• Arts

Trump’s Kennedy Center Would Get $257 Million in House Republican Plan

admin7 May 2025

A House committee proposed a huge increase in federal funding to repair and restore the center, which President Trump took over in February. Democrats have questions.

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• Arts

‘Pavements’: A Sly Ode to the Last Band You’d Give the Biopic Treatment

admin2 May 2025

Part spoof and part serious, the film is about mythmaking as much as it is about music. The result is delightfully destabilizing.

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• Arts

Tony Nominations Snubs and Surprises: ‘Othello’ Misses, Clooney Scores

admin2 May 2025

Ensemble-driven plays like “Purpose” and “English” received a slew of nominations, while Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal and Idina Menzel were overlooked.

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• Arts

The Tony Nominations Are This Morning. Here’s What to Expect.

admin1 May 2025

Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce will announce which performers and which productions from a crowded 2024-25 Broadway season will vie for awards.

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• lifestyle

‘You See What’s Happening in America With Elon Musk? We Need the Same Thing Happening Here.’

admin29 April 2025

Britain is sullen. Last year the Labour Party won the general election in a landslide that was a mile wide but only an inch deep. That vote, which gave Labour a commanding majority on a vote share of 34 percent, reduced the Conservative Party to a ...

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• Arts

Trump Administration Seeks Artists for ‘Garden of Heroes’ Statues

admin26 April 2025

Those selected would receive up to $200,000 to create one of the 250 sculptures, which will be paid for in part with canceled grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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• World

Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting College Accreditors

admin26 April 2025

President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order targeting college accreditors, a group of largely unknown but long-established companies that evaluate the educational quality and financial health of universities. The order, one of seven ...

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• Magazine

How Japanese Superfans Redefined What It Means to Be Obsessed

admin23 April 2025

Otaku, people for whom hero worship is a way of life, have changed everyone’s relationship to the culture.

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