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• The Super Bowl Dance Kerfuffle

  30-01-2022 14:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Much more than a kerfuffle – it’s about skill, rehearsal, and money. The half-time dancers “frame the action. And in a space as vast as a football stadium, that’s paramount. They bring structure to the stage; like a corps de ballet, they complete the picture.” – The New York Times
  
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• The UK Is Looking Into The Pathetic Amounts Of Money Musicians Get From Streaming Services

  30-01-2022 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “The world’s three biggest music companies: Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music, control about three-quarters of the UK recording market, allowing them to strike increasingly advantageous deals with streaming companies.” That’s not good for smaller artists – or maybe consumers. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Francis Bacon: Man and Beast review – the brutal truth

  30-01-2022 14:00
  
  Royal Academy, London
  The painter’s preoccupation with our animal urges is laid bare in this magnificent collection of nightmarish brutes and lovers in tormentThe first hint of what is to come is a large bared canine tooth, in Head 1 (1948). The painting featured in Francis Bacon’s debut London exhibition the year after it was made, and it greets you now in an opening room of its own at the Royal Academy. The human form in the painting, which emerges out of a black background within
  
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• Fascist Annals, Continued: A Mississippi Mayor Is Withholding More Than A Hundred Thousand Dollars From Public Libraries Unless They Root Out All LGBTQIA Material

  30-01-2022 13:30 via lithub.com
  The libraries are steadfastly refusing to do such a thing, and the mayor is on thin – if any – legal grounds, but there’s a fundraiser for the library just in case. – LitHub
  
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• Carlisle Castle restores 15th-century carvings thought to be by prison guards

  30-01-2022 13:30
  
  Carvings can be seen more clearly thanks to painstaking removal of sediment and water damageThere are carvings of dolphins, horses, boar, salmon, mermaids, a magnificently endowed leopard, George and the dragon, and a fox preaching to some chickens – a 500-year-old warning not to trust people in authority.The carvings, about 300 of them, at Carlisle Castle are the subject of a restoration project to save them from the elements and allow them to be seen more clearly than they have been for
  
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• B Is For Broadway, And Bernadette

  30-01-2022 13:00 via npr.org
  A new book rhymes ways to teach young children about theatre. “There are so many things in here that are favorite shows of mine that I never would have imagined being able to work into a children’s book,” the author says. – NPR
  
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• How science is uncovering the secrets of Stonehenge

  30-01-2022 10:00
  
  If you see the majestic stones on Salisbury Plain as an emblem of England, think again. A major new British Museum exhibition connects them to many points and cultures across Europe through 1,500 years of immigrationAmong the many treasures in the British Museum’s forthcoming Stonehenge exhibition is a collection of carved and polished spherical stones, each about the size of a cricket ball. The stones are 5,000 years old and have mostly been found singly in Scotland. The most famous of th
  
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