A Los Angeles judge affirmed an arbitrator's award of damages to the producers of the series: after Spacey was fired for sexual harassment on set, the entire sixth season had to be rewritten and reshot, with the number of episodes reduced from 13 to eight in order to meet deadlines. - Variety
"The arbitrator ruled that writers on original Netflix productions should be paid on the same level as the licensing fees the streamer pays for third-party titles, ... meaning that 216 writers for (140) films will receive $42 million in unpaid residuals." - The Wrap
The "Boboli 2030" project will include new amenities for visitors, gallery infrastructure, shoring up the landscaping against climate change, and conservation/restoration of the original structures and sculptures. Director Eike Schmidt said the goal is to make the Boboli Gardens "the finest outdoor museum in the world." - The Art Newspaper
New local laws that limit Airbnb-style short-term rentals and encourage students to keep their apartments over the summer are good for the city's permanent residents, but prices for temporary accommodations in August have soared as a result — high enough that the Fringe festival could become unviable. - The Guardian
The song Heated will have ableist language removed from it, while the song Energy will be rerecorded without one of the samples on which it is built. - The Conversation
In this future, people are citizens, rather than subjects or consumers. With this identity, it becomes easier to see that all of us are smarter than any of us. And that the strategy for navigating difficult times is to tap into the diverse ideas, energy and resources of everyone. - BBC
Today, critics can almost take for granted that we have emotional relationships with literary works—notably, ones of attachment. But if the literary work is “an object of the affections,” does it love critics back?4 Do critics rely on such a fiction? - Public Books
Princeton University has thrown away the practice of traditional auditions and have introduced “Try On Theater Days,” replacing high-intensity auditions with educational workshops as a means to cast performers and stagehands for the school’s seasonal productions. - American Theatre
It's part of a trend that is increasingly unavoidable: the disappearance of classical music from the kind of cultural settings where it used to be common — community events, adverts, sports coverage. - The Critic
The researchers discuss the concept that the body responds rhythmically to the music you are listening to, speeding up when the tempo is faster, and slowing down when it’s slower. They found that the level of arousal was proportional to the actual speed, i.e. the effect is greater the faster/slower the music. - Ludwig Van
The age of the Tudors in England is when words about sexuality and scatology started to be considered profane rather than simply matter-of-fact. Yet the most seriously offensive words were still those tied up with religious faith. - History Today
Cosmic voids are cosmology at its purest. They are simple. The complications of star formation and black holes don’t impact them because they don’t have any stars or black holes. They are basically big fossils from the earliest days of the universe and their shapes encode the evolution of the universe. - Nautilus
They've all been heroes over the past year, often stepping in at the last minute to keep the show going on after a cast member tests positive for COVID or is otherwise ill or unavailable. But the jobs are not the same. - Broadway Direct
"Many of the dancers who know Zvi Gotheiner best have never doubted he'd make it — perhaps slowly, but surely. In part, it seems, neither Gotheiner nor his dancers could allow themselves to consider any other outcome." - Forward
