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His management company announced the conductor's retirement from public performances. At the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, where he became Conductor Laureate last year, "Ashkenazy launched a th…
Just kidding about the Millennials. Sort of. The thing is, streaming has messed with everything related to the music industry " and now there's the elaborate rigging of streaming with "strea…
And actually, Jacqueline Woodson says, that's a good thing to know on a deep level, so that she doesn't only despair at lead poisoning in Flint or the rise of asthma after 9/11. "It's so imp…
The Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa said that Saher Miahi's identity did not fit with guidelines from its funders, the Hecht Foundation. The university rescheduled the talk for elsew…
Facial recognition tech is advanced and is everywhere from our phones to sports arenas to public spaces to, in China, everywhere. But it's far from perfect. "One such risk of the technology …
Olney, 71 and regarded as "the founding father of Americana," was performing at a songwriters' festival in Florida when he suffered a fatal heart attack. "'He was very still, sitting upright…
Normally terrific, WaPo book critic Ron Charles goes lightly on Amazon, whose CEO owns the paper. So it's time to consider some issues he missed. "E-books and audiobooks have greatly improve…
Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon created the movie The Big Sick, lightly based on their own lives and romance, and had such success that now they've won an Apple TV+ series, Little America, …
Concordia Studio was founded two years ago by the multibillionaire widow of Steve Jobs and an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, and this is the year that money and expertise come onto the…
If the SAG Awards are any guide " and they can be " Parasite may win best picture; it won best ensemble at the ceremony on Sunday night. "When the Parasite cast, none of whom received ind…
After a male CEO told women in music to "step up" if they wanted to win Grammys, the Recording Academy formed a blue-ribbon task force to reform the organization, hired a woman CEO last Augu…
Says one designer who experienced many a test lab with kids and families at London's V&A: "A nine-year-old said: 'Objects have rights.' The phrase has stuck. It captures both the need to…
Basically, The NYT says, you could easily tell how bad Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was by going to a theatre with 4DX technology. The experience "should really be considered an intellec…
Davis followed rather literally in her mother's footsteps when she wrote the sequels to her mother's bestselling and beloved children's book. But she didn't write the children's books until …
Sheku Kanneh-Mason has had quite the life in recent years, what with winning the BBC's Young Musician Award in 2016 and performing at the wedding of Harry Windsor and Meghan Markle. He says,…
Only 780 people live in Hallstatt, Austria " but a million tourists visit each year, hoping for the perfect Frozen-style photo. The town had had enough. "Hallstatt is embarking on a campaign…
You can watch movies, order groceries, talk to friends, or do just about anything from anywhere, thanks to smart phones. "Nowhere feels especially remarkable, and every place adopts the plea…
These guys just will not accept responsibility. "Diversity is too often discussed as something separate from, or even in conflict with, artistic virtue. It is treated as an abstract concept …
But will Apu be retired from the show, or will the show get a new voice actor " perhaps an Indian American voice actor? This has been a long time coming. "In 2017, the comedian Hari Kondabol…
And the ultimate punishment to the art dealer, who may not actually go to jail as it's his first offense: "The artwork is now property of the state and has been given to the Reina Sofia art …
Sam Mendes' movie inspired by his grandfather, a movie starring many men, a movie that's about war and that showcases technical skill, may now be the frontrunner for the Oscars. (This link i…
Toronto's libraries have increased program attendance by more than 30 percent in the past decade, but funding has not kept up " not at all. The libraries say they want to get going on a plan…
We don't know without a lot of careful analysis because words and their meanings change. However, "over the past two or three decades, the historical study of emotions has developed a rich s…
Newnan, Georgia, reacted to a neo-Nazi rally by putting up 17 large-scale banner portraits of people in the town " a diverse collection including African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Pa…
Helen Shaw breaks it all down: "Our critical function operates differently with the storyteller than with scene-player, because we immediately wonder about truthfulness. … The narrating pe…
