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Virtual reality dance apps help people learn partner dances in private : NPR
Entrepreneur David Huang tests out a VR headset while conducting demonstrations of the social dance lesson app…
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‘It’s a national reclamation’: the 12-year festival bringing Samuel Beckett back to Ireland |…
In 2036, the actor Samuel West will take to the stage to perform Krapp’s Last Tape – Samuel Beckett’s pensive monologue in which an old man, hunched over a reel-to-reel recorder, listens back to the voice of his younger self. West will…
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Activists sue to keep her art from leaving Mexico
Many soccer aficionados in town for the World Cup took time out for a change-of-pace culture fix: a visit to an emblematic collection of 20th century Mexican art, featuring signature works of Frida Kahlo, the taboo-breaking painter…
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US Publishers And Authors Sue Google Over Its Training Of AI
“Publisher Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier, as well as author Scott Turow, are the named plaintiffs in the lawsuit, … contending that the tech giant has engaged in widespread copyright infringement in developing its…
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Wyoming’s Public Television Station To Drop PBS Branding
Said the station’s CEO in a statement, “While we will continue to provide the full suite of PBS programming and member benefits like Passport, we want our local vision to not be limited by a national brand. We are Wyoming’s storyteller…
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Pat Oliphant, prizewinning giant of political cartooning, dies at 90
When Pat Oliphant assembled his entry for the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, he included a dozen cartoons he had drawn for the Denver Post: 11 he was proud of, and one he didn't think was any good but was targeted to…
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Trump Administration Is Keeping Smithsonian Board Seats Vacant, And Nobody Is Saying Much About It
“There have been three openings on the board since April, and by October, the terms of three more trustees will have expired. But the names proposed by the board, which have not been publicly disclosed, have yet to make their way to…
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West End pay deal agreed by Society of London Theatre and Equity
Piccadilly Circus, photo by WhatsOnStage
The Society of London Theatre (SOLT) has reached a proposed three-year agreement with Equity covering pay and working conditions for performers and stage management working in the…
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Are we living through the end of reading? : NPR
People are reading fewer and fewer books. The Atlantic's Rose Horowitch discusses what a post-literate world might look like.
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Netflix reportedly among parties in talks to buy Letterboxd | Movies
Letterboxd is reportedly in talks with potential buyers.The owners of the popular social platform for movies are discussing a sale with companies including Netflix, Sony Pictures and Paramount, according to the industry newsletter…
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