Art and Culture

What are those commas doing there, anyway? By modern usage, they should mark off a non-restrictive clause, but they don’t. Nor are they marking items in a series or natural pauses in speech.  – The New Yorker Source link
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Eventually, I met a prominent kid-ult. His name is Tristan Wigglesworth, but on YouTube, where he posts videos about his collection of Funko Pops—vinyl figurines of anything and everything in pop culture—he goes by Top Pops, and has an…
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The consequences have reverberated across the country. Higher instrument prices are a particular threat to lower-income districts where enrollment and budgets are shrinking. – The New York Times Source link
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“In the coming weeks, NAZA will continue its rollout to theaters across the U.S., and this week it hit No. 1 at the Italian box office, surpassing Avengers: Endgame.” – Vulture Source link
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William Hogarth, “The Distrest Poet” (1741). Tate Gallery, LondonA recent back-and-forth on literary Substack has thrown some interesting light on what literary Substack actually is. After Naomi Kanakia published a long review article…
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But Hamilton plays differently now. “The show was written in a time where hope was what we were striving for, holding on to, and the pandemic did a lot to diminish that and exhaust people and scare people.” – The New…
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Classical music on the radio... why Thomas Edison got it wrong In September of 1926, The New York Times shared a comparison of the radio and the phonograph from the admittedly biased Thomas Edison. ‘The radio is a big and new thing,’ he…
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Political rhetoric aside, Nithya Raman comes by her Hollywood bona fides honestly. Her husband, after all, is Vali Chandrasekaran, writer on Modern Family, 30 Rock and other TV hits. On Thursday Raman went in front of the…
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Nakotah Reynolds, 11, wears headphones to reduce his overstimulation as he hands out gift bags to dancers who participated in the special his family organized on Sept. 26, 2026. It’s common practice for the sponsors of a special to give…
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Update: On Oct. 4 Oracle announced a $10 million investment and partnership with the Nashville Symphony, allowing the season to move forward.Violinist Dawn Marlowe Gingrich joined the Nashville Symphony in 2024 after beating out more…
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