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The Organization That Runs The Golden Globes Is Up For Sale

Its interim CEO wants to bid on it, and there may be one other bidder. "The HFPA’s move comes after more than a year of turmoil for the nearly 80-year-old press organization," including the group refusal of publicists to let their clients go to the (untelevised) Golden Globes. - Variety

Finding Asian American Representation In Opera Beyond Butterfly

Nina Yoshida Nelsen took stock of her career after the Atlanta shootings. "She had performed in Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly more than 150 times, but had been cast in non-Asian roles just three times." Now she's working to change those numbers. - Time

Ukraine Wins Eurovision

In a real shocker that literally everyone predicted, rap/folk Kalush Orchestra won, with a song (originally written for the frontman's mother) that includes lyrics like "I’ll always find my way home, even if the roads are destroyed." - The New York Times

Why An American Media That Can’t Say More Than Shma-Shmortion Helped Predict This Moment

Look at 2007's Knocked Up. It's "a self-consciously edgy movie that declines, again and again, to say the word abortion out loud. It has much to say about Roe’s looming tragedy—precisely because, so often, it opts to say nothing at all." - The Atlantic

Netflix, But Live Streamed

That "opens up the potential to order a whole new raft of unscripted series to use the technology, bringing it in to line with the linear networks, which often air live specials for big competition series such as ABC’s American Idol and Dancing with the Stars." - Deadline

Mezzo-Soprano Teresa Berganza, A Renowned Carmen, Has Died At 89

Berganza won fame in Rossini and Mozart, and of course in Carmen, but her "vast repertoire as a recitalist included German lieder, French and Italian art songs and, most notably, Spanish music — zarzuelas, arias and Gypsy ballads — which she consistently championed." - The New York Times

Yes, The Marcos Family Still Has That ‘Lost’ Picasso

And glimpses of it in Imelda Marcos' apartment after Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s (shocking, for those who remember the 1980s) presidential win "has added to fears the family will use its now-increased power to brazenly further stifle efforts to recover ill-gotten wealth." - The Guardian (UK)

How’s It Going, Headline Writers?

This is not an easy job in 2022. Let's find out just how not easy. - Slate

Why Canadians Have To Move To The US To Find Success

Canada’s tidy, modest institutions have lowered the ceiling on its creative professions. There’s also something very stay-in-your-lane about the presumption that a Canadian artist will never get big enough to be one of them. They’d sooner call you dead. So much for assimilation! - The Walrus

Stratford Festival Unveils New Theatre

In 2018, the facility — a former curling rink-turned-theatre — underwent a $72-million demolition and reconstruction, a project completed in 2020. However, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic's health and safety measures, the theatre's reopening was delayed until this week. - CBC

The Eurovision Song Contest Is A Cultural Phenomenon (And This Year Is Unusually So)

The world’s biggest music event, famed for bringing Europe together, is happening during the biggest threat to unity on the European continent since the Second World War: the war in Ukraine. - Toronto Star

What Qualifies As Ukrainian Music?

Before Ukraine gained independence from Russia in 1991, it would have been as natural for a young Prokofiev to head off to Moscow as it might be for a young Angeleno composer to go to New York (a trip that happens to be five times larger than the distance between Kyiv and Moscow). - Los Angeles Times

Mrs. Doubtfire Calls It Quits On Broadway

The musical, which has been posting middling box office numbers during the industry’s crowded spring season, will end its run at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on May 29, producers announced. - Deadline

The Next Version Of Authenticity Online: BeReal?

To summarize the BeReal user experience: once a day, at a random time, the app sends a push notification to its users, granting them two minutes to snap a two-way photo using their phones’ front- and rear-facing cameras. Only after posting the daily photo can users see what their friends have posted. - The New Yorker

Interpretive Dance In A Session Of The EU Parliament (By A Famous Choreographer, No Less)

The Twitterverse had a high old time when news and photos hit of the final session of the Conference on the Future of Europe at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, wherein members were treated, apparently without warning, to Angelin Preljocaj's Danse l'Europe. - The Independent (UK)

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