In Friday’s (3/27) Violin Channel, an article states, “In January 2025, Jonathan Carney announced his retirement as Concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for the end of the 2026/27 season after almost three decades in the role. He was given the ensemble’s first honorary title of Concertmaster Laureate. According to The Baltimore Banner, his tenure was also marked by allegations of inappropriate behavior, including alleged [sexual] misconduct in 2005 … In a now-deleted social media post, violinist Lara St. John, who recently released her documentary ‘Dear Lara’ confronting sexual abuse in the classical music industry, took to Facebook to share her opinion on Carney being named Concertmaster Laureate, despite the alleged accounts of misconduct over the years. ‘It is appalling to me that this Carney concertmaster is now allowed to retire with heaps of laurels, while a lot of women have been harassed and abused over a period of decades by this guy,’ St. John wrote.… On March 27, 2025, Carney sued St. John for her Facebook post … On October 20, 2025, the court issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order, through which Judge Lewis A. Kaplan denied St. John’s motion to dismiss the defamation lawsuit filed by Carney…. Carney has this week confirmed … that the defamation case has now been settled, with a ‘key requirement’ from his side being ‘[St. John’s] retraction of allegations about which she had no first-hand knowledge, as well as a cessation of her personal campaign to defame me and cause harm to my reputation in the industry,’ he said. Lara St. John posted the following statement of retraction on her Facebook on Tuesday of this week, writing, ‘I did not knowingly publish any false or inaccurate information. I take seriously the concerns raised by Mr. Carney, therefore I hereby retract the statements I posted on my Facebook page on January 29, 2025 and will remove the post from my Facebook page.’ ”

Celebrities Call for Closure of ICE Detention Center in Dilley, Texas
A long list of actors, artists, filmmakers, physicians, organizations and policy experts signed a letter demanding the “immediate closure” of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas, a prison-like facility used to hold children and families following ICE raids in the United States. The letter, which calls upon the federal government and private prison operator
















