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So What’s Happened To The Troubled Magazine “The Believer”? It’s Been Bought By The Owner Of Sex Toy Collective

As an Instagram post by Believer co-founder Ed Park put it, "Not a joke." - The Daily Beast

They’re Going To Put A Zipline And Cable Car Into Old Jerusalem

The plan, first approved by Netanyahu's government and just affirmed by city authorities, will involve a half-mile zipline from a ridge between East and West Jerusalem into the Peace Valley and a cable car to the Western Wall of King Herod's Temple. - The Art Newspaper

To Punish Disney, Sen. Josh Hawley Introduces A Bill To Curtail Copyright

"Hawley's bill would dramatically rewrite U.S. copyright law, shortening the total term available to all copyright holders going forward by several decades. It would also seek to retroactively limit Disney's copyrights." Introducing the legislation, Hawley explicitly cited "woke corporations like Disney ... pandering to woke activists." - Variety

$500 Tickets For A Play In London’s West End? Yes, To This We’ve Come

The £400 price for the revival of Mike Bartlett's play Cock, featuring Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey, isn't advertised.  Some poor guy ordered online and found himself paying £920 ($1,134) for two seats — that's £400 plus a £60 processing fee per ticket. The producers' response? Supply and demand. - Time Out (London)

Google Has Turned Off Ability To Buy Kindle, Audible Books In The Amazon App

When you visit the Amazon app, you can still buy physical books, but digital purchases now show a "Why can't I buy on the app?" link instead of a purchase button. - Ars Technica

AI Is Creating Art. But Is It, Really?

What discussions about AI and creativity often overlook is the fact that creativity is not an absolute quality that can be defined, measured and reproduced objectively. The Conversation

How Big Data “Nudges” Our Decisions

The combination of Big Data and the success of nudging could thus be conceived of not only as aid to our decision-making, but also as a threat. - 3 Quarks Daily

How Ukraine Is Protecting The Kyiv Symphony Orchestra

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense granted special permission for the male musicians to leave the country, calculating that the world will be more motivated to protect Ukraine if it sees its culture as something precious and worth saving. - The World

What’s Happened To Fundraising Costs In The Pandemic

Whereas fundraising efforts in 2019 raised $6.22 for every fundraising dollar spent, return on fundraising increased to $7.35 in 2020, driven mostly by fundraising expense reduction. SMU Data Arts

How American Discourse Got To Be So Stupid

We all know what we're doing in a classroom; we're putting on a class and we all share the same script as to what this is. But what began to happen in 2015—and I now realize it's because of social media—is that it's very difficult to have everyone in the same story. - Persuasion

A Visit To The Independent Art Republic Of Užupis

For much of the past six centuries, the neighborhood was the Jewish quarter of Vilnius.  Following World War II, the district was badly neglected by the Soviet occupiers; after Lithuanian independence in 1991, Užupis was cheap, and artists flocked there. The "Republic" was an April Fool's gag that never ended. - Euronews

Stephen Colbert Will Chair New 15-Member Board Of Stars Advising Second City Theatre

Colbert, who performed at the Old Town theater in the 1990s, will chair the board. He said in a statement Monday that his recruits “all believe that comedy is better off with a vital Second City. - Chicago Sun-Times

How Moonbug Became The Titan Of Children’s Shows On YouTube

"The London company produces 29 of the most popular online kids' shows in the world, found on more than 150 platforms in 32 languages — and with 7.8 billion views on YouTube in March alone."  And those shows are very carefully and intensely market-researched and engineered. - The New York Times

Dr. Seuss Decides To IPO

Dr. Seuss Enterprises is one of the most prized collections of intellectual property in the world, and nearly every major Hollywood heavyweight is likely to show interest. - Axios

Shivkumar Sharma, Pathbreaker In Indian Classical Music, Dead At 84

His great innovation was to turn the santoor, a hammer dulcimer which Indians had heard only in Kashmiri folk music, into a full-fledged solo instrument in high-art Hindustani classical music. He was especially known for his duos with bamboo flute superstar Hariprasad Chaurasia, with whom he collaborated on several Bollywood soundtracks. - BBC

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