Donald Trump will return to office facing far fewer constraints than when he entered the White House in 2017. The political, legal, institutional, and civic forces that restrained and often frustrated Trump during his first term have all palpably weakened. That will be a mixed blessing for him and for the Republican Party. There’s less […]
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MrBeast says on the podcast that he worked with the Egyptian government to get access to the historic site. “I’ve never been inside of it,” he says. “I want to just find secrets and go through all the rooms and the tombs and that kind of stuff.” – Fast Company Source link
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At the Latino Cultural Center on Wednesday night, Sean J. Smith tap danced across the stage with a bouncy lightness, glimmering in a sparkly black suit. It was a fitting start to the show “Emergence” – a night of contemporary, tap, jazz and modern dancing – that felt both celebratory and symbolic. The night marked
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Brian SeibertSeibert has covered dance for Goings On since 2002. New York dance in December is all about “The Nutcracker,” the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, and the joy they both bring. But the Ailey company’s encampment at City Center this year (through Jan. 5) is tinged with sadness, because Judith Jamison died in November.
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In 2024, the theatrical fortunes of the city diverged: Broadway returned to boom times, and several commercially produced shows did gangbusters business in smaller theatres, but Off Broadway’s nonprofit companies continued to struggle. Seasons in the downtown sector, already short, got shorter, and a few crucial venues seemingly closed for good. Yet a lot of
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Moscow — Former Royal Ballet star Sergei Polunin, famous for his tattoos of Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Wednesday announced that he plans to leave Russia. The Ukrainian-Russian dancer was one of the most prominent stars who backed Russia’s unilateral 2014 annexation of Crimea and its military assault on Ukraine. He was rewarded with prestigious state
On an October afternoon in 1749, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, too poor to afford a carriage, was striding along the road from Paris to Vincennes. He had already made the six-mile hike several times since late summer, when his close friend and fellow philosophe Denis Diderot, accused by the royal censor of writing pamphlets “contrary to religion,
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“While the 14,909 jobs lost by mid-December this year offered an improvement on the 21,417 jobs cut in 2023, it would be unwise to consider this year a ‘comeback’ by any stretch. Combined, the number of jobs lost between 2023-24 more than quadrupled the amount lost between 2021-22.” – TheWrap (MSN) Source link
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“Every Christmas, I ask myself this question, because accidentally I — a Jewish composer — have also written something of a Christmas classic: the little match girl passion. Cynics may think that these artists make Christmas music because they’re chasing the market. I believe there is something deeper at work.” – The New York Times
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How K-12 reforms and recent disruptions created Gen Z’s baffling habits. By Beckie Supiano Accountability and test-based reforms, pandemic-era disruptions, and larger social and economic pressures have fostered ineffective habits. Source link
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