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Most dispassionate observers now recognize that return-to-campus plans are, as Juliana Gray wrote in McSweeney's, cooked up by your university's "Vice President for Magical Thinking." " Insi…
Words are, in the end, only words. But writers, and prize committees, must know more than anyone that words have power. Words have consequences, and we act accordingly. " Irish Times
Fisk joined the Richmond Symphony in 2002 from the Ulster Orchestra in Northern Ireland and has led the orchestra through many ups and downs, including the closure of the Carpenter Theatre t…
Nielsen Music/MRC Data says activity on streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music began 2020 up 20.4% over 2019 " then ratcheted back to an increase of only 13.8% between March 13 …
Comedians are desperate to get back on stage, said Kai Humphries, and to hear the roar of laughter rather than car horns. He found that he had slipped into a familiar rhythm on stage, timing…
The more dark, wiggy videos you consume, the darker and wiggier your playlist becomes, until you inhabit a so-called "filter bubble," while Google makes ad money off of your addictive radica…
David Patrick Stearns: "Only a minute or two long, but repeated 840 times, Vexations is alternately called minimalist, Dada-ist, or Outsider Art when it resurfaces every few years. … [Igor…
That five of the six new hires are people of color, and that all are women, is in line with Sandra Jackson-Dumont's vision as the museum's self-described "chief diversity officer." " Los Ang…
"[It] wasn't the funniest issue they ever did, but it would turn out to be incredibly successful because it reflected so many of the emotions that people were feeling after the attacks. The …
"The show, The Under Presents: Tempest, is a technological first: a live, scripted, participatory play that you attend, from home, using a virtual reality headset. After buying a $14.99 tick…
All clear cases of awe have the following two components: an experience of vastness, and a need for cognitive accommodation of this vastness. You might feel awe for things that are physicall…
Along with his brother Pierce and colleague Jayne Loader, "[he] gathered archival material that had been created to ease Americans into the nuclear age and turned it into The Atomic Cafe, an…
He currently serves as the CEO of New York's Caramoor Center for Music and Arts, a position he has held since 2012. He also served as executive director of the Ojai Music Festival, and accor…
"We're told that after the 2016 elections Google made adjustments to YouTube's recommendation algorithm, so as not to lead impressionable gun-owning zealots frictionlessly down tunnels of pa…
"Led by the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington National Opera, the Cartography Project will create an unspecified number of new works from artists of color that promote healing a…
"The raid Tuesday and Wednesday targeted … Donald 'D.B' Henkel, 60, a self-described artist who is accused in a sealed FBI search warrant affidavit of orchestrating a years-long conspiracy…
The American Dance Festival in Durham, NC; Jacob's Pillow in Becket, MA; and the Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, ME all called off their summer 2020 events on the same day, March 31 " week…
Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh, a touring show conceived by "swashbuckling" Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass and U.S. management and events company IMG, was pulling in big cr…
Oscar Levant is the guest on an episode of The Jack Benny Program. The co-stars are Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Mary Livingstone, Frank Nelson, and Don Wilson. This episode was originally…
The announcement by UK culture secretary Oliver Dowden (which does not apply for Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland, whose regional governments will make that decision) means that " with s…
Following recommendations from the architect and the retired general running the reconstruction as well as the new culture minister (and based on a rapidly solidifying consensus to stop argu…
"Armed with axes and hand saws, the team of 25 craftsmen and women, who belong to a collective called Carpenters Without Borders, managed to build one of the 25 trusses that made up the wood…
In Friday's Wall Street Journal I review two important theater webcasts, the National Theatre's 2016 revival of Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea and the Mint Theater's 2014 revival of Ge…
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free."
Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
Continue reading Almanac: Walker Percy on i…
As a culturally curious teenager, I had made the 20-minute hike from my Bronx apartment to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, a once popular, now little-known pantheon for bronze busts of…
