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• Cuban Exiles Sue Netflix For Defamation Over “Wasp Network”

  13-06-2022 23:34 via hollywoodreporter.com
  
  “Brothers to the Rescue leader Jose Basulto alleges Netflix and Ossayas falsely depicted him as a puppet of the United States and traitor to Cuba while romanticizing the criminal activity conducted by Fidel Castro’s regime.” – The Hollywood Reporter
  
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• New York Philharmonic Will Restore Musicians’ Pay To Pre-COVID Levels

  13-06-2022 23:02 via nytimes.com
  
  After the pandemic shutdown in March 2020, musicians agreed to a 25% salary cut, with pay rising to 90% of previous levels by the end of next season. But the orchestra is in better financial shape than hoped, so full compensation will be restored starting in September. – The New York Times
  
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• The Metropolitan Opera Sold 61% of Its Tickets This Past Season. That’s Actually A Success.

  13-06-2022 22:35 via apnews.com
  
  Sure, that’s down from the last full season, which was 2018-19.  (Think about that.) What’s more, tourists, who used to account for up to half of sales, aren’t back in their usual numbers, especially from abroad. Nevertheless, the Met got through the season without missing a single performance, despite Omicron. – AP
  
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• Behold The Harpejji, A Cross Between A Piano And A Guitar

  13-06-2022 22:03 via msn.com
  
  “It’s long, flat and electrified, with strings stretched over frets along a wooden body. Beneath them are black and white markers corresponding to the notes on a piano. … A note sounds only when a string touches a fret, and that’s done with any number of fingers.” – MSN (The Washington Post)
  
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• Tourists Are Long Gone From Timbuktu. Here’s How Some Tour Guides Are Piecing Together A Living

  13-06-2022 21:31 via atlasobscura.com
  
  With a years-long civil war in Mali cutting off access, you simply cannot get to the historic city from abroad.  But you can still send postcards to loved ones from there. – Atlas Obscura
  
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• Just Like Its Protagonist, The Story Of Pinocchio Keeps Changing

  13-06-2022 21:04 via newyorker.com
  
  Joan Acocella reminds us how utterly different the character and narrative in the original novel by Carlo Collodi are from Walt Disney’s 1940 movie. The story has been remade and adapted dozens of times since; Hollywood has two more on the way and a third in the works. – The New Yorker
  
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• Intentional Profanity: How To Use Bad Words Mindfully And Derive Maximum Benefit

  13-06-2022 20:32 via theatlantic.com
  
  Swearing can abuse people or amuse them, inspire doubt or trust (or both) in others, and measurably relieve stress or pain — if you do it properly.  “When it comes to your well-being,” writes Arthur C. Brooks, “I offer three rules to keep in mind while honing your cursing technique.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Optimistic Pigs, Tool-Making Birds, Ball-Playing Bees: (Re-)Considering Animal Minds

  13-06-2022 20:05 via theguardian.com
  
  “The challenge, then, becomes finding a way of thinking about animal minds that doesn’t simply view them as like the human mind with the dials turned down: less intelligent, less conscious, more or less distant from the pinnacle of mentation we represent.” – The Guardian
  
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• A Gay “Fantasticks”?  Yes, And Adapted By The Original Writer

  13-06-2022 19:33 via americantheatre.org
  
  When Flint Repertory Theatre artistic director Michael Lluberes contacted Tom Jones, the musical’s playwright/lyricist, requesting approval to do the show with two young men as the central couple, Jones decided to go through the entire 60-year-old script and make adjustments.  Many people think it works even better this way. – American Theatre
  
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• Composer Timo Andres Salutes His Teacher, The Late Ingram Marshall

  13-06-2022 19:02 via nytimes.com
  
  “With an unlikely fusion of loose, stream-of-consciousness forms and old-school contrapuntal technique, he constructed monoliths of sound, then obscured them. … I felt I’d found a mentor who related to music the way I wanted to: with curiosity, open-mindedness and little regard for historical period or genre.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Sydney Morning Herald Apologizes And (Kinda Sorta) Admits That It Tried To Out Rebel Wilson

  13-06-2022 18:34 via theguardian.com
  
  After a wave of outrage over the original story erupted not only on social media but among the newspaper’s staff, the column in question was removed and replaced with the columnist’s apology. The Herald’s editor has expressed contrition as well. – The Guardian
  
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• The vital importance of humour in Paula Rego’s art | Letters

  13-06-2022 18:17
  
  Giles Oakley on his very personal interpretation of Rego’s painting The Family, and Gillian Forrester on the dark, complex and disquieting humour in the artist’s workI greatly appreciated your coverage of the death of the artist Paula Rego, especially the fine tribute by Jonathan Jones (‘She is dancing among the greats’, 8 June). There are so many sometimes contradictory layers of meaning in Rego’s art that there will surely never be a definitive interpretation of h
  
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• In The Wake Of Mass Shootings, Showrunners Pledge To Depict Guns Differently

  13-06-2022 18:01 via variety.com
  
  “A group of 200 top writers, producers and directors have signed an open letter backed by the Brady gun violence organization that includes a pledge to incorporate gun safety best practices into their shows and to scrutinize the use of firearms in storytelling.” – Variety
  
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• Gannett Will Eliminate Daily Editorial Pages At All Of Its Regional Newspapers

  13-06-2022 17:35 via poynter.org
  
  “Beginning in the spring and accelerating this month, the 250-title chain is cutting back opinion pages to a few days a week while refocusing what opinion is still published to community dialogue.” (Regional editors have the option of reprinting editorials from USA Today.) – Poynter
  
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• ‘Surreal fable’ by Derek Jarman to be published for the first time

  13-06-2022 11:43
  
  The 10,000-word story about a blind young king and his valet will be released this autumn along with an audio version read by Jarman An unpublished short story by the late artist and film-maker Derek Jarman will be available to buy for the first time later this year.Jarman, who is best known for his films Sebastiane, Caravaggio and Blue, wrote Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping, his only piece of narrative fiction, in 1971. More than 50 years later, and marking the year it
  
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• ‘It’s impossible for me to say whether or not he was evil’: artist Lene Berg on her killer father

  13-06-2022 09:00
  
  She’s made films about sex workers and Stalin. Now the Norwegian artist is investigating something closer to home – why her celebrated father murdered his second wifeIn a darkened room at the Kunsthall museum in Bergen, visitors can stretch out on a beanbag below a speaker and eavesdrop on a nine-year-old girl talking to her mother at bedtime. “Is Dad evil, Mum?” the girl’s disembodied voice asks. Bedsheets rustle with impatience as the mother fails to conclusively
  
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• ‘None of this was a given’: 50 years of Title IX and fighting for equality in US education

  13-06-2022 08:11
  
  In 1972, a civil rights law was introduced to prohibit sex discrimination in US schools and colleges but a new exhibition shows that the work continuesIn 1969, Bernice Resnick Sandler was a 41-year-old doctoral candidate in education at the University of Maryland, where she was also a part-time lecturer.But while some of her male peers in her doctoral program received job offers from colleges around the country without interviewing, Sandler couldn’t even get a job interview for a tenure-tr
  
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• ‘Germany was 10 years behind’: how Brexit helped Europe’s galleries

  13-06-2022 06:00
  
  Curators who left the UK after the referendum took with them experience that is reshaping their cities’ art scenesOne of the things Stephanie Rosenthal acquired during her 10-year stint in London’s gallery world is an appreciation of the British art of queueing with a smile on your face.After the German art historian quit her job as chief curator at the Hayward Gallery in the wake of Britain’s referendum on leaving the European Union, she exported her specialist skills back to
  
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