Art and Culture

‘It’s logistics.’ I often use this common phrase when planning and coordinating my everyday life. Work projects, social gatherings, medical appointments, household repairs, doing the shopping… Planning and coordinating such mundane tasks…
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Assembly Bill 2222, known as the Community Newsroom Employment and Workforce Sustainability Act, creates refundable tax credits for the state’s news outlets based on the number of journalists they employ. – NiemanLab Source…
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Metal and classical: deeply different, or close companions? As a musician straddling both genres, I feel they have much more in common than they differ. – San Francisco Classical Voice Source link
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You get semi-improvised Bharatanatyam — normally a highly codified form — by three dancers basing their moves on a game of Ms. Pac-Man which they’re playing live onstage. – BBC (MSN) Source link
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Chanting in unison, hundreds of volunteers in northern Japan heaved on ropes on Wednesday to pull a 400-tonne castle back towards its original position.The imposing fortified tower of Hirosaki Castle was shifted 80 metres (262 feet) in…
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Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, leaders of the Weather Underground, raised their kids while blowing up buildings and fleeing the FBI. Their older son, Zayd Ayers Dohrn, is ambivalent about his upbringing but says there was plenty of…
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With the shrinking of arts instruction in schools and free higher education, it’s ever harder for non-rich artists to train. Then there’s the ever-rising cost of getting your work seen, even at open-access events like the Edinburgh…
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Reception for traditional musicians that John Swinney hosted at Bute House this week. (Image: Supplied) It will become Scotland’s sixth National Performing Company, joining the National Theatre of Scotland, Scottish Opera,…
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The California Legislature has approved a budget fix for the entertainment industry that allows studios to cash in their tax credits faster. Both the Assembly and state Senate passed the bill, SB 186, before the end-of-session…
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The Homeland Security Investigations unit of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) said it seized more than 22,000 ancient artifacts in Florida as part of a smuggling inquest that counts “among the largest in the…
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