Art and Culture

Good Morning, Virginia and the District of Columbia sued to stop construction of Trump’s 250-foot arch, which would stand between Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial at twice the memorial’s height. Work could start…
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The San Francisco Conservatory of Music seeks a Production Coordinator to join the Production team. Along with the Director of Production and the Production Manager, the Production Coordinator will assist in the management of all…
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Unseen writing by Harry Houdini, the world’s most renowned escapologist and illusionist, is being published in the US on Saturday, the 100th anniversary of his death.As well as being famous for his magic acts and quest to expose fake…
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When Elon Musk unveiled Tesla’s latest Roadster, much of the attention focused on the obvious spectacle. Here, apparently, was one of the oldest promises of science fiction finally made real: a flying car. The demonstration had…
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Gleick has a rich supply of oddities and delights from the telephone’s early history. Just a year after the patent was granted, we learn, America gained its first switchboard, a rickety thing run from a Hartford drugstore. Mark Twain,…
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The relic is the first musical instrument found at the site in 156 years of excavations. – Smithsonian Magazine Source link
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Before Spring Awakening won eight Tony awards in 2007, its dramatist and lyricist Steven Sater had “been struggling financially and professionally for quite a while,” he remembers. “Everyone said at the time: this is where it all…
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We have not a single piece of meaningful legislation in the United States Congress about artificial intelligence. We have essentially nothing about social media. This is something that we’re now battling out in the courts.  – The…
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A mockup of President Donald Trump's proposed triumphal arch stands at the Great American State Fair on the…
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Hindu mythology includes several figures described as third-gender, mixed-gender or genderless. Bijayini Satpathy, one of the great living practitioners of Odissi dance, had never played any of those characters before creating her new…
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