Arts & Entertainment

In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison based on the testimony of his 28-year-old daughter Eileen. She described seeing him rape her best friend and then smash her skull with a rock. When Eileen testified at her father’s trial, her memory of the murder was relatively fresh. It […]

This pairing is the latest in a series of major deals between local arts and cultural organizations, including the merger of ACT Contemporary Theatre and Seattle Shakespeare Company, as well as Seattle University’s acquisition of Cornish College of the Arts. – Seattle Times Source link

A woman in Pennsylvania has bought what is believed to be a rare Renoir charcoal drawing, potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, for just $12 at a local art auction. ABC news reported that Heidi Markow, who owns an antiques business in the state, found the item at a collector’s auction in Montgomery county

“The 336 boxes constituting the Didion-Dunne archive are available to researchers starting today, by appointment, and even the most cursory look through them is revealing, fascinating, and simply entertaining. Scholars will be picking through it all for centuries, but here’s a first-day look at a few of the more eye-opening objects.” – Vulture (MSN) Source

“He called his previous behavior, particularly toward subordinates, ‘bone-headed’ and ‘narcissistic.’ He acknowledged that he had long yelled at his assistants (‘Yes, of course’) and that he had on occasion thrown things at people (‘Very, very rarely’).” – The New York Times Source link

“Senior U.S. District Judge William Smith, during a hearing in Providence, Rhode Island, questioned how such a policy could be reconciled with federal law, ‘which prohibits requiring grant recipients from engaging in essentially government propaganda.’” – Reuters Source link

“President Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at reshaping the Smithsonian Institution and removing what he deems ‘improper ideology’ from its museums, education and research centers and the National Zoo.” – Axios Source link

“The president has instructed the vice president ‘to eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology’ from the institution’s entities. … But who runs and funds the Smithsonian and can Trump overhaul it like he is the federal government? Here’s what to know.” – The Washington Post (MSN) Source link

The heads of National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service testified in a heated congressional subcommittee hearing on Wednesday amid a renewed Republican effort to defund US public media. “NPR and PBS have increasingly become radical leftwing echo chambers,” said the Georgia Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene during her opening remarks, accusing NPR of