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Joyce Randolph, Who Played Trixie Norton On “The Honeymooners”, Has Died At 99
The last surviving member of the classic sitcom's four leads, she played Trixie in skits on Cavalcade of Stars and The Jackie Gleason Show...
The Latest Additions To The OED: “Wokeism”, “Screenshare”, “Forever Chemical”, “Chekhov’s Gun”
Both "wokeism" and "wokery" refer to culture war issues, though "wokery" has as a second definition cooking with a wok. Among other terms newly...
Dance Data Project Reports On Leadership Transitions In 2023
From 2022 to 2023, artistic director transitions increased from 53 to 66 across companies, schools, and venues. Male artistic director appointments increased by 46%,...
Officials Back Off Plan To Remove Statue Of William Penn From Site Of His...
"Last Friday, the National Park Service (NPS) announced plans to remove the statue, as well as a model of Penn’s original home, from Welcome...
Producer Floats Proposal To Buy Paramount From Shari Redstone — For Cash
"Film producer David Ellison's Skydance Media is exploring an all-cash deal to acquire National Amusements Inc., the company that controls Paramount Global, (and) merge...
Gérard Depardieu Has Finally Brought France To Its Watershed #MeToo Moment
Though the French remain divided over the actor, long a symbol of France's movie industry (he's been in over 150 films), the mounting charges...
Violinist Hilary Hahn Awarded $100,000 Avery Fisher Prize
Previous recipients of the prize, now in its 50th year, have included Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, André Watts, Midori, Joshua Bell, the Emerson and...
Art Thief Arrested On Roof Of Arizona Gallery
Harpreet Singh was captured while trying to escape from American Fine Art in Scottsdale. He had taken works worth hundreds of thousands of dollars,...
Audible, Amazon’s Spoken-Word Unit, Lays Off Five Percent Of Its Staff
The news comes one day after Amazon announced the elimination of hundreds of positions at its movie/video studios. - The Hollywood Reporter
In Response To Federal Regulations, Chicago’s Field Museum Has Covered Displays Of Native American...
"The decision relates to a provision that requires institutions to 'obtain free, prior and informed consent' from tribes before exhibiting cultural items or human...
Conductor Jan Latham-Koenig Arrested In London For Sexual Communication With A Minor
The 70-year-old has been charged with "arranging/facilitating a child sexual offence and sexual communication with a child." He has had a major guest-conducting career...
Franz Welser-Möst Announces Retirement Date From Cleveland Orchestra
The Austrian conductor, now 63, announced that he will not renew his current contract when it expires at the end of the 2026-27 season....
Can A Female Composer’s Music Be “Virile”?
The words "virile" or "virility" were constantly used in reviews of the music of the late 19th-century Irish-French composer Augusta Holmès. What's more, "Holmès's...
Behind The Scenes With An NBA Team’s Dance Squad
A reporter visits the dancers for the Utah Jazz to see the elements that go into their work, from selecting members to costumes and...
“Not A Cult To One Dead White Guy”: Marin Shakespeare Is Rethinking What A...
Under new artistic director Jon Tracy, Marin Shakespeare is undertaking a slew of new initiatives: adding nine artistic associates, hosting other stage companies in...
Actors Share Their Secrets For Recreating Bodily Functions And Fluids Onstage
Crying live is the standard challenge, but these actors have also had to simulate coughing, sneezing, climaxing and even vomiting in front of an...
OpenAI, Deluged By Copyright Lawsuits, Says That Artificial Intelligence Would Be Impossible Without Copyrighted...
"OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT and text-to-image generator DALL-E, … (told Britain's House of Lords that) 'limiting training data to public domain books and...
Thousands Of Berlin’s Arts Workers Protest City’s Decision To Require Arts Funding Recipients To...
The authors of a petition signed by more than 4,000 people "are concerned the addition of this clause as a prerequisite for funding will...
How BuzzFeed Got Itself $200 Million In Debt, And How It (Maybe) Can Get...
It all started when, in 2021, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti decided he wanted to take the company public using a SPAC (remember those?), all...
New York’s Number-One Opera And Ballet Superfan Bequeathed $1.7 Million To City Cultural Institutions
From the estate of Lois Kirschenbaum, who spent decades attending opera and ballet and collecting autographs at Lincoln Center and elsewhere, "donations of $215,000...
Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts To Shut Down Its Degree Programs
"The Academy … will keep its museum open and fully operating. It plans to carry on classes in continuing education and its K-12 arts...
Amazon Is Laying Off Hundreds Of People At Its Video Studios
"Amazon is laying off “several hundred” employees at Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios. Additionally, 500 employees — or 35% of the workforce —...
It’s Not Just The British Museum: Many Of England’s Museums Have Items Missing
"Freedom of information requests by the PA news agency to museums and galleries that receive public funding from the (national government) asking for details...
The Woman Bringing Poetry Slams To Zambia
After she discovered the work of African-American spoken-word poets, Vanessa Chisakula co-founded Word Smash Poetry in Lusaka, Zambia's capital, and she's seen poetry events...
Poland’s Old Government Politicized The Public Broadcaster. The New Government’s Having Trouble Undoing The...
As Civic Platform, the leading party in the new governing coalition, put it last year, "Poles deserve real public television, not like Russia Today,...