The story of his defection in Miami while on tour with the National Ballet of Cuba is now the stuff of legend. It was 2003. He was 20, and “hungry for a different scenario." - Cincinnati Business Courier
Executive Director Carol Tatch’s "ouster comes amid an acrimonious battle between RACC, which has been the major funding organization for arts organizations in Portland and the tri-county area since the 1990s, and the City of Portland." - Oregon ArtsWatch
Sir Peter Blake, "at the age of 91, ... has been collaborating with a robot powered by AI and is excited by the artistic possibilities of this 'kind of magic.'" - The Guardian (UK)
Why? Why? "To the unknowing customer, it may just look blandly inoffensive—'so severely inoffensive, you could be anywhere,' is how I would describe this aesthetic’s aim." - Slate
"We have to remember that these were depictions of true, brutal premeditated murders of Indigenous people and so we should get upset and feel deeply uncomfortable" - The Guardian (UK)
Garrett worked at Knopf, "initially as an editor and special assistant to Alfred Knopf himself, who had a strong devotion to publishing history books. At first she steered his projects to completion, but she soon began acquiring books on her own." - The New York Times
One comedian says that comedians exaggerate for laughs all of the time, but "what Minhaj did was different ... because he altered the story to coax an emotional response from the audience, not to make them laugh." - CBC
"Most writers have yet to be directly financially affected by A.I. This is not true for the commercial artists who create their book covers." - The New York Times
"As far as rom-com plotlines go, some picket lines actually did include host singles meetups, so the story might center on lonely screenwriters." - NPR
The movies Elf and Love, Actually opened in early November of 2003. "Both now seem like relics of a different time — an era when movies received the kind of dedicated theatrical releases that allowed them to win over viewers." - The New York Times
"The 22-second ad, posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, ... used real footage of Johansson to generate a fake image and dialogue." - The Guardian (UK)
"In Mukilteo, the progressive teachers who complained about the novel saw themselves as part of an urgent national reckoning with racism." - Washington Post
"District Judge Michael Snow told the defendants cancelling the show cost the theatre around £80,000. He said that they could be liable to pay the full amount if they were found guilty." - BBC
