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To This We’ve Come: Virginia School District Censors Book About A Hermaphroditic Species Of Oak Tree
“The Floyd County (Va.) Public Schools have suspended a One Division, One Book community reading of Katherine Applegate’s Wishtree following complaints that the middle-grade novel depicts a monoecious red oak, a tree with…
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Milan exhibit sheds new light on Renaissance altarpiece, reuniting far-flung panels after centuries
MILAN (AP) — An unprecedented exhibition opening Wednesday at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan reunites for the first time in over 450 years eight surviving panels of the Augustinian Altarpiece…
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“Financial Challenges” Shut Down American Youth Symphony
Carlos Izcaray and the American Youth Symphony | Credit: Michael BulbenkoIt was a stressful week for classical music in California.
Adding to the previously announced departure of Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel from the…
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Meet The First B-Girl (That’s Woman Breakdancer) To Represent The U.S. In The Olympics
As a tween, Sunny Choi was a serious gymnast on an Olympic track but decided she should get a real education and job — eventually becoming a senior exec at Estée Lauder. But when breaking was admitted to the Olympics, she decided to…
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What Happened to the 21st-Century City?
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March 12, 2024
What happened to the 21st-century city?
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Illustration by Ryan Inzana.
This article appears in the March 2024 issue.
When I was younger, growing up in the rural but…
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The Age of Cultural Stagnation
At the core of cultural stagnation is “entanglement,” writes Douthat—“meaning the way that the economic, demographic, intellectual, and cultural elements of our predicament are all connected, so that you can’t just pick out a single…
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Tired of Streaming? Free Blockbuster Libraries Offer an Alternative.
When it comes to art, “nothing beats holding it in your hand,” Ms. DuVernay said.“That tactile intimacy of touch is something that sounds kind of flighty and unimportant, but touch is a sense,” she said. “It is a part of the experience…
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This ‘secret’ composer is behind 650 fake artists on Spotify. His music has been streamed 15bn times…
The concept of “fake artists” on Spotify is a story we’ve been following closely since way back in 2016.The existence of fake artists on the platform is now a well-known fact: Music released by musicians under pseudonyms, who have no…
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Gannett to Halt Use of AP Content in its Publications
March 19, 2024 @ 10:21 AM
Gannett, publisher of USA Today and hundreds of local newspapers, will stop using the Associated Press’ content starting next week, a significant blow to the not-for-profit wire service collective that…
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