Art and Culture

At the event, about workers’ rights and the upcoming Olympics in L.A., “protesters from the Fair Games Coalition — wearing Jedi robes and Jar Jar Binks masks and carrying lightsabers — rallied together outside the new museum.” –…
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The watchmaker inscribed words about Fort Sumter being attacked, and then wrote, “Thank God we have a government.” – NPR Source link
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Kathy Griffin apologizes in advance for all the noise. On the day we connected by phone, she expected a lot of activity in her Malibu home, including air-conditioning repairers and the usual four or five yapping dogs. “It’s mayhem,” she…
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On Mount Athos, in northern Greece, a monk rises before dawn to sing the same office that has been sung on that mountain for more than 1,000 years. He learned it from older monks who came before him, who learned it in turn in an unbroken…
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The TV world has been a pot of controversy thanks to a two-hour-and-15-minute video from Gamers Nexus claiming LG TVs are nefariously spying on everything you do. They can record and store audio even when they seem to be off, track…
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“For decades, many residents  didn’t even know about the blockbuster musical that put their city on the map for global audiences. Those who did often dismissed it as kitsch.” – The New York Times Source link
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Ireland is to boycott Eurovision for the second year running over the “appalling” ongoing killing in Gaza, the national broadcaster has said.Ireland was one of five countries, along with Iceland, the Netherlands, Spain and Slovenia, that…
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There's no better way to draw attention to an artist's work than threatening to shut it down.Take this week, when Macklemore was kicked off singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran's tour at the behest of concert venue owners who found the rapper's…
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By Melinda HennebergerR. Crosby Kemper, Deborah Sandler Kemper, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe and Claudia Kehoe before ‘Roméo et Juliette’ at the Kauffman Center in 2024There were no headlines, and there was no press release. But I don’t…
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John Clapp, Chief Orchestra & Production Officer of the Cincinnati Symphony, shares the sustainable strategy that drives their inclusion efforts. Source link
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