Yearly Archives: 2023
The Transformative Louis Langrée
At 62, Langrée has never been one of the world’s most famous or sought-after conductors. His career has been a steady climb of prestige...
Major Met Museum Patron’s Home Raided
Investigators from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office have carted away 71 looted artifacts from Shelby White’s home in the past two years, though they have not...
Studios Proposed: Scan You Once, Use AI Version Of You Forever, Free
“They proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their...
How Barcelona Became A Design Capital
In the spring of 1992, Barcelona was in the throws of Olympian joy and design fever. After 36 years of dictatorship, Barcelona’s nomination as...
A Movie About Theatre Camp That Helps Explain Theatre
Earnest and ridiculous in equal measure, Theater Camp makes clear that places like AdirondACTS are microcosms of magical weirdness. The film isn’t just a starry-eyed ode...
Why The Death Of Newspaper Dance Reviews Has Big Impacts On The Field Of...
Critical dialogue in dance today takes many forms, none in short supply. But reviews of live dance performances, in print or online, in publications with at...
Thousands Of Writers Sign Letter Urging AI Companies Not To Use Their Work W/O...
According to a forthcoming report from The Authors Guild, the median income for a full-time writer last year was $23,000. And writers' incomes declined by 42% between...
Pittsburgh Opera Company Takes Stock, Decides To Reinvent
Pittsburgh Festival Opera, is a “summer festival company” that typically puts on a few small-scale productions during the summer months and provides a training...
The Studios Are Doing It To Themselves
As Bob Iger seems to blame Disney+ for blockbusters' lack of, uh, busting in recent months, "Who knew that convincing audiences they no longer...
Librarians Can Do Anything, Even Get Barack Obama On TikTok
This week, Kankakee Public Library's TikTok features the former president "drinking out of a library-branded mug and leafing through a paperback. It’s the first...
Orange Is The New Black Actor Kimiko Glenn Talks About All The Second Jobs...
The actors weren't - and aren't - getting paid a ton. Glenn: Some of the other actors "were fucking famous as shit, like internationally...
Trying To Teach A Post-2001 Generation About The Trauma Of The Towers
"Their generation has come-of-age in a pandemic that killed millions of people and laid bare incredible systemic inequities. ... Many of my students don’t know...
When A Reporter Falls In Love With A Musical
A French musical based on a Hugo novel, but still. "A song debating the merits of the printing press at the top of Act II after...
Sounds Like Portland Might Want To Build A New Hall Elsewhere And Demolish The...
The options for renovating Portland's not-at-all-earthquake-safe, landmark-in-downtown big hall aren't great. Now, the city is checking out ideas for a new site, "which would...
Don’t Mistake These Strikes As A Whine From The Privileged
No indeed: We're all essentially the background actors. "If a digital replica of you — without your bothersome need for money and the time...
More Than 100 Tourists Get Stuck At Agatha Christie’s Home
Does it sound like a Christie plot? "That joke was not lost on the nerve-rattled people left with nothing to do but wander around...
Colson Whitehead On Writing A Trilogy, But Hedging His Bets
"If you do two, you might as well do three! But when Harlem Shuffle came out I didn’t say it was the first in a trilogy,...
Wait, Another Napoleon Movie?
Why, and why now? After all, "no figure in history has been portrayed so often in movies. ... Every generation gets a Napoleon....
The EU Strongly Suggests The US Join Its Fight To Regulate AI
Here's the issue with a lack of US regulation: "If the EU’s forthcoming AI Act isn’t matched with US rules for AI, it will be more...
The Years When The US Thought The Swastika Was A Fashion Symbol
We're not talking about the Bund or other Nazi sympathizers in the U.S. - of course they liked it. But its use "was widespread...
Director Shekhar Kapur Says Some Diverse Casts Are Driven By Guilt
Kapur thinks that series like Bridgerton have casts possibly more diverse than historical record because there's guilt over actors not getting work. Instead, he...
Jane Birkin, ‘French Icon,’ Actor, Musician, And Eponymous Bag Inventor, 76
Birkin "helped define chic female sexuality of the 1970s as an actress in arty and erotic European movies and in her relationship — equal...
Why Are Music Memoirs Big Business Right Now?
There's one very good reason: In 2012, publisher Faber committed to "campaigns that applied lessons learned from record labels, a faster-moving industry – creating...
Is There Any Privacy-Protecting Way To Use New AI Tools?
Maybe, but probably not. "It's worth putting some guardrails in place right at the start of your journey with these tools, or indeed deciding...
The Historic – And Wide-Ranging – Disruptions Of The Hollywood Strikes
For the producers, "There isn’t a leader or leaders who have volunteered to handle this and to be the focal point of the discussion....
