In addition to speaking out regularly in the media, the 38-year-old native of Kyiv devotes time to raising money for relief efforts and gathering generators, stoves, and the like to ship to her compatriots, who regularly lose electricity, and sometimes their homes and possessions, to Russian missiles. - The New York Times
Rabieh Remmo, one of six men — all from a notorious crime family — on trial for the multimillion-dollar theft from Dresden's "Green Vault" in November 2019, admitted taking an axe to display cases and stealing the gems. Two relatives confessed to taking part as lookouts. - Yahoo! (AFP)
"In her lawsuit, Erika López Prater alleges that Hamline University — a small, private school in St. Paul — subjected her to religious discrimination and defamation, and damaged her professional and personal reputation." - AP
"Ellen Watters, the board chair, and the school’s president, Fayneese S. Miller, said Hamline’s initial stance on the incident was a 'misstep.' The usage of the word 'Islamophobic' was 'flawed ... It was never our intent to suggest that academic freedom is of lower concern or value than our students.'" - ARTnews
"Adam McKinney, a Milwaukee native who has danced with numerous companies around the country, succeeds Susan Jaffee, who departed in December to become artistic director of American Ballet Theatre after two years in Pittsburgh." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Even as those disclosures have flowered into optimism that real progress will soon be made, both sides have made it clear that no deal is yet imminent. Indeed, they remain far apart on some key questions. - The News York Times
Some smaller independent publishers—mostly outside of New York City—are concerned that the public nature of the strike, with wage demands made public, is raising unrealistic financial expectations. - Publishers Weekly
StoryWeaver can bring more languages into conversation with one another—but the tech is still new, and it depends on data that only speakers of underserved languages can provide. This raises concerns about how the labor of the native speakers powering A.I. tools will be valued. - Slate
The festival’s powerful streak of commissioning new music — a roster of more than 50 pieces both large and small since 2006 — is largely a function of Ellen Primack’s hard work and powers of persuasion. - San Francisco Chronicle
The job is not easy. Depending on how you count, there are about a dozen Indigenous languages in our state, and every one of them has its own set of protocols about who can provide materials, and which parts of the languages and culture can be shared. - The Guardian
The recent struggles and remarkable late-career concerts of these two men will always mark for me the passing from the scene of their generation of artists — a generation that has loomed over the musical landscape, and stubbornly refused to cede it for decades. - The New York Times
The proposal made Thursday means that venues no longer would need a license to organize dances. Instead, as a general rule, they would only have to register with the police, which can be done verbally and does not cost anything. - AP
"A talk outlet owned by a billionaire businessman for whom radio is a hobby. ... A station that airs an improbable patch-quilt of block programming on weekends and boasts a talent lineup that ranges from Rudy Giuliani to Cousin Brucie, from Sid Rosenberg and Larry Kudlow to Tony Orlando." - Inside Radio
The new finding of Mr. Park and his colleagues suggests that investments in science are caught in a spiral of diminishing returns and that quantity in some respects is outpacing quality. - The New York Times
"Old Jet sits inside a former fighter-jet operations building. Like most rural hubs, it houses a unique mixture of people who live locally and need studio space: in this case, 35 musicians, artists, writers, photographers, fashion designers and more, ranging from early-career artists to established names." - The Guardian
