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Another Jackass Gets Caught Leaving His Mark On The Walls At Pompeii
This particular jackass is a 37-year-old British man who carved his initials and those of his two daughters on a wall at the House...
Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Appoints New Music Director
Ilya Ram, a 33-year-old Israeli-American, is currently music director of the Akademische Philharmonie Heidelberg, a position he will keep. He begins his tenure in...
To Greet The Democratic Convention, The Chicago Transit Authority Puts New Public Art All...
"The project, called 'Track(ed) Changes,' along with the related community events, jibes with the city’s promise to Chicagoans to broaden the limelight and to...
Despite Protests, Harvard Will Not Remove Arthur Sackler’s Name From Two University Buildings
Reasoning that he should not be held morally responsible for deaths from a drug (OxyContin) that his company (Purdue Pharma) brought to market years...
Podcasters Are Pulling In Real Money On Patreon
"Patreon says podcasters make up the second-largest group of creators on its platform and collectively earned more than $350 million from fans in 2023....
The Case For Occasionally Being Mean (And How That’s Different From Being Cruel)
"The difference between being mean and being cruel has to do with intention, scale, and intensity. ... Being mean is always directed at another...
Why Two Of London’s Major Classical Institutions Are Rebranding
The Royal Opera House's renaming as the Royal Ballet & Opera and concert venue St. John's Smith Square's rechristening as Sinfonia Smith Square —...
Charles R. Cross, One Of America’s Leading Rock Journalists, Is Dead At 67
In addition to editing Seattle alt-weekly The Rocket, Cross was one of American rock's most accomplished biographers. He wrote bestselling books on Kurt Cobain...
Abu Dhabi Is Buying A Billion-Dollar Piece Of Sotheby’s
"ADQ, an Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund, investment, and holding company, has entered into 'a definitive agreement' to acquire a minority interest in Sotheby’s....
Asking AI Programs About Rip Van Winkle (Philip Kennicott Tries An Experiment)
The Washington Post's art critic has been thinking about John Quidor’s 1849 painting The Return of Rip Van Winkle and about a certain Rip...
The “Death Slot” On Broadcast TV Schedules: A Brief History
"Death slots" were times when audiences were presumed to be low, and therefore where network programmers would park shows presumed to be doomed anyway,...
The Academic Who Competed In Breaking At The Olympics
Dr. Rachael Gunn — whose nom de breaking is "Raygun" — knows that, at 36, she can't compete against the spins and strength moves...
Dreamy And Soulful Or Dreary And Dreadful? The Minimalist Piano Music That Crowds Love...
No, this doesn't mean the piano etudes of Philip Glass. Ludovico Einaudi is the most famous of a school of keyboard composers such as...
The Soviet Puppet Theaters Of Kazakhstan
During the 1930s, the Communist regime in Moscow set up Russian-style puppet theaters in the republics as a way to impart Socialist principles to...
You’ve Heard Of Slow Food And Slow TV. Now A “Slow Living” Movement Is...
"(There's currently) a wave of writers encouraging active resistance to the relentless 'goal-oriented' expectation that, 'in a world where our value is determined by...
The Four Children of Frank Zappa And Their Frustrations, Finances, And Fights
"Moon has spent decades reassessing the family dynamic. Dweezil no longer speaks to his siblings. Ahmet and Diva, meanwhile, seem dazed by the force...
What Does A State-Level Version Of The Atlantic Magazine Look Like? In North Carolina,...
"With a mission of publishing 'deep reporting about power and place in North Carolina,' the publication (called The Assembly) has an ambitious vision of...
Slovakia’s Culture Minister Is On A Firing Spree
This week, Martina Šimkovičová — who only just moved from across the border in Austria into Slovakia though she's been minister since last October...
Two Cultural Institutions Were Set On Fire During Bangladesh Riots
"Several locations across the capital, (Dhaka,) including Bangabandhu Memorial Museum and the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre, were set on fire as part of a...
Breaking At The Olympics: Inside The Scoring System
"The judges will score on five criteria: vocabulary, technique, execution, originality and musicality. … Judges will use digital sliders ... to represent each scoring...
Audit Finds More Misuse Of Funds And Possible Embezzlement At Sacramento’s Capital Public Radio
The forensic examination of finances at the long-troubled outlet revealed conflicts of interest, misspent funds, and more than $700,000 in expenditures ($400,000 of which...
Paramount To Cut 15% Of Its US Workforce
The layoffs, which follow the elimination of 800 jobs in February, are part of a plan for $500 million in annual cost-savings (part of...
This Guy Poured Water On 6,000-Year-Old Cave Art So He Could Get A Better...
"The cave paintings (in the Sierra Sur de Jaén mountain range) were made on limestone, which contains water-soluble salts. When water is poured on...
Could Terraced Rice Paddies Hold The Secret To Mitigating Urban Flooding?
"(There's a) trend in Asia seeing architects seek inspiration from the region's rice terraces and other agricultural heritages to help urban communities reduce waterlogging...
After Four Straight Years Of Deficits, One Of England’s Best Regional Theatres Reconsiders Its...
The Bristol Old Vic says its ticket sales are up one third over last year, but ever-rising costs and the loss of grants from...