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Congress Didn’t Just Defund Public Media, It Defunded Emergency Alert
On January 6, the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting voted to dissolve itself. In Washington the story lasted a news cycle. In a band of counties running from the Blue Ridge to the Alaskan coast, it will last far longer…
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German far-right AfD targets the country’s iconic Bauhaus ahead of key election
DESSAU, Germany (AP) — Nearly a century after the Nazis shut down the world-famous Bauhaus school of design, it has once again become a cultural battleground between Germany’s establishment and…
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Salt Lake City’s signature LDS temple is undergoing a historic transformation. Here’s a peek inside
For more than a century, a six-spired, Gothic Revival temple in downtown Salt Lake City has been the spiritual epicenter of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day…
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Jack Kerouac’s 1951 epiphany: The ‘On the Road’ manuscript
NEW YORK (AP) — In the spring of 1951, the muse landed so hard in the caffeinated mind of Jack Kerouac that within three weeks he had hurried out a full-length, single-spaced manuscript — a draft…
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Managing Director -Florida Studio Theatre working with Management Consultants for the Arts
Florida Studio Theatre (FST) invites applications for its Managing Director, a role for individuals with strong talent for running complex, multi-venue producing operations. The new Managing Director will lead the day-to-day…
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Artistic Director -Florida Studio Theatre working with Management Consultants for the Arts
Florida Studio Theatre (FST) is seeking a talented theater professional to lead the planning and execution of the organization’s core programming as Artistic Director. This newly conceived role will be part of a reimagined…
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Bannanas are serious business | ArtsJournal
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Twilight Of The Oxford Dons
These same dons disdained Britain’s provincial universities—known pejoratively as Redbrick—as well as academics in the U.S., whom they scorned for going about their business with “woefully unnecessary seriousness.” A don, by contrast,…
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Have We Destroyed Childhood? | The New Yorker
Gray has two theories about why such bans don’t seem to be producing bigger shifts. First, he suggests that the negative effects of smartphone use are overestimated; in fact, he goes further, arguing that phones and social media have…
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How Errol Flynn Beat The Rap For Statutory Rape
Two credible allegations of sex with teenage girls would by themselves be enough to get Flynn cancelled today, especially since both complainants said that he forced himself on them. Unfortunately, that’s not how it played out in 1942…
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