The owner of five buildings on West 28th Street that comprise the core of the historic "Tin Pan Alley" is trying to block them from being landmarked by pointing to racist tunes emanating fro…
"The store's closing follows a similar move by Vancouver's venerable Sikora's, a dedicated classical music store in West Hastings that shuttered in February 28, 2019 after four decades in bu…
"Could modern performers recapture Furtwängler's elasticity of style? Most likely not. Scholars such as Robert Philip and Kenneth Hamilton have shownhow the advent of recording permanently …
The idea of attending the opera intimidates many people. How do you ease their fears, increase their comfort level, and guide their experience? For opera enthusiasts, how do you help them di…
A whole host of new Scrabble words relate to current lifestyle trends including plogging (picking up litter while jogging), sharenting (sharing news and images of one's children on social me…
Phil Kennicott: "I'm lucky to have been given a little extra time at "The Last Supper" and even, for a few minutes, time without other tourists, and the experience is deeply moving. I'm surp…
"In the survey, 52% of respondents said they're happier when listening to a favorite song (the other 48% were listening to Ed Sheeran), while 58% said that music helps boost their mood at wo…
"Frankly, I'm sick and tired of seeing empty seats in our theaters," says Intiman Theatre's artistic director Phillip Chavira. "I think we do a disservice in the nonprofit arts: We ask you t…
"Why does it actively hurt to work in some places?" I have asked myself. "And why doesn't it hurt to work in others?" I wanted to know what the organizations behind the positive spaces were …
America's mythology seems to encourage alternate theories. Independent thinking. Distrust of the conventional. Following the bread crumbs. It's just, well, so bad for us… " The Guardian
We believe that the social sciences would benefit from taking a more systematic look at the structure of culture, that is to say how the elements of culture are interrelated, and what really…
We can learn much from the entrepreneurial community about the art of a good story. Great storytellers simplify. Richard Branson once said, "If your pitch can't fit on the back of an envelop…
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And they're going to be auctioned at Christie's. "They'll fool you from a distance. They won't fool you close up." " The New York Times
The Ancient Greeks named four virtues: temperance, wisdom, courage and justice. Aristotle added more, but cheerfulness wasn't one of them. The Greek philosophers didn't seem to care about ho…
Asolo Repertory Theatre, Florida's premiere professional theatre located in Sarasota, FL seeks a dynamic development director to provide leadership, strategic direction, management and coord…
"First and foremost, Notre Dame's World Heritage status calls for international principles of restoration to be integrated into the discussions on how to restore it. Decisions will have to b…
Justin Davidson: "The 24-year-old Lili Boulanger had died of Crohn's disease, after years of physical pain and artistic glory. During her brief career and in the century since, she regularly…
You can learn basic grammar and vocabulary at any age. That explains my "good enough" French. But there's also an enormous amount of low-frequency words and syntax that even native speakers …
"Those who felt the most emotional distress also showed the most pain-related brain activity. In other words, being socially rejected triggered the same neural circuits that process physical…
Mark Thiessen attacks a show of Jenny Holzer's work: "It's no surprise that the art world is left wing. But the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao " an institution owned by an American foundation, in …
The festival, planned for the site of the original, was to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the iconic music festival. But Monday, the financial backer pulled out. "I don't know whether i…
Charles McNulty: "They sent a message of support to artists with fresh and forward-leaning sensibilities, no matter if these endorsements occasionally came at the expense of recognizing wort…
The default way of thinking about the long, complex era that lasted from the final decades of the Roman Empire to somewhere around the Battle of Hastings is to assume it all looked like the …
"We estimate that the series' release was associated with approximately 195 additional suicide deaths," concludes a research team led by Jeffrey Bridge of Nationwide Children's Hospital. …