Art and Culture

Dolly Parton is heading to Broadway with the musical Hello, I’m Dolly.The star is writing new songs to go along with some of her past hits and co-writing a stage story inspired by her life – a stage show that she hopes to land on…
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Jeannette Charles, who transformed a portrait rejected by a royal art show into a career as a Queen Elizabeth II look-alike in movies and on television, died on Tuesday in Great Baddow, England. She was 96 — the same age as the monarch…
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When the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan was in the Netherlands a few years ago promoting her most recent novel, “The Candy House,” she noticed something unexpected. Most of the people who asked her to sign books at author…
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Shruthi Rajasekar, composer and vocalist, shares her process for curating programs that fuse genres and disciplines. Source link
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s national theater for opera and ballet, the Stockholm-based Royal Swedish Opera, has been fined 3 million kronor ($300,000) after a stage technician died last…
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“The charges at the National Labor Relations Board allege the nonprofit parent company of WBEZ and the Chicago-Sun-Times ‘failed and refused to provide information demanded by the union’ regarding an employee headcount…
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The museum’s director, backed by the city council, thinks it’ll take the amenities in a new $100 million building to attract visitors back to pre-COVID levels. Others think such a building doesn’t belong in…
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Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of…
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Striving for a high-level experience also means embedding accuracy into the menu itself. For The Great Murder Mystery, the team at the Lost Estate spent hours researching the cuisine and cooking styles of the 1800s, with…
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The perks were few and far between when I was an editorial assistant in book publishing in the early aughts. Mostly I did the job for the books and the proximity to authors and the occasional access to free leftover sandwiches from some…
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