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They Were Digging A New Aqueduct In Rome When Boom, An Undiscovered, Untouched Tomb

“All major construction that intrudes on Italy’s underbelly requires the presence of an archaeologist. Mr. Turchetta said he’d been on the job for about a year but that very little had turned up until this tomb. It was worth the wait, he said.” Understatement of the month: The fourth century B.C. tomb contained several skeletons, coins, and enough plant and pollen samples to potentially reconstruct the ancient landscape.

Rosanna Arquette Explains How Her Rejection Of Harvey Weinstein’s Attempted Assault Tanked Her Career

Arquette says he called her to his hotel room and essentially tried to assault her – and when she refused him, he told her she was “making a big mistake.” After she left, “‘Got down the elevator. By the time I got to the bottom, the lobby, I had a completely different career,’ Arquette says. Roles started to disappear, and new opportunities didn’t seem to come.”

The Rise Of Audiobooks Snags Famous Authors For Audio-Only Options

Audible, which is owned by behemoth Amazon, has a surprising new author in its fold: Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball and The Blind Side. Lewis has been a contributing author to Vanity Fair for decades – but Audible has now poached him for four audio-only stories. “Lewis — arguably one of the most successful nonfiction writers working today, with book sales topping 10 million copies — is betting Audible will expand his audience and draw even more people to his work.” And he’s not alone.

Online Art Crits: Will They Democratize Art Education?

A Rhode Island School of Design professor, along with several teaching assistants, are working for free to establish online art critiques as part of a free online art school. Impressive, and perhaps deserving of funding by … someone: “The overall goal of Lieu’s online art classes and critiques is to provide artists and hobbyists outside of major art hubs, schools, and communities with the opportunity to receive serious instruction and feedback that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to access.”

Spotify Walks Back Its ‘Hateful Conduct’ Rule, To The Disappointment Of Those Who Advocate For Justice

Some powerful (mostly male) voices in the music industry said the guidelines, originally meant to apply to R. Kelly and XXXTentacion, were unclear and would amount to censorship. But the leader of a women’s advocacy group said, “Women weren’t asking Spotify to play judge and jury. … We were just asking the company to stop promoting artists that have a documented history of physical and sexual abuse.”

Eight Of The Most Intriguing Designs At The Venice Biennale

Although “there are 60-plus national pavilions in the exhibition — all exploring some facet of architecture related to ‘Freespace,’ the central theme established by biennale curators Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects in Ireland,” here’s a list of some of the most interesting among the throng.

New York Built A Fifteen Million Dollar Film Hub

And then sold it for one dollar after the film hub, near Syracuse, didn’t quite do its job.

The Emotions That Suffuse Turning A Racist Hazing Death Into An Opera

Why did playwright David Henry Hwang and composer Huang Ruo take on the story of the 2011 suicide of 19-year-old Private Danny Chen? “Opera deals with big themes, with epic themes. … It’s very comfortable dealing with tragedy, with death and, of course, with love, also,” the playwright said, and the composer said, “This was an American story.”

Walt Whitman Got Rejected From ‘The Atlantic’ For Being Too Timely

That’s right, “1861” was a little too 1861 to publish in 1861. “There’s something problematic about asking our art to be of the ‘moment’ (or declaring, after the fact, that it is), or demanding that it fit into one of two boxes: being about politics or an escape from it. Art is and should be more complicated than that.”

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