Art and Culture

SAN ANTONIO — Rather than staying at home in Texas where Juneteenth was first celebrated, Corina Torralba Harrington goes to her birthplace, Nacimiento de los Negros in Mexico, where her ancestors built a community long before slavery…
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‘Today you’re going to eat art,” says Federico Valdez, a chef at the School of Mexican Cuisine and a man so passionate about food he has the word Queso (Cheese) tattooed on his forearm. “Today,” continues Valdez, “you’re going to eat…
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On a recent morning at Chicago’s new Obama Presidential Center, the institution’s leadership discussed presidential papers the way a decluttering convert might talk about some old sweaters they tossed because they did not spark joy.The…
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My biggest concern is that the Kennedy Center will remain nominally open—as in, I’ll be free to walk through the doors and perhaps buy a coffee at the cafe—but there will be few, or even no, performances to see. – Washingtonian…
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Good Morning, Two big stories for a Monday. First a landmark licensing deal between an AI company and industry-wide music publishers. (Music Business Worldwide). This is the first pact to value songs and recordings…
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Over the next few weeks, anyone in the US can plead their case that Disney’s ABC should not be permitted to renew its broadcast licenses for the eight local television stations they own.After the Federal Communications Commission’s…
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Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox Corp. and streaming tech powerhouse Roku have entered a definitive agreement under which Fox will acquire Roku for $160 per share in a cash and Fox Class A common stock transaction valuing Roku at approximately…
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“The biggest will be Glory Facade, which is the main facade. Maybe it will take 10 years, but we don’t yet have a fixed schedule.” – Dezeen Source link
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As a certified music therapist, I have observed firsthand the many ways music can bring meaning and beauty into people’s lives, even under very difficult circumstances. Much of my clinical work and research has occurred in dementia…
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This attitude found its fullest expression in America, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Americans were in love with the idea of youthful, upstart dynamism; they agreed with Ralph Waldo Emerson, who characterized “the forms…
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