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What freaked out Elizabethan England? A dance from (gasp!) Italy, of course, where "a man clasped his female partner tightly around the waist with his left hand, took hold of the busk (the r…
Predictable results of the homophobic censorship attempt (which was headed off by the judge as an issue of freedom of expression): "Copies of the comic book, Avengers: The Children's Crusade…
A case study comes via Portland Center Stage in Oregon, where the theatre had a funded chance to experiment to see what works … and what doesn't. Turns out, exterior bus advertising and bi…
Hint: They didn't do it for themselves. " Aeon
Bryce Dallas Howard is a little fed up with watching actresses constantly being asked about parenting, and actors never getting asked. "It's dangerous, because the assumption is a father doe…
Goodreads is essentially a good listmaking app, a place where readers go to, well, make lists. Is it a community of readers? Um. "Goodreads lingers in the dustbin of the early aughts, doomed…
Toledo's art met social activism at every turn. For instance, "in December 2014, from his studio in Oaxaca, Mexico, he made a series of kites adorned with portraits of the '43,' or the 43 co…
Or not. Ann Powers, NPR's music critic, published this piece about the singer Lana Del Rey, and Del Rey tweeted some of her displeasure on Twitter, and then her stans " super fans " started …
Truly they are, and it's probably because of humans. But in what way? "In a study last year that analyzed more than 1 million individual recordings of whale calls, scale shifts were fo…
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The Annapolis Symphony Orchestra seeks a strong leader who brings a successful track record in fund-raising, excellent interpersonal skills, and the proven ability to manage and lead an orga…
Many people today take television seriously. Instead, Nussbaum's contribution has been to argue for what precisely about television merits our serious attention. " Los Angeles Review of Books
"Time and again, the money extracted from the tech giants amounts to a pittance. The structural remedies that accompany those fines"the part where companies agree to change the offending par…
According to researchers, young adults, and particularly those raised as "digital natives" as part of Generation Z (ages 18 to 24), have high expectations for a "flawless, seamless, personal…
Dozens of statues went up in western European cities in the decades between the revolutions of 1848 and the outbreak of World War I. Nowhere were they used more deliberately to craft a natio…
Nearly 20 years and millions of sales after his nonfiction debut, Mr. Gladwell is at something of a professional tipping point. He elicits from readers the kind of polarized reactions usuall…
In short, prizes matter. But more surprising is the effect of a nomination alone. With only an appearance on the Booker shortlist, a book moves from total obscurity in the classroom and the …
As a launching pad, a young quartet could hardly ask for more. And in the case of the Marmen Quartet, the prize followed on the heels of a first-prize victory in another of the world's leadi…
It is certainly possible to say that roughly a quarter of all the Broadway shows announced have at least one, if not both, feet planted in UK soil. But to those who wield this 'fact' to sugg…
"Imagine this scenario: Hilarion likes Giselle, but she swipes right on Albrecht, and is smitten. Little does she know, Albrecht is already involved with Bathilde. When Giselle finds out, sh…
Ralph Lister, Director of the Somerset-based NPO Take Art, believes that England's rural arts infrastructure could disappear entirely within the next five years unless ACE takes steps to add…
"Classical singing is very beautiful but very specific. I meanwhile was developing an interest in all the other things my voice could do " I felt that I had such a rich instrument and I was …
"After a latish start as an artist " she was in her 30s " she made steady initial headway in a male-dominated Black Power movement and a white-dominated feminist movement. And she has held h…
Three years after three dozen people died in the flames at the warehouse-turned-artist-colony, Max Harris, the 29-year-old resident caretaker, was found not guilty of involuntary manslaughte…
"Technically, the lockout ends Monday, but the musicians' first work obligation isn't until 10 a.m. Wednesday. If the players show up for rehearsal, the work stoppage would be over. If, inst…
