Festival culture is big. But many of the big festivals have become generic, expensive and boring. Here are five elements that define successful festivals, and five ways to think about reinve…
"Campaign groups have urged regulators to protect music and sports fans from the threat of rip-off prices after eBay agreed to sell StubHub, its ticketing business, to the Swiss ticket resel…
From 2006: Believe it or not, I don't live in the past. No working journalist does, especially one with so many young friends. Even so, I do enjoy rummaging around in my well-stocked memory,…
"Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines." Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
How do you capture the scale, the struggle, the elemental extremity of mountain climbing? In the theatre? It's simpler than you think. After all, they both use the same kit. " David Jays
"Ten years ago I went to a speed-dating event in Belfast where I told a succession of potential dates I was a writer and was met with a unanimous sense of disappointment. "I thought you migh…
He was to theatre criticism as pigeons are to statues, William F. Buckley once observed. "In a style that danced with literary allusions and arch rhetoric " and composed with pen and ink (he…
Mark Swed: "Typically, a new opera is a multiyear project, so the very notion of this pop-up one, which seems to have been in the works for a couple of weeks at most, is extraordinary. But i…
On Monday, Netflix announced that it has reached an agreement to continue leasing the Paris Theater space and keep it open for special events, screenings, and theatrical releases. "After 71 …
The Arts Council of Princeton (ACP) seeks a visionary and dynamic Executive Director to lead the organization's strategic planning, programming, administration, fundraising and community o…
The Ballet Academy at Suzanne's School of Dance, located in College Station, TX is seeking a Principal Ballet Instructor beginning August 2020.
Two years since Mr. Macron pledged in a speech in Burkina Faso to enable "the temporary or permanent restitution of African heritage to Africa," little additional progress has been made. " T…
Studies have found that Nobel Prize-winning scientists are about 25 times more likely to sing, dance or act than the average scientist. They are also 17 times more likely to create visual ar…
Corbyn said: "The arts are a common inheritance that make our society culturally richer and put a smile on all our faces. We must cherish them and protect them. "Labour's national strategy f…
On either side of the border, there are three stations, each with a microphone, speaker and tuning wheels that control a searchlight, that can be seen from a 50-kilometre radius. When you…
Four men face years of incarceration for failing to report Viking treasure worth an estimated $3 million. Police say the find has national importance for Anglo-Saxon coinage and for a greate…
It's a growing genre. Political fiction has always existed, but now many writers are re-imagining our contemporary political landscape in political ways that make sense to them. " The New Yo…
At a time of public outrage over corporate greed and a heightened awareness of gender-based power dynamics, the 29-year-old Ms. Swift was able to turn a commercial dispute into a cause célÅ
Oddly the original data was unavailable to researchers. But in 2017, a legal request under the Freedom of Information Act obtained the raw information for the first time. Their results, publ…
"These huge franchise pictures are elbowing out midrange and lower-budget movies. It's harder for midsize movies to get theaters in the first place, much less hold onto them long enough to b…
Eliot's work on Spinoza's Ethics, one scholar says, "was the last thing she did before she wrote her stories and became George Eliot. A large part of Spinoza's Ethics gives this insightfu…
Freddy Tsimba uses all kinds of materials to respond in sculpture to his hometown of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. "In 2014 he took a house he had built from 999 machetes to on…
Perhaps, and also perhaps by design. In 2010, Instagram (before it was bought by Facebook), "that free photo-sharing app with a hipster sheen, hit the iPhone. Several months later, Justin Bi…
As a record number of people want more than just Spotify or YouTube videos, well, the logical result is that "music cruises are one of the interesting growth areas of music tourism. There ha…
This seems like a pretty solid idea for a company that has a lot of young women involved. And, of course, "earlier this week the duke announced he would be not be undertaking public duties '…