“With the orchestra’s finances ‘on life support right now’ because of ongoing budget deficits, the Jacksonville Symphony Association board declared an impasse Tuesday in its negotiations with its musicians. As a result, it will implement its last offer to the musicians, an offer that includes a salary reduction of almost 20 percent for orchestra’s 53 core positions. That’s if there is a season.”
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Salman Rushdie On What His Satanic Verses Ordeal Might Have Changed
“Some of the British Muslims now say, ‘We think we were wrong.’ Some of them for tactical reasons, but others are actually using the free-speech argument: ‘If we want to say what we want, he has to be allowed to say what he wants’.”
Brazil’s Pied Piper Of Street Art
Bel Borba is from Salvador do Bahia, whose “streets, walls, plazas and beaches have been his canvas since the late 1970s. He is a well-known, even beloved, figure there, regularly greeted on the street by residents who encourage him to come and work in their neighborhoods.” He’s now doing his first residency in New York.