Category: issues

The children’s book series is a juggernaut that spawned a film series, theme parks, a Broadway play and museum exhibits. It’s been 20 years since readers in the U.S. were first introduced to the wizarding world, and more than 500 million copies of the books have been sold worldwide.

It helps that Denver, despite lingering cowtown stereotypes, can boast of motivated audiences. Colorado ranks third nationally in attendance for live music, theater or dance shows at 44.4 percent of all adults participating, according to a 2016 study by the National Endowment for the Arts.

It’s too late to fix the early seasons of Game of Thrones, but after actor Emily Meade asked HBO to hire someone to advocate for actors during sex scenes on The Deuce, HBO did it – and “Rodis’ hiring has made such an impact that showrunner David Simon told Rolling Stone in September that he would never work without an intimacy coordinator again. Following suit, HBO has now adopted a policy whereby all of its shows and movies with intimate scenes will be staffed with an intimacy coordinator.”

And the fine was minuscule. Of course. The only way to truly see how little the fine affects Facebook is to put it in contrast to how much money the company makes per hour. “Still, even by that metric, Facebook’s profit dwarfs the fine.”

Yesterday afternoon alarms were activated when a man smashed the glass box surrounding the Magna Carta, which is displayed to visitors in the cathedral’s chapter house. This was shortly before 5pm, when the exhibition was due to close to the public. Police were immediately called and the entire cathedral was evacuated. There were no injuries.

The revelation about the five Dead Sea Scrolls fragments reflects an ongoing tension between biblical-studies scholars and the museum. In their book Bible Nation, the scholars Candida Moss and Joel Baden criticized the Green organization for lacking “any sense of due diligence.” Judicious sourcing of artifacts is especially important given the rampant looting of archaeological sites in the Middle East in recent decades. Since the 1990s, hundreds of thousands of artifacts have been looted from Iraq alone. At this point, any recently discovered artifact being billed as an authentic fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls has to be met with cautious scrutiny.

Reporter Olivia Bridge gives an overview of what we know and don’t know about the effects that the UK’s departure from the EU will have on the arts sector. The biggest problem? Personnel.

As things currently stand, it’s hard to deny that journal publishing appears little better than a scam. It’s perhaps not an irrelevant fact that the great fraudster Robert Maxwell began his business career in academic publishing.

“In an open letter issued Wednesday, artists, curators, and academics decried the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation’s decision to cancel a performance by the leftist punk band Feine Sahne Fischfilet. Originally scheduled for November 6, the concert was called off earlier this month because the band advocates for ‘politically extreme positions’.”