Art and Culture

The CEO blamed flat revenue and rising costs. Yet nine senior staffers earn more than $300,000 each, and the best-paid 16 earn a total of $5.9 million. (The laid-off employees made $50,000-$60,000.) – The Boston Globe (MSN)…
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State Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and Senate President Prop Tempore Senator Mike McGuire revealed last week that agreement has been reached on a legislative budget that restores approximately 75% of state funding for the arts that had…
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“Seattle Rep, the city’s preeminent regional theater company, is eliminating 17 staff positions over the course of the next several months, including the majority of its artistic, arts engagement and Public Works…
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Employees at Glenstone, the private contemporary art museum in Potomac, Md., voted on Thursday and Friday to form a union with the Teamsters for hourly workers.The final vote came late Friday evening, following pressure from the museum’s…
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If you haven’t yet seen the new and already-infamous Apple ad — the one in which a giant mechanical compactor violently crushes a bunch of musical instruments, books, sculptures, art supplies and toys, turning them into an iPad Pro —…
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The success of Hit Man, Richard Linklater’s new comedy that has garnered glowing reviews heralding Glen Powell’s emergence as a true movie star, largely boils down to one factor: illicit attraction. It’s the kind that powers fantasies…
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A giant inflatable intrauterine device, more commonly known as an IUD, stood tall in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, June 5 as a stark visual reminder of what’s at stake as the Right to Contraception Act failed to…
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From the start, his interests veered far from the professional middle-class ideal. In his teens he read Rimbaud’s verse and the famous jazz hipster Mezz Mezzrow’s memoir. He listened to Bessie Smith, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin;…
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In an excerpt from NPR's The Sunday Story podcast, we look at how video game companies are adding features to make their products easier to use by people with disabilities. AYESHA RASCOE,…
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My earliest reading memoryWe had a big crack-spined hardback of Hilda Boswell’s illustrated Treasury of Children’s Stories that had survived my seven siblings to come down to me. For years, whenever my mother asked which bedtime story…
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