Not to worry (yet): the papers will continue to publish. But since most newsroom employees have been working from home for months and the timeline for safely returning to offices isn’t clear, Tribune Co. execs have decided to stop paying for the real estate. The papers are the New York Daily News, Orlando Sentinel, The Morning Call of Allentown (Pa.), the Carroll County Times (Maryland), and the Capital Gazette in Annapolis (Md.), site of the 2018 newsroom shooting. – Yahoo! (AP)
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First Woman To Conduct Opera At Salzburg Festival Isn’t Much Interested In Gender
Joana Mallwitz: “I’m still amazed about all the situations where it’s still possible to be ‘the first woman ever.’ … I’ve conducted Mozart operas my whole life at major houses, and I wasn’t asked to conduct at Salzburg just because I’m a woman. That’s not how it works.” – The New York Times
Tate Galleries To Eliminate Half Of All Retail Jobs
“Tate has announced 313 redundancies across its commercial enterprises, which include staff who work in publishing and in gallery shops, cafes and restaurants in London, Liverpool and St Ives. … The figure – almost half of the 640 workforce – is bigger than the 200 redundancies which had previously been speculated on.” – The Guardian
How The Internet Turned People Into Users
Google is, as Joanne McNeil writes, “the intermediary between my ideas and action forward, the glue between my questions and answers, a placeholder for thoughts and a way to sort my desires.” But it’s also an advertising, machine-learning, and data-collection regime, with material incentives for addressing it as an advice column rather than an algorithm. – The Nation
The End Of Second-Hand Bookstores?
Decades, even centuries, of history and tradition are disappearing because of market forces, and the pandemic that we are all suffering through has sped matters up. – The Critic
Singer Trini Lopez, 83, Of COVID
At the peak of his popularity he was asked by guitar manufacturer Gibson to design two models, the Trini Lopez Standard and the Lopez Deluxe, owners of which include Dave Grohl and Noel Gallagher. In the mid-60s he was releasing as many as five albums a year, though that slowed in the late 70s. While he continued performing, he released very little music until 2000, when he began recording again and released a further six albums. – The Guardian
In Malawi Theatre Artists Debate: Low Ticket Prices Or Making A Living…
On one side of the debate, there were those who said the low prices were a way of coping with the prevailing circumstances in our economy. On the other were those who want art to claim its value and who feel like arts students should know better the value of art. They believe low prices undercut the theatre groups that charge a higher, more professional rate. – Howlround
The Museum Problem – Is It More A Relevance Problem?
In reality, museums merely reflect the massive inequalities in society at large. After the pandemic, museums may represent an even greater concentration of wealth in fewer hands. The American Alliance of Museums has repeatedly warned that roughly a third of museums may never reopen. Almost half of those that will reopen expect to do so with reduced staff. A study of the arts and culture sector of New York City suggests that the revenue of smaller institutions has been disproportionately affected by the lockdown. – Hyperallergic
Trump’s TikTok Ban: National Security Or Freedom Of Speech?
The company — which operates its U.S. headquarters out of Los Angeles and hired Disney veteran Kevin Mayer as its CEO this spring — said it has been working with the government for nearly a year to find solutions to the concerns, including expressing a willingness to sell its U.S. operations to an American company. “What we encountered instead was that the Administration paid no attention to facts, dictated terms of an agreement without going through standard legal processes, and tried to insert itself into negotiations between private businesses,” TikTok said. – The Hollywood Reporter
This Old Middle Eastern Verse Form Is Alive And Vigorous To This Day, Even In English
The ghazal “is an intimate and relatively short lyric form of verse from the Middle East and South Asia. The form thrives in such languages as Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and now English.” Claire Chambers provides a brief guide to how the form works and what has made it great poetry in the past and today. – 3 Quarks Daily