Yearly Archives: 2023
Do Poor And Lower-Middle Class Kids Deserve Access To The Humanities?
West Virginia says no. "For most students, their state’s main public university remains their best hope of breaching the walls of class difference. As...
Booker Winner Paul Lynch On His Dystopian Novel
Lynch has been incessantly (after the prize) "asked for his views on far right movements in Western Europe and about the recent riots in Dublin that...
Bologna Decides To Repair Its 12-Century Leaning Tower
"The city’s mayor, Matteo Lepore, noted in a debate earlier this month that the Garisenda tower had leaned since it was built 'and has...
How To Get The Best Black Friday, Cyber Monday, And Every Other Day Deals...
For that matter, the best deal on books, streaming, magazines, newspapers, and a lot more - yes, yes, you already know: A library card....
John Nichols, Author Of The Milagro Beanfield War, Has Died At 83
The author, who moved from New York to New Mexico, fell for the state. His publisher: "A lot of his work might be characterized...
The David Hockney-Keith Haring-Jean-Michel-Basquiat Amusement Park Is Reopening
That's right, people will soon be able to see (but not ride) a Keith Haring carousel at the long-neglected, now revived amusement park Luna...
The Decline And Fall Of Sports Illustrated Shows Just How Precarious Media Are
The potential AI controversy is just the latest in a series of humiliations. "All of these companies have followed the same strategy: 'leveraging” the SI brand...
Very Few Stage Magicians Are Women
The figures are grim: About 8 percent of working stage magicians are women. What's that about, and how can it change? - The New...
The Slow, Blinking Performance Robots Of An American Pizza Chain Are What One Might...
The infamous Chuck E. Cheese animatronic performers were for kids, kind of. "Those were also for the adults. The robotic characters originally spoke in...
The Ballet Where A Princess Rescues That Working-Class Guy Cinders
For the dancer playing Cinders, letting the woman playing Princess Louise "take the lead has meant fighting his ballet instincts daily. 'I don’t really...
On The Exploitation Of Jean-Michel Basquiat, And Baltimore
"Is the point of art to bring us into ourselves, or out?" - LitHub
Merriam-Webster Values Something In Short Supply In 2023
The word of a year in which AI, deep fakes, political chicanery, and war propaganda filled the airwaves and wireless chat is a bit...
New York Critics Plump For Scorsese’s Movie, But Not Scorsese Himself
With the strikes over and awards season underway, Killers of the Flower Moon and Oppenheimer are looking strong - but it's early days. -...
What The Heck Happened To Spotify Wrapped?
"The apparent hack is weird because it flew under the radar. There was no obvious social engineering involved, and the only evidence that it...
A Literal Flamethrowing Pastor Messes Around With ‘The Culture War’ Every November
But this year, it's possible that the guy who has spawned churches, offshoots, and - of course - spendy video courses about "Apocalypse-proofing your...
Why Destroying Cultural Icons Leaves A Deep Wound
Artefacts that have been around for a thousand years or more have been destroyed in Russia’s illegal war. However, facing up to the issues,...
The Medieval Twitter Account With 700,000 Followers
Olivia Swarthout is the researcher behind the popular art history-inspired social media account Weird Medieval Guys, which has attracted nearly 700,000 followers on X,...
Playwright And Artist John Byrne, 83
His much-loved BBC series Tutti Frutti, about an ageing rock’n’roll band attempting a tour of Scotland, starred Robbie Coltrane and Emma Thompson and won...
Mark Bradford Wins The New $500,000 Getty Prize
Starting this year, the award comes with $500,000 for the winner to donate to a non-profit of their choice. (Bradford has yet to announce...
That Was Fast – Jezebel Website Is Sold And Will Reopen
Paste Magazine, a digital pop culture publication based in Atlanta, announced Wednesday that it was buying Jezebel.com from G/O Media, which closed it and laid off its...
Playing Politics? Of Course – It’s The Parthenon Marbles!
For a large part of international public opinion the return seems only fair. For some, it is a matter of aesthetics: repatriating historic monuments...
The Quest To Recreate Tyrian Purple, Once The Most Expensive Pigment On Earth
"In a small garden hut in north-eastern Tunisia, just a short distance from what was once Carthage, one man has spent most of the...
A Foundation Decides To Accelerate Its Impact And Spend Down Its Resources
“We thought, 'What’s the point in us existing in perpetuity and just trickling out funds while saying no to more communities when we knew...
To This The Book-Banners Have Come: Boycotting Froot Loops
The right-wing account Libs of TikTok claims "Kellogg's wants to indoctrinate your children with breakfast cereal." The Dank Night tweeted "Would you like a...
How To Tell Whether Research is Trustworthy
Lately, however, the social-science world has become mired in controversy. Researchers themselves have started to note that many famous experiments have been debunked—such as, indeed,...
