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• What’s Behind Our Addiction To DuoLingo?

  25-07-2023 23:31 via slate.com
  
  It’s far from clear we’re getting anything from Duolingo’s purported speed. I’m not even sure it’s fun anymore. And there are quicker ways to not learn a language. – Slate
  
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• The War Has Galvanized Ukraine’s Culture

  25-07-2023 23:01 via thewalrus.ca
  
  The fight against the urge to let hatred win can be seen playing out on the front lines—but also in homes, in institutions, and in art. Ukrainians at home and abroad are embracing their language, literature, and heroic figures. – The Walrus
  
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• Sonny Rollins, Omnivore

  25-07-2023 22:32 via thenation.com
  
  To be able to make creativity and invention sound “natural,” one needs an avid, almost greedy urge to absorb anything—and everything—that is out there. – The Nation
  
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• How Five Days Of Russian TV Can Warp Your Brain

  25-07-2023 22:01 via theatlantic.com
  
  The first thing you notice when you switch on Russian TV is its totemic fascination with the swastika, which regularly appears on one of my screens. Sometimes it is taken from footage of the Nazi era, sometimes from purported videos of the Ukrainian far right. – The Atlantic
  
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• Story Ballets Are Still Popular (But Problematic). So How To Fix Narrative Dance?

  25-07-2023 21:34 via the-tls.co.uk
  
  “There are no mothers-in-law in ballet”, George Balanchine, who dominated American ballet throughout the twentieth century, liked to say: dance, he believed, is not the right medium to portray psychologically complex relationships or intricate stories. – Times Literary Supplement
  
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• Why Mozart Still Captivates After Two-And-A-Half Centuries

  25-07-2023 20:57 via msn.com
  “His letters show how he savvily wrote with an eye toward the market, hoping to delight listeners at every level of society. And pleasure was political in an age when some of the boldest advocates for free speech and personal choice were libertines.” – MSN (The Atlantic)
  
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• How Our Digital Devices Killed Literary Fiction

  25-07-2023 20:32 via esquire.com
  
  Are you reading this on your phone, swiping up the paragraphs, swipe, swipe, swipe, wondering how far you’re going to have to swipe to actually finish this thing? – Esquire
  
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• Can Cirque Du Soleil Make Itself Exciting To Gen Z? And Can It Move Merch?

  25-07-2023 20:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “After filing for bankruptcy protection in 2020, Cirque decided it had to be more than just a circus. It wanted to be a brand, something that could sell perfumes, sunglasses, tote bags and video games. So over the past year the circus brought in consultants …” – The New York Times
  
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• Mindfulness Is Overrated. Escapism, On The Other Hand…

  25-07-2023 19:29 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  Meditating and other forms of mindfulness offer a metaphysical escapism that lets you pretend for a while that you are no more than an organism receiving inputs from your immediate surroundings, with no interpretative or meaning-making capabilities. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• Louisville Ballet Artistic Director Robert Curran Resigns

  25-07-2023 19:06 via lpm.org
  
  “His resignation was announced via a news release Thursday. Curran has been in the role since 2014 … (and) was at the helm of the Louisville Ballet through the pandemic and its return to in-person shows.” – Louisville Public Media
  
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• Eight Ways Taylor Swift Has Changed The Music Business

  25-07-2023 18:32 via billboard.com
  
  She’s an advocate, a style icon, a marketing wiz, a prolific songwriter, a pusher of visual boundaries and a record-breaking road warrior. And she sells a ton of albums. – Billboard
  
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• Dayton Ballet Has A New Artistic Director

  25-07-2023 18:03 via dayton.com
  “The Dayton Performing Arts Alliance named Brandon Ragland as artistic director of the second-oldest regional ballet company in the country. With more than 15 years as a ballet professional, Ragland, 38, comes to Dayton from the Louisville Ballet, where he was a principal dancer … (and) resident choreographer.” – Dayton Daily News
  
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• Write For Free? An Existential Question

  25-07-2023 17:34 via thewalrus.ca
  
  At a moment of upheaval in the arts, the suggestion that writing’s value may simply be intrinsic—a creative act worth less than the website it’s posted on—is deeply unwelcome. It can even seem like poor taste. – The Walrus
  
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• ‘Not for the faint-hearted’: the gripping, horrifying show about the Marquis de Sade

  25-07-2023 17:18
  
  His name has become a byword for extreme sexual depravity. But was there more to the French nobleman who spent much of his life in jail? Our writer finds out at a new exhibition in Barcelona investigating his shocking workIt’s a bright, sunny day in Barcelona and I’m in a dark gallery watching a woman pull a scroll out of her vagina. Outside, skateboarders circle the CCCB, one of the city’s foremost arts centres. Inside? A naked teenage girl is eating her master’s excreme
  
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• Amsterdam Bans Cruise Ships

  25-07-2023 17:05 via cnn.com
  
  “Amsterdam is expected to receive over 18 million overnight visitors this year. By 2025, that number could reach 23 million, in addition to another 24 million to 25 million day visits. Under a 2021 ordinance, when the number of overnight visitors reaches 18 million, the council is ‘obliged to intervene.'” – CNN
  
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• Public Radio Stations In America’s Four Largest Media Markets Are Evidently Bleeding Listeners

  25-07-2023 16:32 via timjeby.substack.com
  
  Nielsen Audio ratings indicate that, over the past two years, market share and estimated listener numbers have fallen at an alarming rate at KQED in San Francisco (traditionally public radio’s strongest market), WBEZ in Chicago, WNYC in New York, and KCRW and KPCC/LAist in Los Angeles. – Three Things
  
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• Disney Is Trying To Sell Part Of ESPN To One Or More Of The Major US Sports Leagues

  25-07-2023 16:04 via cnbc.com
  
  “As Disney considers a strategic partner for ESPN, CEO Bob Iger and ESPN head Jimmy Pitaro have held early talks about bringing professional sports leagues on as minority investors, including the NFL, NBA, and Major League Baseball.” – CNBC
  
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• President Biden Will Establish National Monument To Emmett Till And Mamie Till-Mobley

  25-07-2023 15:34 via npr.org
  
  “The new monument will be established across three locations in Illinois and Mississippi in an effort to protect places that tell Till’s story, as well as reflect the activism of his mother, who was instrumental in keeping the story of Till’s murder alive.” – NPR
  
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• House Republicans Move To Block Funding For Smithsonian’s Planned Latino History Museum

  25-07-2023 15:01 via thehill.com
  
  “The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday approved an interior and environment funding bill that bans the federal government from spending any taxpayer money on the National Museum of the American Latino, part of the Smithsonian Institution, which was approved by Congress in 2020.” – The Hill
  
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• Concerns About Four Programs At Smithsonian’s Asian-American Literary Festival Were Flagged Hours Before It Was Canceled

  25-07-2023 14:33 via washingtonpost.com
  The flagging was part of a routine procedure before Smithsonian events. The institution insists that the festival was called off because the organizers were too far behind schedule on logistical planning, but some participants and observers are skeptical. – The Washington Post
  
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• Philadelphia Orchestra Cancels Next Spring’s Tour To California

  25-07-2023 14:05 via tinyurl.com
  Concerts in early March in Los Angeles, Orange County, Santa Barbara, and Palm Desert were found “no longer financially viable” due to “significant increases in cargo and travel costs.” April concerts in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Ann Arbor are unaffected. – MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
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• Why Does Your Nonprofit Arts Organization Engage in the Myth of the Annual Fund?

  25-07-2023 14:01 via artsjournal.com
  Why disrespect donors with, at best, only a choice to opt-out? Aren’t donors kinda important? What is this “annual ...
  
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• An Encouraging Weekend At The Movie Box Office

  25-07-2023 00:01 via variety.com
  
  “Barbie” ended up with $162 million in its first weekend of release, above Sunday’s already record-breaking estimate of $155 million. “Oppenheimer,” too, beat expectations with $82.4 million, slightly higher than Sunday’s huge $80.5 million projection. – Variety
  
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