Art and Culture

News The dissident artist arrived in Miami after serving five years in a maximum-security prison outside Havana.…
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“Senate Bill 4925, a partisan effort to control materials in public schools, … was introduced June 24 by Republican Senators. … Like its companion legislation, House Bill 7661, SB 4925 would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education…
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German public broadcaster ZDF is under fire after canceling the planned live performance of an “anti-fascist” song in one of its popular comedy programs. ZDF dropped plans to air “Keine Angst” (No Fear), the new song by rapper…
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It monitors customers’ social media activity and internet searches, factors in Hailey Bieber’s latest outfits and spits out 300 styles a month made cheaply in China. After it reached $460 million in sales in 2025, one of its founders …
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Sony Music Entertainment has filed a second copyright infringement lawsuit against Udio, asserting 30,117 sound recordings it says the AI music company copied without permission to train its generative AI models.The complaint, obtained…
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“Being onstage, although well out of the spotlight, brought once-familiar sensations flooding back: the particular dry-mouth feel that comes from nerves and heavy lipstick, the sweat-and-velvet musk of the costumes. But nothing can…
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Rikud Studio wants its students to learn how to move based on how they feel, not how they look. That means no mirrors, no ballet, and no recitals.  “We want kids to grow up loving dance for their entire lives,” says Caila Moed,…
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It’s never been afraid to play fast and loose and big. The birth of the skyscraper: Chicago’s Michigan Avenue in the…
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NEW YORK (AP) — For Greek translator Emily Wilson, the release of director Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” has been gratifying in various ways. Her acclaimed 2017 edition of Homer’s epic has…
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Isaac Butler is limbering up for an event at Politics and Prose, an independent bookshop and venerable Washington institution, but still has time to explain his arm tattoos.They variously depict: a logo from his grandparents’ company in…
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