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The "free speech" argument can be a useful tactic. But it's not necessarily a successful one in the long term. Overusing it can turn real debates into insoluble meta-arguments with no room f…
Given the degree to which workers lack autonomy and are at the mercy of arbitrary and capricious decisions by their employer, republican liberty is at risk when it comes to the employer-empl…
The CEO ― whose net worth is estimated at over $4 billion ― argued in an interview with Music Ally published Thursday that there was a "narrative fallacy" around claims t…
"Salvator Mundi!" The Musical, announced by Tony Award-winning production company Caiola Productions, will chronicle the tale of Leonardo da Vinci's Renaissance-era portrait of Jesus, presum…
GPT-3 is a product of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research lab based in San Francisco. In essence, it's a machine-learning system that has been fed (trained on) 45 terabytes of text d…
At the Moravian Music Foundation, librarian David Blum "was doing a routine cataloging of material that the foundation has owned for years, [when] he noticed the plate number of the printing…
As the Civil War raged, Kentucky was officially neutral " but it was a slave state. Freedom lay just across the river in Indiana, says poet Hannah Drake, whose nonprofit is preparing to inst…
VÃctor's hit was the 1991 "Mesita de la Noche," but before that, his son says, the Dominican singer/songwriter/producer had "lived a double life. … He was writing romantic songs and bei…
Some stations have meditation minutes, and some have other ways to fill all of that time when they'd normally have stories about events (the events that aren't happening right now). Some 30-…
Why? Perhaps this: "While Ulysses Kay shared stages with the greats of his day, his daughter said over time his compositions haven't been performed as widely and are often programmed for cul…
A couple of the filmmakers: "This is where our brains went. Instead of making bread, we were like, 'what can we do with how we're creative?'" " NPR
And, in the U.S., it may be just getting started. A cellist in Pasadena who performs weekly with his wife, a pianist, says, "We thought with so much suffering, and so much anxiety, this is s…
He remained, in critical estimation, a pianist of sublime musical intelligence whether playing with one hand or two. But he also gained renown off the stage as a conductor and an influential…
Blocked off seats, reduced capacity, and musicians wear masks and face shields, with dancers keeping far apart as they perform onstage. " BBC
Audre Lorde's 1977 piece "Poetry Is not a Luxury" seems prescient right now. "Poems have alchemized death and imagined the continuation of lives cut short by racist violence. The…
Shakespeare's birthplace just reopened, and Jane Austen's house is about to reopen " and some of the changes advantage the visitors coming now. "The cottage where Austen revised, wrote and h…
Rupert Murdoch's son James, who has championed environmental causes and helped force out Bill O'Reilly at Fox after the host's past with sexual harassment came into the open, "abruptly resig…
Burrows is an actor, playwright, producer, and activist who started her career as a kid on a radio show. In 1968, she was favorably written about in The New York Times, and she says, "It put…
Fleisher famously spent 30 years mastering piano's left-handed repertoire after an injury to his right hand " and then reintegrated his right hand when it recovered after three decades. "Fle…
Author Robin Stevens on writing for kids: "What book changed your life? What stories made you think about the world? I couldn't tell you much about what was in most books I read last month b…
Whew: "If HBO's Game of Thrones was the last great piece of TV monoculture, then the pandemic has popularized a series of forgettable productions that each offers a fleeting, miniat…
Charles Coburn appears as the mystery guest on What's My Line? John Daly is the host and the panelists are Steve Allen, Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, and Dorothy Kilgallen. This episode w…
"Journalists are plentiful everywhere and entertaining too, full of jokes and stories. Only their jokes are not very funny and their stories not quite true. Their information is always incom…
The planned reopening date is September 9, but of course not if infections start to crest again in New York. And, of course, "when it reopens, it will limit capacity to 25% and reduce its op…
Arvind Ethan David is one of very few Broadway producers of color, and he (famously) gave a TED Talk comparing his path to becoming a U.S. citizen to his path producing the show Jagged Littl…
