Art and Culture

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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A dozen staffers at the University of the Arts (UArts) have filed a class action lawsuit accusing the Philadelphia arts school of violating federal labor protections after recently announcing that it would be…
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Jaffe, who was born in Washington D.C. and danced for 22 years with Ballet Theater, worked as a choreographer and educator after retiring from the stage in 2002. She served as dean of dance at the University of North Carolina School of…
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Finally got to see this intimate, brooding retrospective. "Death Seizes a Woman" delivers shock and fear beyond words. ‘Death Seizes a Woman’ (plate 4) from the series ‘Death,’ 1934LithographComposition 19 15/16 x 14 1/2″ (50.7 x…
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Writing in the same room as Ursula K. Le Guin’s rock collection? Yes please! – Seattle Times (AP) Source link
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Online streaming services operating in Canada will be required to contribute five per cent of their Canadian revenues to support the domestic broadcasting system, the country's telecoms regulator said on Tuesday.The money will be used to…
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If there’s one thing wealthy people have access to, it’s lawyers. As a result, a client of Christie’s recently filed an class-action lawsuit against the auction house after it experienced a cyberattack in May. The incident,…
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Donald Duck’s first appearance on screen was the animated short titled The Wise Little Hen. He was intended as a one-off supporting character, but his immediate popularity meant Disney used him in subsequent comic stories and…
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No matter if it’s a local stage show or a major Broadway production — or if it’s a comedy, musical, or drama — these long-held theater traditions and superstitions are still going strong. – Interesting Facts Source…
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On the Road was not Jack Kerouac’s first novel, but you’d be forgiven for thinking as much. Though 1957’s On the Road is widely considered to be Kerouac’s “debut,” the author’s first novel, The Town and the City, was in fact published in…
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