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"I was never ashamed of being a sissy, and I wore the bullying as a badge of honor," he writes. "I knew what was going on and I knew who I was, so I took care of myself by being funny. Never…
"Particularly in the past few years, conspiracy theories have been omnipresent on the internet and in social media. These modern forms of communication allow conspiracy theories to spread fa…
The central library is built to serve as a kind of citizenship factory, a space for old and new residents to learn about the world, the city, and each other. It's pointedly sited across from…
Like a pint-sized Cecil B. DeMille, we see Page in his family's suburban Connecticut neighborhood as he wrangles his actors, gauges camera angles and shouts, "Action!" In cut-away interviews…
The nonprofit sector started out as a vehicle for voluntary civic engagement. Nonprofit organizations are organized to advance the public, rather than private, good. But as the sector grew a…
"As you reached your row, you were told to turn off your phone or put it on silent and insert it to a glove-like pouch. You keep your phone but you cannot turn it back on without unlocking t…
"I won't say women are discriminated against as much as not given the same pathways as men. mostly because there is a male dominance in terms of personnel in the business. It's been generati…
The fakes made their way to Prince Charles' charity HQ in a manner befitting any art forgery, from a group of Agatha Christie characters. The work was part of a 10 year loan from 37 year-old…
An anonymous e-mail, titled "The Threat of Burgess Clark," described what it said were the experiences of 17 former students who made a range of allegations against Clark, including three wh…
What is intriguing is that the collapse of East Germany was, in many ways, a piece of theatre. The Alexanderplatz demonstration, one of the largest in GDR history, had been planned by actors…
Barry Schwabsky: "To my eye, the dependence on the academic method (now perhaps even unconscious, in any case not definitively marked) remains just as inhibiting a factor for contemporary pa…
If public libraries are not for the rich, they probably are not otherwise for the poor. To understand the public library as a benevolent form of welfare would be to entirely miss the radical…
Let us count the ways in which we've been force-fed dour, vitamin-deficient biopics of our favorite authors. Why. So. Serious. On top of being ponderous, such work bristles with the insecuri…
Paul "liked watching the dancer figure it out. He liked giving you a challenge or an obstacle or a directive and then sitting back and seeing what you would do with it. He was also famous fo…
"Clients are asking for storage for paintings, art, design, antiques and collectibles but we've also been moving large scale bronze as well as marble garden sculpture into storage." " The Ar…
Philosophy, Aristotle tells us in his Metaphysics, begins with wonder. History does too. It starts with obvious perplexities but also with our realisation of the strangeness of the everyday,…
Like other mass media that boomed around the same time"radio, movies, monthly magazines"syndicated news diverted people's energies and attention from local culture with alluring, slickly-pro…
The Santa Fe Art Colony was established in 1986 with public funds through the Community Redevelopment Agency, allowing for the adaptive reuse of factory buildings into artist studios. A 30-y…
The major exhibitors typically insist on a 72-day period of exclusivity for the films that play on their screens. During the monthslong talks with Netflix over "The Irishman," representative…
Of course, age creates physical limitations. But there is artistry in their dancing and musicality, in the way they hang a fraction behind the beat to create the lilting sensation of floatin…
The Golden Age of TV, the halcyon period that dates from the premiere of The Sopranos in January 1999, has been drawing to a close for a while now, but as the streamers lay out their plans f…
We admit, this is just museum building porn, but we love looking at beautiful buildings, and Architectural Digest has compiled a list of coolest-looking museums in each state in America. " A…
"Eighth graders at the bottom 10th percentile of reading achievement lost six points on the exam compared with similar students two years ago, while students at the 50th percentile lost 3 po…
The Asphalt Art Initiative will award 10 small or mid-sized cities with grants of up to $25,000 to create colorful murals on streets, intersections, and crosswalks, or vertical surfaces of t…
"A Chorus Line" is the ultimate ensemble musical, a compilation of autobiographical material about the emotional travails and aspirations of Broadway dancers, as they audition for spots in t…
