NY Times “Arts Briefs”: Whose Culture Is It?

Attention CultureGrrl readers: It’s Friday morning, the beginning of a culture-filled weekend (culture-Philled, in my case), and we do need to get ourselves up to speed on the latest cultural news!
So here are some of the top stories chosen by the NY Times for the Arts, Briefly feature in today’s “Arts” section:
“Paul McCartney Mum after Divorce Hearing,” “Judge Warns Rapper,” “Bobby Brown Out of Jail.”
Is this the arts briefs or the rap sheets?
But here’s what news-hungry aesthetes really want to know: Why did the Associated Press decide to end its weeklong “experimental blackout on news about Paris Hilton“? Could it be because she received a ticket for driving with a suspended license—a story just too monumentally significant to be ignored?
Late last night, you could have found the answer in a 1,000-word piece, Even Ignoring Paris Hilton Makes News, that was among the AP stories linked on the Times’ online arts page. Now, alas, it’s been replaced by Angelina Jolie to Adopt Vietnamese Child.
We can only hope they’ll update tomorrow on how Britney’s rehab is going.