As I turned the calendar pages during this past year, I kept thinking that this was the year of living dangerously because it seemed danger lurked everywhere.
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Exclusive Interview: Maestro David Stern on Opera Fuoco’s ‘Figaro in the City’ and Palm Beach Opera’s Live-Audience Return
The conductor spoke with us about reimagining opera for a young video-obsessed generation, and about the challenges and rewards of staging live opera with an audience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Last Stands’ by Michael Walsh
In 'Last Stands' Micheal Walsh takes tales of famous last stands and turns them into engaging and entertaining history.
Read More »Climate Change’s Growing Toll on Culture and the Arts
From historic buildings to electric guitars, and from fine wines to ancient statues, irreplaceable pieces of culture and the arts around the world are falling victim to our runaway use of fossil fuels.
Read More »Film Q&A: ‘Miss Virginia’ and the Real Miss Virginia
'Miss Virginia' tells the story of community activist Virginia Walden Ford and her fight to mobilize citizens of Washington, DC, to achieve better, safer schools.
Read More »Remote Learning – The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
After the first week of remote learning for the spring 2021 semester, I have mixed feelings about the situation.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Dog Act’ by Liz Duffy Adams, from The Seeing Place Theater (Live Stream)
The visceral power of this post-apocalyptic, quasi-Shakespearean dark comedy doesn't come through in this virtual production.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse’ by Anahid Nersessian
'Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse' by Anahid Nersessian is a deep and accessible delve into the poetry of one of the great Romantic poets.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Metaphysical Africa’ by Michael Muhammad Knight
'Metaphysical Africa: Truth and Blackness in the Ansaru Allah Community by Michael Muhammad Knight is an important and well researched book.
Read More »CES 2021: NASCAR Robots, Start Your Engines
Students from around the world have teamed with NASCAR to develop self-driving cars and improve their safety.
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