Some might see it as a PR move. “The decision to re-open the museum reflects the government’s desire to assert normalcy, as president Bashar Assad’s forces, with the help of Russian military assistance, have re-gained control of much of Syria.”
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A New National TV Show May Change New York’s Comedy Cellar
The club is trying to remake its image after the Louis CK fiasco. But other things may change as well. “Cameras certainly shift the atmosphere in the room, but they also encourage comics to do more newsy material to get on the air. The producers are adamant that they do not tell comics what to say, and while there is some room for evergreen jokes, the focus here is on what is happening now.”
A German Photographer In The UK Talks About The Changes In Photography, And The Effects Of Brexit
Photographer Juergen Teller: “Most of my team aren’t British and everybody is now completely depressed. I just think, ‘What the fuck am I doing? This building is here, my children are here’ – it’s a terrible moment.”
A Tennessee Theatre Concludes Its Six-Year Search For The Right Home
It’s not easy to take a theatre from a 50-seater, renting space, to a 100-seat home. That requires money and luck – and persistence, and maybe a church congregation moving out of its old home.
Writing Consent Into Romance Novels
Yes, in the 1970s and 1980s, there were some famous bodice-rippers – the kind where women are “overcome” by lusty men, and fall for their rapists over the course of the book. But that was then, and this is now. Author Jasmine Guillory: “One of the women told me that she wanted her little girl, when she got old enough, to read my book to know what consent was and how a man should treat her.”