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In Kansas, A Youth Orchestra Idea Takes Flight
Less than a year ago, “‘my goal was 20 to 25 kids,' Pieken said. ‘(I thought) if we don’t have at least like 15...
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Gael Garcia Bernal Didn’t Want To Become An Actor
But he finally realized there was no avoiding it. "There is this moment of incredible tension and excitement before going on stage, you know,...
In Leeds, England, One Big Sculpture Now Represents Hundreds Of Women
"We’ve got lots of old Victorian statues of men, particularly in Leeds, and I think there was an ambition to redress this gender imbalance...
Movie Director Morgan Neville Thought AI Could Be Cool, In 2021
That was when he used a generated voice for Anthony Bourdain. "I was like, ‘Oh, it'd be fun to use this, and it'd be...
How To Disappear All Of The Taxis From New York
This isn’t, like, for Uber and Lyft - but for making the city look like Southern California. - The New York Times
Why Did Warner Bros Make A Joker Musical That Didn’t Actually Want To Be...
This is just confusing. “The film stages each number with curious hesitancy, as though it were embarrassed to go full Sondheim. Phillips has made...
The Mystery Of What Happened To The Honor Guard ‘Hat Sculpture’ Around JFK’s Grave
“They came in at night. Left at night. And back then, we didn’t ask no questions." - Smithsonian Magazine (MSN)
All Appalachian Writers Are Environmentalists
Well, maybe not J.D. Vance. But everyone else, thanks to decades - a century - of devastating floods and mudslides, mountaintop removal and mining...
Pushing Back Against That Long Atlantic Freak-Out About Students Not Being Asked To Read...
Maybe the problem is the reporter’s clickbait comprehension? “Young readers are eminently capable of critically engaging in long form content, but they’re rightfully demanding...
In Australia, Aboriginal Designs May Replace Government Housing
And, perhaps unsurprisingly at this point, the housing designed by the people who live in the space may help solve some public health crises....
David Garrard Lowe, Historian And Defender Of Neoclassical Architecture, Has Died At 91
Lowe’s "passion for historic preservation — and in particular for the Beaux-Arts mansions, museums and towers of the Gilded Age — helped stem the...
Suddenly, We All Understand Bridges
Bridges in music, that is. And, of course, that’s thanks to TikTok. - El País
The Apprentice’s Distribution Troubles Point To A Very Problematic Future For Political Films
“If you have companies, in this case the big corporate distribution system, that willing to let that sort of culture of fear and intimidation...
As Broadway Adjusts To Public Outcry, The Question Of How And When To Dim...
“The lights-dimming ritual, which goes back decades, has been an increasingly fraught one for the nine entities that own and operate Broadway theaters.” -...
Booker Shortlist Authors On The Moment Inspiration Struck
“It feels incorrect, to have inspiration strike in the midst of grief, but what probably happened was that I was trying to get away...
Dudamel In New York
LA Phil Dudamel in New York, offering a glimpse of what is to come. “You have the vision of a maestro who at least...
Why Doesn’t Being A Good Writer Equal Being A Good Public Speaker?
Often, it’s an inverse relationship, as anyone who has gone to too many readings can tell you. - LitHub
A Time To Mourn, A Time To Publish
This is a tale of Walt Whitman’s influence on an AIDS activist, his partner’s devotion, and a posthumous novel. - NPR
Dancing On An Island In New York
No, not Manhattan. “On Governors Island, audience members gathered on the grass for Analphabetes, uncertain where to look for the performance or how to...
Who Defines Asian-American Literature?
“There is no overarching chronology or guideline of how one behaves as an Asian in this country. One can immigrate and have no knowledge...
That Time Al Pacino Almost Got Fired From The Godfather
“Paramount didn’t want me to play Michael Corleone. They wanted Jack Nicholson. They wanted Robert Redford. They wanted Warren Beatty or Ryan O’Neal.” -...
Art Basel Paris Is Taking Place In One Of The City’s Most Glorious Stages...
“Built in just three years and inaugurated as part of the 1900 Paris world fair, the Grand Palais, a steel-and-glass monument, has a floor...
This Historian, For One, Would Rather Not Live In Quite Such Interesting Times
Helen Castor, writer about monarchs, says it has been extraordinary “to watch what happens when a leader is so consumed with the idea of...
The Music Documentary Has Been Popular For Years
But it’s having a serious identity crisis right now. - Slate