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At 75, the Aldeburgh Festival Is Bigger Than Benjamin Britten
When the composer Benjamin Britten died in 1976, it wasn’t clear how the public would remember him. There was Britten…
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Microsoft Surrenders OpenAI Board Position
As regulatory scrutiny picks up, the tech giant says it is pleased with the progress OpenAI has made with governance…
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Joe Bonsall, Tenor Voice of the Oak Ridge Boys, Dies at 76
His vocals on songs like “Elvira” were a key to the evolution of the group, originally a Southern gospel quartet,…
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A Queer Mountain Lion Leaps From the Page to the Little Island Stage
Henry Hoke’s 2023 novel, “Open Throat,” narrated by an animal in peril in the Hollywood Hills, is adapted for a…
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‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Review: Sprinkling Magic Under a Night Sky
Fun is the main point of Carl Cofield’s stylish outdoor staging of Shakespeare’s comic fantasy for the Classical Theater of…
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Review: A Mixed Bill’s Highlight Bodes Well for the Future
The best dance by far on Smuin Contemporary Ballet’s program at the Joyce is by Amy Seiwert, who is about…
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NASA Says No Plan to Use SpaceX to Rescue Boeing Starliner Astronauts
In a news conference from aboard the International Space Station, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said they had confidence in…
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Becoming a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Is Like Getting Into Harvard
As a way to dissociate from political news, I’ve spent the past week mainlining stories about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders;…
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The Tragedy at This Year’s Hajj Is Just the Beginning
In April 2020, when New York City was the “Covid capital of the world,” 815 New Yorkers died from the…
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William E. Burrows, Historian of the Space Age, Is Dead at 87
In books and articles he wrote about the militarization of space and believed that investing in exploration would ultimately “protect…