Yearly Archives: 2023
Hugh Grant’s Lawsuit Against A Murdoch Tabloid Can Go To Trial, Rules UK Judge
"Justice Timothy Fancourt said a trial in January will have to determine whether The Sun had carried out unlawful information gathering that included tapping...
Court Will Toss “Child Sex Abuse” Lawsuit By Stars Of Zeffirelli’s “Romeo And Juliet”
"Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alison Mackenzie signaled on Thursday that she'll dismiss the suit, finding claims that the movie depicts sexual acts are...
The Best Cannes Festival In Years
It’s one of the best years in recent memory for Cannes, which seemed revitalized as it finally shook off the hangover of the pandemic....
How To Create Data-Driven Culture
As we expected, ambassadors and others across the bank began working together, making measurements, targeting data cleanups, and eliminating root causes of error. Then,...
How Electric Tech Is Changing Car Design
Inside, electric car dashboards often light up like spaceships as part of a bid to communicate intelligence rather than aggression. - Dezeen
The Employed Workers Who Don’t Really Work
Reporting for this story, I spoke with multiple people who are essentially funemployed, or at least one meaning of it, who sit around at...
How President Erdogan Used Turkish Culture To Support His Power
If the mark of 21st-century politics is the ascendancy of culture and identity over economics and class, it could be said to have been...
For The First Time In Four Decades, San Francisco Ballet Is Having An Open...
"Whether the company's open call for corps members marks a change in relationship with the San Francisco Ballet School is still uncertain." The company...
Dancing Across (Or Inside?) The Blockchain
Catherine and Ti have devised a coding language by which sequences of human movements are translated into what they call choreographic hashes—code that determines...
Nicholas Hytner Proposed A Whole New Model Of Arts Funding In England. Here’s The...
Nicholas Serota: "Nick suggested that the Arts Council's focus should only be on what he terms the 'professional' arts. … It's a mistake to...
How Geena Davis Is Helping To Overcome Hollywood’s Diversity Imbalances
Even when braced for it, the institute’s findings are staggering: In the 101 top-grossing G-rated films from 1990 to 2005, just 28 percent of...
Uh-Oh: An AI-Powered News Service For Local Radio Stations
"RadioNewsAI, an AI-generated news service developed in the Netherlands, is being shopped to stations in the U.S. The product allows local stations to deliver...
Rethinking Celebrity Casting For The Theatre
The nature of celebrity has changed. Social media has made us as interested in people’s kitchens as we are in their performances on TV. We...
Kenneth Anger, Notorious Avant-Garde Erotic Filmmaker And Hollywood Gossip Hound, Is Dead At 96
"(He was a) shocking and influential avant-garde artist who defied sexual and religious taboos in such short films as Scorpio Rising and Fireworks and...
Facts Don’t Win Arguments. But Propaganda?
Numerous studies have shown that, due to a myriad of cognitive biases such as belief perseverance and confirmation bias, facts unfortunately do not change people’s...
Gustavo Dudamel Resigns From Paris Opera After Only Two Seasons
His departure this summer comes four years ahead of what had been the end of his contract as music director of the Opéra national...
“I’m Proud To Own The Failure”: Jeffrey Katzenberg On Quibi
"I'm proud to own the failure," says the co-founder of the short-lived short-form video studio. "I'm not proud of the failure. But I'm proud...
These Climate Protestors Have The Right Idea: Do Joint Projects With Museums Instead Of...
"The group Letzte Generation (Last Generation) tested out the idea as a performance art piece at eight locations across (Germany last) Sunday. … It...
This Publisher Is Building A Business On Old Out-Of-Print Books
"A company called Open Road Integrated Media is trying to (give) a second life to older books. It does that by using machine learning...
2023 Tony Award For Regional Theatre Goes To Pasadena Playhouse
"The award marks an astonishing turnaround for Pasadena Playhouse, which was on the verge of shutting down in 2010, when it laid off most...
Broadway’s First Full Post-Pandemic Season Sold 12.3 Million Tickets And Grossed $1.58 Billion
"The promising numbers are both comparable to pre-pandemic totals, if still falling short. … This season's figures reflect a drop of 16.83% for attendance...
San Diego’s Museum Of Photographic Arts Will Be Merged Into The San Diego Museum...
"Under an agreement approved by both museums' leadership and boards of directors, MOPA's collection of more than 9,000 images by 850 artists and 22,000...
Mozart — The Eloquent Rebel
In an often-cited letter to his father, he wrote that his piano concertos offered a happy medium between the easy and the difficult. There...
The Dicing Up Of Movies — A New Way To Consume Media
Mysterious movie-clip accounts, by editing films such as 12 Feet Deep into multipart sagas that anyone can watch on their phone, have offered TikTok users the...
Study Of Video Games: Male Characters Speak Twice As Much As Female Characters
Our analysis, published in the Royal Society Open Science today studied over 13,000 video game characters and found that twice as much dialogue is given to...
