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A North Texas Deputy Spent Two Years Trying To Charge School Librarians With Obscenity
Scott London, a chief deputy constable in the rural DFW exurb of Granbury, secured subpoenas, filed public records requests, received names of students who’d...
Journalists At Five Of Australia’s Major Dailies Are On Strike For Higher Pay
"Editorial staff at Nine Entertainment, which owns The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age (Melbourne), The Australian Financial Review, the Brisbane Times and WAtoday, stopped...
Professor Fired For Showing Medieval Persian Image Of Muhammad Settles With University That Fired...
"Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, has reached a settlement in its religious discrimination case with former art history professor Erika López Prater." The...
A High-End Jeweler Has Become A Major Worldwide Supporter Of Contemporary Dance
Van Cleef & Arpels has sponsored a months-long festival called Dance Reflections in London, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, New York, and, this year, Kyoto....
BBC Cancels Next Year’s Cardiff Singer Of The World Competition
The broadcaster will replace the 2025 edition of the biennial event, which has a history of discovering major opera stars, with a gala concert...
“Sleep No More” Owes $4.5 Million In Back Rent, Claims Landlord
Centaur Properties, owner of the McKittrick Hotel, where the immersive production has been playing since 2010, has been in a legal contretemps with PDNYC...
Internal Board Dispute Threatens Fledgling San Antonio Philharmonic
As the orchestra prepares, with new music director Jeffrey Kahane on the podium, to begin its third and most ambitious season, a struggle has...
The Original Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Are Convicted And Will Go To Prison
On October 14, 2022, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland started the protest-fossil-fuel-subsidies-and-call-attention-to-climate-change-by-vandalizing-artworks phenomenon by throwing tomato soup at van Gogh's "Sunflowers" at London's National...
Strike At Disneyland Avoided; New Contract Has Largest Pay Raise Ever
The four unions representing over 14,000 "cast members" at Disney's southern California resort properties ratified a three-year agreement which includes an immediate 20% increase...
Composer Wolfgang Rihm Is Dead At 72
"(He) was considered one of the most original and prolific musical voices in Europe and the most performed German composer of contemporary classical music....
Granny-Dancing In Japan Is Done To Hip-Hop
"Senior breaking is one of a growing category of sports tailored to Japan’s large population of older people who, thanks to the country’s extraordinary...
The Slow Strangling Of Welsh National Opera
"The company is liable for few of the major criticisms levied at the opera world, with varying degrees of justification, by politicians and their...
Brazil Has Restored Nearly All The Art Damaged In Bolsonaro’s 2023 Insurrection
"The collection, which includes contemporary and historical artworks, design objects, and artifacts, was targeted on January 8, 2023, when riots erupted in Brasília following...
Jeremy O. Harris Says He’s A “Theater Supremacist,” But …
"… more fitting might be a theater proselytizer. ... In his eyes, theater should be as much a part of the American story as...
A Brief History Of Olympic Villages — And What They Left Behind In Their...
Have the buildings created as lodging for thousands of athletes really provided housing and other benefits for their neighborhoods after the Games are over?...
What’s The Real Innovation Of The Paris Olympics? Temporary, Recyclable Venues
"Erector-set arenas have sprung up like crystals in the city’s traffic circles and parks, often with Parisian landmarks as backdrops. There are temporary pools,...
Conglomerate That Owns Publisher Hachette Plans To Spin It Off
"Vivendi has updated its plans to separate into … three new companies. One of these would be newly named company, Louis Hachette Group, which...
Ordinary Tweet Leads To Discovery Of 16th-Century Portrait Of Henry VIII
In the background of a tweet from the regional government in the English county of Warwickshire, an art historian recognized what turned out to...
“At My High School, The Library Is For Everything But Books”
"According to school records, only about 50 books were checked out by students during the 2023 fall semester. In response, the administration has decided...
SAG-AFTRA Actors On Strike Against Video Game Makers
"Hollywood’s video game performers voted to go on strike Thursday after negotiations with industry giants that began nearly two years ago came to a...
Detroit Opera Keeps Yuval Sharon For Three More Years
"Further, with the news of Sharon’s extended stay (as artistic director) in Detroit (through 2028), the company announced overarching themes for its next three...
Some Old Books Can Be Literally, Physically Toxic. Some Collectors Think That’s Exciting.
The pigments used in bookbinding cloth in the 19th century gave book covers some vibrant colors — hues attained with lead (blue), chromium (yellow),...
India’s Indie Films Are Getting Awards All Over The World But Can’t Get Onto...
These movies, made outside the the big studio systems, usually in languages other than Hindi, forgo Bollywood's song-dance-melodrama formula in favor of stories about...
Toumani Diabaté, Great Master Of The West African Kora, Has Died At 58
"His exquisite, relaxed playing (of the 21-stringed hard) mixed the ancient and modern, as he switched from pieces that dated back hundreds of years...
The Market For Romance Novels Is Booming. The Professional Organization For Romance Novelists Is...
The Romance Writers of America has seen its membership, once more than 10,000, fall by 80% over the past five years, and the organization...