Yearly Archives: 2023
The Hollywood Writers’ Strike Is On
"Television and movie writers declared late Monday that they will launch a strike for the first time in 15 years, as Hollywood girded for...
What’s Going To Change During The Hollywood Writers’ Strike: An Explainer
How the walkout will affect talk shows and scripted shows in the near term, and what the stakes are for each side. - AP
Gordon Lightfoot, Hit-Spinning Singer-Songwriter Of The 1970s, Is Dead At 84
A major presence on the US charts and an even bigger star in his native Canada, he's remembered for "Sundown," "If You Could Read...
Fetishizing Neutrality: The Mythologies Of Objectivity
Is neutrality even attainable? “No journalistic process is objective,” Wesley Lowery, a former Washington Post reporter, observed in a widely discussed New York Times opinion piece from 2020. “And no...
Traffic Flow — A Story Of Chasing Online Audience
Most people who write for the internet have had the experience of publishing something that escapes the bounds of one’s usual audience and goes...
NYC’s New Museum Of Natural History Extension Is A Winner
New Yorkers live to grouse about new buildings. This one seems destined to be an instant heartthrob and colossal attraction. - The New York...
Ground Zero For The Art Of Conspiracy Theories: Denver Airport
Earlier this year, a claim gained traction on TikTok that a “new” art installation in Concourse A legitimized the flat earth conspiracy theory. Videos attempting...
Scott Timberg’s Boom Times
That a collection is as well versed in Rechy as it is in Dudamel tells you a lot about the writer, as well as...
Hollywood Writers Fear Being Replaced By AI
“We have a bunch of A.I.s that are creating a bunch of entertainment that people are kind of OK with.” In their attempts to...
Look, Hollywood, You Don’t Have To Do This
But you probably will. "Contentious labor talks in Hollywood are rarely settled without the pressure of a contract expiration deadline bearing down. The stakes...
South Korean Art Student Eats Banana From Maurizio Cattelan Artwork
"Noh Huyn-soo was filmed brazenly removing the banana, which was duct-taped on to a wall at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, unpeeling it and...
The Night The Los Angeles Phil’s Tchaikovsky Moved An Audience Member To Moans
"Multiple people who attended the L.A. Phil concert on Friday reported hearing a woman making a moaning noise during the symphony’s second movement." -...
Hollywood Is Both Frantic And Calm As The Writers Strike Looms
"It’s the first topic that comes up in every meeting, every phone call, and everyone claims to have their own inside source about how...
The Guardian Apologizes For Cartoon Of Former BBC Chair
The cartoon depicted Richard Sharp, "who is Jewish, with exaggerated features and carrying a puppet of Rishi Sunak. One Jewish group said it 'falls...
Piano Fever Is (Once Again) Sweeping The UK
"For years, it seemed like the piano was disappearing from British public life. The bulky instruments were cast out of homes and schools and...
Why Isn’t Artist Pacita Abad More Known?
One explanation: "In addition to being a woman and a woman of color, she was considered a craft artist operating on the fringes of...
Say Goodbye To Ad-Free Television
"Investors are no longer sure streaming is a great business; the streamers are searching desperately for new ways to make money. The golden age of...
A Novelist Pushing On Our Ideas About Prison And Abolition
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, whose new novel incorporates a lot of trademarks in prisons: "Once you go into that for-profit model and also think about...
Starring In A WWII Series That’s Not About Men
Bel Powley, who's playing Miep Gies, the woman who hid Anne Frank's family: "I’d shied away from second world war stories – because it’s...
The Pre-Opera Routine Of Ryan Speedo Green, Star Of Terence Blanchard’s New Opera
"When you’re portraying character, first of all, that’s an athlete. Also portraying a character that has to be half naked on stage for...
The Glorious, Challenging Quest To Star In A Sondheim Revival
"I learned from my theater community that Sondheim was the goal, and that if you get the opportunity to do Sondheim, you take it, no matter...
Arlington Cemetery’s Confederate Monument Is Coming Down
The issue with the moment was the artist's "representation of a White soldier going off to fight on the Confederate side of the Civil...
The Gesture For OK Now Lives In ‘The Purgatory Of Meaning’ Thanks To Politics
The University of Nebraska mascot no longer makes an OK symbol "because the universal symbol of approbation—curling the index finger to touch the thumb, forming...
The Tate Modern Looks North For Its New Director
Karin Hindsbo, a Danish art historian who oversaw the revision and remodel of Norway's National Museum, was named director of the Tate Modern "at...
Just How Similar Are The Ed Sheeran And Marvin Gaye Songs?
It's clear that "Thinking Out Loud" and "Let's Get It On" have some similarities - but how similar are they? The BBC breaks it...
