Kennedy Center Honors Relocated to Capital One Arena Amid Financial Crisis

Key facts

• Kennedy Center Honors will be held December 7 at Capital One Arena after the board voted to close its building.
• Ticket sales are on pace to fall by two-thirds, donations down 40% in four months, and development staff cut from 96 to 14.
• Utah Republican Mike Lee blocked a bill co-sponsored by Lisa Murkowski barring demolition of a congressional memorial without Congress's approval.
• Nashville Symphony suspended its season effective October 18, furloughing all 77 musicians and half its staff against a $10 million deficit.
• Cleveland Orchestra musicians struck for three days and won 5% annual raises and a rule that the music director can't hire anyone the audition committee's majority hasn't approved.
• The Third Circuit Federal Court ruled Ross Intelligence can't claim fair use for training its AI on Westlaw's editorial headnotes, the first appeals ruling of its kind.
• Seattle Public Library's Books Unbanned, an e-card for readers 13 to 26 nationwide, has passed 1.1 million checkouts on nearly $900,000 in donations.
• Xander Parish, the first British principal at the Mariinsky Ballet, opens the Nouveaux Ballets Russes in Florence on March 14 with a Swan Lake set in Belle Époque Paris.