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• Maurice Williams, Whose ‘Stay’ Was a Hit for Him and Others, Dies at 86

  16-08-2024 23:54 via nytimes.com
  
  A chart topper in 1960 for him and his doo-wop group the Zodiacs, it inspired several notable cover versions and was heard in the 1987 film “Dirty Dancing.”
  
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• Jack Russell, 63, Dies; Singer for Great White and Survivor of Nightclub Fire

  16-08-2024 22:44 via nytimes.com
  
  At a show in 2003 with his band, a pyrotechnics display ignited a fire that killed 100 people, including the band’s guitarist.
  
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• Arts Briefs: Awards a-plenty! Minnesota artists, authors and cornhole-players take home prizes. - MPR News

  16-08-2024 22:31 via news.google.com
  Arts Briefs: Awards a-plenty! Minnesota artists, authors and cornhole-players take home prizes.  MPR News
  
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• 7 Hot Tracks From a New Generation of Female Rappers

  16-08-2024 20:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Listen to recent songs from Megan Thee Stallion, Ice Spice, Latto and more.
  
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• Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’s Throwback Duet, and 8 More New Songs

  16-08-2024 19:28 via nytimes.com
  
  Hear tracks by the Linda Lindas featuring Weird Al Yankovic, Chlöe and Anderson .Paak, Lou Reed’s early band and others.
  
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• Missouri Woman Charged in Scheme to Defraud Presleys and Sell Graceland

  16-08-2024 19:03 via nytimes.com
  
  A woman named Lisa Jeanine Findley was arrested and accused of a brazen effort to foreclose on Elvis Presley’s home in Memphis.
  
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• Altar at Stonehenge Was Transported from Nearly 500 Miles Away, New Study Finds

  16-08-2024 18:08 via artnews.com
  
  The central six-ton altar stone at Stonehenge may have come from more than 450 miles away, according to a new study published in the scientific journal Nature.Stonehenge is thought to have been erected in several phases between 3100 BCE and 1600 BCE, with the circle of large sarsen stones placed there between 2600 BCE and 2400 BCE by Neolithic and Bronze Age people. While larger local stones may have been moved by hundreds of individuals with ropes and log rollers, the Welsh bluestones coul
  
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• Jerry Fuller, Writer of ‘Young Girl’ and Other Hit Songs, Dies at 85

  16-08-2024 17:50 via nytimes.com
  
  He located a musical sweet spot between the romantic and the risqué for Ricky Nelson, Johnny Mathis and most famously Gary Puckett and the Union Gap.
  
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• Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and the ‘It Ends With Us’ Drama, Explained

  16-08-2024 17:49 via nytimes.com
  
  What’s happening onscreen has become secondary to the conversation about differences between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, her co-star and director.
  
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• Archaeologists Uncover Secret Roman Network in Southern Spain

  16-08-2024 17:45 via artnews.com
  
  Archaeologists from the University of Cádiz have uncovered 57 ancient Roman-era sites in Spain’s Guadalete River region, according to a story published in the Independent. The find suggests that the area may have been a significant hub within the Roman Empire.Led by Macarena Lara, the team employed ground-penetrating radar to reveal structures and settlements across the Arcos de la Frontera, Bornos Villamartin, and Puerto Serrano regions in Spain. Some of these structures
  
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• Missouri Woman Charged in Scheme to Sell Graceland

  16-08-2024 17:30 via nytimes.com
  
  A woman named Lisa Jeanine Findley was arrested and accused of a brazen effort to foreclose on Elvis Presley’s home in Memphis.
  
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• Netflix Cofounder to Transform Utah Ski Resort into Outdoor Art Park

  16-08-2024 17:28 via artnews.com
  
  When Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings purchased Utah’s Powder Mountain ski resort in 2023 for an undisclosed sum, the first thing he did was turn it into a private members club. He cordoned off 2,000 acres of the mountain and only made it accessible to people who own houses nearby for an annual fee between $30,000 and $100,000. Hastings did inherit $100 million of debt with his mountainous purchase, so he has to cut the deficit somehow.
  To show that he’s also a man of the people, Hast
  
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• A Major Survey of Black Collage Art Proves That Print Isn’t Dead

  16-08-2024 17:19 via artnews.com
  
  The death knell has been rung for print media many times over in the past decades: thousands of local newspapers have shuttered, digital readership has shot up, and journalism has suffered a crisis. But if print really is dead, you wouldn’t know it from “Multiplicity: Blackness in American Collage,” a smart survey that features dozens of pieces that invest precious publications with new life.Take Helina Metaferia’s Headdress 61 (2023), featuring artist Chase Williamson do
  
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• He Made a Game About a Joyous Journey. He Also Got a Bit Lost.

  16-08-2024 17:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Anthony Tan was 16 when his idea for a video game about a deer caught the industry’s eye. Nine years later, he’s still working on it.
  
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• Frank Walter Escaped Racism and Violence by Looking to the Stars

  16-08-2024 16:31 via artnews.com
  
  A version of this essay originally appeared in Reframed, the Art in America newsletter about art that surprises us and works that get us worked up. Sign up here to receive it every Thursday.One morning in 1958, while researching his ancestry in the English city of Leeds, the Antiguan artist Frank Walter awoke to a disturbance. He looked out his window and noticed some aliens who appeared to glow. Rather than cowering in fear, he was awed by what he saw. It
  
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• A Memoir Offers an Insider’s Perspective Into the Pentagon’s U.F.O. Hunt

  16-08-2024 16:21 via nytimes.com
  
  In “Imminent,” the former intelligence official who ran a once-secret program shares some of what he knows.
  
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• Stonehenge’s Origins Questioned, UK’s Olympic and Cultural Budget Compared, Art Collective Calls Out Polluters and More: Morning Links for August 16, 2024

  16-08-2024 16:13 via artnews.com
  
  To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.THE HEADLINESPRICE OF GOLD. It cost the UK more than $315 million of tax payers’ hard-earned cash to prepare its athletes for the Paris Olympics. Team GB won 64 medals, which equates to almost $5 million per podium place. To whittle it down further, each of the UK’s 14 gold medals cost an average of $22.5 million. What’s this got to do with art? Well,
  
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• Black Myth: Wukong Review – Martial Arts at its Finest - GamingBolt

  16-08-2024 16:04 via news.google.com
  Black Myth: Wukong Review – Martial Arts at its Finest  GamingBolt
  
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• Banksy’s ‘Beastly London’ Series Comes to a Close—Let’s Rank ‘Em!

  16-08-2024 14:09 via artnews.com
  
  For over a week, the mysterious street artist Banksy took to the streets of London and, under the cover of night, took the Big Smoke for a walk on the wild side by introducing stenciled wildlife into the urban cityscape. Every day, for nine consecutive days, a new Banksy mural depicting a member or members of the animal kingdom appeared somewhere in the city. They perched on the roofs of buildings and swung from infrastructure. One of the portrayed animals even get very, very friendly
  
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• Banksy’s ‘Beastly London’ Series Comes to a Close— Let’s Rank ‘Em!

  16-08-2024 14:09 via artnews.com
  
  For over a week, the mysterious street artist Banksy took to the streets of London and, under the cover of night, took the Big Smoke for a walk on the wild side by introducing stenciled wildlife into the urban cityscape. Every day, for nine consecutive days, a new Banksy mural depicting a member or members of the animal kingdom appeared somewhere in the city. They perched on the roofs of buildings and swung from infrastructure. One of the portrayed animals even get very, very friendly
  
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• Is Wichita’s public arts funding in peril? Wu says no after expressing interest in cuts - Wichita Eagle

  16-08-2024 11:33 via news.google.com
  Is Wichita’s public arts funding in peril? Wu says no after expressing interest in cuts  Wichita Eagle
  
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• Silent Hill: Ascension wins at 2024 Creative Arts Emmy Awards - GamesIndustry.biz

  16-08-2024 11:16 via news.google.com
  Silent Hill: Ascension wins at 2024 Creative Arts Emmy Awards  GamesIndustry.biz
  
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• Arts and crafts give greater life satisfaction than work, survey suggests - The Guardian

  16-08-2024 11:15 via news.google.com
  Arts and crafts give greater life satisfaction than work, survey suggests  The Guardian
  
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• The Pain of Matthew Perry’s Last Days as He Relied on Ketamine

  16-08-2024 11:04 via nytimes.com
  
  Court papers show that Mr. Perry, the “Friends” star who had long struggled with addiction, was increasingly taking ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, in the days before he died.
  
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• Was That a James Turrell I Just Skied By?

  16-08-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Why yes it was, courtesy of the Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, who is underwriting a big outdoor art program at the ski resort he bought.
  
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• Rob Rausch and Aaron Evans Talk ‘Love Island’ Bromance

  16-08-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  The “bromance” between Rob Rausch and Aaron Evans has helped make this season a hit. We talk to the pair about their special bond.
  
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• Beyond ‘Shaft’: 5 Blaxploitation Movies You Should Know

  16-08-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  A Film Forum series pays tribute to the 1970s genre that birthed “Superfly” and “Foxy Brown,” but also features lesser-known films that show the genre’s range.
  
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• Richard Kind Is Still Waiting for His Big Break

  16-08-2024 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Amazingly prolific and beloved by Hollywood royalty, the actor has a self-image that belies his status and achievements. “I just work,” he said.
  
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• One of Classical Music’s Great Builders Prepares for the Next Step

  16-08-2024 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Over 25 years, through crises and a changing world, Michael Haefliger has made the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland as we know it.
  
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• Netflix Documentary ‘Daughters’ Shows Reality of Girls Separated From Imprisoned Fathers

  16-08-2024 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The Netflix documentary doesn’t gloss over hard truths as it follows participants in the Date With Dad program.
  
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• An Undersung and Unruly Woodstock in Pictures, 30 Years On

  16-08-2024 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A new photography show celebrates the 30th anniversary of Woodstock 1994, middle child to the festivals of 1969 and 1999.
  
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• COWBOY POETRY: Work from Yesteryear - Cache Valley Daily

  16-08-2024 11:00 via news.google.com
  COWBOY POETRY: Work from Yesteryear  Cache Valley Daily
  
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• Camille Henrot Is Tackling One of Our Last Taboos

  16-08-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Camille Henrot has filled a gap in the canon by investigating the labor of motherhood.
  
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• Tampa Bay, let’s pay for the arts | Letters - Tampa Bay Times

  16-08-2024 10:46 via news.google.com
  Tampa Bay, let’s pay for the arts | Letters  Tampa Bay Times
  
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• Theatre Review: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical - Austin Chronicle

  16-08-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  Theatre Review: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical  Austin Chronicle
  
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• Glenwood Ave Arts Fest | 08/16/2024 - Choose Chicago

  16-08-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  Glenwood Ave Arts Fest | 08/16/2024  Choose Chicago
  
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• Electronic Arts Inc. - Corporate Governance - Board of Directors - Electronic Arts Home Page

  16-08-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  Electronic Arts Inc. - Corporate Governance - Board of Directors  Electronic Arts Home Page
  
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• Ancient Egyptian Scribes Suffered Ergonomic Injuries

  16-08-2024 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The scriveners of ancient Egypt were more than papyrus pushers, but they suffered many of the same repetitive ailments as desk jockeys today, a new study suggests.
  
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• Arts And Crafts Improves Mental Health, Finds New Study - Forbes

  16-08-2024 08:34 via news.google.com
  Arts And Crafts Improves Mental Health, Finds New Study  Forbes
  
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• Late Night Tackles Trump’s Tic Tac Show and Tell

  16-08-2024 08:06 via nytimes.com
  
  “That is not an example of inflation; it’s just two different sizes of breath mints,” Desi Lydic said on Thursday’s “The Daily Show.”
  
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• Weekend of events to showcase creativity, innovation in Indigenous arts - Santa Fe New Mexican

  16-08-2024 07:15 via news.google.com
  Weekend of events to showcase creativity, innovation in Indigenous arts  Santa Fe New Mexican
  
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• Jack Russell, Great White Singer and Survivor of Nightclub Fire, Dies at 63

  16-08-2024 06:56 via nytimes.com
  
  At a show in 2003 with his “Jack Russell’s Great White,” a pyrotechnics display ignited a fire that killed 100 people, including the band’s guitarist.
  
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• Greg Kihn, 75, Dies; Scored Hits With ‘Jeopardy’ and ‘The Breakup Song’

  16-08-2024 06:53 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Kihn later became a popular morning disc jockey in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  
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• Jack Russell, Great White Singer and Survivor of Nightclub Fire, Has Died

  16-08-2024 06:32 via nytimes.com
  
  At a show in 2003 with his “Jack Russell’s Great White,” a pyrotechnics display ignited a fire that killed 100 people, including the band’s guitarist.
  
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• Arts and crafts seem to boost well-being more than employment - New Scientist

  16-08-2024 06:00 via news.google.com
  Arts and crafts seem to boost well-being more than employment  New Scientist
  
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• Arts and crafts may improve your mental health at least as much as being employed, scientists find - Medical Xpress

  16-08-2024 06:00 via news.google.com
  Arts and crafts may improve your mental health at least as much as being employed, scientists find  Medical Xpress
  
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• Four Arrested in Killing Of ‘General Hospital’ Actor

  16-08-2024 03:37 via nytimes.com
  
  The police said they arrested three men on murder charges in the fatal May 25 shooting of Johnny Wactor, 37, in Los Angeles. A fourth person was also charged.
  
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• ‘The Union’ Review: Old Flames and Spy Games

  16-08-2024 02:00 via nytimes.com
  
  When a mission goes pear-shaped, a covert operative (Halle Berry) turns to a secret weapon: her high school boyfriend (Mark Wahlberg).
  
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• Greg Kihn, Who Scored Hits With ‘Jeopardy’ and ‘The Breakup Song,’ Dies at 75

  16-08-2024 01:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Mr. Kihn later became a popular morning disc jockey in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  
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• Top Nashville Metro Arts staffers resign as future of arts grants remains uncertain | - WPLN

  16-08-2024 01:03 via news.google.com
  Top Nashville Metro Arts staffers resign as future of arts grants remains uncertain |  WPLN
  
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