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• Website Project Manager / Derby Theatre / East Midlands

  17-03-2021 13:24
  Derby Theatre is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead and manage the simultaneous implementation of it sales and CRM system, Spektrix and new website (with API integration). The CRM system...
  
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• The Oregon Guy Behind Goofy And Bozo The Clown

  12-10-2026 16:30 via opb.org
  
  Pinto Colvig, who got his first job as a clown when he was 12 and visiting the Lewis & Clark Centennial Expo in Portland, also voiced Grumpy and Sleepy, and a whole host of other characters. – OPB
  
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• Previewing The Met’s Lincoln In The Bardo

  12-10-2026 16:00 via nytimes.com
  “‘Wild scene,’ the writer George Saunders said, a little wide-eyed, after witnessing a portion of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lincoln in the Bardo unfold.” – The New York Times
  
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• If Bookshops Make Ninety Percent Of People Happier, What’s Going On For The Ten Percent?

  12-10-2026 15:45 via irishtimes.com
  
  “One crime bookshops have been getting away with for years is their blatant role in incentivising the creation of ‘TBR’ (to-be-read) piles.” – Irish Times
  
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• Choral Evensong, A Long Tradition In Britain, Is Threatened By Many Different Pressures

  12-10-2026 15:30 via theguardian.com
  “There is something profoundly human about sitting quietly in a great building, hearing young and old voices combine in astonishingly beautiful music.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Indie Publisher New Directions Keeps Finding Nobel Prize Winners

  12-10-2026 15:15 via nytimes.com
  “In an era when corporate publishers dominate a rapidly consolidating industry, New Directions has remained independent and continued its long tradition of seeking out and nurturing some of the world’s most seminal authors.” – The New York Times
  
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• Since The Time Traveller’s Wife Was Published, Its Author Has Become Famous – And, She Says, Radicalized

  12-10-2026 15:00 via theguardian.com
  “In early scene in the new book involves a group of neo-Nazis at a house party. When she was writing it, few people believed the US would witness a resurgence of neo-nazism.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Remember When San Francisco Had A Working Waterfront?

  12-10-2026 14:45 via msn.com
  This museum sure does. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
  
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• At Rehearsal With The Los Angeles Ballet

  12-10-2026 14:30 via yahoo.com
  “Rehearsal is formally a space where you practice a role; informally, it is where, in the background moments, you rehearse your version of yourself.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
  
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• A Three-Year Arts Launchpad In Boston Provides A Path For Smaller Arts Groups

  12-10-2026 14:15 via bostonglobe.com
  
  The Boston Center for the Arts Launchpad “is meant to provide both an anchor and a resource without restricting what each company might create.” – Boston Globe
  
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• How Relevant Is Goya?

  12-10-2026 14:00 via nytimes.com
  Scarily so. “Goya’s works depict the society of his time with criticism, and some images are no different to modern-day situation.” – The New York Times
  
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• Sarah Schulman Also Predicted This

  12-10-2026 13:45 via english.elpais.com
  
  Writer and activist Schulman: “People raised to dominate are told – and taught – that they should never feel uncomfortable. If you ask them to question themselves or reflect on how they relate to others, it’s as if you’re attacking them, mistreating them.” – El País English
  
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• Why Do Opera Singers Quit?

  12-10-2026 13:30 via npr.org
  
  Andrew Potter says it’s the money. “We just have to start telling the truth, and that is that unless you’re in the top 1- or 2% of singers in the world, this is not something that you’ll be able to sustain a family with.” – NPR
  
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• Yes, Having A Gay, Theatre-Loving Uncle Can Help You Find Your Way In New York

  12-10-2026 13:15 via nytimes.com
  “The play twines the story of Ryan’s relatively easy coming out with Charlie’s fraught experience a generation earlier, when his parents took a painfully long time to accept him as gay.” – The New York Times
  
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• If The Ellisons Think This Is Going To Be Easy, They Need To Read Some Hollywood History

  12-10-2026 13:00 via msn.com
  Skydance “must braid together two huge film studios (housing nine film labels), four streaming services, three TV production studios, three animation units and more than 50 television networks, including two prominent news organizations.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Nicolas Cage Didn’t Sign Amazon’s AI Waiver

  11-10-2026 22:04 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Nicolas Cage told a New York ComicCon panel that he refused to sign Amazon’s AI waiver for Spider-Noir, a series Amazon cancelled after one season and 11 Emmy nominations (Variety). Meanwhile more than two dozen staffers at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Hachette tell Wired that executives are having ChatGPT and Claude write publicity copy and emails to literary agents, and that HarperCollins drafted dozens of employees as “AI Champions” (Wired). One indus
  
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• Please, No More Articles On The End Of Reading

  11-10-2026 22:00 via slate.com
  Just stop. We know, already. Got anything new to say? – Slate
  
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• Why We Need A Four (Or More) Hour Documentary About Elon Musk

  11-10-2026 21:30 via nytimes.com
  “This small group of people has tried to basically run a con on all of us. ‘We’re doing this out of the goodness of our own hearts. We’re making the world better.’ No, you’re padding your bottom lines and all you care about is you.” – The New York Times
  
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• How To Become The Queen Of Romantasy

  11-10-2026 21:00 via theatlantic.com
  Simply generate “the raw fiber of old myths woven into new stories, processed through the internet, refined into audiobooks, … which drive fans back to bookstores, where they can buy a keepsake hardcover” and, if they’re lucky, “drink themed cocktails in ACOTAR-inspired ball gowns at midnight.” – The Atlantic
  
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• It’s ‘Stop Giving Literary Prizes To Stories With AI Flags’ Time, Again

  11-10-2026 20:30 via theatlantic.com
  “That this narrator has all the personality of a chatbot is probably not coincidental.” Ouch.  – The Atlantic
  
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• This Comedian Claims He Didn’t Mean To Slash The Income Of 800 People

  11-10-2026 20:00 via cbc.ca
  
  And yet: “Hundreds of working-class comedians have lost a key source of income and exposure, while wealthy celebrity comics take up their airspace” on SiriusXM. – CBC
  
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• Piero Lovers Never Get Stuck In Florence

  11-10-2026 19:30 via nytimes.com
  Not that “stuck in Florence” is so awful, but for full Italian Renaissance Master love, you have to travel. – The New York Times
  
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• Terri & Richard: Late-In-Life Sweethearts

  11-10-2026 18:40 via artsjournal.com
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• The Helpful Science Behind Spooky Season

  11-10-2026 18:30 via npr.org
  
  “Seeking out fear is our way of preparing our bodies for the sometimes scary real world. And this vaccine is actually fun for most people.” – NPR
  
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• Theaster Gates Bought America’s Last China Factory

  08-10-2026 22:30 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,Theaster Gates, the artist whose installations sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, has bought Pickard China, the last U.S. maker of high-end porcelain: a 12-person factory in Antioch, Illinois, producing a quarter of what it did in the 1970s (NPR). Meanwhile a historian in Edinburgh has found that Till the Bells Ring, a 46-minute talkie written in Scots, premiered in October 1926, a year before The Jazz Singer, widely thought of as the first talkie; two of its reels sit unscr
  
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• What The Bayeux Tapestry Is Really About

  08-10-2026 21:03 via prospectmagazine.co.uk
  One might subtitle the embroidered narrative “The Importance of Respecting an Oath.” Or, perhaps, simply “FAFO.” – Prospect (UK)
  
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• Documented: How Much Of LA’s TV Production Business Has Left

  08-10-2026 20:31 via latimes.com
  
  Over the last quarter-century, with the rise of streaming and the offshoring of production, the U.S. share of major-studio spending on TV episodes has fallen from 94% to 64%, according to a report commissioned by seven entertainment industry unions. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Getting Duncan Sheik’s Final Musical To The Stage Just Days After His Death

  08-10-2026 20:02 via theatermania.com
  
  “What I am doing,” says music supervisor Or Matias of Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, now in previews on Broadway, “is putting the puzzle pieces together in a way that best serves the evolution that (we need) during previews.” Says book writer Leah Nanako Winkler, “I feel like I’m trying to finish this painting.” – TheaterMania
  
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• Music Fraudster Jailed For Using Thousands Of Bots To Fake Stream Music Tracks

  08-10-2026 19:44 via arstechnica.com
  He had created “hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs,” then dispersed billions of automated streams among them so that the bots could avoid raising any red flags by all targeting the same song at once. All together, the fake songs generated substantially more streams than some of the most popular artists today. – Ars Technica
  
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• Pangram Says Use Of Its AI Detector Is Increasing

  08-10-2026 19:31 via thebookseller.com
  Many still dispute the validity and accuracy of AI detection tools. The Atlantic’s Matteo Wong wrote that “while Pangram is accumulating the power to end reputations and careers, the tool does make mistakes, perhaps to a greater extent than is currently understood”. – Bookseller
  
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