Kennedy Center leaders jeopardized the institution’s operations by tying millions of dollarsin funding to keeping President Donald Trump’s name on its building, a Democratic congresswoman who serves on its board alleges in a court brief filed Friday. – Washington Post

Book publishing houses have also been inundated with AI writing, and the industry is scrambling to respond. “There is a high level of concern and I think maybe anxiety among editors,” Friedman said. “They’re not sure how to detect it.” – WNG

Mr. May, a prolific and inventive author of nearly 30 thrillers, including “The Blackhouse,” which would become a global best seller and would lift the fortunes of his earlier work, died on Sept. 25 at his home in Gassin, a village in southeastern France, near Saint Tropez. He was 74. – The New York Times

Even actors like Elliot Page and Asia Kate Dillon have said it’s harder to find work in a world where roles for them are, according to them, vanishing. – CBC

The Georgian style Festival Theatre – now the Cambridge Buddhist Centre – had recently undergone some intense architectural changes when its owner invited future Royal Ballet founder Ninette de Valois to choreograph there. – BBC (Yahoo)

“As we’re all waiting for traffic to clear, I could feel the motion of the bridge, slightly pulsating up and down. Curiosity got to many people, who got out of their cars to see if they could see anything.” – San Francisco Chronicle

“’Today’s newspapers have fallen out of the habit of rewarding their readers with chunks of fiction. … So it has fallen to us to pick up the slack.’ But it seems worth asking why ‘chunks’ of fiction are their own reward.” – LitHub

“Ireland increasingly has become a destination for American movies, television series and the once-quintessentially L.A. creation: the game show.” – Los Angeles Times

“A representative for Mann said in a statement on Sunday that the director’s weapon had ‘accidentally discharged while holstered.’ The incident, the representative said, resulted in a ‘superficial injury.'” – Los Angeles Times

“Most of those bowls and sandwiches available in the lunchtime hours are sold by fast-casual chains, the kind of establishments that give private equity investors wet dreams thanks to their sky-high margins, low labor costs, and simplistic, trend-driven menus.” – Ravenous

“It’s a highbrow-meets-lowbrow thing,” said the Dutch tattoo artist completing the requests. He’s done it before, but “this time, [he] had a greater ambition: to reproduce one of Rembrandt’s most famous etchings, The Descent From the Cross, from 1633, across a man’s back.” – The New York Times

And Tuesday’s election will determine what happens with its collection – and if its local advocates have done enough to organize support. – Oregon ArtsWatch

What do they do with it, though, when they get it? Well: “keep the lights on, … pay bills, pay down debt, make payroll, or [use it] as a buffer when something went wrong.” – Nieman Lab

“In 1941, Albert Speer presented plans to his Führer for a monumental arch that would tower nearly 400 feet over Berlin. Taller than the towers of the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge in New York, it would have been twice the height of the Arc de Triomphe.” – The New York Times

For instance: “You wouldn’t know it, but some of these dishes were shot on the literal ground.” – Best Food Blog

The scammer “gave me a physical address. Neither of us commented on how unusual it was for the founder of the Berlin Book Club to have a postal address in the Philippines.” – The Guardian (UK)

Martin McDonagh: “Plays should be as exciting as the best films, and that meant you should be able to do anything onstage that you can do in a film, which led to a little violence now and then, but always with a moral dimension to it.” – The New York Times

“The 95-year-old National Symphony Orchestra has been performing in the Kennedy Center since it opened in 1971. Now, the musicians and their charismatic music director Gianandrea Noseda are musical nomads while the future of the arts complex, with its proposed renovations, remains uncertain.” – NPR

The Kennedy Center’s board voted to close the building for two years after being told phased renovation would double the cost. A lawsuit filed Friday says officials had a revised estimate, about $41 million more, and never showed it to the board (CNN).

Archive of Our Own, the important fan fiction site with 11 million users, is down after a security incident and may take four weeks to restore. Fans are sharing Google Docs of saved stories (Wired).

Before Trump’s Dubuque rally, the White House advance team hung a tarp over the city’s 2020 “Solidarity” mural, ten raised fists. The city, which owns the building, hadn’t approved it and had it removed (KCRG).

A Times essay says predictive algorithms are making culture the same everywhere (The New York Times). Searches for CD players at John Lewis, the UK retailer, are up 96% since July (The Guardian).

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“Leon Black’s board position at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is one of the starkest examples of institutional ignorance — a head-in-the-sand, look-the-other-way mentality that will inevitably give abuse of power a dark corner to grow and fester in.” – Hyperallergic

A spokesperson from the building’s management company: “The goal of the White House in covering the mural was to provide exterior branding and put up a U.S. flag.” But the city had not authorized any exterior modifications. – Des Moines Register (MSN)

Hence: CDs are making a dramatic comeback. – The Guardian (UK)

“Buried in the bones are clues about how plants and animals lived and died. Understanding why some of those species became extinct could help us.” – The New York Times