NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

Fragile public art leads to unexpected costs

Boing Boing: Amelia Vanderhorst, 19, was charged with property damage in Mount Gambier Magistrates Court in South Australia after applying googly eyes to a local sculpture.

South Park Creators Explain Trump Attacks: Politics Is Pop Culture Now

variety.com: “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker recently spoke to The New York Times about their decision to turn the latest episodes of their Comedy Central series into full blown Donald Trump takedowns. The show has been criticizing MAGA nonstop in Seasons 27 and 28

Live Nation Study: Fans Choose Live Music Over Sports, Film, Sex

www.ticketnews.com: Live music has officially taken center stage in global entertainment, surpassing sports, film, and even sex as the world’s most preferred form of enjoyment, according to a new report from Live Nation.

Shakespeare By The Numbers: 64 violent deaths, 1,700 new words, 1,800 movie credits

New York Theater: William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays (10 tragedies, 10 histories, 17 comedies) and 154 Sonnets — 884,647 words in all. He is said to have invented 1,700 words in the English language

Fei-Fei Li debuts world-generating AI model

Fast Company: World Labs, the AI model developer cofounded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has released its 3D-space generating model, “Marble.” At the World Labs website, creators can now input text prompts, images, or videos of pieces of a real-world environment. Marble uses them to create full 3D environments, which can include interior spaces or expansive exterior ones.

 

Live Nation Study: Fans Choose Live Music Over Sports, Film, Sex

www.ticketnews.com: Live music has officially taken center stage in global entertainment, surpassing sports, film, and even sex as the world’s most preferred form of enjoyment, according to a new report from Live Nation.

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Sets Opening for September 2026

www.hollywoodreporter.com: The new cultural institution designed to celebrate illustrated storytelling, founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, will open to the public on Sept. 22, 2026. “This is a museum of the people’s art. The images are illustrations of beliefs we live with every day,” said Hobson in a statement making the date announcement. “For that reason, this art belongs to everyone.”

How Artists Are Exploring the Possibilities and Implications of Dance in Space

Dance Magazine: In a performance at the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces this past June, Sasha Peterson leaned the side of her body onto Michael Figueroa’s shoulders, sharing weight in a traditional contact-improvisational lift. But rather than disembark back to the floor, Peterson rolled down Figueroa’s back—and stayed there, her body perpendicular to his, suspended in space.

Whistleblower: Rockstar fired 40 Grand Theft Auto workers to crush union drive

Boing Boing: Rockstar Games' latest delay of Grand Theft Auto 6 may have deeper roots than technical challenges. According to a verified whistleblower from within the company, the recent firing of 30-40 UK employees for alleged "gross misconduct" was actually a union-busting tactic disguised as disciplinary action.

The Top 10 Spots to Shoot in Jordan

variety.com: With famously highly qualified crews and ease of bureaucracy, Jordan has long been a key destination for Hollywood productions, with such big-budget pics as “Dune” and “The Martian” using the country’s locations. The kingdom’s newly revamped cash rebate system — which can grant productions a return of up to 45% of local spend plus tax benefits that can add to combined savings of up to 56% — has made the country even more competitive as a fast-growing player in the Middle East and North Africa region.

6 Of The Best Milwaukee Tool Black Friday Deals Under $50

www.slashgear.com: Hoping to beef up your Milwaukee collection this Black Friday, but stuck with a tight budget? Or maybe you're searching for fun stocking stuffers for the handyperson in your life? Red Tool Store has some great Milwaukee finds for under $50 this holiday season. We've put together a half-dozen of the best deals on their site.

Home Depot Black Friday: Milwaukee & DeWalt's Top Storage Deals

www.slashgear.com: There's nothing like Black Friday sales to spark the Christmas season. Each year, retailers offer a variety of deals both online and in-store for shoppers looking to knock out their Christmas lists as soon as possible. Home Depot is kicking off their Black Friday sale this year with some big deals on Milwaukee and DeWalt storage options.

13 Lowe's Home Improvement Products You Didn't Realize Existed

www.slashgear.com: When it comes to big box retailers specializing in home improvement gear, Lowe's is among the best options on the market. The outfit offers an online presence that can give tool buyers plenty of search opportunities and inspiration, and maintains more than 1,700 physical stores.

Can't Hardly Wait Stage Musical Will Get Industry Reading in Los Angeles

Playbill: The in-development stage musical adaptation of cult-favorite film Can't Hardly Wait will get an invitation-only industry reading in Los Angeles November 21 at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. Kate Sullivan will direct.

Chiharu Shiota Returns to NYC With Alluring, Web-Like Sculptures

mymodernmet.com: In the past year alone, Chiharu Shiota has staged exhibitions in several countries around the world, including Austria, China, Hong Kong, Italy, and Turkey. But even as 2025 wraps up, the Japanese artist is showing no signs of slowing down. Now, Shiota’s innovative, web-like work has landed in New York for her second-ever solo show in the city.

Sporting Equals on the positive impact of Dance Westminster

disabilityarts.online: Forrester Court Care Home proudly participated in the Dance Westminster 2025 initiative, supported by Active Westminster and Step Change Studios, an award-winning dance company committed to making dance accessible to all. Held at Porchester Hall, the event celebrated movement, creativity, and inclusion, giving people with disabilities the chance to express themselves through dance, regardless of mobility, age, or experience.

Shakespeare By The Numbers: 64 violent deaths, 1,700 new words, 1,800 movie credits

New York Theater: William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays (10 tragedies, 10 histories, 17 comedies) and 154 Sonnets — 884,647 words in all. He is said to have invented 1,700 words in the English language

Meyer Sound Advances Sonic Presentation At The Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills

ProSoundWeb: A recent upgrade of the sound system at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ premier screening venue, includes five Meyer Sound ASTRYA-140 screen channel loudspeakers.

Fei-Fei Li debuts world-generating AI model

Fast Company: World Labs, the AI model developer cofounded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has released its 3D-space generating model, “Marble.” At the World Labs website, creators can now input text prompts, images, or videos of pieces of a real-world environment. Marble uses them to create full 3D environments, which can include interior spaces or expansive exterior ones.

Stereophonic: this play about an ailing rock band is a must-see masterpiece

theconversation.com: For legal reasons, David Adjmi and Will Butler’s play is absolutely not about the recording of Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album Rumours. But like that famous album, it is a dizzying amalgamation of influences, mercurial talents and creativity that sits among the defining achievements of its generation. And like Fleetwood Mac, too, it is hard to pinpoint precisely what witchy alchemy makes Stereophonic work so well.

The Right Formula: A Veteran Engineer's Strategies For Better House Mixes

ProSoundWeb: My first question: How can FOH engineers develop a reliable formula for mixing success? I was curious to learn about his standard process when he walks into any gig, irrespective of size or circumstance.”

What is inside Andy Warhol's hundreds of time capsules?

nextpittsburgh.com: Warhol is well known as a collector, but his Time Capsule project was his most epic collecting endeavor. Over the last 13 years of his life, Warhol filled more than 600 boxes with 300,000+ objects from his everyday life: receipts, works of art, envelopes of cash, packages of cookies, Polaroids, handwritten letters, paperwork, birthday presents, etc.

South Park Creators Explain Trump Attacks: Politics Is Pop Culture Now

variety.com: “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker recently spoke to The New York Times about their decision to turn the latest episodes of their Comedy Central series into full blown Donald Trump takedowns. The show has been criticizing MAGA nonstop in Seasons 27 and 28

A Complete Guide to the Plays of Samuel D. Hunter

www.broadwayworld.com: Samuel D. Hunter’s plays have quietly shaped contemporary American drama. Known for their compassionate look at working-class lives in his native Idaho, Hunter’s works explore faith, loneliness, community, and redemption with remarkable empathy. Hunter (finally) just made his Broadway debut in 2025 with Little Bear Ridge Road, now running at the Booth Theatre.

'The Chair Company' Costume Designer on Tim Robinson's Office Clothes

www.indiewire.com: HBO‘s “The Chair Company” is the latest hilarious dissection of midwestern office life from Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin, writers who have made a specialty of capturing the idiosyncrasies, camaraderie, and hostility of the workplace in shows like “Detroiters” and “I Think You Should Leave.”

Thespian Alumni Fund Launched to Support Under-Resourced School Theatre Programs

Playbill: The Educational Theatre Foundation (ETF) has launched the Thespian Alumni Fund, a new initiative looking to support under-resourced school theatre programs nationwide.

New CMU 3D-Printing Simulator Constructs Stronger, More Efficient Concrete Buildings

News - Carnegie Mellon University: When natural disaster strikes, a building’s survival often depends on how it’s built. Engineers at Carnegie Mellon University have created a fast, highly accurate simulator for spray-based concrete 3D printing that could enable stronger, more complex and less wasteful construction by predicting how concrete behaves and solidifies, even around rebar.

Lleyton Ho on Attending Stanford University While Dancing With San Francisco Ballet

Dance Magazine: In 2022, Lleyton Ho was at a crossroads. He’d just wrapped up his first full season as a corps de ballet member with San Francisco Ballet (the previous two seasons’ programming had been interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic), and he was eager to continue dancing with the company. Ho had completed his freshman year at Stanford University the year before, and the leave of absence he’d taken since then to pursue ballet was about to expire. He had to make a decision: Would it be college life or company life? “I thought to myself, What if I just did both?” remembers Ho. “If someone tells me something is impossible, I say, ‘Actually, it’s possible, and I’m going to make it happen.’ ”

Jessica Thompson — Mastering, Restoration, and Preservation Engineer

SoundGirls.org: For more than two decades, Jessica Thompson has dedicated her career to the art and science of sound. As a mastering, restoration, and preservation engineer and founder of Jessica Thompson Audio, she has spent over ten years helping artists, labels, and archives bring recordings to life with precision, empathy, and deep musical understanding.

Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine Support AI-Generated Voice Usage

Nerdist: AI usage has been a hot-button topic for as long as it has been around. Mixed reviews over the use of AI-generated celebrity voices has left a bad taste in plenty of mouths, including that of Zelda WilliamsOpens in a new tab. On the contrary, others view it as innovative. Actors Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine are in full support of the technology, both licensing their voices to AI audio company ElevenLabs.

Lake District theatre to be renamed after Victoria Wood and unveil new musical of her songs

Theatre | The Guardian: A theatre in the Lake District is to be renamed for the comedian and playwright Victoria Wood and will stage a new musical using her songs to mark the 10th anniversary of her death.

Little Lake Theatre Expands Community Reach in Programming and Partnerships for 2026 Season

onstagepittsburgh.com: Little Lake Theatre has revealed its 77th season, featuring 10 productions that “explore how people build, reshape, and rediscover home.” The 2026 announcement also includes “a new chapter in the theater’s growth and outreach,” as “resident and anchor theater company” at the Canonsburg Educational and Cultural Institute (CECI), as well as the launch of the Little Lake Theatre Academy, “a new umbrella for all classes, camps, and youth programming.”

Why It's More Important Than Ever to Watch Movies on IMAX or PLFs

www.indiewire.com: For film fans of all kinds (even the ones who make their living in the cinematic arts), going far afield to see a film in a unique format is something of a badge of honor. Consider this anecdote shared by Phoenix Theatres owner Cory Jacobson and VP of Project Development Jordan Hohman: earlier this year, an employee of their Midwest-based regional theater chain drove all the way from Cleveland, Ohio to the Lincoln Center theater in New York City in order to see “The Brutalist” projected on 70mm. That’s over 450 miles.

Wicked Witch's Hat From 1939's 'Oz' Hits Auction Block

www.hollywoodreporter.com: the iconic hat worn by Margaret Hamilton in 1939’s The Wizard of Oz is going up for auction on Dec. 9. Offered by Heritage Auctions — which last year sold a pair of ruby slippers from the film for $28 million — that hat comes up for sale just as Wicked: For Good, which brings to an end a revisionist telling of the witch’s backstory (played by Cynthia Erivo in the Wicked films), hits theaters ahead of Thanksgiving.

The Fall and Rise of Private Funding for Theatre

AMERICAN THEATRE: Corporate giving to theatres, long in decline due to shifts in attention toward social and political causes, has plummeted in recent years. Meanwhile the Trump administration and its enablers in Congress seem intent on decimating federal funding of the arts. For many theatres, then, the last best hope remains support from private foundations. Any cuts there feel like stab wounds, deadly enough to prompt a Shakespearean “Et tu?”

Mappability, granularity and the power of bespoke

InPark Magazine: “When multiple systems become impractical to maintain, LiCA can step in as the big overseer,” said Alexander Cooper, Head of Exhibit Technology for the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Cooper led the internal team that set out to design a new, comprehensive system to unify architectural lighting control across diverse venues.

Is the Driehaus Museum's Wizard of Oz exhibit worth it? A full review of "The Land of Oz: Beyond the Page"

www.timeout.com/chicago: isiting “The Land of Oz: Beyond the Page” at the Gold Coast’s Driehaus Museum feels a bit like opening a very elegant jewelry box: beautifully crafted, lovingly arranged and also...surprisingly compact. Tucked away into two rooms on the museum’s top floor, the film-inspired exhibit offers a curated peek behind the yellow brick road—costumes, concept art, early editions of L. Frank Baum’s original book and just enough memorabilia to spark a pleasant jolt of nostalgia.

Are Harbor Freight Icon Tools A Good Alternative To The Craftsman V Series? Here's What Users Say

www.slashgear.com: With the Craftsman V Series now discontinued (and only four years after its 2021 debut), there's a big question mark over what people should use in its place. For years, the V Series had been a go-to for anyone who needed pro-grade hand tools at a good price. But now that the line is being phased out, some are turning to Harbor Freight's Icon Series tools for high-quality, professional-grade tools instead. Same have wondered if Icon really fill the gap left behind by Craftsman's V Series.

AI set to revive French playwright centuries after sudden death on stage

The Independent: What might 17th-century French playwright Molière have penned next, had he not tragically collapsed on stage while acting in on of his own plays. This tantalising question has finally been addressed thanks to a unique collaboration between French scholars, artists, and an artificial intelligence firm.

d&b audiotechnik presents the CCLi Compact Cardioid Line Array

LightSoundJournal.com: At the upcoming Inter Bee show in Tokyo, d&b audiotechnik will introduce the CCLi Compact Cardioid Line Array, designed specifically for installed applications. Building on the success of the CCL system, which was launched in January 2025, CCLi offers the same technical advantages and acoustical properties, while adding distinctive features tailored for fixed installations.

SAG Awards Changes Name to Actor Awards for 2026

www.hollywoodreporter.com: Ahead of its 32nd edition on March 1, 2026, the SAG Awards — through which SAG-AFTRA, the largest acting union in the world, celebrates performances in film and on television — is getting a new name: the Actor Awards.

Disguise GX 3+: More power and possibilities

TPi: A challenge faced during development was working to ensure that we can guarantee the increase in power requirements for the NVIDIA Blackwell GPU architecture, which has a maximum power consumption of 600W. This has meant that we have had to validate a new power supply unit (PSU), as well as managing the increased cooling requirements.

Fragile public art leads to unexpected costs

Boing Boing: Amelia Vanderhorst, 19, was charged with property damage in Mount Gambier Magistrates Court in South Australia after applying googly eyes to a local sculpture.

How Movies Have A Blockbuster Impact On Abu Dhabi's Economy

www.forbes.com: When heist movie Now You See Me: Now You Don’t debuts on Friday, audiences will be treated to a stream of futuristic settings where a team of illusionists led by Jesse Eisenberg try to stage an audacious robbery. Even though the backdrops wouldn't look out of place in a sci-fi film, not one of them was computer generated.

What Do the Colors on the Gulf Tower Mean?

Pittsburgh Magazine: When the pyramid-shaped cap to the Gulf Tower first started giving a weather report, it was a binary prediction. Beginning in 1956, the pyramid atop the 44-story skyscraper would glow orange for fair weather, blue for foul — a practice that continued into the 1970s.

The Museum of Broadway to Launch THE ROCKETTES 100TH ANNIVERSARY: A CENTURY OF SISTERHOOD

www.broadwayworld.com: The Museum of Broadway will present a new special exhibit that will celebrate the 100th anniversary of The Rockettes. The exhibit, entitled The Rockettes 100th Anniversary: A Century of Sisterhood, will open to the public on November 13, 2025, and run through January 5, 2026, at The Museum of Broadway in NYC’s Times Square.

Laurie Metcalf and Other Steppenwolf Members on 50 Years of ‘Freedom Onstage’

The New York Times: In 1978, the actress Amy Morton ushered for a production of Lanford Wilson’s play “Fifth of July” that a scrappy theater company called the Steppenwolf — founded by Gary Sinise and Jeff Perry, friends from high school, and their friend Terry Kinney — took to the St. Nicholas Theater in Chicago.

LED takes flight

InPark Magazine: A new chapter in immersive ride technology has opened at Huis Ten Bosch Theme Park in Nagasaki. On September 12, the park debuted Air Cruise The Ride, a state-of-the- art flying theater designed and delivered by Brogent. The attraction marks a major step forward for Japan’s themed entertainment market and showcases the company’s ongoing innovation in motion simulation and visual technology.

The Red Rocks Effect: Analyzing Low-Frequency Behavior In Raked Venues

ProSoundWeb: Prediction software has become an indispensable component of the modern sound system design process. System designers can create a 3D mock-up of the audience geometry and then experiment with loudspeaker choice, quantity, placement and aiming until the predicted coverage meets the design goals.

FOCUS ON: Yamaha DZR10-D e DXS15XLF-D

LightSoundJournal.com: Today we bring you a review, with listening test, of the Yamaha D-Series speakers. We will focus on the Yamaha DZR10-D and DXS15XLF-D speakers, but we also took the opportunity to check out the DHR15M and DHR12M monitors, and the DBR12 and DXRMkII models.