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After 67 Years Japan To Repeal No-Dancing Law
“The law was officially introduced after World War II, aiming to put an end to prostitution usually thought to have been taking place at venues where dancing occurred. It prohibits dancing anywhere...
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Univision Cancels Relationship With Donald Trump’s Miss Universe Org Over...
“The network said Thursday it would pull the plug on the July 12 Miss USA telecast and has severed its business relationship with the Miss Universe Organization, which produces the Miss USA pageant,...
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Helsinki’s Winning Guggenheim Design Highlights Museum’s Challenges
Hailed as “a wake-up call to architecture” that champions the idea of public space, the design by Paris-based architects Moreau Kusunoki was revealed in the Finnish capital, where the museum is...
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An Episode Of Diaeresis: Why ‘The New Yorker’ Always Spells ‘Coöperate’ With...
“Here we learn how to pronounce it and how to use it, as well as how to avoid it, if desired.” One of the magazine’s copy editors, Mary Norris, explains the diaeresis in the latest episode of the...
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Amazon’s ‘Pay-Per-Page’ Plan Isn’t Just About Royalties – It Could Change The...
“The retail giant’s new way of calculating payments for Kindle book loans has worrying implications for how literature is read – and how it’s written.”
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Welcome To The Orgy! How The Sex Movie Got Its Groove Back
“The fact that Fifty Shades of Grey is a phenomenon at all ‘just shows how mainstream it is, and it’s blasted the door wide open, saying sex is back in a big, big way. Now, sex has moved to the...
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Building Collapses Under Weight Of Vinyl Record Collection
Too many vinyl records stored on the second floor of a San Diego building caused a collapse that damaged a popular thrift store. (picture here)
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What Happens When Your Entire MFA Program Class Quits The School? USC Having...
“In an exclusive interview with The Times, Erica Muhl, dean of the Roski School, reveals that for the fall semester set to begin in less than two months, only one incoming student is enrolled in the...
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Plans For New Helsinki Guggenheim – Where’s The “Wow” Factor?
“It is extraordinary that a design that triumphed over 1,700 competitors should turn out to be rather ordinary. It is respectful, yet teases out no identity unique to Helsinki. Moreau Kusunoki makes...
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ISIS Posts Pictures Of Destroyed Historic Sites In Palmyra
“The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, also reported the destruction, releasing photographs online that showed fighters carrying explosives. The photos gave views of the sites before, during...
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Taylor Swift Versus The Concert Photographers – What’s Rights For The Singer...
“On the one hand, I know a band has to protect its image. The problem with that is that we are living in an age where everyone literally has a camera in their pocket at all times. You can’t control all...
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The Relationship Between Music And Technology Hasn’t Always Been So Obvious
“One of the most sweeping changes wrought by audio recording and broadcasting technology was that, for the first time ever, music was no longer, by necessity, a visual as well as an aural experience....
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Discovery Of Long Lost Trove Of Art That Hitler Loved
“The discovery of the horses, and of several sculptures and reliefs created by another Hitler favorite, Arno Breker, stunned researchers who had long lamented their disappearance.”
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Conlon Nancarrow – Music Too Complicated For Humans To Play
“Nancarrow explored the limits of the player piano with staggering imagination and persistence, diligently punching piano rolls by hand and often with the aid of a magnifying glass. He lived in...
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Why Are We So Eager To Turn Humanism Over To The Machines?
“We’re eager to optimise our workouts, our sleep patterns, our pregnancies, our policing tactics, our taxi services, and our airline pilots. Even the academy is intrigued. From spatial history to the...
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Projection: Netflix Will Have Bigger Audiences Than Traditional Broadcast...
“Analysts predict that if Netflix were measured as a 24-hour station by Nielsen, it would have more viewers than ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox within the year.”
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The Japanese Photographer Who Spent Decades Taking Pictures Of The Navajo...
“‘My father said the war ended early so he could come home,’ Mr. Kawano recalled. ‘That’s why I was born and I came to America, taking pictures of the former enemy.'”
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What We Can Learn From The Greeks About Violence Onstage
“The violence in Greek tragedies is a form of therapy and education for the audiences both then and now, Doerries argues, a communal response to suffering. The violence in many of the contemporary...
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Asian Americans, Playing Roles Well Beyond Maid, Nurse Or Grocer
“When the actress Mia Katigbak was a student at Barnard College in the 1970s, she was the only Asian-American studying theater and mostly got to play ‘maids and hookers,’ she said. One day the...
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How Ticket Reselling Is Killing Live Music (And There’s Nothing We Can Do...
“Defenders of the ticket resale market will tell you ticket resale is a simple extension of the free market; that the resale market is the best way to learn the true value of a ticket (as opposed to...
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The Most Controversial Ballerina In The U.S., In Her Prime
“The ballerina Sara Mearns, now 29, has entered her prime. She has surely become the most Dionysiac artist in an Apollonian genre, very probably the most talked-of ballerina in America and quite...
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What If The Only Shakespeare Play To Survive Had Been ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’?
“The mystery of Midsummer Night gets bound up in the larger mystery of Shakespeare. Yet it is an anomaly, distinct from anything he wrote before or after, a world to itself with its own rules and its...
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Those Deeply Ugly Ebook Fonts Are Getting A Makeover
“For typography fans, electronic books have long been the visual equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard. The fonts are uninviting. Jarring swaths of white space stretch between words. Absent are all...
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Former NYCity Ballet Principal Albert Evans, 46,
“Mr. Evans joined City Ballet in 1988 and was named a soloist in 1991 and a principal four years later, becoming only the second black dancer in the company’s history to hold that position. The first,...
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It Seems There Are Four Kinds of Introversion
“As more regular, non-scientist types started to talk about introversion, psychologist Jonathan Cheek began to notice something: The way many introverts defined the trait was different from the way he...
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How You Lie – And Whether You Think You’re Lying – Depends On Your Culture
“Some aspects of lie detection, especially those elements measured by lie detector tests, might be cultural. For instance, what if the person who might be lying is speaking a second language? What if...
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Argentine Writer Faces Prosecution For Doing Borgesian Things To A Borges Story
“Pablo Katchadjian decided in 2009 to remix one of Borges’s most renowned short stories, ‘The Aleph’, keeping the original text but adding a considerable amount of his own writing. The result was the...
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Why Even Julie Taymor (Who Filmed It) Says ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Is...
“Taymor’s film reveals more of the spectacle than any one spectator at the theater could have seen. Nonetheless a filmed version of a stage production cannot quite capture the sense of being there,...
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