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[embedded content] For a period of three decades, I have made music with the renegade bass trombonist David Taylor. These sessions began with sight-reading Beethoven cello sonatas in my living room. They accelerated with our mutual discovery that certain Schubert songs – especially Doppelganger — potently inflamed Taylor’s instrument. A few years ago, I threw

With MaXXXine, Longlegs, and Cuckoo, this summer is about the scary movie that has nothing to say. By Kevin Nguyen, a features editor at The Verge, where he publishes award-winning stories about labor, business, and policing. Previously, he was a senior editor at GQ. Share this story Image: Neon The release of Get Out in

Four years ago, Norway’s national broadcaster set out to completely reshape its coverage of climate change, restructuring reporters’ positions in the newsroom, and investing in producing fewer, but more widely read, climate stories. The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s dedicated climate coverage now consistently receives more views than the rest of the newsroom’s coverage, head climate editors say.

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Syracuse Stage (“Stage”), Central New York’s premier professional theatre, seeks its next Managing Director, who will join Artistic Director Robert M. Hupp to lead this storied organization. Celebrating its 50th season, Stage has continuously produced world-class professional theatre since 1974. As the nonprofit, resident professional theatre in residence at Syracuse University, it has been integral

View image in fullscreen Speculation rife about Banksy’s London murals after five appear in a week Whether comment on far-right rioters, Gaza or the climate crisis, one expert suspects a grand reveal is imminent It began with the silhouette of a goat perched atop a narrow wall near Kew Bridge in London, with tumbling rocks

“It is always instructive to read European newspapers on American affairs. It gives us the much needed opportunity to see ourselves as others see us – with their eyes shut. . .  Do we not all reek with malodorous lucre? Are we not a nation of tradesmen?”? Thus W. J. Henderson, in the New York Sun (March 8,

He is one of the world’s best actors – but can still go to Starbucks without anyone recognising him. He discusses cancer, remission, happiness, fame and video nasties By Zoe Williams Sam Neill, 76, is speaking to me via Zoom from Vancouver, where he is filming Untamed, a new Netflix series. We’re here, though, to

Participants in the 2024 ABOP-in-LA intensive Raynor Carroll has seen how the orchestral world works. The former principal percussionist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and an experienced educator, Carroll has reached a prominent position to which few Black orchestral musicians — let alone percussionists — are admitted. In a recent chat with SF Classical Voice,

Bill T. Jones (seated) with the collaborative team for The Motherboard Suite | Credit: Maria Baranova/New York Live Arts Talk about a mega-collaboration. The Motherboard Suite has it all going on, with seven choreographers exploring themes of exploitation, mystical anarchy, and the intersection of technology and race. Hackers are artists and activists come to life

View image in fullscreen Banksy reveals second animal artwork within 24 hours in London Two elephants painted on blocked-out windows in Chelsea after goat mural appears near Kew Bridge Banksy has unveiled his second animal artwork in 24 hours, showing two elephants reaching towards each other from blocked-out windows. The artist verified his latest work

NEW YORK (AP) — Yuval Sharon, an American known for innovative productions, will direct the Metropolitan Opera’s next stagings of Wagner’s Ring Cycle and “Tristan und Isolde,” both starring soprano Lise Davidsen and conducted by music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The Met also said Tuesday that Nézet-Séguin’s contract had been extended by six years through 2029-30.

A Florida lawyer on Friday pleaded guilty to setting off a bomb at the base of a controversial sculpture near the headquarters of Texas Public Radio in November 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Christopher Rodriguez of Panama City also pleaded guilty to an attempted bombing of the Chinese embassy in Washington, D..C.

Sigmund Freud is having something of a moment. Psychoanalysis is suddenly everywhere: on such hit shows as Couples Therapy, where troubled lovers probe their unconscious minds; in upstart magazines, including Parapraxis, which applies the tenets of the talking cure to modern life and politics; at bookstores, where new titles on the Viennese psychologist, who died

Check the furthermost part of the bookstore. On the left, all the way to the back, down the stairs, past mythology and social sciences. It’s the shelf on the end, the one filled with paperback spines as bright and colorful as conversation hearts. Or maybe it’s between the tabloids and the chewing gum at the

In March 2019, TikTok agreed to a US federal court order barring the social media giant from collecting personal information from its youngest users without their parents’ consent. According to a new lawsuit filed by US authorities, TikTok immediately breached that order and now faces penalties of $51,744 per violation per day. TikTok “knowingly allowed

A suspect has been arrested in connection to the June 11 vandalism of Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak home, police announced Wednesday. The news was first reported by New York Daily News. Taylor Pelton, 28, has reportedly been charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime. Pasternak’s Brooklyn Heights residence was splashed with red paint

Graphic illustration by Erin Jimerson The arts and culture community in Portland is at a critical inflection point, which puts a sharp focus on the November general election that will reshape City Hall. Several major factors come into play, some deeply unsettling, all rumbling noisily, any one of which would raise eyebrows in its own

Getty Images Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has called on Huw Edwards to hand back the salary he earned from the BBC after being arrested on child abuse image charges. The BBC continued to employ Edwards, formerly its most high-profile newsreader, for five months after he was arrested on three counts of making indecent images of