"The 230 'passengers' (Philibert prefers this term to 'patients') are from Paris’s first four arrondissements. Having been referred by their doctor or therapist, they can drop by from Monday to Friday between 9.15am and 5pm (and) partake in workshops for music, radio, drawing, painting or stained glass window-making." - The Guardian
"Once I had been advised by the general counsel that she was participating in the CEO succession process – which is a conflict of interest – I had a fiduciary duty as chair to advise her that her participation on the CEO succession process was a conflict of interest," Adam Waterous said. - CTV Calgary
Christopher Marney: "My mum took me. We didn’t see the companies in London. We lived in Essex and we'd see London City Ballet at The Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch, because that was the company that toured and would perform at your local theatre." And yes, his revived LCB will definitely tour. - Bachtrack
The deals that Live Nation offers artists to land their events, and what restrictions those agreements might include, are among the practices the Justice Department is probing. It is also exploring whether the company’s agreements restrict venues’ ability to work with other promoters or ticket services. - The Wall Street Journal
"Unlike Beetlejuice, Heathers or Dear Evan Hansen, which all parlayed onstage popularity into huge digital followings, Treason is turning the formula for musical success around. Its producers cultivated an online fandom for three years before raising the curtain on the show." - The New York Times
"Using copies of copyright-protected material to train AI models doesn’t qualify as the kind of copying that violates copyright law. A statutory licensing scheme to govern machine learning would create an “intractable economic problem” and incentivize technology companies to take their billions of dollars of investment capital to “more innovation friendly” jurisdictions. - Bloomberg
"The organization brings together well-known actors from film, TV and theater to share dramatic readings of literary works. … (Since 2003, it has) expanded its audience across continents and within classrooms through WordTheatre Campus." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X has a score by veteran African-American composer Anthony Davis; scenario by his brother, actor-director and market research executive Christopher Davis; and libretto by their cousin, writer and professor Thulani Davis. Zachary Woolfe talks to the three of them. - The New York Times
In an excerpt from his upcoming book, Network of Lies, Brian Stelter reports that Carlson's sacking wasn't a condition of the Dominion settlement. "Think, for just a moment, about the worst relationship in your past — and why it ended. Odds are, there wasn’t just one reason, it wasn’t one thing," - Vanity Fair
"The ads lean into the city’s quirky culture across sports, food, and the arts, and evolve quickly to respond to news events so the campaign 'can really live and breathe and be a real thing' with the goal of …, in particular, charming and inspiring millennials into engaging." - Nieman Lab
"Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum is quietly relinquishing ownership of five antiquities to Italy as it acknowledges, for the first time, that some of its pieces 'were looted and illegally exported.' The changes come after a Chronicle investigation." - The Chronicle Of Higher Education
"Disney has agreed to take full control of Hulu in a deal (worth $8.61 billion) with Comcast, which has owned a third of the streamer ever since Disney’s acquisition of the 21st Century Fox entertainment assets." - The Hollywood Reporter
"A retired French couple who sold an African mask to a secondhand goods dealer for €150 have gone to court for a share of the proceeds after the mask fetched €4.2m at auction. But campaigners insist that the rare artefact instead should be returned to Gabon." - The Guardian
“He was also born at the right time to be a multimedia superstar. Louis was there for acoustic recordings in 1923. After accompanying silent movies, he then made pioneering appearances in film, radio, and television. In many cases, he was the first African American to have featured billing in these new industries. - The Nation
