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Attendance reached an admirable 83 percent of total capacity in 2023-24, and in 2022-23, the most recent year for which results are public, the orchestra recorded a surplus of $1.1 million on a $42.4 million budget, its first year in the black since 2018.
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David Allen Jenn Ackerman, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
While there could be other explanations for the mysterious X-ray patterns, such as oscillations in the black hole’s corona, those are less understood.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025
Corrective information, such as reports pointing out the math fumble in the black spatula study, has less shock value and tends to get lost in the torrent of news around the initial scare.
—F.d. Flam, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2025
Kidman is a dynamo in the black comedy about a local weather girl who dreams of hitting the big time, and whose cozy little life of nice clothes, nice car, nice house doesn’t quite align with her desire for more universal fame.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
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David Allen Jenn Ackerman, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
While there could be other explanations for the mysterious X-ray patterns, such as oscillations in the black hole’s corona, those are less understood.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025
Corrective information, such as reports pointing out the math fumble in the black spatula study, has less shock value and tends to get lost in the torrent of news around the initial scare.
—F.d. Flam, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2025
Kidman is a dynamo in the black comedy about a local weather girl who dreams of hitting the big time, and whose cozy little life of nice clothes, nice car, nice house doesn’t quite align with her desire for more universal fame.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
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“In the black.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20the%20black. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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