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Egyptian Woman Gets Three Years In Prison For Tiktok Dance Videos
"Haneen Hossam, a social media influencer, was arrested in 2020. ... Prosecutors had accused her of promoting human trafficking by allegedly exploiting minor girls...
“It Was A Real Face-Plant” — CNN+ Was Doomed
"CNN+ was reportedly drawing only 10,000 active users. Blog posts do better numbers than that. This one probably will. ... People were calling it...
“A Disconcerting Level Of Disconnection” As College Students Return To Campus In Person
"More than 100 (professors) wrote in, using words like 'defeated,' 'exhausted,' and 'overwhelmed.' ... Far fewer students show up to class. Those who do...
Royal Shakespeare Co. Artistic Director Gregory Doran Steps Down For Good
Doran, who has worked with the RSC for 35 years and was its leader for nearly a decade, has been on personal leave since...
Architect Oscar Niemeyer’s Final Building Is Now Finished And Open
The late Brazilian modernist designed this public pavilion/art gallery at the Château La Coste winery near Aix-en-Provence in 2010, when he was 102. (He...
Creator Of “Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812” Sues Producer For Unpaid...
"Dave Malloy, who wrote the book, music and lyrics for the show, has filed a petition ... (saying) he is owed 'hundreds of thousands...
World War II Killed 20th-Century Classical Music, Says Conductor John Mauceri
His idea, spelled out in a new book, is that the natural heirs of Mahler and Richard Strauss were the "degenerate" composers (e.g., Korngold,...
Pianist Alexei Lubimov’s First Interview Since Moscow Police Tried To Break Up His Concert
"The police said they were just following orders, and they obviously didn't know the music or why they had these orders. ... Anyway, they...
Mills College, Where American Avant-Garde Music Got Wild (And Ultimately Kinda Cool)
Laurie Anderson, Steve Reich, Dave Brubeck, and Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh are alumni. John Cage, Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, Pauline Oliveros, the Art...
And Just Who Is Joe Kahn, The New York Times’ New Top Editor?
For one thing, he's the first executive editor who may be wealthier than the paper's owners. (He is heir to a large retailing fortune.)...
France’s Top Stage Awards Underscore The Massive Divide Between State-Funded And For-Profit Theatre
"The Molières were designed to bridge the gap between (the) two opposing production models. ... The distinction has long structured French theater and shaped...
What Happens When Big Corporations Take Over Local Newspapers? A New Study Says —
— that there's "an immediate drop in content." The drop isn't exactly a surprise, but what one lead researcher found "shocking" was that the...
National Geographic Discovers Philadelphia’s Thousands Of Murals
Mural Arts Philadelphia started as an anti-graffiti program, drafting the taggers to paint something building owners and community members would be happy, not angry,...
Standup Comedians Say Audience Behavior Just Keeps Getting Worse
"There's something in the water,” said Nish Kumar. ... "I've had a few conversations with other comics and there's a sense that something doesn't...
For This Summer, At Least, Lincoln Center Is Replacing The Mostly Mozart Festival
"Summer in the City", running mid-May to mid-August (and including six Mostly Mozart programs), is the first festival under chief artistic officer Shanta Thake,...
Producers Of “Rust” Get Maximum Fine For Negligence In Alec Baldwin’s Shooting Of Cinematographer
The report from New Mexico's Occupational Health & Safety Bureau found that the crew "demonstrated plain indifference to employee safety" and "willfully violated" established...
Actor Robert Morse Dead At 90
He first gained fame in the Broadway and film versions of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. That show won him his...
“Recreational Puritanism”: A Warning To Right-Wing Book Banners About Their Battle Against The Woke...
John McWhorter: "They miss that their book bans are just as tinny, just as local to petty concerns of our moment and just as,...
The Secret Racial Identity Of Merle Oberon, One Of Hollywood’s Golden-Age Stars
The story spread by publicists: she was born in Tasmania and moved to India as a young girl. In fact, she was born in...
Why Do People Lose Interest In Music When They’re Depressed?
It's a much-commented-on phenomenon, and that lack of pleasure is an important marker for distinguishing depression from plain old sadness. What's going on with...
Climate Change Is Slowly Eating Away Ancient Buildings Of Mesopotamia
There has always been salt in the sand and groundwater of central Iraq, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. But salinity levels are rising...
Mosul Residents Are Learning Historic Building Techniques To Repair The Shattered Old City
"119 local women and 670 men are being trained in traditional stone masonry techniques using 'Mosul marble' — a kind of gypsum alabaster native...
A Nonbinary, Male-Born Dancer Could Be Headed Toward A Career Performing On Pointe (And...
Ashton Edwards, a 19-year-old apprentice at Pacific Northwest Ballet, has been dancing on pointe in class as a matter of course, performs both male...
Michel Bouquet, One Of France’s Most Revered Actors, Dead At 96
"Bouquet appeared in nearly 120 film and television roles" — he was a favorite of filmmakers Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut — "even as...
Shock: Netflix Says It’s Bleeding Subscribers
"Netflix lost 200,000 subscribers in Q1 and expects to lose another 2 million in the current second quarter, the streamer said in its first-quarter...