Even actors like Elliot Page and Asia Kate Dillon have said it's harder to find work in a world where roles for them are, according to them, vanishing. - CBC
The Georgian style Festival Theatre - now the Cambridge Buddhist Centre - had recently undergone some intense architectural changes when its owner invited future Royal Ballet founder Ninette de Valois to choreograph there. - BBC (Yahoo)
"As we’re all waiting for traffic to clear, I could feel the motion of the bridge, slightly pulsating up and down. Curiosity got to many people, who got out of their cars to see if they could see anything." - San Francisco Chronicle
“'Today’s newspapers have fallen out of the habit of rewarding their readers with chunks of fiction. ... So it has fallen to us to pick up the slack.' But it seems worth asking why 'chunks' of fiction are their own reward." - LitHub
"Ireland increasingly has become a destination for American movies, television series and the once-quintessentially L.A. creation:Â the game show." - Los Angeles Times
"A representative for Mann said in a statement on Sunday that the director’s weapon had 'accidentally discharged while holstered.' The incident, the representative said, resulted in a 'superficial injury.'" - Los Angeles Times
"Most of those bowls and sandwiches available in the lunchtime hours are sold by fast-casual chains, the kind of establishments that give private equity investors wet dreams thanks to their sky-high margins, low labor costs, and simplistic, trend-driven menus." - Ravenous
"It’s a highbrow-meets-lowbrow thing," said the Dutch tattoo artist completing the requests. He's done it before, but "this time, had a greater ambition: to reproduce one of Rembrandt’s most famous etchings, The Descent From the Cross, from 1633, across a man’s back." - The New York Times
And Tuesday's election will determine what happens with its collection - and if its local advocates have done enough to organize support. - Oregon ArtsWatch
What do they do with it, though, when they get it? Well: "keep the lights on, ... pay bills, pay down debt, make payroll, or as a buffer when something went wrong." - Nieman Lab
"In 1941, Albert Speer presented plans to his Führer for a monumental arch that would tower nearly 400 feet over Berlin. Taller than the towers of the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge in New York, it would have been twice the height of the Arc de Triomphe." - The New York Times
The scammer "gave me a physical address. Neither of us commented on how unusual it was for the founder of the Berlin Book Club to have a postal address in the Philippines." - The Guardian (UK)
Martin McDonagh: "Plays should be as exciting as the best films, and that meant you should be able to do anything onstage that you can do in a film, which led to a little violence now and then, but always with a moral dimension to it." - The New York Times
"The 95-year-old National Symphony Orchestra has been performing in the Kennedy Center since it opened in 1971. Now, the musicians and their charismatic music director Gianandrea Noseda are musical nomads while the future of the arts complex, with its proposed renovations, remains uncertain." - NPR
