Yearly Archives: 2021
How Publishing Literature Has Changed
Most authors have day jobs, which is nothing new; Herman Melville worked as a customs inspector. The difference in 2021 is that traditional side...
Thanks To Streaming, Indian TV Is More Daring Than It’s Ever Been (Or Is...
Certainly one encounters more kissing, bare skin, and profanity today than when there was a single, state-owned channel. (More high-quality scripts, too.) Studios like...
Data Science: The Creepiest, Most Ominous Word In Macbeth
It turns out that Macbeth uncanny flavor springs from the unusual way that Shakespeare deploys one particular word, over and over again. - OneZero
At Last, Dorothy Parker Has A Tombstone, Complete With Epitaph
"Leave for her a red young rose,Go your way, and save your pity;She is happy, for she knowsThat her dust is very pretty." ...
Was The Nuclear Family As Our Primary Social Unit A Mistake?
If you want to summarize the changes in family structure over the past century, the truest thing to say is this: We’ve made life...
Nocturnes — The Best Music To Help With Your Pandemic-Induced Insomnia
From the first Nocturne ever published (by John Field in 1814), to Chopin and Debussy and Britten, on to Max Richter's "eight-hour lullaby" Sleep,...
How Finland Gets Support For The Arts? Make Politicians Museum Interns
During the internship day, decision-makers will familiarise them them with the workspaces of museum professionals, the researchers' rooms, archives and, for example, the reception...
This One Weird Trick Changed Medical Illustration Forever
The carbon dust technique — basically, painting with dust ground from the graphite of a pencil — enabled illustrators to show details of texture...
For Over A Century, Black American Composers Have Gotten Attention In Europe That They...
From William Grant Still, William Dawson, and Florence Price to expatriates working there today, African-American composers whose music has been quickly forgotten here have...
Following In García Lorca’s Footsteps, Bringing Cinema To Remote Spanish Villages
In the 1930s, the poet and playwright co-founded La Barraca, a touring company that performed classical Spanish theatre in isolated hamlets. Now a project...
Bo Spassoff, Director Of The Rock School: The Exit Interview
"As he prepares to close this chapter of his career, Bo shares the lessons — for both teachers and students — that he's gleaned...
Broadway League Turns To Oprah To Convince Theatergoers To Come Back
Winfrey is narrator for the audio and video components of a multi-million-dollar campaign across print, broadcast, and social media to convince COVID-wary audience members...
Details Of Venice’s Planned Day-Tripper Tax Are Set
Regional lawmakers have approved a "contributo di accesso" ranging from €3 to €10 based on the time of year, and day visitors will have...
Actors Stranded In Sydney With No Work Or Money By Lockdown And Border Closures
With the Delta variant on the rise in the city, many Melbourne-based actors who had been performing in Sydney were contractually obligated to their...
Famous Writers Writing Books That Won’t Be Read For 100 Years
The works will be kept in a room lined with wood from the forest in the Deichman library in Oslo. One hundred years after...
A New Canon Of Climate Change Literature
It's part of a growing trend in publishing for books focused on the climate, whether from big hitters such as David Attenborough or Bill...
In Australia: Thousands Of Newly Canceled Gigs And Musicians Calling It Quits
With Australia reeling from the Delta strain, major festivals including Splendour and Bluesfest have been cancelled for the second year running, with an estimated 7,000...
COVID Has Changed How People Will Work For Non-Profits
No longer will many nonprofit (or for-profit, for that matter) employees be cowed into the belief that 60-, 80-, 100-, or 168-hour weeks are...
Dance Competitions – A Change Of Culture?
Dance competitions first emerged in the 1970s. Since then, they have spawned a distinctive, seductive subculture, mixing the hard-driving athleticism of organized sports with...
Origins Of The Term “Woke”
"A quarter of people think of it as a compliment, a quarter of people think it's an insult and the rest either don't know...
The AI Program That Wrote A Guardian Essay Is Now Writing A Play
"The GPT-3 system argued (in the article) that humans had nothing to fear from robots. Kwame Kwei-Armah, artistic director of the Young Vic, read...
OnlyFans Reverses Ban On Sex Workers. Creators Are Still Worried…
What remains is an uncertain future for both creators and OnlyFans, which has plans to go public later this year. The site has more...
Why Does English Have No Equivalent Of The Académie Française? Pestilence
The Royal Society of London actually did attempt to start one in the winter of 1665, with a committee that included poets Abraham Cowley...
Algorithms Are Directing How I Grieve For My Dead Mother
I can hide my mom’s photos or block her zombie Facebook account. But I’ve become accustomed to grieving this way. Technology has dictated what...
What’s The Torture In Today’s Russian Prison Camps? Eight Hours A Day Of State...
Opposition leader Alexei Navalny says the prison he's in isn't like the old Soviet gulag, with inmates doing hard labor in subzero weather. Instead,...
