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There had always been rumors, and a few hints in surviving records, that there had been a hammam where the CervercerÃa Giralda now stands, but most people (including the owners) shrugged …
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A Broadway stage manager who's now in graduate school for (logically) organizational leadership project management: "I initially thought, well, I'll get a class or two under my belt and then…
True? Film has always had marketing, PR, and of course ratings: "It would be a mistake to present the old gatekeepers in romantic colours compared to new technology companies. In both cases,…
Vertenstein, a Holocaust survivor, was 93 when she died earlier this month. She "began giving lessons at age 14 in war-torn Romania. She did not stop for nearly 80 years. Toward the end, ada…
Issues: "Change will feel snail-like as long as white organizational leaders, tenured professors, board members, and funders control and dictate, the pace of inclusion and the adoption of an…
This sounds wildly exotic and dangerous to most theatregoers in the U.S. right now: "A few days ago, Kylie Estreich went to a theater in Sydney to see a Broadway show. In person. With hundre…
This is a twisty, turny saga that does not in any way make the original media empire " Bon Appetit, of course " look any better, but the public peeling of "problematic media property" layers…
In 1917, Warner Bros. had eight films directed by women. In 2017, it had … one. What the heck? Well, for one thing: "Female-focused stories that perform well at the box office are repeated…
Davis "presided over the field during boon years in New York in the 1960s and '70s, when performances were plentiful and tickets relatively cheap, and when the ups and downs of a performer's…
Members of De La Soul were, suddenly, characters on Teen Titans Go!, where in one episode, "the plot revolves around a fraught real-life issue: the ownership and availability of the group's …
A new emphasis has also changed how design firms feel about commissions. "For the new guard of playground design, the boundary between play equipment and public sculpture is blurring. … Pl…
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has some issues, with members describing monthly meetings as battle zones. The HFPA includes zero Black members. It's "an embattled organization still…
The register of Jewish burials in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca between 1836 and 1899, is one of very few documents left after more than 18,000 Hungarian-speaking Jews were deported from …
It's an honorary, spokesperson role during a year when Fringe Fest may be online or may be in-person, or both, depending. Fleabag got its start at Fringe in 2013. Waller-Bridge: "From leakin…
You'd think the director of Precious, The Butler, and more could get funding. But … "'Studios will give you about $10 to make a black movie. I'm exaggerating, but you get the point,' he sa…
In the wake of George Floyd's killing and the Black Lives Matter protests that swept the country, Ballet West's Black dancers were asked by their artistic director what needed to change. The…
York was enslaved by William Clark and remained enslaved after the expedition returned. The memorial bust, which is on a pedestal where a statue of a conservative newspaper editor used to st…
Before she burst onto the art scene with performance art with an edge, O'Grady "had worked for the Labor and State Departments, including as an intelligence analyst in the period leading up …
A researcher comes up against French bureaucracy: "To learn more about the day-to-day life of Parisians during the war, I turned to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF). This mo…
There's no Indigenous Artist of the Year award in Saskatchewan this year, and when a committee was discussing why not, well: "Somebody made a comment about 'why should we give them an award …
The Marsh family of Faversham are dealing with Britain's lockdowns by performing parodies. "This six-voice choir, with its sweet harmonies and the occasional wobbly note, is creating songs t…
The art fair leased a pair of converted townhouses in December last year, and it has now revealed that they will open as a new hub for international galleries to rent out for short period…
Among the winners of this literary resurgence is a micro-industry: book subscription services, which curate a selection for you and deliver them to your home. In an era of information overlo…