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As school board election nears, CPS parents incensed by political group at school event

Some CPS parents say they want a stronger firewall to protect against electioneering on school grounds. It comes after a nonprofit affiliated with the Common Ground Collective, a group heavily funded by billionaire Michael Sacks that opposes the Chicago Teachers Union, paid for the DJ at a back-to-school fair and handed out fliers that directed to endorsements.

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Sep 23 • 6:30 AM EDT • Politics • chicago.suntimes.com
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‘It’s five broken brains’: The Groundlings’ long-running ‘Crazy Uncle Joe Show’ keeps saying 'Yes, and...'

For 25 years, “The Crazy Uncle Joe Show” has brought long-form improv, friendship and plenty of laughs to the L.A. comedy scene.

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Sep 23 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Monumental Sports & Entertainment taps LG Electronics as Capital One Arena display partner

Monumental Sports & Entertainment has named LG Electronics USA the official TV, commercial display and appliance partner of the Capital One Arena in downtown Washington, D.C.

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Sep 23 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • digitalsignagetoday.com
'The Peterson Show' review: Janine Nabers' new play goes awry

The Echo Theater Company presents the world premiere of 'The Peterson Show' by Janine Nabers, a play that reunites the cast of a beloved Black sitcom after the TV dad has gone to jail.

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Sep 23 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Canada's boycott forces the sale of a California winery

As California's wine industry struggles, a family-owned vineyard spanning 3,500 acres is for sale after its exports to Canada dropped 35% in a year.

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Sep 23 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • latimes.com
Trump call for supporters to cheat undermines fraud claims

Richard M. Nixon famously declared, 'I am not a crook.' Donald J. Trump, his approval rating slumping toward Nixonian levels, is urging his backers to act like crooks in November's election.

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Sep 23 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Health insurance in Colorado is poised for another big price jump in 2027

Health insurance prices for people who buy coverage on their own are set to increase by 10% statewide on average in Colorado in 2027.

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Sep 23 • 5:18 AM EDT • Health • coloradosun.com
AI Boom, Politics, Inflation Stoke Anxiety Across Big Law

AI’s ascendance, polarized politics, and stubborn inflation are weighing down legal professionals, survey shows.

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Sep 23 • 5:04 AM EDT • Politics • news.bloomberglaw.com
Amazon leans into 'boomerang' hiring, recruiting former employees back

Amazon is courting former employees for open roles across the company, including some workers it laid off, recruiter emails show.

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Sep 23 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
GOP appears deeply worried about Senate race in N.C., a once reliable state

Republicans privately say the key battleground for Senate control may be out of reach as nominee Michael Whatley’s ties to the president bog him down.

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Sep 23 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Trump administration to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees over fraud claims

White House officials allege these individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program or do not exist. Vice President Vance said the move would save $2.2 billion.

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Sep 23 • 1:26 AM EDT • Health • npr.org
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What's ahead for the $250 million funding tool for Belton's Uptown Entertainment District?

At Tuesday night's meeting, there was plenty of discussion to better understand what Belton and developer, PETRA is getting into.

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Sep 23 • 12:14 AM EDT • Entertainment • kshb.com
Woman says a political canvasser stole an Amazon package from her porch

A Maine woman said a political canvasser stole an Amazon package containing running shoes from her front porch.

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Sep 22 • 10:51 PM EDT • Politics • wwnytv.com
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Caught on camera: A Maine woman says a political canvasser stole an Amazon package from her porch.

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Sep 22 • 10:42 PM EDT • Politics • fox8live.com
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Catholic Health announces 40 positions eliminated systemwide

Catholic Health has announced 40 positions are being eliminated system wide to adapt to evolving patient needs and ensuring long-term sustainability of the organization.

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Sep 22 • 10:17 PM EDT • Health • wkbw.com
Sons, mothers of people killed by ICE agents demand answers: ‘We still have so many questions’

The forum, led by Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Long Beach), included the mothers of Renee Good and Ruben Ray Martinez, and the woman who filmed Alex Pretti's death.

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Sep 22 • 9:19 PM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
California deal on Paramount-Warner Bros. merger spurs frustration

Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta’s agreement clearing the $111-billion merger followed intense pressure from state leaders including Gov. Gavin Newsom and dissent among fellow Democratic state attorneys general.

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Sep 22 • 9:10 PM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Health unit launches new healthcare services

First District announces flu clinics First District Health Unit will be offering three weeks of flu clinics in Minot in October, starting Monday, Oct. 5. During the first week, the first 50 people each day will receive a special gift. In addition, everyone who gets a flu shot during the three weeks will be entered […]

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Sep 22 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • minotdailynews.com
Gina Prince-Bythewood's son honored for saving a woman from stabbing

'Children of Blood and Bone' director Gina Prince-Bythewood's son Cassius Bythewood has been honored with a hero award by Miami Police after he saved a woman from a brutal stabbing attack.

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Sep 22 • 7:44 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Frisco sustainable business relaunches, Breckenridge hotel debuts renovations and more

Minimal Impact reopens under new ownership in Frisco Scents of soaps, lotions and household cleaners fill Minimal Impact’s tiny Frisco storefront, where shelves newly packed with sustainable goods fill the shop following its reopening this...

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Sep 22 • 6:45 PM EDT • Business • summitdaily.com
NASA's head of science on living on the moon, reaching Mars...and finding life beyond Earth

During a trip to NASA Glenn Research Center, Dr. Nicky Fox sat down with News 5 to discuss NASA's plans to build a lunar base, what it will take for humans to reach Mars, and life beyond Earth.

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Sep 22 • 6:26 PM EDT • Science • news5cleveland.com
Vanderbilt Health to lead nationwide initiative to improve outcomes for critically ill patients

Funded via ARPA-H, CIRCLE will combine advances in diagnostics and AI to speed development of next-generation interventions that identify and respond to harmful immunoinflammatory states before life-threatening complications occur.

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Sep 22 • 5:32 PM EDT • Health • news.vumc.org
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Former Fox News producer Jennifer Eckhart dies by suicide at 36

Jennifer Eckhart, a former Fox Business Network associate producer, settled a sexual assault lawsuit against ex-"Fox & Friends" weekend anchor Ed Henry in 2025.

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Sep 22 • 5:31 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
White House launches 'Trump TV' after ban on major news outlets

Days after President Trump barred reporters from three major news outlets from the White House, the administration has launched a 24/7 YouTube channel promising to put its "biggest moments all in one place."

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Sep 22 • 5:31 PM EDT • Politics • npr.org
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Christina Applegate is blond, back online after hospital stay

After a lengthy hospital stay for multiple sclerosis, Christina Applegate debuted a fresh blond hair transformation and shared a health update with fans on Instagram.

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Sep 22 • 5:24 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
OU renames health campus for Harold Hamm after historic $150 million gift

OU Health is now the Harold Hamm Health Campus after the University of Oklahoma received a record $150 million gift from the oil billionaire.

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Sep 22 • 5:19 PM EDT • Health • koco.com
Protesters at Paramount's gates say Bonta 'caved' on Warner Bros. merger deal

Dozens rallied outside Paramount's Hollywood lot, saying the settlement clearing its Warner Bros. merger fails to protect L.A. entertainment jobs.

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Sep 22 • 5:17 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Penn State chemist receives 2026 Schmidt Science Polymath Award

Lauren Zarzar, professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering, has been named a recipient of the 2026 Schmidt Science Polymath Award.

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Sep 22 • 5:10 PM EDT • Science • psu.edu
Atrium Health expands in NC after controversial merger with WakeMed gets local approval

Atrium Health is set to expand into the Triangle after Wake County leaders voted 5-2 to approve the WakeMed merger, though federal review is still ahead.

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Sep 22 • 4:58 PM EDT • Health • wxii12.com
Toronto bets big on Kawhi Leonard's health with reported two-year, $115 million extension

Toronto always planned to extend Leonard, and he showed last season he is worth it — if healthy.

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Sep 22 • 4:35 PM EDT • Health • nbcsports.com
Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ sets record for most weeks at No. 1

Ella Langley’s 'Choosin’ Texas' broke Mariah Carey’s Billboard Hot 100 record, with 23 weeks at No. 1.

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Sep 22 • 4:09 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Lionel Richie hospitalized again, drops some Earth, Wind & Fire shows

Lionel Richie and his tour with Earth, Wind & Fire hit yet another health-related roadblock this week. He was hospitalized to receive treatment for an irregular heartbeat.

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Sep 22 • 3:29 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Trump's D.C. arch is now a military complex. Here's how that complicates things

The future of Trump's D.C. arch was already fraught. Then he rebranded it as a military complex. Experts say that only raises more legal and logistical questions.

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Sep 22 • 3:25 PM EDT • Politics • npr.org
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Taylor Tomlinson turns off the mic to tell all in 'Actually, Nevermind'

Comedian Taylor Tomlinson turns a forced pause from nonstop touring and late-night TV into "Actually, Nevermind," an essay collection about grief, reinvention and changing your mind in adulthood.

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Sep 22 • 2:50 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Dental Affiliate Gets New Chance in Washington Business Tax Case

A Colorado-based company will get another opportunity to argue its connections to Washington are insufficient to justify a state business and occupation tax assessment, a Washington appeals court ruled Tuesday.

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Sep 22 • 2:44 PM EDT • Business • news.bloombergtax.com
Beats 360 Pre-Orders Open at Amazon With Cushion Kits on Sale, Plus More Beats Deals

The new Beats 360 headphones were announced today, and can be pre-ordered on Amazon ahead of their launch on Thursday. They're available in Black, Cloud, plus a bundle where you can style the headphones however you'd like thanks to interchangeable ear cushions and headbands. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running.

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Sep 22 • 1:40 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Clavicular charged with rape, drugging in Massachusetts

Clavicular, the social media influencer known for his looksmaxxing content, faces two felony charges for drugging and rape.

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Sep 22 • 1:38 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Armand Hammer's private art collection arrives at Sotheby's L.A.

Hammer Museum founder Armand Hammer's private art collection will go up for auction after a preview exhibition at Sotheby's L.A. Works include Mary Cassatt's "Summertime" and Edgar Degas' "Trois danseuses."

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Sep 22 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake’s world map revealed

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake will launch exclusively on Nintendo Switch 2 on November 5th, 2026. You can pre-order your copy on Amazon today.

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Sep 22 • 12:37 PM EDT • Technology • nintendowire.com
Sea turtle laying eggs at Huntington Beach is first known instance of nesting on West Coast

At least one olive ridley sea turtle has laid its eggs on the sand in Huntington Beach.

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Sep 22 • 12:32 PM EDT • Science • latimes.com
This 'fire amoeba' pushes the limit of what's possible for complex life

Scientists have found a species they've named the fire amoeba, which is capable of reproducing at 145°F and continuing to move up to temperatures of 147°F — a record for complex eukaryotic life.

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Sep 22 • 12:17 PM EDT • Science • npr.org
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LABI Names 2026 Business Excellence Award Honorees

BATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry (LABI) has announced the nine honorees of its 2026 Louisiana Business Excellence Awards,

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Sep 22 • 12:10 PM EDT • Business • bizneworleans.com
Nearly $17 million awarded to expand mental health and addiction services across Kentucky

Kentucky has secured nearly $17 million in federal grants for 988 crisis services, youth mental health programs and addiction recovery support.

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Sep 22 • 12:02 PM EDT • Health • lanereport.com
Justice Department Sides With Churches in Political Speech Case

The Justice Department told an appeals court it largely agrees with the religious groups suing it over how far churches can wade into politics and still keep their tax-exempt status.

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Sep 22 • 12:00 PM EDT • Politics • news.bloombergtax.com
Interactive: Workers brace for biggest health insurance cost spike since 2003

Employers expect the biggest rise in health insurance costs in decades, increasing pressure on wages, premiums and benefits for workers.

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Sep 22 • 11:41 AM EDT • Health • scrippsnews.com
Trump threatens to send Iran 'into hell' if war carries on

The president's remarks at the United Nations come more than six months into a war that has grown increasingly unpopular at home.

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Sep 22 • 11:30 AM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Newsom signs bill expanding mental health options for veterans

A state budget trailer bill with funding for psychedelic therapy research to help veterans has been signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Brian W. Jones, R-Santee, announced Tuesday.

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Sep 22 • 11:16 AM EDT • Health • kpbs.org
Colorado’s first pup Gia — a 4-legged staple of Jared Polis’ term as governor

Gia, a rescue dog, attended bill signings and news conferences, meetings with big-name politicians and members of the governor’s cabinet

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Sep 22 • 10:00 AM EDT • Politics • coloradosun.com
$10M Ill. fire station puts firefighter health, safety at center of design

Buffalo Grove's new Fire Station 25 features cancer-reduction measures, sleep-focused bunk rooms, expanded apparatus bays and a larger fitness area

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Sep 22 • 9:37 AM EDT • Health • firerescue1.com
GOP senator calls for subpoena of Trump Jr. over oligarch-funded wedding report

Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah wants Donald Trump Jr. subpoenaed over a report a Russian oligarch funded his wedding.

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Sep 22 • 9:13 AM EDT • Politics • scrippsnews.com
Should Boeing Stock Investors Worry About Its Money-Losing Jet Business?

If you own Boeing (BA), the worry is whether its commercial airplane business can earn money on the jets it sells. In the second quarter of fiscal 2026, that business lost money. Its operating margin was negative 2.7%, meaning costs ran above sales. The jet business brought in nearly half of Boeing's revenue for the quarter.

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Sep 22 • 9:07 AM EDT • Business • trefis.com
RFK Jr.-linked group offered access to U.S. officials for a fee

A nonprofit with ties to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. solicited payment from companies in exchange for access to top agency officials at an upcoming event, documents show.

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Sep 22 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • latimes.com
Why Melinda French Gates is shifting her philanthropy on women’s health

The philanthropist is investing in care for women in their midlife.

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Sep 22 • 6:45 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
'Begin Again' review: 2013 film gets musical makeover at Old Globe

San Diego's Old Globe presents the world premiere musical 'Begin Again,' based on the 2013 film by John Carney, with a book by Jenna Clark Embrey and Molly Beach Murphy and music and lyrics by Pat Monahan and the band Train (Jerry Becker and Matt Musty).

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Sep 22 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
How lip-syncing to AI let Forced Entertainment ‘play the game of theatre’

Today we have a fascinating piece by long-time Forced Entertainment fan Ben Kulvichit, speaking to Tim Etchells about their latest show Cold Sweat, how they are integrating lip-sync and AI voices into their work, the question of ‘authenticity’ on stage, and how lip-sync has even opened the door for them to make “something a little bit like drama”. This piece is a paid partnership with the Southbank Centre, where you can see Cold Sweat next month – we’re very grateful to the Southbank Centre for their ongoing support for Exeunt. Holly Williams ‘It was immediately interesting and uncanny’ **By Ben Kulvichit** “Is the microphone on?” So goes one of the opening lines of Signal to Noise, delivered by a human performer lip-syncing to an AI-generated voice. The voice is American, cheery but sluggish, slowed down into a gelatinous drawl. It repeats ad infinitum in a farce of stuckness; an answer never materialises. I find myself asking the same question as I hop on a Google Meet call with Tim Etchells, the artistic director of Forced Entertainment. We spend five or ten minutes frowning at each other, muting and unmuting, me gesticulating in semaphore into my webcam, checking if I am coming through now, restarting the laptop. To Etchells, I appear exaggeratedly mouthing words, my voice missing. In this gloopy purgatory of broken communication, life imitates art imitates life imitates art. We try a Zoom instead. Forced Entertainment, the pioneering British theatre company who have been at the avant-garde of performance since the 1980s, turned an interesting artistic corner with Signal to Noise, created on the occasion of their 40th anniversary. The whole performance employed this lip-sync technique to AI voices; on the face of it a left-field move from a company whose identity has long been grounded in the earthy, immediate presences of its performers and its unassuming, low-tech approach to theatricality. The technique, however, turned out to provide the company with a “rich new seam” of artistic enquiry, and has now spawned a trilogy of works. The second instalment, Cold Sweat, plays at Sheffield Theatres, Southbank Centre, and Lancaster Arts in October, while the third part, Everything Must Go, has been touring in Europe and is slated to come to the UK in 2027. As is often the case with Forced Entertainment shows, the main conceit for this work didn’t arrive until quite late. They were “four or five weeks into rehearsals for Signal to Noise,” Etchells recalls, and getting nowhere. Away from rehearsals, he had been playing around with feeding “weird texts” to AI voices to see how they would cope with them – “basically for my own amusement” – and was compelled by the uniformly “serviceable, benign, good-natured” tone they would read in, no matter how poetic, fractured or experimental the writing. On a hunch, he brought some examples into rehearsals and the performers gave lip-syncing a go. “It was immediately interesting and uncanny,” he recalls, with the performers having to deal in the moment with the problem of mapping themselves onto another artificial ‘performer,’ which itself was dealing with the problem of a very human text. “Almost all the writing for these projects would be useless to us unless it was done in this way,” says Etchells. “We wouldn’t know what to do with it. It’s too poetic. It’s too fictional. It’s too tangled.” But exploring lip-syncing along to the text has opened “an enormous reservoir of ways of thinking about writing and performing.” Subscribe to Exeunt, and get two in-depth pieces on theatre a week, direct to your inbox Subscribe Forced Entertainment have long been sifting through the detritus of popular culture, from daytime TV to end-of-the-pier vaudeville, magic acts and clown shows, to find frameworks for their own unusual entertainments. Lip-syncing, then, makes sense for them to experiment with. As a mode of performance, it’s wired into popular consciousness through pop stars trying to convince stadium audiences of their liveness, or those same voices as channeled through the made-up lips of contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race, or movie dialogue spreading virally through the host bodies of TikTok users. For Etchells, lip-syncing is often about “approaching real voices and trying to take on their aura,” subsuming that original human presence into yours. “There’s a very basic, elemental sort of theatre magic to it, produced in this very easy way.” This broad approach resonates with instances of lip-syncing within contemporary performance, too. In works like Re-Member Me and Showmanism, performance artist Dickie Beau acts as a kind of spirit medium for archival recordings (this process of re-membering – as in, giving corporeal form to voices – relies on his masterfully precise actor’s technique), while Frankie Thompson is similarly possessed by a host of characters ranging from a nine-year-old Jacob Rees-Mogg to Cliff Richards, all of whom she finds compellingly nauseating, in the exorcism ritual that is her latest show, Horrible Things. What’s different about Forced Entertainment’s use of lip-syncing is that here, there is no original presence to be channeled. The performers are instead taking on what Etchells describes as “the voices of nobody,” or rather the “phantasmic, aggregated echoes” of the many many voices on whose data the AI has been trained, and which are now conjuring into existence words they never actually said. There is a sort of mournful, empty quality to these voices, having “washed up” far away from the people they originally belonged to, to find themselves in stranger’s mouths listing objects, wondering if anyone can hear them and glitching in interminable loops. There is a cold, sad anonymity to it all. Etchells remarks that occasionally the software company he used has notified him that particular people are withdrawing their voices from the platform, instructing him to cease use of those voices. Using these technologies in performance certainly brings up ethical questions around digital rights, consent, identity and ownership, although in the grand scheme of things, Etchells is fairly blasé about it: of all the purposes someone’s voice might be put to without their knowledge, “an avant-garde performance is probably the least of their worries.” [ ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) [ Frankie Thompson: How I manage my own ‘horrible things’ at the Edinburgh Fringe ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) Exeunt · Aug 25 [ Read full story ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) For the performers, though, lip-syncing to these strange, artificial voices is an odd task, requiring them to bend their live, human presence into the shapes produced by machines. Politically, it mirrors processes that are already at play in the continued computational automation of human life. Etchells brings up James Bridle’s writings on new technologies as a reference point: one example Bridle gives is of “chaotic storage”, a logistics technique employed by Amazon fulfilment centres whereby items are stored not according to traditional methods of categorisation or alphabetisation, but in a way that an algorithm determines to produce the most efficient routes for ‘picking’ based on customer purchase patterns. This appears completely random and incomprehensible to humans, with paddling pools sitting next to USB sticks sitting next to blowtorches, and so for the warehouse workers, the process of picking items becomes completely reliant on technology which tells them where to go. Our world is increasingly being designed not with humans in mind, but rather machines. As Etchells puts it, “technology malforms the space, and then you end up having to live in it.” Initially, Forced Entertainment tried their best to live in the world of machines: “I was in the it’s-got-to-be-perfect school of lip-sync,” says Etchells. But with their aesthetic being so tied to the failing act, the slipping mask, the shoddy costume, “it’s no surprise really that that didn’t last.” Instead, the performers got to enjoy being late for a line, or playing games with each other, “stealing” each other’s voices. Etchells compares it to the principles of ventriloquism, in which a free-floating voice unattached to a body is fundamentally discomforting and “sort of traumatic”. That discomfort is equally as alluring to Forced Entertainment as the satisfaction of precision, the pretence of authenticity only interesting if shown to be a pretence. Lip-sync has also opened up new avenues for the company. Having been allergic all their lives to Plays-with-a-capital-P, with Cold Sweat Forced Entertainment find themselves approaching something a little bit like drama. Rather than the presentational arena of Signal to Noise’s open white stage, Cold Sweat places us more decisively in a “fictional locale”: what appears to be “the aftermath of some disastrous party or backyard drinking binge” where three figures – family members, or neighbours, perhaps – are the last ones standing. “It’s all quite acrimonious and accusatory, everyone’s talking over each other.” For Etchells, this more fictional mode is “a door that we’ve never been able to open. We’ve just never really gone there.” Perhaps it is the technique of lip-syncing, an extra buffer of mediation, that allows them to venture away from the here-and-now without feeling that they have to commit to the “psychological claptrap” that comes along with acting; to be able to “play the game of theatre, without getting one’s hands too dirty.” As I wonder how else the impulses behind Forced Entertainment’s work have changed over time, it occurs to me that over the last ten years of new creations, with the exception of If All Else Fails, the company’s performers haven’t ever spoken on stage: there were two shows without any language at all, Out of Order and Under Bright Light, and then this trilogy of lip-sync works. Etchells agrees it’s a shift away from earlier productions, that were so often about “the actual voices of the performers and their actual presences. We had a lot of money, in some ways, on an authentic approach to what it might mean to speak on the stage.” But this sense of authentic presence itself had a fakeness to it; these days, Etchells can’t stand that mode of being onstage where performers “are here to be cheeky and witty versions of themselves. I don’t want to be charmed.” Pulling back into a more anonymous space has resulted in works that feel slightly sharper-edged, more brutal in a way. “All of these shows are post-Brexit, post-Trump, post-truth, post-everything,” Etchells notes. Speech, charisma, authenticity – these things feel politically loaded, and perhaps warmth and openness just don’t feel like the right tools to reflect the world we’re living in. “It feels like the space is closing down, and we’re trying to deal with the fact that the system, the structure that you’re in, is more oppressive and more powerful. It probably always was, but I think we’re just more tuned to it now.” Yet even without their voices, the performers’ distinctive presences – ones that many audiences have followed around for years, if not decades – still, inevitably, shine through as they physically navigate whatever unending task the system of the piece has set for them. They’re still trying to keep up with the onslaught of text, still running about, changing costumes, moving stuff around. The human is always stuck in the teeth of the machine, jamming the smooth, frictionless cheeriness of the not-real, gesticulating silently, trying desperately to communicate. 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