Yearly Archives: 2023
The New Intensity Of Concert Experiences This Summer
Concerts have always been spaces where like-minded fans can gather to discover connection, but now this brand of togetherness has transformed concertgoing into an...
Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Museum Reopens After a Refresh. Here’s A Look
The once-in-a-generation refresh, the work of architect Shohei Shigematsu at design firm OMA, reestablishes the modern art museum as a friendlier neighbor with easier...
The Republicans’ War On Libraries
Attempted book bans in libraries and public schools have proliferated in Republican states, complaints made on grounds of history, race, gender, LGBTQ+ rights and...
Some Real Talk About AI In Music
Production music, aka commercial music, will likely be AI’s victim number one. Production music is rarely the music you’d choose to listen to all...
Getting Navajo Culture Right On TV
George Joe consulted family to help with accuracy, since they all lived through the time and place depicted on Dark Winds. Then, language: "On...
What’s The Point Of The Met Museum’s New Collaboration With A Virtual Reality Company...
Maybe this: "I realized I was paying more attention to historical objects and works that I otherwise might not have given a second glance...
Artificial Intelligence Programs Seem To Threaten The Profession Of Architecture
"In terms of strategic thinking and real-time analysis, AI is already way beyond what human architects are capable of. This could be the final...
Global Investment Firm KKR May Buy Simon And Schuster From Paramount
"The possibility that a private equity firm could buy Simon & Schuster has made some publishing executives nervous over the past three years, concerned...
How Global Investment Firm KKR Is Making Public Libraries Far Worse
In 2020, a global investment firm bought the company that provides ebooks to nearly all libraries in the US, and quite a few in...
Asian American Writers Have A Conference Despite The Smithsonian’s Weaseling Out At The Last...
The Asian American Literary Collective got their "Ghosted World" conference together quickly after the Smithsonian canceled its huge and popular event. One organizer: "This...
What Joyce Carol Oates Owes To Oprah
We can't really say "feminism," but if it's feminist to start thinking of your mom as a person when she's 84 years old, then...
The Existential Crisis Of Being A Writer And Parent To Kids Who Don’t Love...
A writer parent, tasked with teaching her kids in the early days of the pandemic, realizes it's not just that they don't love it...
Leny Andrade, The First Lady Of Brazilian Jazz, Has Died At 80
"Andrade rose from the clubs of Rio, where she performed as a teenager, to forge a six-decade career, recording more than 35 albums as...
An Interview With The Guy Who Had The Music Handle On Twitter For 16...
Musk yanked @music away without warning. Jeremy Vaught: "It’s been emotional. ... The idea that they’ll just take your account because they want it—I’ve...
The Writers’ Strike Is Really About One Company That Has Changed Everything
"Writers’ rooms, in fact, were never written into any WGA contract, seemingly based on an assumption that business would continue as usual. But Netflix,...
Back To The Stone Building Age
Look, stone is energy efficient, and some architects are ready for a return. "Solid stone can once again form the walls and structure of...
New York’s Bessie Awards Honor Performances And Grieve For A Slain Friend
"'How is it possible that in 2023 someone was brutally murdered for dancing?' Manchildblack said." - The New York Times
In Vancouver, ‘Hollywood North’ Has Been Hit Hard By The Strikes
"Foreign film and TV shoots in Canada have ground to a halt. While domestic production continues, union leaders say that eventually many of the concerns driving...
When An NHL Player And His Wife Asked Readers To Stop Sexually Harassing Him
Hockey romance fans "gravitate to players who remind them of their favorite book boyfriends, and one popular choice is Seattle Kraken center Alex Wennberg....
The Unspoken, But Specific, Language Of Crosswords
"The rules of crosswords ... are intimately related to the grammar of language in general. Just as toddlers develop a deep knowledge of different...
Julia Scully, Influential Editor Of Modern Photography, Has Died At 94
Modern Photography "was as devoted to the technical side of photography as it was to its aesthetics. Ms. Scully focused on the latter, and...
Greta Gerwig Is About To Be The First Woman Director With A Billion Dollar...
"Barbie’s astounding success puts in a new category, which, until now, had been dominated by the likes of James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, and...
The Recent Spider-Verse Movies Have Made All Of Animation Better
Why is the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie so much better than the 2007 version? "Since Into the Spider-Verse became a box office...
Is TikTok Driving A Rise In Truly Terrible Concert Behavior?
"Harry Styles was hit in the eye with a sweet in Vienna, Bebe Rexha received stitches after she was hit in the face with...
Crime Fiction Is Perfect For Adding In Social Commentary, Author Says
Laura Lippman: "The through line in almost every book that I write is that no one is more capable of bad acts than someone...
