Art and Culture

Position Summary The Howard Theatre seeks a strategic, entrepreneurial, and externally compelling Executive Director to lead the organization through its next phase of growth. This is a formative leadership opportunity for…
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“In 1587, Grand Duke Francesco I de’ Medici and his wife, Bianca Cappello, died within hours of each other after days of agony. … Rumors of an assassination immediately spread, pointing to Francesco’s younger brother and rival,…
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She knew they were upset, and she wanted them to know she understood why. On Thursday, March 19, a cloudy, cold, not-yet-spring day in the city, Boston Symphony Orchestra board chair Barbara Hostetter, along with 11 other trustees and…
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Kyle Devine | Longreads | July 14, 2026 | 2,384 words (9 minutes)  “Vinyl in the Veins” is an excerpt from Recomposed: Music, Climate, Crisis, Change by Kyle Devine, published by Verso on July 14, 2026. This piece is adapted…
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If you’ve ever walked through a bookstore with an author by your side, you may have noticed something peculiar: writers don’t check out new books the way normal people do. Your average reader, when they pick up a book, will…
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“It’s really been holding back local broadcasters from reaching the scale necessary to invest in local news and journalism reporting,” Brendan Carr said. – The Hill Source link
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Are movies bad for us? Do they waste our time, dumb down the culture, even harm society? On-screen, stars depict unspeakable acts of violence and cruelty. More subtly, movies make bad choices look appealing; viewers might watch The…
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has tested positive for traces of the bacteria linked to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, health officials announced Tuesday. The bacteria were previously…
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Art shows in apartments or offices, open to friends only, featuring artists forbidden to exhibit publicly. Philosophy clubs in people’s kitchens and living rooms. Small theater companies careful to refer to sensitive topics (like…
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The number of households paying the BBC license fee plummeted last year at a time when the corporation is desperately seeking a revamp of its funding model. Today’s BBC Annual Report showed that license fee payers slid by 539,000…
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