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• The Internet Has Become A Giant Whataboutism Chamber

  17-08-2022 23:31 via hedgehogreview.com
  
  Attention is finite, the record of how we spend it public, and it is easy enough to check if somebody who tweets every day about Ukraine has ever tweeted about Yemen. Many people are inclined to give somebody they trust a pass. – Hedgehog Review
  
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• Publishing’s Blockbuster Merger Trial Is Turning Out To Be Something Of A Circus

  17-08-2022 22:32 via newyorker.com
  
  The spectacle has been curiously entertaining. Publishing executives have had to initiate federal employees into a dialect of “backlists,” “advance copies,” and “BookTok influencers.” Onlookers have been treated to piquant performances. – The New Yorker
  
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• Why Streaming Services Are Adding Ads

  17-08-2022 22:01 via screentime.thebulwark.com
  
  But ads are coming back because streamers have more info about our consumption habits than the cable companies or networks ever did, so the ads are more valuable than ever. Plus, there’s no skipping ads via DVR when you’re streaming on Hulu et al. – The Bulwark
  
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• UK Literary Festivals Are Back. But…

  17-08-2022 21:25 via theguardian.com
  
  “The mood music seemed that ‘leisure’ activities had to be jettisoned due to the already felt increased cost of fuel/food, and there was a palpable anxiety about how much more expensive life may yet become and for how long the cost-of-living pressures would be felt.” – The Guardian
  
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• The 1927 Scandal That Made Mae West’s Career

  17-08-2022 20:59 via slate.com
  
  “Before West hit the big-screen, she was prosecuted for staging not one, but two scandalous plays. In this episode of Decoder Ring, we look at how West honed her persona when she was under the bright lights of Broadway and the flashbulbs of the tabloids — and briefly behind bars.” – Slate
  
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• Mounting Evidence? People Are Stopping Listening To Music

  17-08-2022 20:32 via theguardian.com
  
  For the last few years, I have felt the inescapable disappearance of music from my friends’ lives. Even people with whom I have longstanding relationships that were born from a shared love of music have simply let it go, or let it fade deep into the background.  – The Guardian
  
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• “Soylent Green”, Made 50 Years Ago, Is Set In 2022.  Here’s Why It Got Things So Wrong — And Changed So Few Minds Back Then

  17-08-2022 20:03 via slate.com
  
  ” Movies like Soylent Green abandon such messiness in favor of predictive certainty as they set out to shock people into action. … And as predictions fail to materialize, shock and concern risk turning to cynicism and doubt.” – Slate
  
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• Seattle’s Arts After The Pandemic: Reckoning Or Opportunity?

  17-08-2022 19:31 via postalley.org
  
  In the ’80s and ’90s the arts were ascendant here, and Seattle was well regarded nationally as an up and coming arts town. Then poof, much of that energy melted away. Why? – Post Alley
  
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• Public Radio’s Efforts To Diversify Its Interviewees Are Working

  17-08-2022 19:02 via current.org
  
  “Journalists at NPR and Minnesota Public Radio say they are seeing the payoff from a heightened focus on tracking the diversity of their sources, with reporters more keenly aware of the need to expand their pools of interviewees.” – Current
  
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• Performers Were Among The Hardest Hit In The Pandemic. Recovery Is Slow

  17-08-2022 18:31 via news.artnet.com
  
  During the worst days of lockdown, some artists who couldn’t afford rent squatted in empty theaters to save money. Others left the art world entirely, unable to justify creating artworks that no longer had an audience. – Artnet
  
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• Taking Standup Comedy Between Countries And Languages

  17-08-2022 18:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Edinburgh Fringe comedians from Japan, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, Argentina, and Denmark talk to a reporter about establishing connections with a foreign audience, differing styles and subjects of comedy in different countries, and carrying jokes conceived in one language into another. – The Guardian
  
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• ‘There’s no final answer’: public let in to help furnish Bristol’s Martian house

  17-08-2022 17:41
  
  Five-year-old astronaut and his mum among first visitors to project that combines art and scienceFive-year-old Rowan Bailey-Davies and his mum, Gillian Davies, had come well prepared. He had donned his bright astronaut suit for this very special occasion, while she had picked geraniums from their garden.Their mission: to visit and help begin to furnish a “Martian house” that has appeared, golden and gleaming, among the sailing boats, wharf train tracks and cranes on the harbourside i
  
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• Carl Sagan’s Warning On The Dumbing Down Of America

  17-08-2022 17:31 via mediapost.com
  
  “The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.” – MediaPost
  
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• What Salman Rushdie Has Meant For The South Asian Diaspora

  17-08-2022 17:01 via newrepublic.com
  
  “Rushdie helped change how … Europe and North America saw desis. He defied stereotypes and resisted all assumptions. He became, through no choice of his own, a hero for free expression and courage in the face of oppression. That role opened up possibilities” for other desis in the West. – The New Republic
  
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• Architectural Digest Airbrushed Cambodian Antiquities Out Of One Of Their Fabulous-Home Photo-Spreads — And Why?

  17-08-2022 16:35 via washingtonpost.com
  The feature on the San Francisco mansion of Roger and Sloan Lindemann Barnett includes an image of an interior courtyard with empty pedestals.  Those pedestals aren’t actually empty: they hold Khmer statuary that the Cambodian government says was looted in the 1990s. Here’s how they identified it. – The Washington Post
  
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• Ten Of The World’s Most Ingenious Repurposings Of Buildings

  17-08-2022 16:03 via bbc.com
  
  The list ranges from a small watertower in England converted into a home to a steel mill in Shanghai transformed into an eco-park to the enormous grain silo at Cape Town’s old port remade into the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. – BBC
  
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• Gina Lollobrigida, 1950s And ’60s Movie Star, Is Running For The Italian Senate At Age 95

  17-08-2022 15:32 via theguardian.com
  
  “(She) is endeavouring to become a senator with the Sovereign and Popular Italy party (ISP), a new Eurosceptic, anti-Mario-Draghi political alliance that opposes sending arms to Ukraine and ‘warmongering Atlanticism’.” – The Guardian
  
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• Are Audiences Really Behaving Worse Than Before COVID?  Sure Seems Like It

  17-08-2022 15:04 via inews.co.uk
  
  It especially seems like behavior’s gotten worse in Britain, where complaints have soared and one hears and reads stories about groups chatting with each other loudly, drinking too much, and even bringing takeout food to eat (“pass me a fork”) during the performance. – the i (UK)
  
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• Joffrey Ballet Launches The First U.S. Training Program Dedicated To Contemporary Ballet

  17-08-2022 14:31 via chicagotribune.com
  
  The new two-year, ten-dancer program will run parallel to the Joffrey’s longstanding Trainee Program in classical ballet, with the primary difference being in the movement styles included in the curriculum and the goal being to expand ideas of who can work as a professional ballet dancer. – Chicago Tribune
  
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• More Repairs At Philadelphia’s Grand Old Academy Of Music

  17-08-2022 14:05 via inquirer.com
  
  The exterior balconies overlooking the main entrance to North America’s oldest purpose-built opera house — “still the city’s formal parlor for everything from Broadway shows and The Nutcracker to college graduations,” writes Peter Dobrin — have been gradually crumbling and are being rebuilt. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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• ‘You had to be quick!’: Henry Horenstein on his breathtaking Speedway pics

  17-08-2022 07:00
  
  From stock car racing to country music stars, the US photographer is one of the great documenters of Americana. He talks about his life in the fast laneHenry Horenstein was a student at the University of Chicago in the 1960s when he discovered the work of the leftwing English historian EP Thompson. Soon afterwards, on the advice of his tutor, he journeyed to England and enrolled for a term at the University of Warwick, where Thompson was a lecturer.“I went specifically to study with him, h
  
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• Senior Director of Development-Jacksonville Symphony

  17-08-2022 02:47 via artsjournal.com
  POSITION DESCRIPTIONPosition Title: Senior Director of Development
  Status: Full-Time, Exempt
  Reports To: Vice President & Chief Advancement OfficerPosition Summary:The Jacksonville Symphony Advancement Department raises funds through donations from individuals, corporations, foundations, the public sector, and special events to support artistic and educational programming and general operating expenses. The Senior Director of Development will be responsible for expanding the base of major gi
  
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• GENERAL DIRECTOR OPERA SARATOGA

  17-08-2022 02:41 via artsjournal.com
  GENOVESE VANDERHOOF & ASSOCIATES
  Cultural Management ConsultantsPosition AnnouncementGENERAL DIRECTOR
  OPERA SARATOGA
  Saratoga Springs, New YorkOpera Saratoga invites applications and recommendations for the position of General Director.Reporting to the Board of Directors, the General Director provides for the overall leadership of this $1 to $1.6 million company headquartered in beautiful Saratoga Springs, New York.Opera Saratoga:Opera Saratoga serves the communities of Saratoga Springs, the
  
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• Can Theatre Make Any Impact In The Abortion Debate?

  17-08-2022 00:01 via americantheatre.org
  
  When faced with a loss of human rights—with accounts of real women being forced to bleed out because they cannot get an abortion for their miscarriages, or of preteen girls being forced to give birth—what any piece of theatre might do to counter such injustice naturally feels pitiful and small. – American Theatre
  
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