Art and Culture

The celebrated lyric soprano, renowned for her Violetta, Mimì and Gilda, has died at the age of 87. Romanian soprano Ileana Cotrubaș, one of the leading lyric sopranos of the second half of the 20th century, has died at the age…
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France has endured record-breaking successions of heatwaves this summer, which have led to massive wildfires and a spike in the normal death rate, according to French public health services. Gardeners are also struggling with the…
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Further escalating its battle with the Trump administration, ABC on Tuesday took the rare step of suing the Federal Communications Commission on First Amendment grounds, saying the agency’s demand…
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David Ellison's Paramount Skydance has asked a judge to force California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and his coalition of 11 other states to set aside as much as $1.9 billion as the Warner Bros. Discovery merger challenge heads into…
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mark Rydell, the Oscar-nominated director of the sentimental blockbuster “On Golden Pond” who worked with such Hollywood heavyweights as Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Steve…
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Penguin Random House has suspended promotion and public sales of a forthcoming book by journalist Ross Barkan following allegations of extensive plagiarism in political columns he wrote as a freelancer for New York Magazine. –…
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The preservationist group trying to stop President Trump’s White House ballroom urged the Supreme Court to deny the administration’s emergency request to allow construction, calling it “astonishing” on Tuesday.  – The Hill…
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Cinema United has had a change of heart on the prospect of a Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger. The movie theater trade organization previously cheered on 12 state attorneys general, including California‘s Rob Bonta, as…
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James Orleans The most frequent public respondent to my recent blogs about the long brewing crises now afflicting America’s major orchestras, James Orleans writes as a member of the Boston Symphony’s double bass section from 1983 to…
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When I translated Walden in 2012, I was not a Thoreau scholar.Article continues after advertisement I was an immigrant chasing the American dream: two kids, two cars, two houses, a long commute to a corporate job. Translating…
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