- We continue to hear a lot about the loss of on-staff culture critics at American newspapers: Budget cutbacks and layoffs start today at the Dallas Morning News while the New York Times may shut down the entire Boston Globe with potentially catastrophic effects on the arts scene there. But it’s not just in America: London, one of the great theater towns of the world, has lost an entire generation of theater critics (“As far as I know, there are no regularly employed theatre critics under 30.”)
- And it’s not just Six Flags that’s hurting. Disney slashes 1,900 jobs from its domestic theme parks.
- Researchers believe that Agatha Christie suffered from Alzheimer’s.
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