Kennedy Center Opens July 5 With Public Access but No Performances
Management handed the court three closure options instead of booking shows, turning a stay-open order into a governance question about what 'open' legally requires.
Culture
CPJ Board Votes 17-1 to Keep Journalist Definition but Cuts Twenty Gaza Names
The 17-1 vote kept the journalist definition, but the review removed 20 names — 8 confirmed Hamas or PIJ combatants, 12 for other reasons — while 209 documented deaths remain uncontested.
Clive Davis Built Pop Music's Canon and Left No Replacement Model
Two weeks on, industry retrospection crystallizes the A&R-vs-algorithm question MSM answered with legend and X with gatekeeping — both missing the structural vacancy Davis leaves.
AI Training Firms Buy Rare Books From European Dealers Then Destroy the Copies
X calls it book-burning and invokes Alexandria; WaPo calls it corporate strategy — neither names what the law cannot restore once a rare edition's only copy is scanned and destroyed.
Dua Lipa Installs a Permanent Library of Challenged Books Inside a Porto Bookstore
The Manifesto Library's 100 titles at Livraria Lello are a permanent institutional commitment — not a press-cycle pop-up — that doubles as a curatorial argument about which banned books count.
Mexican Police Arrested in Killing of Journalist Roxana Guzmán in Veracruz
Press-freedom X logs another cartel entry; CPJ names the police arrests as state complicity — the gap matters because cartel violence means failed state, police arrests mean the state is the threat.