Arts & Entertainment

Three-time Oscar-nominated Polish director Agnieszka Holland is going ahead with her defamation suit against Poland’s justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro after Ziobro refused to apologize for public comments in which he compared Holland’s new film, the refugee drama Green Border, to “Nazi propaganda.” A court in Warsaw has upheld Holland’s right to pursue the case, in …

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Sir Michael Gambon, whose extraordinary acting career took him from Laurence Olivier’s nascent National Theatre to screen roles in The Singing Detective and the Harry Potter films, has died at the age of 82. A statement on behalf of his wife, Lady Gambon, and son, Fergus, issued by publicist Clair Dobbs, said: “We are devastated …

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I’ll be joining the baritone Sidney Outlaw – an exceptional artist – in songs and spirituals by Harry Burleigh on Saturday, October 14, at the Newark School of the Arts. It’s a one-hour presentation, at noon, followed by a master class. It’s free but you need to reserve tickets at pmolina@newarkschoolofthearts.org Burleigh – once Dvorak’s assistant …

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The Reading Symphony Orchestra welcomes nominations and applications for the position of Executive Director, available in the Fall of 2023. Founded in 1913, the Reading Symphony Orchestra is one of the oldest orchestras in continuous operation in the country, providing uninterrupted access to exceptional classical music for the citizens of Berks County and beyond for …

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In my adolescence and early adulthood, I could barely contemplate a life without music. Each Saturday I would traipse an hour to my nearest CD store, and spend nearly as much time browsing the aisles before returning home with my new purchases. I could spend hours lying on my bed, headphones over my ears and …

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Hablas robot? Spotify is testing out a way for podcasters to reach listeners in different languages, using artificial-intelligence technology that emulates the podcaster’s own voice. As part of the pilot, Spotify worked with a “select group” of podcasters — Dax Shepard and Monica Padman (“Armchair Expert”), Lex Fridman, Steven Bartlett (“The Diary of a CEO”) …

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What are some of the things humans can do that other animals can’t? Humans can count, humans can read, humans can reason. These advanced abilities are often attributed to the human brain as a piece of hardware. However, just as the usefulness of Excel, Google, or ChatGPT are not found in computer circuits but in …

Our Education System Was Created In Industrial Times. We Need An Upgrade Read More »

Lina Khan made her reputation with a very different idea: What if pleasing the customer was not enough? Low prices, she argued in a 95-page examination of Amazon in the Yale Law Journal, can mask behavior that stifles competition and undermines society. – The New York Times  Source link

“We say we need new audiences, but the reality is we’re really churning through the new audiences we do get.” In the arts world, this problem is severe: Ninety percent of first-time orchestra attendees at the largest orchestras in the U.S. never return. – Inc Source link