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• The Sphere May Be The Horrifying Future Of Entertainment For All Of Us

  07-12-2025 17:00 via slate.com
  “There is no escape in the Sphere. The walls are screens. The ceilings are screens. The floor, swooping underneath you at an impossible angle, is a screen, too.” – Slate
  
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• A Spicy Gay Hockey Book Has Become A Global Phenomenon TV Show

  08-12-2025 13:30 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Reid, author of many same-sex sports romances, on Heated Rivalry’s scorching HBO debut: “It’s like I opened a door and there was on the other side a million people screaming. … It’s been really cool, but also it doesn’t feel real at all.” – Washington Post (Yahoo)
  
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• How New York’s Culture Shaped Its New Mayor

  08-12-2025 13:15 via nytimes.com
  “Long before he became an unlikely political force, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was just another 20-something trying to squeeze a laugh out of his Saturday improv class in Manhattan.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why We Must Keep Reading Novels

  08-12-2025 13:00 via mattdpearce.substack.com
  “My Brilliant Friend made me angry because other media doesn’t make me feel this way — fully like a human.” – Matt Pearce
  
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• Behold The “Performative Reader”

  08-12-2025 07:41 via newyorker.com
  Performative reading has firmly implanted itself into the popular imagination, becoming a meme for a generation of people who, by all accounts, aren’t reading a whole lot of books. – The New Yorker
  
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• The AI that has Colonized our Creativity

  08-12-2025 06:34 via artsjournal.com
  Everyone’s talking about AI, and you’re being pestered to use it every time you open your phone. But are you aware the extent that AI has taken over how much of what you see and hear online?
  
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• It’s Just Science: Some Christmas Music Really Tanks Productivity

  07-12-2025 22:00 via fastcompany.com
  Those who love torturing customers and co-workers alike might have to listen to the science. The fact is, Ariana Grande and Andy Williams are out. “On the other hand, Brenda Lee’s ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’ emerged as the most productivity-friendly holiday track.” – Fast Company
  
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• Gehry Was The Rare Architect Who Also Changed Music

  07-12-2025 21:30 via yahoo.com
  “The ‘Goldberg Variations’ was Gehry’s favorite work. He loved its otherworldliness and its worldliness. He loved its invitation to dance and to dream. He loved its astonishing sense of design, complex yet flowing with the ocean’s grace, its depth and its inviting surface.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
  
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• The Kennedy Center Under The 47th President: Emptier, Showier, Way More Political

  07-12-2025 21:00 via msn.com
  “What is the Kennedy Center now? For one thing, it’s getting a Trumpian revamp. He ordered new marble and the repainting of the exterior columns in austere white. Portraits of the first and second couples now hang in the center’s Hall of Nations.” – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Guy Cogeval, Art Historian And Curator Who Turned The Musee D’Orsay Into A Well-Traveled Blockbuster Site, Has Died At 70

  07-12-2025 20:30 via nytimes.com
  “In a country with a reverential approach to its artistic heritage, the flamboyant Mr. Cogeval — ‘deceptively reserved and genuinely eccentric,’ according to Le Figaro newspaper — was a subversive figure. He was unconcerned, even pleased, by the criticism.” – The New York Times
  
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• According To A Linguist Who Works At A Language App, Here Are 2025’s Most Mispronounced Words

  07-12-2025 20:00 via npr.org
  We all know that a lot of folks get the new mayor of New York’s name wrong – sometimes deliberately. And then there’s a museum in Paris that had a famous theft this year. But Denzel Washington? Really? – NPR
  
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• A Flash Mob Waves Ukrainian Flags As La Scala’s Grand Opening Features A Russian Opera

  07-12-2025 19:30 via artsjournal.com
  “A dozen activists from a liberal Italian party held up Ukrainian and European flags in a quiet demonstration removed from the La Scala hubub that aimed ‘to draw attention to the defense of liberty and European democracy, threatened today by (President Vladimir) Putin’s Russia.’” – Seattle Times (AP)
  
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• Dear Ted Sarandos, We Beg Of You Not To Screw This Up

  07-12-2025 19:00 via msn.com
  Please, please, please, PLEASE do not screw this up, Netflix. We want HBO to be HBO, Warner Bros. to be Warner Bros. – and we need movie theatres. Cinemas. Big screens … maybe for your movies, Ted. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• As Slop Fills Streaming And Public Media Is Defunded, What Will Happen To PBS Kids?

  07-12-2025 18:30 via bostonglobe.com
  Parents and researchers are very worried – and rightly so. – Boston Globe
  
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• Artist Imprisoned In Iran For Six Years Says Creativity, And Sewing, Kept Her Alive

  07-12-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: “They can take away the world you live in, but they can’t take away what’s happening in your mind, your imagination and your creativity. Holding on to that was how we survived.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Don’t Put Hannah Arendt On A Pedestal

  07-12-2025 17:30 via nytimes.com
  “Nearly a year into a second Trump presidency and 50 years after Arendt’s death, she is still routinely invoked as the key to understanding our moment. It’s been a strange afterlife for an idiosyncratic thinker who believed that politics was inherently contingent and unpredictable.” – The New York Times
  
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• Mad Men’s Special Effects Foreman Has Some Things To Say About The Events Of Recent Days

  07-12-2025 16:30 via archive.ph
  Such events being HBO’s Mad Men remaster that showed a little too much. “We always tried to camouflage ourselves as much as possible, but these days they tend to just say ‘we’ll erase it in post.’ Only this time, apparently they didn’t erase us.” – The Verge (Archive Today)
  
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• Performance Professionals Are Learning From Toddlers

  07-12-2025 16:00 via artsjournal.com
  “Some artists are …making very young children a part of the choreographic process, or creating music designed to get them moving. They’re considering why these tiny dancers bring us such joy, and what lessons they might have for grown-ups.” – The New York Times
  
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• Four European Countries Boycott Eurovision Over Israel’s Participation

  07-12-2025 15:30 via theguardian.com
  Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands have all withdrawn from the 2026 competition. The Dutch broadcaster: “After weighing all perspectives, Avrotros concludes that, under the current circumstances, participation cannot be reconciled with the public values that are fundamental to our organisation.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• What Changed About Hamnet Between Page And Screen

  07-12-2025 15:00 via nytimes.com
  The book is not only made up of words but also concerns words. The author, who co-wrote the screenplay: “To make a 400-page novel into a 100-page script, there’s a lot of stripping back.”But then they had to add in more Shakespeare. – The New York Times
  
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• This Oscar Winner Has Been In The Business For More Than Six Decades

  07-12-2025 14:30 via variety.com
  Youn Yuh-jung, Oscar winner for Minari, doesn’t want to be seen as an icon, however. “In Korea, they usually say, ‘Is there any message for the younger generation?’ So I usually say, I’m not the Pope, I don’t have any message.” – Variety
  
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• According To The BBC, These Are The Ten Most Iconic Gehry Buildings

  07-12-2025 14:00 via bbc.com
  From Spain to France to the Czech Republic and, well, Spain again, here are the BBC’s faves. – BBC
  
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• Fall 2026 Applications Open for MS in Leadership for Creative Enterprises

  05-12-2025 02:43 via artsjournal.com
  Northwestern University’s MS in Leadership for Creative Enterprises (MSLCE) program develops leaders across Entertainment, Media and the Arts. Earn your Master’s in One Year.More than ever, the creative industries need professionals who can leverage strategic business knowledge to drive innovation and growth. They also need effective and agile leaders with an expansive understanding of how the various sectors of the creative economy are woven together and interact with each other.Th
  
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• Executive Director, Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach

  05-12-2025 02:02 via artsjournal.com
  LOCATION: Palm Beach, FL (in-person)
  INFORMATION: cmspb.orgBACKGROUNDUnder the extraordinary artistic leadership of Arnaud Sussmann, the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach (CMSPB) is known for performances and educational programs of the highest artistic merit. Since 2013, CMSPB has presented over 150 artists, from the eminent Emerson String Quartet to acclaimed violinists James Ehnes and Pinchas Zuckerman and pianists Anne-Marie McDermott and Inon Barnatan. CMSPB is a presenting partner of the
  
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• Now Bollywood Has A Rival For The Spotlight In India’s Enormous Movie Industry

  04-12-2025 21:03 via apnews.com
  Bollywood, based in Bombay/Mumbai and producing movies in Hindi, has always been the center of India’s cinematic universe. Yet there are centers of filmmaking in other Indian languages based in other state capitals. One of those centers — Tollywood, which produces Telugu-language movies in Hyderabad — has been enjoying a big run of successes. – AP
  
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• Countries Boycotting Eurovision Over Decision To Allow Israel To Compete

  04-12-2025 20:31 via bbc.com
  Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia will boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, after Israel was allowed to compete. – BBC
  
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• Ailey Company Launches Its First Season Under Director Alicia Graf Mack

  04-12-2025 20:01 via npr.org
  Mack, who did two stints as a principal dancer with the company (and got a master’s degree in-between), says her vision is to balance between Alvin Ailey’s own “powerful, visceral” choreography and new pieces by Fredrick Earl Mosley, Matthew Neenan, Jamar Roberts, and Urban Bush Women founder Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. – NPR
  
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• Russia Blocks Facetime, Roblox

  04-12-2025 19:44 via cbc.ca
  Both restrictions are part of an accelerating clampdown on foreign tech platforms: In the case of FaceTime, Russian authorities allege it is being used for criminal activity, while Roblox was accused of distributing extremist materials and “LGBT propaganda.” – CBC
  
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• Is Appointment TV Making A Comeback?

  04-12-2025 19:31 via cbc.ca
  As more shows switch to a weekly release schedule, it gives viewers a chance to watch the episodes as they become available and take part in the same cultural moment, but experts suggest what’s happening is more of a happy middle ground between appointment viewing and binge watching. – CBC
  
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• Paramount Claims Bias In Warner Deal

  04-12-2025 19:15 via deadline.com
  “It has become increasingly clear, through media reporting and otherwise, that WBD appears to have abandoned the semblance and reality of a fair transaction process, thereby abdicating its duties to stockholders, and embarked on a myopic process with a predetermined outcome that favors a single bidder. – Deadline
  
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