Yearly Archives: 2023
Overrun By Tourists, The Acropolis Imposes Limits On Visitors For The First Time
"Unprecedented queues at the foot of the site ... and unruly scenes at the gateway to the sanctuary have spurred the Greek government to...
A Look At The BBC’s 2023 Performance
The BBC had a record commercial performance that contributed to 30% revenue growth, climbing from £1.7 billion to £2.1 billion. The corporation’s commercial arm...
Chicago’s Museum Of Contemporary Art Tries A New Path For Art Education
The New Art School Modality is intended to create a sweet spot in academia. It will provide about 50 students each with a free...
Protests Over New Orleans Museum Hiring White Curator For African Collection
On paper, Maples seemed suited for the job. But criticism quickly arose, because NOMA had selected a White person to manage the collection of...
The Boomers Never Had A Chance
The Boomers’ careers followed behind a glut of Traditionalists still in their prime. Disproportionately, the Baby Boomers never made it to the seats of...
Sarah Silverman Sues OpenAI Over Copyright
Their lawsuits each contain six counts of various types of copyright violations, negligence, unjust enrichment, and unfair competition. The authors are looking for statutory...
AI Explodes Copyright Issues
I’ve created a story using my imagination—but to do that I’ve used an AI helper. So who wrote the tale? And who gets paid...
Study: What Nobel Winners Do (Or Don’t) After Winning
Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine tend to reduce their research output after claiming the prestigious honor, according to a new study –...
The Artistic Costs Of Censoring In Movies
Artful jump cuts can illuminate all kinds of interesting associations between images. Bad ones just create bumps in logic; they’re disorienting in a way...
How ‘In Cold Blood’ Destroyed Truman Capote
"Overnight, Capote catapulted from a mere darling of the literary world to a full-fledged global celebrity on a par with the likes of rockstars...
Shedding New Light On The Troubles
"A quarter of a century after the Good Friday agreement drew a line under the Troubles, a documentary series has scraped away the familiar narratives and...
Theatres Are Now Trying To Tempt New Audiences With Virtual Reality
"To watch a show the customer has to insert their phone into the VR device. Once the phone is place, the users strap the...
How Tracy Chapman Made Country Music History
"More than three decades after Chapman’s 'Fast Car' dropped, ... drove to the top of Billboard’s Country Airplay chart" as a Luke Combs...
Half Of Britain’s Empire Cinema Chain Shutter, With 150 Jobs Lost And Cities Losing...
"Staff apparently turned up for work at branches on Friday to find notes on windows explaining they were closing down." This leaves Sunderland (yes,...
How Do You Invent A Language That Half A Million People Want To Learn...
"You learn to say 'The woman is sweating' before that most basic greeting, 'Hello.' An incongruously cheerful cartoon asks you to translate 'All men...
A Library Book Comes Back 119 Years Late
Good thing fines are mostly a thing of the past, eh? "This came back in extremely good condition. ... Someone obviously kept this on...
The Repurposed Burlap Coffee Bags Of Henry V
The set designer for the production at the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival: "It just immediately added a layer that I don't think...
A Thumbs-Up Emoji Can Be A Contract, Court Says
"The ruling shows how ingrained emojis are in modern culture, also that so much of our daily communication happens via text. The playful symbols...
The Set Used For The Banshees Of Inisherin Is Now A Real Pub, Open...
"The film set pub lay for a year-and-a-half in a yard on Achill Island - and when Luke offered to buy it from...
Minnie Bruce Pratt, Poet And Activist, Dead At 76
Pratt, originally from Alabama, "moved between the worlds of literature, scholarship and activism over nearly five decades as the LGBTQ+ community achieved gains such...
Netflix Gets Deeper Into Europe With Deal In Germany
The deal gives the streamer access to upcoming films "involving Jella Haase, Peter Saarsgard, Ben Chaplin, John Magaro, Leonie Benesch, Mads Mikkelsen, Vanessa Hudgens,...
A Trial May Determine Which Of Aretha Franklin’s Handwritten Wills Is Valid
Shall it be the will in the cupboard, or the will from the sofa cushions? "I think they all wish this had been settled...
Puritanical British Transport Bans Theatre Ad Featuring Wedding Cake
Just what we need: More joyless, foolish bureaucrats quashing theatrical productions. "The interactive show is set at an Italian-American wedding, with a three-course meal,...
A Documentary Of Wham In East Asia, Squelched
To watch If You Were There, director Lindsay Anderson's cut of a documentary about Wham! in China, you have to go to a university...
How ‘Fiddler’ Helped Usher In The 1960s’ Jewish Pride Movement
"In the early 1960s, the Jewish American soul was tied in knots. On the one hand, Jews knew they were outsiders. ... On the...
