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Nobody Endows a Wing Called “It’s Complicated”
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Judge Orders Trump Not To Tear Down Kennedy Center Without 30 Days’ Notice
“A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Kennedy Center to provide 30 days’ notice before making any major physical changes to the building, including demolishing it as President Donald Trump has threatened.” – AP
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Manfred Honeck named Philharmonia principal conductor and San Francisco Symphony festival director
The Austrian conductor will take up two major new positions in 2028 while continuing his long tenure with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
Manfred Honeck has secured two major appointments on opposite sides of the Atlantic,…
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Ravinia Festival Starts On A Second Renovation Project
This summer the Chicago Symphony’s summer home re-opened its concert pavilion after a $70 million revamp. Next on the to-do list, with work starting in October, is a $38 million makeover of the Martin Theatre, the last remaining…
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“Spring Awakening” Composer Duncan Sheik Is Dead At 56
“(His) alt-pop hit ‘Barely Breathing’ became a Generation X touchstone, but (he) squirmed under the label of MTV heartthrob and eventually decamped to Broadway, winning two Tonys for composing the smash musical.” – The New York…
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PEN America Appoints New Leader After Internal Battles Of This Past Summer
“(The literature-and-human-rights advocacy group) has named Phil Klay as its new president. … Klay’s appointment comes after novelist Dinaw Mengestu resigned from his post as president in July following the organization’s report …
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Contributor: David Ellison won Washington. He’s losing Hollywood
By Chris YogerstGuest contributor Sept. 17, 2026 3 AM PT As the Warner Bros.-Paramount merger inches closer to reality, actor-turned-movie mogul David Ellison faces a paradox. He seems to have cleared every regulatory body…
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Madrid Gets A New Stellar Museum
The real game-changer is a landmark donation of over 180 works worth more than €16 million ($18.5 million) from the Thyssen-Bornemisza family, plus a loan of 180 more, worth €10 million ($11.5 million). – Artnet
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You’ll Never Guess Who’s Saving the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal
I think I can guess why Perry changed his mind. Ben Peters of The Washington Business Journal, who broke the story Wednesday, observed that Rich Butterworth, senior analyst and adviser with the Office of Real Property Utilization and…
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Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
News groups are also upset that instead of listening to insiders warning that scraping news was theft, Microsoft and OpenAI never chose to license content, allegedly usurping them in another market in ways they…
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