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      <title>The Week in Culture — Grammys, Broadway&apos;s Ledger, and the Vinyl Shelf</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Five credited dispatches: Cowboy Carter's album of the year, Broadway's record $1.9B season, the NEA's sixty cents per American, the Recording Registry's 25 slots, and vinyl's second act.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:52:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How America&apos;s Public Libraries Are Actually Funded — and Why That Explains Everything About Them</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[About 85 percent of public library funding is local, per IMLS data — under 2 percent is federal. Why the tax structure explains library inequality, closures, and the current fights.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:52:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Who Pays For The Sculpture Outside City Hall — One Percent Of The Building</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Percent-for-art laws have quietly financed American public art since 1959 by taxing construction budgets a penny on the dollar — and they fail the same way they succeed, by being invisible.]]></description>
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      <title>Why American Copyright Lasts a Lifetime Plus 70 Years</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every January, a fresh batch of novels, films, and songs slips into the public domain. The math behind that release date is stranger, and more political, than most readers assume.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:39:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Imani Brooks</dc:creator>
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      <title>The Quiet Economics of the Independent Bookstore</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Independent bookstores in 2026: how the ABA network, curation, memberships and community funding sustain a sector that keeps outliving its obituaries.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>NEH Grants 2026 Put $116 Million Behind America&apos;s 250th</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[NEH grants 2026: $75.1 million announced in January and $41.4 million in July fund founding-era programs, preservation, museums and research for America's]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Imani Brooks</dc:creator>
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      <title>Summer Museum Blockbusters 2026: Kahlo in Houston, Basquiat Meets Banksy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Summer museum blockbusters 2026: Frida Kahlo in Houston, Basquiat x Banksy at the Hirshhorn, Pokemon Fossil Museum in Chicago. The season's big bets,]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tony Awards 2026 Nominations Set the Radio City Field</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tony Awards 2026 nominations announced May 5 by Uzo Aduba and Darren Criss; ceremony June 7 at Radio City. Best Featured Actor field breaks down the]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Pulitzer Prizes 2026 Honor Kraus, Wohl and Lepore</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pulitzer Prizes 2026 winners: Angel Down by Daniel Kraus wins Fiction, Liberation by Bess Wohl takes Drama, Jill Lepore wins History. Announced May 4,]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How the National Recording Registry Picks America&apos;s Songs</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The National Recording Registry adds 25 recordings a year. How the Library of Congress process works, from public nominations to the Librarian's signature.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How to Read Broadway Grosses Before the Season Ends</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Learn how to read Broadway grosses: weekly Broadway League box office, capacity, break-even and the Tony bump, explained while the 2025-26 season is still]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Met&apos;s 2026 Spring Season Puts Raphael Before the Party</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Met's spring 2026 season pairs Raphael: Sublime Poetry, the first US Raphael retrospective, with the Costume Institute's Costume Art opening May 10.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Kennedy Center Honors 2025 Class Salutes Stallone, Strait, KISS, Gaynor, Crawford</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Kennedy Center Honors 2025 class honored Stallone, Strait, KISS, Gaynor and Crawford at ceremonies on December 6-7, 2025. Here is what the class means.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>National Book Awards 2025 Winners Signal a Borderless American Literature</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[National Book Awards 2025 winners: Alameddine, El Akkad, Smith, Cabezón Cámara and Nayeri. What the 76th awards say about American literature.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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