Art and Culture

One of Hollywood’s legendary music recording studios is for sale as its owner prepares to end his half-century run immortalizing many of the biggest acts.The list of household names who have recorded at Conway Recording Studios spans…
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The Crowbar nightclub of Tampa, Fla., never looked like much outside: a squat building with painted-over windows in a neighborhood where feral chickens roam brick streets. Inside was where the magic happened. For 20 years, Crowbar’s…
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“Luxembourg’s Philharmonie has uncovered fraudulent transactions within the organisation totalling €160,000 following internal inspections, the concert hall said on Monday. … The concert hall said it is cooperating ‘fully with the…
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The Battle of Iwo Jima monument in Quantico, Virginia, has suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages after a man beheaded one of the statues Wednesday…
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“(He) embodied a solid, wry authority figure, whether as a flight instructor in Top Gun, a tough-but-fair sheriff on TV’s Picket Fences” — for which he won an Emmy in 1993 — “or the doomed captain of Alien.” – AP Source link
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Broadway contributed $21 billion to the New York City economy during the 2024-2025 season, supporting 114,600 full-time equivalent jobs and generating $979 million in taxes for the city, even as production costs have soared…
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California’s $750 million bet on Hollywood has not reversed the overall decline in production, according to data released Wednesday by FilmLA. Instead, production levels fell 3.7% in the third quarter — even as the share of…
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“Clifford Murphy, the director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, which runs the festival, called it a ‘democratizing experience’ — one that added up to more than just making lemons into lemonade.” – The…
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Judi Dench has said she can no longer perform on stage or in films because of her deteriorating eyesight, more than a decade after revealing she had been diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration.“I can’t be on stage. I can’t do a…
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Audio streaming giant Spotify posted a third-quarter revenue gain and ended September with 306 million paying premium subscribers, up from 300 million as of the end of June. The figure compares with the company’s 305 million forecast.…
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