The Austrian opera festival, hit by a 30 percent subsidy cut, is looking for help wherever it might be lying exposed.
Happily, this week the town of Bregenz declared a new nudist bathing area on the shores of Lake Constance.
That ought to help.
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The NY Times reports the death of Jean-Philippe Allard, founder of the jazz division at PolyGram France (now Universal). Allard revived the careers of two generations of sidelined jazz artists, having first failed at a […]
From my latest essay in The Critic: The harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani tweeted the other day asking, how many handshakes to Hitler? Most respondents touched Adolf at three or four removes. I managed it in one […]
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