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A New Opera Mashes Up Monteverdi and W.E.B. Du Bois
New York Times· 6 hours agoBold in its satire and explicit in its sensuality, even more than 350 years after its creation, the work gives its ruthless lovers, Nero and Poppea,...
Visionary director Yuval Sharon isn't trying to cancel old opera. His latest fantastical piece...
Los Angeles Times· 1 day agoWhat do 17th century Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi and 20th century writer and civil rights...
Actor-playwright Biko Eisen-Martin takes on legacies of Tupac and Biggie
CBS News· 4 days agoTupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls) are hip hop legends, but actor and...
Cape Ann gets set for Juneteenth observance
Gloucester Daily Times· 6 hours agoCape Ann is celebrating Juneteenth with speeches, readings and colorful displays this weekend and on the federal holiday. The Juneteenth observances commemorate the emancipation of enslaved ...
Morgan Park receives historical road marker
WBAL-TV Baltimore· 17 hours agoThe Morgan Park Community has a new roadside historical marker. In 1917, then-Morgan State College moved to its current location, but Jim Crow laws kept...
She Moved Her Family to a Black Utopia. Then Things Got Weird.
New York Times· 2 days agoIn Nicola Yoon’s first novel for adults, “One of Our Kind,” a woman finds that a lush California...
A new principal has been hired for Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington
Berkshire Eagle· 3 days agoA search committee has chosen Christopher Barnes as the new principal of Monument Mountain Regional...
More than meets the eye at Knowhere Art and Cousen Rose Galleries - The Martha's Vineyard Times
The Martha's Vineyard Times· 19 hours agoThere are art openings galore during the summer on the Vineyard. From July 4 through August 11,...
A half-century of photography: Forbes Library exhibit showcases the vintage work and world views of...
Daily Hampshire Gazette· 7 days agoWhen Stan Sherer was growing up in the Bronx in New York City in the 1950s, an uncle paid a visit to...
Does mental illness beget great poetry? These 4 poets exposed the sickness of a society that sought...
The Conversation· 1 day agoThe publication last year of Steven M. Weine’s Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness has reinvigorated enduring questions about the relationship between mental ...
