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With Its Director Problem Dealt With, What’s Coming For Nashville’s Arts Agency For 2025?
"Freshly under interim leadership, the Metro Arts Commission would receive $5.5 million, … on par with last year's budget. … The release of these...
Embattled Director Of Nashville’s Arts Funder Pushed To Resign (With $200K Payout)
Daniel Singh, who, over two years as director of the agency Metro Arts, alienated many staff members and presided over an extremely messy round...
Pittsburgh Symphony Provides $125 Million In Economic Impact To Its Region
"For every dollar the symphony spends, it generates about $4 in the local economy, leading to a total of $125 million in regional impact...
Hackers Who Paralyzed Christie’s Threaten To Leak Clients’ Confidential Info
"Brett Callow, a threat analyst at Esmisoft, a cybersecurity firm based in New Zealand, posted on X an image of a post from (the...
Caleb Carr, Military Historian And Author Of “The Alienist,” Has Died At 65
"The scarred and gifted son of founding Beat Lucien Carr, (he) endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and...
Surprise Palme d’Or Winner At 2024 Cannes Film Festival
The top prize went to Sean Baker's "sex worker screwball comedy" Anora; the Grand Prix went to Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light,...
France’s Post Office Has Issued Scratch-‘n’-Sniff Stamps. They Smell Like Baguettes.
The bread scent comes from microcapsules embedded in the ink. The major challenge was to get the ink onto the stamps without breaking those...
“Stereophonic” Was Going To Be David Adjmi’s Final Play, And It Made Him Crazy....
"During the audition process, as characters recited certain lines over and over, Adjmi realized the play had become autobiographical. At one point, he felt...
For A Century, Egyptology Was Dominated By Europeans And Americans. Can The $1 Billion...
When it fully opens later this year, 1¼ miles north of the Pyramids, the GEM will be, at over 5 million square feet, the...
García Márquez Didn’t Think “One Hundred Years Of Solitude” Could Be Adapted. Will Netflix...
Netflix’s VP of Latin American content. asked if the miniseries will work out like those multi-generation-family hits Game of Thrones and The Crown, replied,...
Morgan Spurlock, Who Made Documentaries “Super Size Me” And “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold,”...
After Super Size Me, in which he ate only at McDonald's for a month (and suffered for it), Spurlock was for a time as...
Law Enforcement Is Now Investigating Attempt To Foreclose On And Auction Off Graceland, Elvis...
Once Presley's granddaughter, actress Riley Keough, filed suit and provided evidence that the organization attempting to foreclose doesn't actually exist, the apparently fraudulent attempt...
Brooke Shields Elected President Of Actors’ Equity
"Shields got 2794 votes, vs. 1940 votes for stage manager Erin Maureen Koster and 834 for Chicago-based actress Wydetta Carter, according to a tally...
Where Are The Movies That Can Earn $100 Million On Opening Weekends?
"For the first time in over a decade — excluding the worst of the COVID-19 crisis — no movie opening during the first six...
Stolen $5.4 Million Portrait By Francis Bacon Recovered
"Spanish police have recovered a painting by the late artist Francis Bacon that was stolen from a banker's Madrid home in 2015. The €5m...
How A Gifted Black Musician Lost Tenure At The Kansas City Symphony, And How...
Principal percussionist Josh Jones was told over and over that his audition was the best people had ever heard, and he regularly got high...
Oh, Great, They’re Using Rupert Murdoch’s Newspapers To Feed ChatGPT
The deal between OpenAI and News Corp. means that ChatGPT will be drawing text and info from The Wall Street Journal and Britain's The...
Well, Here’s This Week’s British Royal Family Portrait For People To Freak Out Over
This one is a formal painting of HRH The Princess of Wales (that's Kate Middleton to you and me) by Zambian-British artist Hannah Uzor...
Is The Voynich Manuscript, Undeciphered For 600 Years, Actually About Gynecology?
"Macquarie University research fellow Keagan Brewer and his co-author Michelle L. Lewis seek to corroborate previous suspicions that the enigmatic illustrated text served as...
Michelle Terry On The Vicious Abuse She Faced For Casting Herself As Richard III
"The misogyny has far outweighed the disability discourse. There was potential for ... a vital discussion around disability justice – which as an organisation...
A Slave Narrative Full Of Righteous Fury Reappears, Un-Bowdlerized, After 169 Years
John S. Jacobs escaped his master in 1839, joined a whaling crew and eventually landed in Australia, where he published The United States Governed...
Director Matthew Warchus Announces His Departure From London’s Old Vic
The seven-time Tony and five-time Olivier nominee (he's won one of each) will step down in September of 2026, concluding an 11-year tenure that...
Former Office Manager Of Florida’s Naples Ballet Charged With Stealing Over $100,000
"Nicole Christine Saunders, 54, faces charges of scheme to defraud, grand theft over $100,000 and criminal use of personal identification information. … Police said...
Pixar Is Being Restructured By Disney, With Major Layoffs
"Approximately 14 percent of Pixar’s workforce, or around 175 employees, will be let go. … The layoffs are part of Disney chief Bob Iger’s...
Conductor François-Xavier Roth Accused Of Unsolicited Sexting
The accusations against the 52-year-old Frenchman — currently music director of the orchestra and opera in Cologne as well as founder/director of the widely-hailed...