“Daniel Sikkema was found guilty in May of charges tied to a murder-for-hire plot … that took place in Rio de Janeiro in January 2024. After a two-week trial in New York, Daniel was convicted of three charges: murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, and conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country.” – ARTnews

“The networks were following the same returns, and by the end of the evening, the same political story was taking shape. What differed was how they told it — and how quickly they moved from counting votes to explaining what went wrong for Republicans and what comes next for Democrats.” – TheWrap (Yahoo!)

The win of the £10,000 award makes The Rouse the longest novel to take the prize since it was launched in 2013 for fiction that “breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form.” – The Guardian

Over his seven-decade career, he was music director or principal conductor of the flagship orchestras in Oslo, Danish and Swedish Radio, Dresden, San Francisco, and Leipzig — then spent his 80s and 90s as a surprisingly energetic and much-beloved guest conductor all over Europe, the US, and East Asia. – NPR

Virginia and the District of Columbia sued to stop construction of Trump’s 250-foot arch, which would stand between Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial at twice the memorial’s height. Work could start this week, and the suit calls the approval process “hurried and preordained” (NPR).

A Bogotá judge ordered Colombia’s National Museum to restore 63 objects the new right-wing government removed on Oct. 15 as “political indoctrination,” including a pride flag and the pen, made from a bullet, that signed the 2016 peace agreement (The Art Newspaper).

The Phoenix Symphony ended its season on Nov. 1 and laid off all 66 musicians after years of deficits. Players, board and staff now say they may resume performing this month, though a $6.5 million gift is on hold (KJZZ).

La Bola Negra, a drama inspired by Federico García Lorca, is now the third-highest-grossing Spanish film ever at €36.7 million (Variety). For decades Lorca’s family and scholars kept his homosexuality out of print; his brother’s 1980 biography never uses the word (The Guardian).

After years of searching, the archaeological dig at Troy yielded its first musical instrument in more than 150 years of digging: a bone flute from about when Homer composed the Iliad (Smithsonian).

All of our stories below.

Reporting to the Director of Production, the Production Coordinator will act as lead Production representative for the Pre-College program, as well as any other event(s) to which they are assigned, and will be the main liaison between SFCM’s event team and the artists and organizers of the event.

Job Duties

• Assist the Director of Production in advancing event logistics and set-up needs
• Under the supervision of the Director of Production, implement and lead all logistics for an event such as executing stage changes and operating lighting, acoustic panels
• Ensure compliance with workplace and event policies
• Maintain efficient and effective communication with event staff, performers, and other stakeholders to ensure an event runs smoothly
• Serve as event production lead in rotation with Director of Production & Production Manager
• Works closely with the Pre-College & Continuing Education team to coordinate all production needs during Saturday Pre-College activities
• Assist the House Manager with crowd control as needed
• Work 1-2 evening events per week, as assigned
• Other duties as assigned

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The relic is the first musical instrument found at the site in 156 years of excavations. – Smithsonian Magazine

With their Broadway debut a smash hit, Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik expected their next musical, Nero (about the Roman emperor), would go far But, after a 2006 production in San Francisco, the piece got nothing more than workshops and showcases for producers. At long last, Nero is having its London premiere. – The Guardian

We have not a single piece of meaningful legislation in the United States Congress about artificial intelligence. We have essentially nothing about social media. This is something that we’re now battling out in the courts.  – The Walrus

This may strike you as a little paranoid. The rise of the telephone, in the past century and a half—from the rotary diallers at home and the boxes in the street to the smartphones in every pocket—is associated with a change that, broadly speaking, we consider positive. – The New Yorker

For a time, the photograph or moving image acquired its own evidential authority: seeing something recorded was, with reasonable caveats, grounds for accepting that an event had occurred. – The Conversation

“Houdini, whose real name was Eric Weisz, was a prolific author, with more than two dozen books, short stories and plays to his name. One of them, an article titled ‘An Interesting Scrapbook,’ … appears for the first time in print on Saturday” — the centennial of his death — “in Strand magazine.” – The Guardian

The 45-page lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia called the project “flagrantly unlawful,” attorneys general Jay Jones of Virginia and Brian Schwalb of the District of Columbia wrote. – NPR

How do we give shape to this disquiet? We might call it fatigue, burnout, or ‘just needing a break from the world’, but often it’s grief – mourning for a faith we once had in fellow citizens to recognise a certain decency or sense of fairness. It isn’t partisan; it’s human, and it has a name. – Psyche

In the early years, Darius James said he would cover the word “ballet” on the van they took to do community workshops because he feared it would put people off before trying. – BBC

While the Anglosphere has long seen the poet-playwright as a gay icon, that side of his life and work was for decades suppressed within his homeland. Any scholar who dared discuss the subject would be denied access to the family archives (and likely harassed by the Franco regime). That has finally changed. – The Guardian

The dataset now spans 2003–2025 and includes newly added data from 2024 and 2025. It is available through the NADAC website for free download and online analysis. – NEA

Under this rigid order, there’s no room to interrogate our rocky history, let alone change it for the better. There’s just one nation, under God, indivisible—now, always, and forever. – Mother Jones

A.I. features are now a standard part of Google’s commercially available search engine. “Search and A.I. are deeply integrated.” If a school has banned A.I., he added, students “will not have access to search, and they’ll see a message from their school that indicates it’s not available.” – The New York Times

Hindu mythology includes several figures described as third-gender, mixed-gender or genderless. Bijayini Satpathy, one of the great living practitioners of Odissi dance, had never played any of those characters before creating her new solo piece, and she wasn’t sure she would even know how. – The New York Times

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“In a joint statement, the unionized musicians, board and staff say the meeting discussed fundraising progress over the past week, and a possible plan to resume performances as early as this month.” – KJZZ (Phoenix)

“On the evening of 28 October, César Enrique Osorio Ortiz — a judge at Bogotá’s 24th Family Court — ordered Colombia’s cultural ministry and the museum to return the works to their original locations within 48 hours. The ministry complied with the order on Friday (30 October).” – The Art Newspaper