Art and Culture

Silent discos started back in the 1970s as a convenient way to get around noise restrictions. In those days that meant everyone bringing their own music loaded onto a Walkman. Later, DJs would set up their own radio channels to…
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Evelyn Glennie | Credit: Philipp Rathmer/BrigitteThe daughter of a beef farmer and a schoolteacher, percussion superstar Evelyn Glennie never met a struck, thumped, tapped, or scraped instrument she didn’t like. Indeed, she’s been at…
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I’m one of those people: I have cried at the children’s show Bluey. It happened, despite my best efforts, during “Sleepytime,” the known tear-jerker episode from Season 2; at Aunt Brandy’s implied infertility in Season 3’s “Onesies”; and…
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Up to four company spots available. Two days of open classes. 380 hopeful dancers. These are the stakes laid out at the start of the fifth episode of the new ESPN+ series “Tryouts,” which takes viewers inside the pressure-cooker…
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In China we have a saying that reading a banned book on a snowy night is one of the true joys of life. From this, one can well imagine the kind of satisfaction that reading a banned book may bring—like candy…
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Playwright Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie, a one-woman show about a defense attorney in sexual assault cases who is then raped by a colleague, starred Jodie Comer in the West End and on Broadway. A video of the play is being provided…
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Kirsha Kaechele’s installation Ladies Lounge at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania will be made into an actual ladies’ lounge with the addition of a (luxurious) toilet. A church will be added as well; both…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Oksana Lyniv, Speranza Scappucci, Marin Alsop and Xian Zhang filled their lockers in the guest conductors’ dressing room off the Metropolitan Opera’s orchestra pit. Just four women…
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Earlier this year, the judge in the case delivered a default judgment in favor of the plaintiff because Spacey’s attorneys failed to submit their defense documents on time. An appellate justice overruled that judgment, stating…
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Climate activists from the French group Riposte Alimentaire (Food Counterattack) staged a protest at the famed Hall of Mirrors at the French palace of Versailles on Saturday, opening bags of…
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