Yearly Archives: 2021
Where Dancers Go To Rehab As Performances Resume
Dr. David Weiss, an orthopedic physician with the NYU Langone facility in Kips Bay, compared the runup to Broadway’s comeback to a training camp...
Social Media Has Redefined Gen Z Elite Athletes
Through social media, they have opened up conversations about performance, mental health and the impact of the media. Sports stars are making their voices heard...
Why Intellectuals Have Such Lowly Public Status
The general public in the United States sees intellectuals as disconnected from their everyday struggles and concerns. From this perspective, intellectuals don’t actually work...
All The Reasons Book Reviewing Is Lacking
If there is a problem with book reviewing the problem is that those of us who are good at it aren’t good enough, there...
The Case Against Beach Reading
Reading is not a beachy activity. Reading is for armchairs and bay windows and loverless beds. Bring a book to the beach and you’re...
Marc Ribot: Why I Have To Play My Music Super-Loud
Audiologists say this could make one’s ears howl, create an uncomfortable sensation of density in one’s head, and eventually make it impossible to hear...
In Praise of The Lowly Lullaby
Individuals who heard them as babies relied on them, decades later, as parents and grandparents. Not even the symphony or fugue or sonata can...
How Universities Get To Define The Universe
Universities, more than any other institution, shape our conception of what constitutes worthwhile knowledge. Therefore, if we want philosophy to thrive in the contemporary...
Behold The Manifesto!
This is a form that asks readers to suspend their disbelief, and so like any piece of theater, it trades on its own vulnerability,...
Riccardo Muti at 80: Tired Of Life
"I’m tired of life, because this is a world that I no longer recognise and since I can’t expect the world to adapt to...
What The Pandemic Did For Arts Organizations
Yes, it was devastating - and it also opened up the arts to many who couldn't access them before. How do we keep shows...
Artworks Mark The Anniversary Of Emancipation In Canada
But many artists and other Canadians wonder where the info is about what came before emancipation - slavery in Canada. - CBC
Teens Cash In On The NFT Art Boom
Inevitable in the TikTok-driven universe? "NFT markets like Atomic Hub, Nefty Blocks and OpenSea are filled with creators barely old enough to drive. They promote their work not...
What Should Be The Next Big Fantasy Adaptation After Game Of Thrones?
And considering that series' success - though a very rapid fall-off after the ... let's call it disappointing ... final season - why aren't...
Pat Hitchcock O’Connell, Who Brought Her Mother To The Forefront As A Co-Creator Of...
McConnell acted in a few of Alfred Hitchcock's movies, and had an acting career of her own separate from him. But "while her acting...
The Fine, Poetic Art Of Literary Name-Calling
Consider "Tricky Dick," "Slick Willy," and, of course, the recent president, that "short-fingered vulgarian." - LitHub
The Hottest, Weirdest Thing In The Game World Right Now
It's a board game. About birds. - Slate
The Future Of Live Events Is Hybrid
At least, according to the Edinburgh Book Festival's director, who says, "One thing is for certain, we are not going back to the festivals...
The Originally Unplanned Yet Very Special Holiday Episode Of Ted Lasso
Sorry, but how did they pull this off? And why Christmas in August? (Spoilers in the article. Lots of delightful spoilers.) - Los Angeles...
In New York, Everywhere’s A State Of Mind Right Now
Performers fanned out across the city to play Billy Joel's 1976 hit in a new music video meant to improve, er, New York's state...
Broadway Ticket Sales, Including For Hamilton And Wicked, Are Slow
Broadway isn't back, baby. Thanks, Delta. - CNBC
Why Reservation Dogs Is So Important For TV
Yes, it's because of all of the Indigenous rep. - NPR
The Recovery Of The Mouse
In case you were worried, Disney's doing much better now, which is possibly a good sign for the economy. - Los Angeles Times
Readers Do Love Books About Sisters
And if you're one of the legion who adore Lizzy and Jane, or Meg and Jo, or ... etc., here's a list for you....
The Coming Conservative Publishing Backlash To Racial Reckoning Books
Yeah, no thank you, a lot of Americans don't want to reckon. Better, some imprints think, to make a lot of money off of...
