Art and Culture

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — In Portland, the arts aren't just entertainment. For many, they are the heartbeat of the city's culture and identity.Those community values were on full display during Wednesday’s City Council meeting."We see…
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Vice News, the hip current events platform targeted at Millennials and which sought to be “The Economist for young people” during the decade hundreds of journalists spent producing its daily online news and video, is now being…
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When Brion Gysin “let the mice in” — the title he gave his book about cutups — I don’t think he meant the many artists he influenced, among them William S. Burroughs, his most important associate, who once said Gysin “is the only man I…
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Credits Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist known for his work on quantum gravity, the foundation of quantum mechanics and the nature of space and time. A fierce debate is raging around the…
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LONDON (AP) — The BBC is hosting a party for David Attenborough at the Royal Albert Hall. Cinemas are playing his nature films. Friends have spent weeks lavishing praise on the man and his…
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In the 1970s, early music enjoyed a strong following but historical dance needed help catching up. The New York Baroque Dance Co. was seminal in jump-starting research, performance styles, and popularity. This article was…
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Gawker, which shut down 10 years ago this August, was guilty of lapses in judgment — former staffers interviewed for this story admit as much. It could be withering, puerile and gratuitously nasty. But, at its best, it rebelled against…
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From the original, nineteenth-century form popularized by Balzac, Zola, and Stendhal to the “lyrical” variant of today, the verisimilitude that realism pursues—not just lifelikeness, but worldlikeness—is meant to convince us the novel…
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Some experts say Substack’s rise fits into a longer arc in publishing, one shaped by the early wave of self-publishing tools like Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing and Smashwords in the late aughts. Those platforms opened the door for…
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