Falletta has produced 54 recordings for Naxos – a rate of two per year. Two of those BPO recordings, and a third that Falletta recorded with the London Symphony, have won Grammy awards. - Buffalo News
"These platforms effectively position themselves between business customers and end users. They extract rent from the business customers who then raise prices on the end users. In doing so, they also manipulate and exploit the end users, all in the service of business customers and the bottom line." - Jacobin
In recent years Mexico has mounted an ambitious series of investigations and restitution efforts to reclaim the nation’s stolen cultural heritage, joining with other countries to correct decades of theft and colonial plundering. - The New York Times
When Claude is asked for lyrics to the song “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor, for example, it responds with “a nearly word-for-word copy of those lyrics,” Universal, Concord, and ABKCO said in a filing with a US court in Nashville, Tennessee. - Ars Technica
The company is facing a $2.5 million budget shortfall, managing director Danny Williams said. It will need to raise the money through ticket sales and philanthropy by the end of 2023 in order to present the productions scheduled for the second half of this season, he said. - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Why? She had only been on the job for two years. Now, "virtually no member of the staff, faculty, or administration, including those who left during the past two years, would talk on the record about Muhl." - Boston Globe
So, stop worrying about whether your attention span is too short, and start understanding distractedness as "a radical alternative to an internalised puritan work ethic." - The Guardian (UK)
A five-year full-on "test" to figure out which theory is right didn't figure it out - but that doesn't mean we didn't learn anything about our brains. - Wired
Anderson wrote approximately 4,000 pieces for the Times. He "combined a historian’s learnedness with an enthusiast’s ardor for what was new and surprising." - The New York Times
"Spotify laid off hundreds and effectively killed its in-house podcast production units, Gimlet and Parcast. It seemed like every entity, from public radio to news publishers, made cuts to their podcast units. Companies folded, and left their creators hanging." - The Verge
The 1978 movie "was rated G but famously scared a lot of the unsuspecting kids who saw it. In fact, just in this past year, it was re-classified as PG." - NPR
"The idea was, Well, if women were qualified for these jobs or wanted these jobs, they would just rise into them. They would just take them. So, everyone’s kind of allowed to fool themselves into thinking this is how things are supposed to be." - Slate
Tony-winner Ali Stroker has a new book out, and a new kid, so what has she seen on Broadway? Nothing, "because Mom life. ... But I want to see Sweeney Todd, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Hadestown." - The New York Times
The union says not actor adults, but yes, their kids, can dress as characters from struck movies. (For instance, Barbie or Ken, or perhaps Oppenheimer?) - Los Angeles Times
