“Final regulations are due Friday, but the department hasn’t even started writing them. Transportation spokeswoman Meghan Keck said the agency hasn’t had enough money to do the work needed to write the regulations.”
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Why Is There So Little Horror In The Theatre?
There have been countless comedies, musicals and tragedies, but only a few pure horror plays. Why is that?
The Music Discovery Problem – This Company Thinks It’s Figured It Out
“How do you discover new music? Some companies have bet on human editors, while others put their weight behind clever algorithms. One company thinks the solution is actually more like a pendulum that swings back and forth between the two.”
Another Francis Bacon Painting Sells for a Massive Amount of Money
“An unnamed American collector paid $70 million [£42 million] for Portrait of George Dyer Talking, a 1966 canvas depicting the artist’s lover perched on a stool, his twisted body positioned under a naked light bulb as though he were being interrogated.”
Hot New Thing for Art Collectors: Old Ghanaian Movie Posters
“Art collectors are paying thousands of dollars for exuberantly garish movie posters that Ghanaian artists painted on flour sacks in the 1980s and 1990s, inspiring artists to start creating more of them.”