Yearly Archives: 2023
Google’s Most-Searched Celebrity Of 2023 (It Isn’t Taylor)
The person who prompted the most trending queries – i.e., had the highest spike in traffic over a sustained period in 2023 as compared...
Date Announced For Reopening Of Notre Dame
The date was confirmed by the French President Emmanuel Macron during a visit to the site on 8 December, according to the French newspaper Le...
How To Think About Our Marriage With Technology
At its simplest, technology can be understood as a tool which enables us to reach a particular end; a chimp using a stick to...
The Macroculture Is Dead. Long Live Microculture!
"The most curious part of this is how people working inside the macroculture are the only folks who don’t understand what’s going on." -...
Fran Drescher Talks About What The Actors Won In Their Strike
"We went from not having any protections — they would be pulling our members off to go get scanned and think that was OK...
What Does The Milky Way Sound Like?
Ask Montreal composer Sophie Kastner, whose music for Where Parallel Lines Converge "was generated from the type of data NASA scientists usually use to...
One Of Norman Lear’s Legacies: Reshaping The View Of Black Families On Mainstream TV
On shows like The Jeffersons and Good Times, there were still stereotypes (hotly debated even now), but Lear's "full-rounded view of Black life in...
The BBC Is Still Hiding Emails About That Princess Diana Interview With Martin Bashir
"Judge Brian Kennedy ordered the BBC to release more emails - saying the corporation had been 'inconsistent, erroneous and unreliable.'" The emails still haven't...
One Of Britain’s Parliament Buildings Has Severe Structural Failings
Rain is coming into MPs' offices, but the real risk is that the atrium's glass dome might just ... fall in. - The Observer...
The Radical Art Group Who Smuggled Left-Wing Messages Into Network TV
Artist and CalArts professor Mel Chin "had to pull off something like an art heist in reverse. Instead of stealing art from a well-guarded...
Independent Bookstores Are Thriving In The UK
But that's not necessarily because of the books. - The Observer (UK)
Should AI Ramp Up Or Calm The Heck Down?
Both, to save democracy - and humanity. - The New York Times
Three Months After A Fall Off Stage, Stephen Fry Is Back In The Public...
Fry said he "was left needing constant physiotherapy after breaking his leg, pelvis and a 'bunch of ribs.'" - BBC
Big Publishing Has Mostly Abandoned Change And Diversity
But writer, editor, and idea peddler Dhonielle Clayton is determined to drag books forward. - The New York Times
Disney’s – And Salvador Allende’s – Fight For Our Cultural Souls
Ariel Dorfman: "The smiling, friendly form of capitalism now presents — the very fact that it doesn’t wish to shock or alienate its...
A Comedian Performs Three Secret Shows To Help His Hometown Theatre
Peter Kay "broke off from his current mammoth arena tour to appear at Bolton's 390-capacity Octagon theatre on Sunday, raising £80,000 for the venue."...
A World Map With No Borders, Only Animals
The artist started work on this during lockdown in July, 2020. "Three years, approximately 2,602 working hours and 1,642 animal species later, “Wild World”...
The One Game You Might Want To Be Playing
The game Baldur's Gate 3 had a gonzo night at the Game Awards - it won "Game of the Year, the Dungeons and Dragons...
A Melbourne Gallery Drops An Artist Because Of Words In His Artwork
The words "Nazi" and "Israel" appeared next to each other in performance artist Mike Parr's work, says his longtime gallery owner, Anna Schwartz. Parr...
Irish Playwright And Novelist Thomas Kilroy Has Died At 89
Kilroy was praised "for his role in modernising Irish theatre since his 1968 breakthrough play, The Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche," which included...
The Noguchi Museum Board Picks A Director Who Was There At The Beginning
Amy Hau "set up first archives and built the collection records for more than 3,500 works, including sculptures in stone, metal, wood and...
The Strikes Even Hurt A Los Angeles Public Radio Station
Popular Santa Monica station KCRW has a $3 million budget shortfall. The station generally "relies on member contributions and corporate sponsorships, including studios looking...
After Vegans Protest, A British Panto Removes A Song
So, vegans are "annoying, anemic, and gassy"? That was what Cheltenham's Everyman Theatre claimed in one of its Mother Goose songs. - BBC
Green Text Bubbles Aren’t The Problem
The problem isn't Apple vs. Android, say the Wired folks. It's that we're addicted to our phones - and missing chats, aka discussions, with...
The Architects Who Believe In Reduce And Reuse, But For Buildings
"The French architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are famous for their belief in keeping existing buildings whenever possible, no matter how unpromising or...
