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• The Standing Ovation At The Tonys Luncheon Was For A Waiter

  29-05-2022 20:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “The whole room just lost it. … To see her coming full circle, from a little girl watching him serve, and he had worked this luncheon for years, to having his daughter be a nominee was just one of those once-in-a-lifetime moments.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Florida Orchestra Fights Back

  29-05-2022 20:00 via tampabay.com
  
  A nonbinary composer gets their debut with a piece called “Ode to Liberty.” Subtle? No (nor were Tchaikovsky or Beethoven in their day). “That a piece written by a young, Black, queer composer debuted in Florida could be taken as a political statement in itself.” – Tampa Bay Times
  
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• What Does A Production Designer Exactly Do?

  29-05-2022 19:30 via latimes.com
  
  Good question. The boring answer – “A production designer works with the director and the producer (or showrunner) to build a story’s world.” – can lead to an exciting chase for the right designs all over town, the internet, and the world. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Should Music Only Be A Pursuit For The Wealthy?

  29-05-2022 18:30 via theguardian.com
  
  As a royalties group in Britain slashes its charitable giving arm by 60 percent, new young musicians say they’d never have kept playing without the funders’ support. Industry professionals and artists foresee “potentially disastrous consequences for the British music industry.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Dervla Murphy, Who Produced Reams Of Travel Writing Via Her Bicycle, Has Died At 90

  29-05-2022 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “For her 10th birthday, Dervla Murphy received a secondhand bicycle and an atlas. As she rode up a hill near her home that day in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland, she thought that if she pedaled long enough, she could get to India.” – The New York Times
  
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• Peak TV Just Won’t Stop Pitching

  29-05-2022 17:30 via variety.com
  
  “There are so many TV awards consultants spending a good chunk of the year on campaigns that we’re often pitched by three or four different people on the same show or star. There’s usually an awkward back-and-forth. … It’s not a perfect system.” Indeed. – Variety
  
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• Quebec Is Laying Down (A New, Stricter) Law On French

  29-05-2022 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Or rather, in French, about French. Bill 96 limits “access to public services in English and [enhances] government powers to enforce compliance, despite objections from some of the province’s English speakers, Indigenous people and members of other linguistic minorities.” – The New York Times
  
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• Archaeologists Are Mining Glasgow For Buried Treasure, From 1988

  29-05-2022 16:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Honestly: “How does an operational railway, an entire rotunda or indeed a three-metre-tall working sculpture of a floating tap manage to go missing?” A dig (and some online appeals) aims to find out. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Zoom Adventures Of A Teenage Opera Singer

  29-05-2022 16:00 via bbc.com
  
  Tobin Durrant “developed a love for opera after performing pieces for his exams and being moved by the influence he said it can have on people.” (And he’s moved from Zoom to IRL performance with the Welsh National Youth Opera, too – for the Queen.) – BBC
  
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• So Wait, Viggo Mortensen Said What To Pedro Almodovar, Who Said What Back?

  29-05-2022 15:30 via vulture.com
  
  The only popcorn at Cannes might be in reading dueling pieces on IndieWire. – Vulture
  
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• Critics Can’t Figure Out What Was Good At Cannes

  29-05-2022 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Hey Cannes, what’s good? – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Big Bored Ape NFT Lawsuit May Not Set The Precedent Seth Green Wants It To

  29-05-2022 14:30 via wired.com
  
  Is the hacking of Seth Green’s Bored Ape actually illegal? Perhaps not. It “illustrates the limits of the free, frictionless world promised by crypto—and its many misunderstandings around ownership.” – Wired
  
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• Edvard Munch: Masterpieces from Bergen review – a magical misery tour

  29-05-2022 14:00
  
  Courtauld Gallery, London
  These 18 spectacular paintings, most on show in Britain for the first time, capture the speed of Munch’s evolution from breezy pastiche to masterly melancholyEdvard Munch, at the Courtauld Galleries, is a powerful revelation. It could hardly be otherwise, in one sense, since most of these paintings have never been seen in this country before. They were bought in the 19th century by the Norwegian industrialist Rasmus Meyer, who owned grain mills in the coastal city
  
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• An Indigenous Filmmaker Is Turned Away At Cannes For Wearing Moccasins

  29-05-2022 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  “Cannes has strict rules around formal wear on the red carpet — black tie for men, evening gowns for women — but there are accommodations for traditional formal wear, such as Scottish kilts or Indian saris.” Apparently, moccasins do not qualify. – CBC
  
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• Hollywood Is The US Military’s Best Propagandist

  29-05-2022 13:30 via theguardian.com
  
  This isn’t new; it’s been going on for nearly a century, but Top Gun really highlights the results. “Each service – army, navy, air force, marines, coast guard – has its own entertainment liaison office in Los Angeles, in addition to the Pentagon’s own office.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Heyday Of The New York Pay Phone

  29-05-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  There’s an archive of iconic photos even as the icons themselves disappear. – The New York Times
  
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