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• University Gets Cold Feet Over Hot ICE Criticism

  16-02-2026 19:21 via hyperallergic.com
  When your art hits too close to home, apparently even universities develop sudden institutional amnesia about academic freedom. Victor Quiñonez’s immigrant-focused work got the silent treatment—no notice, no discussion, just gone. — Hyperallergic
  
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• The Four Musicals That Are Counting On Broadway Shows Finally Turning A Corner

  07-06-2026 20:30 via yahoo.com
  “There’s a big reason it takes years for a fresh musical to land on Broadway. Cracking any story is a painstaking process. The same goes for crafting a songbook. Getting the two to coalesce? It’s a delicate alchemy.” – Washington Post (Yahoo)
  
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• Who’s Going To Win At The Tonys Tonight?

  07-06-2026 20:00 via vulture.com
  
  Can Jellicle Ball beat out the universally loved Ragtime? Will Lesley Manville’s British chops beat out Susannah Flood’s incredible performance in Liberation? Find out soon! – Vulture
  
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• Gut Punch

  07-06-2026 19:44 via artsjournal.com
  (Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock in the original Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, 1949).
  In a guest essay in the New York Times, former Washington Post theater critic Naveen Kumar writes that “Broadway is Serving Up Liberal Comfort Food.”
  His piece concludes:Not everyone goes to the theater hoping to be confronted with big questions, the kind that compel audiences to turn inward and disrupt their worldviews. But offering easy answ
  
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• Anthony Stewart Head, Star Of Buffy The Vampire Slayer And Ted Lasso, Has Died At 72

  07-06-2026 19:30 via nytimes.com
  “One of his most formative experiences, he said, was seeing Tim Curry in the musical The Rocky Horror Show while in drama school as a teenager. He told The Guardian that it ‘ignited something in my core.’” – The New York Times
  
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• The Story Of Hong Kong’s Popular Music Can Tell The Tale Of The City’s History

  07-06-2026 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Cantopop is “predominantly Hong Kong music that blends Chinese and western pop sensibilities.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• A New Edith Wharton Story Highlights The Human Inability To Deal With War

  07-06-2026 18:30 via nytimes.com
  “The story, on two typed and undated manuscripts that appeared to be different drafts, centers on a dinner party hosted at the same table where, earlier in the war, an army surgeon had performed amputations.” – The New York Times
  
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• Mary Shelley’s Sisters

  07-06-2026 18:00 via lithub.com
  
  “Fanny’s few surviving letters testify to her interests in poetry, education, art history, literature, current affairs, social politics, and the wellbeing of her extended family. … She counted Aaron Burr (former USA vice president), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), Humphry Davy (scientist), [and] Charles and Mary Lamb (writers)” as acquaintances. – LitHub
  
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• Two And A Half Centuries On, Someone May Have Figured Out The Mystery Of The Declaration Of Independence

  07-06-2026 17:30 via nytimes.com
  Pretty cool: “Scholars have identified about 17 distinct broadside editions created in print shops across the colonies in July and August 1776, usually in runs of hundreds of copies.” One was anonymous – but perhaps not anymore. – The New York Times
  
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• The UK’s Heirloom Ceramics Sector Is In Deep Trouble

  07-06-2026 17:00 via theguardian.com
  “The UK ceramics sector employs 20,000 people, half of them in the West Midlands, and is regarded as an indispensable to the economy” – but repeated blows are breaking even the ceramics for the defense sector. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• AJ Chronicles: A New Policy to Eliminate Arguments for the Arts

  07-06-2026 16:51 via artsjournal.com
  This notion that the ultimate measure of American educational value is economic is an impoverishing one. We measure for success. If that measure is earnings then we optimize for earnings. Social value measured on an earnings scale doesn’t just get deprioritized, it doesn’t exist.
  
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• California And Other States Are Possibly Suing To Block The Warner Bros. And Paramount Deal

  07-06-2026 16:30 via msn.com
  One advocate for the lawsuit: “The consequences would be felt nationwide, from destroying CNN the way that Ellisons have devastated CBS to entertainment industry job losses and consumers losing access to independent voices and a competitive market.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• The French Open Finals Courts Get Choreographed Ballet Dances For Some Reason

  07-06-2026 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Choreographed by Benjamin Millepied, no less. “Tennis doesn’t have a strong tradition of opening numbers — and certainly not of dance routines.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Movie Cars Ruined Pixar

  07-06-2026 15:30 via salon.com
  
  “Pixar plummeted to the ground with such a force that I began to question my undying devotion to an animation studio. Could my beloved Pixar, which had already anthropomorphized so many things, really make something so upsetting and perplexing, and on so many levels?” – Salon
  
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• A Century On, Martha Graham’s Modern Dance Vision Still Matters Intensely

  07-06-2026 15:00 via nytimes.com
  “Her choreography landed like a bomb in a landscape where vaudeville and ballet ruled the day.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why Is There No Tony For Best Wigs?

  07-06-2026 14:30 via vulture.com
  
  Weird: “There’s an Oscar and an Emmy. I’ve been nominated for Emmys for TV stuff. Theater is literally the only area in our industry that does not acknowledge us.” – Vulture
  
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• What Marjane Satrapi Did For Iranian Women

  07-06-2026 14:00 via theguardian.com
  “Satrapi was a spokesperson for our trauma, our upbringing and our particular flavour of shame, repression and outspokenness. She made us legible to our western peers in our 20s and 30s, and I was sure she would do it again in middle age.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Kennedy Center’s Lawsuit Against Musician Who Refused To Play Christmas Eve Is Tossed Out

  07-06-2026 13:30 via nytimes.com
  “The judge, Tanya M. Jones Bosier, wrote that the Kennedy Center failed to prove that Chuck Redd, a jazz musician and a host of the institution’s holiday program, had signed a contract to perform as he had in years past.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Effort To Save The Kennedy Center From This President Is Far From Over

  07-06-2026 13:00 via theatlantic.com
  
  “Fundamental questions about the institution’s leadership, finances, and artistic direction remain in flux. ‘It’s not clear if there’s any money to stay open with. … And it’s also not clear who’s going to be in charge.’” – The Atlantic
  
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• As the Country Turns 250, Why Won’t Its Museums Meet the Moment?

  07-06-2026 11:00 via artnews.com
  
  The Ultimate Fighting ring had not yet been erected on the White House lawn. The National Mall had not yet been repaved into an IndyCar race track for the Freedom 250. But the entertainment programming of America 250, the semiquincentennial celebration of the birth of a nation, was nevertheless well underway. Banners three stories tall with Donald Trump’s menacing portrait were being stretched accross federal office buildings around the Mall, including the Department of Justice. A sim
  
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• ThePokies: High‑Intensity Slot Play for Quick Wins

  07-06-2026 05:12 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Avia Masters: El Juego de Crash Rápido que te Mantiene en la Orilla

  07-06-2026 04:00 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  07-06-2026 02:48 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• The education is only worth what you earn?

  07-06-2026 00:57 via artsjournal.com
  Good morning. Here are this week’s highlights:In Washington, the Education Department moved to cancel student loans for nearly every college arts program and to judge schools by their graduates’ earnings (The New York Times) — a logic that values an arts education purely by what its graduates later earn. Meanwhile, a loose symposium of writers spent the week worrying the opposite question: what is the human part of creative work actually worth, given that it’s the one par
  
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• QuickWin Slots and Casino: Experimente Ganhos Rápidos e Jogabilidade Emocionante em Movimento

  06-06-2026 22:20 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Gates of Olympus Slot Review: Mythic Thrills in Short, High‑Intensity Sessions

  06-06-2026 20:59 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  The reels are adorned with symbols that scream mythology—Zeus’ thunderbolts, golden chalices, and jeweled
  
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• Chicken Road Slot: Race to the Golden Egg in Lightning‑Fast Play

  06-06-2026 19:38 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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  06-06-2026 18:15 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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• Andrew Joslyn talks about the unique impact of relevant programming for orchestras

  06-06-2026 17:28 via artsjournal.com
  Andrew Joslyn, Associate Director of Popular Programming at the Seattle Symphony, shares the unique impact of relevant programming in building community.
  
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• Betsio: Quick‑Play Slots and Live Action for Fast‑Paced Gamblers

  06-06-2026 16:52 via zouchmagazine.com
  
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