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In France, there are several words for "to complain": there's "se plaindre", used for regular old complaining; there's "porter plainte", for complaining more officially. And then…
Trump fancied several of the pieces in the U.S. ambassador's historic residence in Paris, where he was staying, and on a whim had them removed and loaded onto Air Force One, according to peo…
A Danish collective of jazz musicians have perfected their far-right counter-protest strategy. "Free Jazz Against Paludan" follows the far-right politician Rasmus Paludan around the count…
The TikTok Holocaust trend saw users " for the most part, teenagers " uploading videos of themselves pretending to be Holocaust victims entering heaven. Many were outraged, describing the vi…
Back in 2001, a group of people decided to take the tempo direction in John Cage's 1985 work As Slow As Possible to an extreme and began a performance (of the composer's 1987 arrangement for…
Using articles in this past weekend's Mail on Sunday and Sunday Times, secretary Oliver Dowden announced what he's calling "Operation Sleeping Beauty," a plan "to bring back some of the magi…
"[Gail] Harrity, 70, who joined the museum in 1997 as chief operating officer and was named president in 2009" " that is, second-in-command after the museum's director " "has been on top of …
That amount is almost five times what the complex paid producers to put on the next most expensive show, the Broadway tour of The Book of Mormon in 2015. The price is also more than theaters…
"To alleviate the [lockdown-induced budget] shortfall, orchestra musicians have amended their contract to take a 25% cut in base salary in the 2020-21 season and a 50% cut in overscale pay. …
Thank goodness for liquor-law loopholes, because one of them is the reason that Open Jar Studios, a complex normally used for rehearsals, has become the only indoor venue in New York City pr…
The elaborate shrine to Becket at Canterbury Cathedral, where he was Archbishop and where he was murdered at the altar by King Henry II's knights in 1170, was smashed to bits by Protestant i…
One wonders how straw man arguments function. Our answer is that straw men arguments do their rhetorical work not on the speaker depicted as made of straw, but rather on an audience of argum…
"As recently as a few years ago, the movie-review aggregator was seen as something of an industry bogeyman. But is there a correlation between box office receipts and a high (or low) score o…
From 2005:
I'm left-handed, with an ink-smudging overhand hook so exaggerated that my first-grade teacher, who in 1962 was already a thoroughly cranky old woman, tried briefly and vainly to …
"In jealousy there is more self-love than love."
François de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims, #334
Continue reading Almanac: Rochefoucauld on jealousy at About Last Night.
The Everly Brothers sing "Wake Up, Little Susie" and "Should We Tell Him" on an episode of The Big Record, hosted by Patti Page, which aired on CBS in 1958:
(This is the latest in a se…
Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it,For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
Lord Byron, Don Juan
Continue reading Almanac: Byron on jealousy at About Last Night.
zFestival Arts has filled a recent need for low-cost music and art collaboration focused on technological empowerment. They are now launching a fall program -- zFestival unAcademy -- to show…
A child today will be a historian of 2020 in the future. What sources will they turn to? How will they verify scattered memories? How will people tell the story of the tumultuous times that …
Over decades and centuries, mutual aid has helped people pay rent, buy groceries, and acquire medicine; it has given workers something where there is so much nothing to be had, and it has gi…
"This is an unprecedented percentile which we hope augurs well for a future cinema that is free of any sort of prejudice and discrimination." " Toronto Star
So what to make of the apparent growing strength of cancel culture and affiliated movements? Here is the fundamental point: With the rise of social media and low-cost communications, virtual…
The first time that Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's lawsuit against Malcolm and The New Yorker went to court, she writes, the personal manner she and her colleagues at the magazine had cultivate…
To a ten-year-old child a year is a tenth of her existence, and thus feels like something of a stretch. For someone who's twice her age a year is only a twentieth of the time they've already…
To an outsider, someone from, say, Toronto or Seattle or London, a conversation among New Yorkers may resemble a verbal wrestling match. Everyone seems to talk at once, butting in with quest…
