The collapse of a deal final month between the Metropolitan Opera and Saudi Arabia that may have infused up to $200 million into the home is a reminder of the gloomy future for the performing arts in America. The Met, regardless of its latest inventive successes, faces the identical issues as lots of its friends:…
Seattle’s mayor, Katie Wilson, gave a protracted, considerate response a number of weeks in the past when dialog at a Seattle University discussion board turned to the present financial local weather and her help for larger taxes on rich residents and huge companies. Then Ms. Wilson, a democratic socialist in her first yr in workplace,…
A girl I knew dated Ted Turner. (Before Jane.) I used to be fascinated. Did that kinetic kingpin ever sleep? Did “the Mouth of the South” churn with bulletins 24 hours a day, like his wonderful creation, CNN? Ted rested generally, she assured me. But he was a personality, she stated, recounting the story of…
When I have a look at pictures of Lauren Sánchez Bezos I see somebody who loves trend, though in no way in the way in which I do. My affection for it’s rooted in respect for its magnificence and creativity and in a good quantity of skepticism due to its stumbling acceptance of its social…
