL Posted: October 31, 2018 5:00 am

“Museums are reopening today after a dangerously high tide struck Venice’s picturesque canals on Sunday and Monday, leaving three quarters of the lagoon city underwater and water levels rising by more than five feet. Venice is built to sustain the rising waters that come in the fall and winter, a phenomena known as ‘acqua alta,’ but the recent surge was the worst in at least a decade.”

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Read the story in Artnet Published: 10.30.18

Breaking: Ex-Met Museum Director Tom Campbell To Be CEO Of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

VISUAL Posted: October 30, 2018 3:42 pm

At a meeting of the FAMSF trustees Tuesday, the board is expected to appoint Thomas P. Campbell as director. In that role, Campbell will assume responsibility for leading two of the Bay Area’s most prominent visual arts institutions, the Legion of Honor and the de Young Museum.

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What The World Looks Like From A Non-Binary Perspective

PEOPLE Posted: October 30, 2018 12:33 pm

“Despite a widespread assumption that everyone fits into neat gender categories, I’ve always been treated as a gender question mark. My social interactions since childhood have been filled with wildly vacillating gender expectations. These days, though, I identify as nonbinary not because I am androgynous. Rather, I do so because experiencing life as an androgynous person has made me acutely aware of how gendered expectations and assumptions saturate our lives.”

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Read the story in Aeon Published: 10.30.18

Life gets lush: Gregory Spears meets The Crossing

AJBlogs Posted: October 30, 2018 11:58 am

Many composers go from maximal to minimal as they pare back and distill their musical language; Spears may be going the opposite direction. His Requiem and the neo-medieval dance opera Wolf-in-Skins are extremely spare; the music of his hit opera Fellow Travelers is understated dramatically but more harmonically rich; The Tower and the Garden, his new 30-minute piece for choir and string quartet, is positively lush.

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Read the story in David Patrick Stearns Published: 10.30.18

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