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CFO- Arena Stage | ArtsJournal
Arena Stage is seeking qualified candidates to serve as its next Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The CFO is a critical member of the Senior Management Team and important ally to Arena’s co-leaders providing operational leadership…
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Does Science Fiction Shape the Future?
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Behind most every tech billionaire is a sci-fi novel they read as a teenager. For Bill Gates it was Stranger in a Strange Land, the 1960s epic detailing the culture clashes that arise when a Martian visits Earth. Google’s…
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Chechnya bans dance music that is either too fast or too slow | Chechnya
The Russian republic of Chechnya has banned dance music it deems either too fast or too slow, in an attempt to quash a “polluting” western influence on the conservative majority-Muslim region.Musa Dadayev, the culture minister, said “all…
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The art of audio description
‘We did our first audio description show nearly 30 years ago in Melbourne, says Michael Ward, Manager, Audio Description Services, Vision Australia. ‘In the last eight years it has really taken off. we would have put on over 1800…
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These Rare Aztec Manuscripts, Long in Private Hands, Were Just Acquired by Mexico
Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has secured the colorful San Andrés Tetepilco codices. These Aztec documents from the late 16th and early 17th centuries recount…
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San Francisco’s Castro Theatre, under renovation, reveals secrets
A restoration team hired by the theater’s new management company Another Planet Entertainment is working to overhaul its century-old interior, removing cigarette stains and, in some spots, cleaning 2 inches of caked-on grime. Mary Conde,…
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Movie Theatres’ Architecture Is Saving Some Of Them From Bankruptcy
Skyrocketing construction costs and these oddball building characteristics have prompted many property owners to cut theaters’ rent just to keep the spaces occupied. – The Wall Street Journal
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Huge Increase In Attempts To Ban Books In 2023. There Were 4240 Titles Targeted
By comparison, the number of book titles challenged annually from 2000 to 2020 was fairly stable and never exceeded 400 targets in a given year. – The Wall Street Journal
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Portland Art Museum Reveals Plans for $111 Million Expansion
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Union wave is picking up at Chicago, suburban libraries, cultural institutions
For more than a century, the Newberry Library’s grand Romanesque building has loomed over a city block in downtown…
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