We *need* art in our technology-filled, divisive world – and in so many ways, Santa Fe Opera is a model for what opera in the 21st century can look like. Attending and creating opera here is a complete experience that connects us to nature and to each other.

teachers should be paid a minimum of $100K per year

I don’t want “content”. I don’t want endless videos to watch to pass my time. I don’t want vapid art to consume so my eye holes have just anything to look at so I’m not bored. I experience film and art to FEEL something. I want art to communicate human experience MADE BY HUMANS

To be honest it was always pretty hypocritical to ban drag when you wear three inch heels every day.

Nostalgia is proof that you are living a life worth living, it is a privilege to yearn for your own memories

I know this sounds crazy, but sometimes it's worth financing art for art's sake to enhance our culture? Why do we have to be so capitalist-brained all the time?

what people on twitter want nyt connections to be

"I don’t know any great musician who has not had the experience of wondering whether he shouldn’t have been doing something else, and then saying, ‘Of course not.’ It’s like love...What you are interested in is the well-being of the object you love." -Leonard Bernstein, 1981

I chose, and my world was shaken—so what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not. You have to move on.

BREAKING -- New York Public Library for the win! After a massive public backlash, NYC's libraries are getting their funding back -- and will be open on Sundays again. Take a bow, folks -- WE did this.

Bernadette Peters.

I think this is the best take yet on this issue 👇

What an achievement vaccines are. What a monument to our love for each other it is to stare straight into the face of something as horrific and unstoppable as smallpox or measles or polio or cervical cancer and say “You know what, it doesn’t have to be like this.” HUMANS!

The issue with people “letting AI do the reading for them” is that a society that does not read is a society that can’t think critically. It can be easily manipulated by authoritarians. When we don’t read we are less informed, more dependent on tech tools, and more compliant.

Remember iron lungs for polio? No me neither. Because vaccines work

Hey, so this is ridiculous! Reading books teaches you to think. And the point isn’t just WHAT is being said, it’s HOW the author chooses to say it. That’s the whole point of art! Feeling, emotion, passion, rather than cold heartless summaries. I hate AI and Chat GPT.

Seems important that in Fahrenheit 451, books were still “available” in single-paragraph summaries—“read Hamlet in five minutes!”—but the books themselves had been banned for being too difficult. Tech boosters see a warning and think it’s an instruction manual.

Guess what? Vaccine scientists know exactly what’s in every vaccine, how much, & why they’re included. Why? Because scientists put them there. That’s literally how medicine formulation works. People claiming “no one knows what’s in your vaccines” are telling on themselves.