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If Sony And Apollo Buy Paramount Global, They Plan To Sell Off CBS And...
"The plan would include auctioning off CBS, cable channels like MTV and the Paramount Plus streaming service, said (sources). Paramount Pictures … would be...
San Diego Symphony’s $125 Million Concert Hall Renovation Is Nearly Complete
The soon-to-be-renamed venue "will now boast significantly improved acoustics, state-of-the-art new audio, visual and lighting systems, new aisles and seats angled to face the...
One Of The Great Black Broadway Musicals Premiered 50 Years Ago And Then Disappeared....
John McWhorter makes the case for Raisin — a 1973 adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun with book by her former...
Have American Universities Forgotten What, And Whom, They’re For?
For years, the numbers of fully-employed faculty have fallen as universities use poorly-paid adjunct professors instead. Yet tuition prices keep soaring. Why? Because the...
Despite Boos And Protests, Israel Makes It To Eurovision Song Contest Final
"(Eden Golan) was one of 10 acts who made it through Thursday’s semifinal, which was decided by votes from Eurovision viewers around the world....
Yet Another Public Radio Station Is Offering Buyouts And Preparing For Layoffs
This time it's Southern California Public Radio, the entity that combines KPCC and the website LAist. All full- and part-time staffers in the newsroom...
The Prolific, Proud, Perverse Prince Of Latin American Literature
At 75, César Aira has written more than 100 books, has been translated into 37 languages, and has lately been tipped for a Nobel...
Some Museums In L.A. Are Trying An Experiment: Cutting Back On The Air Conditioning
"Museums have historically maintained strict, narrow ranges of temperatures and relative humidity since the British Museum created the standards around 100 years ago. New...
She’s Been Lighting Contemporary Dance In Downtown Manhattan For 46 Years
Carol Mullins, now 85, has been designing and operating the lighting for Danspace Project since 1978. "When people ask her why she has stayed...
A New Beckett Festival Is Coming To Liverpool
Co-curated by actor Adrian Dunbar, Beckett: Unbound 2024 is "a multiarts festival that juxtaposes familiar pieces by the Dublin-born author with new responses to...
Why The American Youth Symphony Orchestra Collapsed So Suddenly
"This is a cautionary tale of performing-arts nonprofits, of board burnout, of soaring costs in a post-COVID world, of the precarious state of philanthropy....
From The American Youth Symphony’s Ashes, A New Orchestra Quickly Arose
"Conductor Anthony Parnther and the Musicians at Play Foundation speedily formed a new training orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Los Angeles, and scheduled an inaugural...
U.S. House Committee Begins Hearings To Investigate NPR For Alleged Bias
"NPR CEO Katherine Maher was a no-show today (at the hearing) but she will 'testify on a date in the near future that works...
UCal Davis Gets $20 Million Gift To Beef Up Arts Programs
"San Francisco philanthropist Maria Manetti Shrem has promised UC Davis the largest gift ever to arts at the school — $20 million to create...
Washington National Opera Offers A New Ending For Puccini’s “Turandot”
Puccini died before composing the final scene, and many find the standard ending by Franco Alfano unsatisfying. This alternative by composer Christopher Tin and...
AI Helps Identify Forgeries Of Monet, Renoir On eBay
"Dr. Carina Popovici, a specialist in authenticating artwork, said she applied cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology to pictures advertised on the online platform and was...
John Waters Briefly Hospitalized After Car Accident
The 78-year-old filmmaker/artist/author's car was struck near Baltimore by a driver running a red light. "Since it hurts when I laugh," he said in...
The Kids’ Show “Bluey” Can Make Grownups Cry. What’s Its Secret? Classical Music, That’s...
Musicologist Sarah Caissie Provost lays out the evidence. - Slate (Yahoo!)
When ESPN Meets Mark Morris Dance Group
"The new ESPN+ series 'Tryouts,' … tracks some of the country’s most intense tryouts and auditions. Rather than focusing exclusively on traditional sports, many...
Why Yan Lianke Would Prefer That You Not Call Him “China’s Most Censored Author”
"Several years ago, a Chinese author spent hundreds of thousands of yuan bribing the Chinese publishing industry (to) criticize and ban his works," so...
A Play About Sexual Assault Is Being Used To Train Judges
Playwright Suzie Miller's Prima Facie, a one-woman show about a defense attorney in sexual assault cases who is then raped by a colleague, starred...
Museum That Was Court-Ordered To Admit Men To Its Women-Only Exhibition Finds A Work-Around
Kirsha Kaechele's installation Ladies Lounge at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania will be made into an actual ladies' lounge...
After Eight Years Of Work, Broadway’s Palace Theatre Has A Beautiful, New, Very Blue...
"The venue, owned and operated by the Nederlander Organization, will house Ben Platt: Live at the Palace for a limited engagement beginning May 28,...
Met Opera Had Only Four Female Conductors In Its First 133 Years. Last Month...
From the company's opening in 1883 to eight years ago, there were only Sarah Caldwell (1976), Simone Young (1996), Jane Glover (2013), and Susanna...
Canada’s Screenwriters Agree To New Contract With Independent Producers
"The Writers Guild of Canada and the Canadian Media Producers Association, representing local indie film and television producers, have agreed terms for a new...