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"The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will take its first trip to Cuba next month as part of a cultural exchange with the Cuban Institute of Music, the company will announce Thursday."...
"It is absolutely possible to create work for young people that is artistically thrilling for both kids and adults." Joe Giardina, director of education at the New Victory Theater in New York, offers suggestions to performers and parents alike. ("Don't ignore age recommendations.")...
"José Manuel Carreño, the veteran American Ballet Theater dancer, has announced he is retiring in August 2011." The Cuban-American star, who has just announced plans to lead a new dance festival in Sarasota, will continue to perform as a guest artist....
"The Monte Carlo casino-resort has replaced longtime Las Vegas Strip headline magician Lance Burton with … Jabbawockeez, the first-season winner of MTV's America's Best Dance Crew" competition."...
"The city's bid to enlist the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as a key player in conserving the Watts Towers has hit a snag as LACMA seeks a guarantee that it won't be held financially liable for any damage to the folk-art masterpiece that might result if its work on the towers were to go awry."...
"Works from the three leading players in this summer's big art-photography controversy will be hung in a Los Angeles gallery on Saturday for a brief exhibition aimed at giving folks a chance to see what the hubbub is all about, and decide for themselves."...
"CEO Eric Schmidt said the service, which will allow full Internet browsing via the television, would be free, and Google would work with a variety of program makers and electronics manufacturers to bring it to consumers."...
"But surely the reason that the alcohol, the sexism, the insecurity, the duplicity, the bare-faced lying and the status anxiety at work have taken such hold on the public imagination is because they so perfectly match our own experiences. Has anything really changed?"...
"For 14 years, the Intimate Opera Company was on the move, appearing around the San Gabriel Valley in places including a bookstore-coffee shop, a retirement community and a hotel ballroom. No more. The company says it's becoming the 'opera company in residence' at the Pasadena Playhouse."...
The filmmaker claimed that he never kept any of his papers or effects; in fact, he carefully collected them at his Baltic island retreat. "There's always a germ of truth in everything he says," says a curator. "People tend to interpret his movies as straight autobiographies when, in fact, he took a tremendous amount of creative license."...