Americans on both sides of the political aisle were opposed to banning books, although it also found stark differences when it came to how issues of race should be taught in the classroom, and it’s this divide that has muddied the banned-book debate currently raging in schools. - FiveThirtyEight
"Female choreographers, on average, make up 35% of a venue's programming and 40% of a company's programming at all venues. On average, women make up 34% of venues' leadership boards. ... and 49% of these companies board leadership when artistic and executive directors are considered." - Dance Data Project
"People with more experience of playing a musical instrument showed greater lifetime improvement on a test of cognitive ability than those with less or no experience. ... This was the case even when accounting for socio-economic status, years of education, childhood cognitive ability, and health in older age." - The Guardian
"The book list includes novels that have been taught for generations, including To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. It also includes the Harry Potter series and the biblical Song of Solomon. ... But the list is a fiction." - USA Today
"A (pair) of locals confronted a driver for the production on Friday and said they would only 'allow' filming to continue if they were paid $50,000. ... The driver refused to pay and the group threatened to 'come back later this evening (and) shoot someone' if production continued." - The Hollywood Reporter
"Sculpture Space, a residency program for sculptors in Utica, New York, was ransacked and severely damaged by vandals in the early hours of Sunday, August 28. The Utica Police Department (said) that an investigation is ongoing. The motive for the attack remains unclear." - Hyperallergic
The schedule for this season is set, but, starting in fall 2023, the network would eliminate its 10-11 pm slate of shows and turn that hour back over to local affiliate stations, as Fox and The CW have done for years. Here's a look at why it's being considered. - IndieWire
Yes – there's nothing else like it. "But to defend it, we need to reform it. ... The fringe is unregulated, wonderfully so, you might say, when it's working. But – spoiler alert – laissez-faire only takes you so far. The lack of anyone to take responsibility is a problem right now." - The Guardian
Patrons will no longer have to wait in line to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 before entering the building, though masks will still be required except when eating or drinking. - AP
In theory, counting the population seems so basic, so neutral: a math problem, albeit “a serious slog” of one. But the numerical is political, with representation and resources at stake. - The New York Times
“Perhaps the city is not ready for a real dialogue about its colonial past and the condition of coloniality that continues to mark the present. That was my intention with the work, not to celebrate colonialism, as the city suggests.” - Toronto Star
“We” didn’t cause climate disruption; ExxonMobil did. In these types of, albeit nonfictional, narratives, the push is precisely to rescue the “figure-ground” narrative form from the historically false way of telling the story as if vast numbers of undifferentiated humans played equal roles in the drama. - The Nation
These niche-famous people are the types who are living out the latest chapter in what it means to be in this particular corner of Manhattan at this particular moment and feeling certain, as most people want to feel when they are young and ambitious and freshly arrived, that it is the absolute center of the world. - The New...
That word “historic” is interesting. You may find that you heard these performances, as they happened. Or reviewed them. Or played them. Which may make you gulp a little. - New Criterion
