Yearly Archives: 2023
Florida’s Anti-Gay Laws Have Stopped Its Students From Studying AP Psychology
"'To be clear, any A.P. Psychology course taught in Florida will violate either Florida law or college requirements,' the College Board said." Then Florida's...
Countertenor David Daniels Pleads Guilty In Sexual Assault Case
The plea deal avoids jail time. Daniels, "who appeared on some of the world’s leading stages, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York and...
Why We’re Awash In Nostalgic Movies, Ads, And So Much More
"It’s not hard to understand why nostalgia is everywhere. ... It feels as though the world is spiralling towards fascism in the midst of...
Writers, Producers Meet With Absolutely Nothing To Show For It
In a note to members after the so-called meeting, "WGA leaders dampened expectations of a resolution to the strike and expressed skepticism over the...
A Stolen Van Equals A Canceled Run For A British Show In Development For...
"The play 5 Years, which took about two years to produce and features unique hologram technology, was set to be staged in Nottingham and...
Inanna, The World’s First Literary Hero
You might also know her as Ishtar. In either case, she was a hero before that upstart Gilgamesh came on the scene. - The...
Digital Replicas Already Fill Our Screens
Can the actors' unions negotiate protections against things that have already happened? "It’s not a question of technology. ... It’s a question of who...
Norway Takes On Meta’s Ads And Wins
How to defeat Zuckerberg? Well, money talks. - Wired
Dancers Across The Country Vogue At Gas Stations In Resistance After A Murder
"The protests centered on vogue as resistance. The dance style, born out of the ballroom scene in Harlem in the 1980s as a source...
Anna Netrebko Sues The Met For Lost Wages
Netrebko, fired by the opera house for her support of Vladimir Putin, "accuses the Met of discriminating against her because she is Russian; of...
Honoring The Handwritten Word, By The Thousands, On The Champs-Elysees
Traffic was blocked and 1,700 desks set up by the Arc de Triomphe, for "a public dictée. Anyone who's studied French knows the importance...
What Michael Chabon Did During The Early Days Of COVID
In those quiet, terrifying times, lo these long three years ago, Chabon did what any nerd might do: He built a replica of the...
Where Have All The Villains Gone?
"Hollywood’s sudden hostility to hostility is even playing out in cinemas now. One of the few traits shared by both Barbie and Oppenheimer is...
Can You Make A Successful Film Festival Without The Big Stars?
It's an existential crisis: How, exactly, does a splashy, global celebration of movies survive without movie stars? - Washington Post
Judgment Of Judgment: Serious Criticism In Crisis
"No clear economic reason for art criticism that is not glorified public relations to exist, so it barely does. While art is an extreme...
Is Hip Hop Really 50 Years Old? The Debate Intensifies
In a genre that has always valued volume as much as it loves liberation, the elders still compete over the story’s beats, much as...
Netflix Changed The Way TV Is Produced. Writers Want it back The Way It...
Netflix habitually pays more for its productions up front, but because it did away with the syndication model and keeps its viewership data to...
New Diagnosis: Scientists Studying Beethoven’s Hair Discover Something New
Several locks confirmed as far more likely to be from the composer's head demonstrate his death was probably the result of a hepatitis B...
Australia Is Festival-Happy – But Does Melbourne Need Another?
With a $2.7 million major investment from the City of Melbourne and a further $1.25 million from the Victorian Government, Now or Never is...
Who Invented Public Libraries? Roman Emperors
"If Asinius Pollio was the one who 'first by founding a library made works of genius the property of the public', it was Augustus...
Conductor John Wilson On Reinventing The London Sinfonia
“Most of us enjoy that; that’s why we come back. We want to be in that very demanding, high-achieving environment, where most of us,...
Meet New York Magazine’s New Theatre-Critic Tag Team
"Alongside longtime entertainment reporter Jackson McHenry … will be Sara Holdren, a theatre director who stepped into the job for a brief, blazing tenure...
Subscription-Happy: Apple Reports It Has 1 Billion Subscribers
Its services business continues to grow at a rapid pace, hitting $21.2 billion in the quarter, up from $19.6 billion last year. - The Hollywood...
Staffers At Picasso Museum In Málaga Will Strike Next Month
"Citing wages and working conditions that they claim are unequal to those of other Spanish art institutions, workers at the museum announced plans to...
The Art Of Conversation – And Why It’s More Difficult Today
“To speak to the converted or the entirely familiar is not to truly converse,. It is to have one’s beliefs reinforced; it is self-soothing...
