Art and Culture

The world is full of theories of everything. The smartphone theory of everything argues that our personal devices are responsible for the rise of political polarization, anxiety, depression, and conspiracy theories—not to mention the…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Despite encouraging box office figures for the season’s first half, the financially strapped Metropolitan Opera scaled back its 2026-27 schedule with its fewest productions in at…
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By Francisco SalazarFRANCISCO SALAZAR, (Publisher) has worked as a journalist for over 10 years with such companies as Latin Post, and freelanced for Remezcla. He has also published for El Diario and La Opinion. He is a media producer…
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Photo by Enric Domas on Unsplash The Metropolitan Opera announced its 2026–27 season this week, and the headline takeaway is this: 17 productions. The fewest in a full season since the company moved into Lincoln Center in 1966. More…
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A person walks a dog in front of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 10, 2026.…
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“Benaroya Hall, the longtime home of the Seattle Symphony …, will close for six weeks beginning in July for the final phase of a $20 million renovation to the building’s entrances, lobby and public-facing spaces, the Symphony announced…
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As a child growing up in Mexico in the Sixties, hardly anybody recognised Cristina Kahlo’s surname. “They would say, ‘Calvo?’ And I’d say, ‘No, no: Kahlo. K-A-H-L-O.’ I had to spell out my surname.”That changed in 1983 with the…
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There were the contractors it had hired to build an ice rink on the center’s plaza, and the work visas that took a year to secure for skaters from seven other countries. And although there were internal debates and external demands to…
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When I first met Bill* at a Los Angeles coffee shop I frequent, I thought he was homeless. He was wearing a rumpled, food-stained shirt, and his hair was a matted-down tumbleweed that hadn’t been cut or washed in years. I was surprised…
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Germany's Deutsche Welle (DW) has to save €21 million ($24.7 million) after a deep cut to federal subsidies, the international broadcaster said on Wednesday."Around 160 full-time positions are affected," Deutsche Welle said in a…
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