Back in 1992, the drag queen Joan Jett Blakk ran a campaign ("Putting in the camp, taking out the pain") for president on the Queer Nation Party line. Now Tina Landau and playwright Tarell A…
"Small-town radio is fizzling nationwide, as stations struggle to attract advertisement dollars. And as station owners are forced to sell, media conglomerates snap up rural frequencies for r…
Mind you, this wasn't in Williamsburg or Park Slope; it happened at the library branch in the somewhat remote neighborhood of Gerritsen Beach. Even so, about 40 people protesting the reading…
"In 2010, Kate Wallich was a 22-year-old choreographer in Seattle, … [who] had started her own dance company, Studio Kate Wallich, but hated how insular the contemporary dance world felt (…
Howard Sherman (who was one of the readers): "It certainly was a performance: the airing of a document with the use of theatrical tools to illuminate a text for others. … If journalism is …
"The donation, by a couple wishing to remain anonymous, places $50 million into the orchestra's endowment plus $5 million for general operating costs." " The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Officials from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the entity that manages the site, announced the selection of three architectural firms that will develop separate proposals …
Yes, "the Nation's T. rex" still has pride of place in the hall at the National Museum of Natural History. "But there's much more here than one awe-inspiring dinosaur. The hall, restored to …
A self-taught cook who was discovered by Craig Claiborne when he ate at her husband's Miami Beach restaurant in the 1970s, she wrote or co-wrote more than 20 cookbooks, the most recent of wh…
"A delegation from the festivals has this week met with Caroline Nokes, the Minister of State for Immigration, in a bid to ease the apparent clampdown on visiting artists to the UK … [that…
"Terrence S. Orr … will retire next June after the ballet company concludes its 50th anniversary season. Under his leadership, Mr. Orr expanded the the company's repertory with more than 2…
"The string players sat in concentric semicircles, with odd-looking tangles of wires running between the players' feet. … As the lights dimmed, long drifting skeins of sound emerged, which…
"[Malcolm John] Rebennack, in his younger years, was gangsta to a degree that would likely shock Lil Wayne. But over the course of a remarkable life and career, he evolved. From addiction to…
Thirteen out of 34 members of the board of directors, including chairman John Svoboda, resigned this week following a disagreement with Roosevelt University, which owns the building, over th…
Notwithstanding Dede Wilsey's megadonor status and her 21-year tenure in the board's top spot, her future value to FAMSF could be compromised by an eyebrow-raising opinion piece published Tu…
Lucy Wallace, who has degrees in dance and psychology, brings her Dance to Be Free program of classes and workshops to 13 prisons in eight states " on a budget of $100,000 a year.- The Chron…
Before Thomas W. Morris became artistic director in 2004, the Southern California contemporary music event was respected but somewhat, as Zachary Woolfe puts it, "insular and Eurocentric ……
"As the baby boom was hitting its peak and Sputnik was prompting much hand-wringing about the state of American education, a vigorous debate over literacy was beginning to take shape, and [T…
Leila Jancovich: "When managing the [2002] Commonwealth Games cultural programme in Manchester, both myself and our independent evaluator were asked to remove learning points from our report…
Gov. Jay Pritzker's infrastructure spending bill, the state's first major public works program in more than ten years, just passed the state legislature, and it includes over $60 million in …
"[The company] said content that alleges a group is superior in order to justify discrimination on characteristics like age, race, caste, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran sta…
In addition to a five-decade career an an actor, director, producer, and teacher (among her students at Circle in the Square were Kevin Bacon, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Lady Gaga), she crea…
"The 2019 programme … includes 3,841 shows, up from 3,548 in 2018, and 59,600 performances, up from 56,796. The programme has a record 63 countries represented, and more than 700 free show…
"Indications are everywhere that this is a turning point for black artists. Collectors and museums are taking note, and prices are up. Every week brings news of black scholars being appointe…
No, the answer isn't merely "white" " for one thing, there are many whites to chose from (just go to Home Depot and check the paint chips) " and for some purposes, various shades of blue, gr…