Yearly Archives: 2023
Disney Sued Florida Gov. DeSantis And His Hand-Picked Board. Now That Board Is Countersuing...
"The board overseeing Disney's special taxing district" – the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board of supervisors – "voted on Monday to sue the...
Hollywood Writers’ Strike Immediately Shuts Down Late-Night TV Shows
The work stoppage by the Writers Guild of America has led to the temporary closure of the weekday late-night shows on NBC, ABC, CBS,...
Vice Media Is About To Declare Bankruptcy: Report
"Vice, the brash digital-media disrupter that charmed giants like Disney and Fox into investing before a stunning crash-landing, is preparing to file for bankruptcy,...
The Streisand Effect Applies To Censored Books, Too
"The best sales pitch is the threat of censorship. It draws attention to books that might otherwise have gone under the radar." What's more,...
Here’s Why San Francisco Ballet’s Executive Director Resigned So Suddenly
Two weeks ago, Danielle St.Germain stepped down from the dance troupe without explanation. Now the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have announced that...
La Scala Just Finished Its Second Renovation In 20 Years. Here’s A Q&A With...
Mario Botta: "We've added a 17-story structure (six floors are underground) on the Via Verdi. At the base of this tower is an orchestra...
Three Years After His Death, Philosopher Roger Scruton Is More Influential Than Ever
Conferences on Scruton’s work are springing up like mushrooms across the continent. Budapest boasts a chain of Scruton cafes that hold regular discussions of his...
Book Banning: Et Tu, Canada?
A push that began last summer to remove a few children's sexual education books from the southern Manitoba library system has since bubbled up into...
Regina Symphony Ponders Its Place Post-COVID As Audiences Are Slow To Rebound
"But in many places, the idea of the regularity and the consistency of attendance and participation in orchestral activities has been broken." - CBC
La Scala To The World: Let The Streaming Begin
The platform is part of a wider effort to modernize La Scala’s infrastructure, including an extensive educational outreach program using the technology and plans...
Grantmaking In The Arts Must Change
Artists know best what they need to advance their art and to thrive — hire artists as grantmakers and advisors. Support organizations that are...
The Case For Being Able To See Inside AI Algorithms
If you want to trust a prediction, you need to understand how all the computations work. For example, in health care, you need to...
Reckoning With George Balanchine, For Good And Ill
"It's possible to see Balanchine as both a god and a bogeyman, responsible for everything that's wonderful or wrong about ballet. Of course, that's...
Watch As A Chatbot Learns To Write Like Shakespeare
To show you what this process looks like, we trained six tiny language models starting from scratch. We’ve picked one trained on the complete...
Meet The Boxing Champion Who Helped The Met Opera Stage The Fights In “Champion”
Chris Dumont, the company's fight director, is much more used to staging fencing than fist-fighting with gloves. So he turned to former professional WBO...
The Doll Family That Mysteriously Took Up Residence In A Mailbox
“Some people initially thought that I had planted the dolls myself, but that is definitely not the case. All I did was provide a...
How The Journalists Of Kyiv’s Main English-Language Newspaper Regrouped After Its Oligarch Owner Fired...
When Adnan Kivan bought the Kyiv Post, he promised editorial independence; when the paper became too critical of the Ukrainian government for his taste,...
Culture Wars Come To The High School Musical
“You see politicians and officials enacting rules and laws which are incredibly onerous and designed to enforce a very narrow view of what students...
Despite The Invasion, Independent Bookstores Are Opening And Thriving In Kyiv
"They have popped up like mushrooms after rain," says one visitor. Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian's chief culture writer, visits three of them. - The...
School Field Trip To See “James and the Giant Peach” Canceled After Parents Complain
The cancellation came after a parent told school board members that she was worried about her 5-year-old daughter’s upcoming field trip to see the...
Where Did The EGOT Thing Come From, Anyway?
"Many people who first heard of an EGOT assume it originated on the hit NBC sitcom 30 Rock. ... It turns out the term...
What The Writers’ Guild Is Demanding In The Hollywood Strike
"The Guild (wants) a TV staffing minimum, which would range from six to 12 writers per show, based on the number of episodes, ......
An Advance Look At Madrid’s €162 Million Museum Of Royal Collections, Opening This Summer
"Overseen by Spain's national heritage institution, Patrimonio Nacional, the gallery's aim is to share hundreds of items drawn from the 19 royal palaces and...
2023 Tony Nominations Led By “Some Like It Hot,” “& Juliet,” “Shucked,” “A Doll’s...
Some Like It Hot garnered 10 nominations, while musicals & Juliet, Shucked, and New York, New York each landed nine. Leading the plays were...
Maybe This Man, Not John James Audubon, Is The Painter Of Birds We Should...
"Born in 1869, (Rex) Brasher left an enormous body of paintings, almost 900 large-scale watercolors documenting American bird life and habitat, that became the...
