Yearly Archives: 2023
The Texas Observer, Once The State’s Leading Liberal Print Outlet, Is Shutting Down
"The decision marks an end to 68 years of publication, starting with its founding in 1954 by Ronnie Dugger and including a six-year period...
Arvo Pärt And Angélique Kidjo Win The 2023 Polar Music Prize
The 87-year-old Estonian, for many years the world's most-performed living classical composer, and the 62-year-old Beninese singer-songwriter, a five-time Grammy winner, take this year's...
Everything Old Is New Again In The Recent Cascade Of Irish Music
Why now? "The legalization of abortion and same-sex marriage ... have marked the diminished power of the Roman Catholic Church alongside the greater empowerment of women. Brexit, while...
AI’s Challenge To Traditional Education
For all the opportunities ChatGPT might bring, its greatest threat right now is to the teaching of writing. There are other ways to assess...
Burnout Afflicts Toronto’s Theatre Community
Even without hard numbers, many of the designers, technicians and stage managers who are still around agree: there are more job contracts available in...
How Professional Wrestling Explains American Culture
Millions of people love wrestling; millions more loathe it. Many people simply don’t know what to do with it. Although the symbiotic relationship between...
Neil Young: Tickemaster Has Ruined Touring
"It’s over. The old days are gone. I get letters blaming me for $3,000 tickets for a benefit I am doing. That money does...
ChatGPT Suggests A New Way To Search. But Will Microsoft Ruin It?
Microsoft’s rollout of a Bing search chatbot based on technology underlying OpenAI’s ChatGPT has prompted concerns that Microsoft is unfairly squeezing out its search data customers as...
The Inherent Dangerousness Of Janet Malcolm’s Method
For a writer so relentlessly suspicious of the accounts we give of ourselves, and so attuned to the meager defenses we muster against self-exposure,...
Disney Will Make Three Rounds Of Layoffs This Year
This week’s initial round comes a few days before the company’s annual shareholder meeting on April 3. Iger had first announced plans for the...
Banksy’s Migrant Rescue Boat Seized By Italian Authorities
A rescue ship funded by British street artist Banksy was seized in Lampedusa on Sunday after Italy's coast guard said the boat had disobeyed...
The Problems In Properly Authenticating, Protecting Indigenous Art
The Native community finds itself in this fight against the misrepresentation. This leaves consumers in a tough spot, parsing through what efforts businesses are...
Dear Parents: In Our Art Class There’s Going To Be Art. Okay?
You signed up for a classical education, in theory — at least, that word is in the name of our school! — so I...
Staff Of The Louvre Have Blocked The Museum As Part Of Pension Protest
"The demonstrators toted banners and flags in front of the Louvre’s famed pyramid, where President Emmanuel Macron had celebrated his presidential victory in 2017....
The Greatest Show On Earth Is Mounting A Comeback
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey are back, baby (in September) - without lions, tigers, or bears, but with a lot of roadies to...
The Occult Nails Of A Roman Burial
The excavated imperial tomb also had extra bricks, slathered with lime, which isn't usual. The combination of nails, bricks, and lime "strongly implied the...
What Are Humans Losing As Teens Stop Hanging Out In Physical Proximity?
And does phone-mediated intimacy combined with a lack of physical meetings - random cruising around town, random hikes, random mall meet-ups included - have...
Darcell XV, The World’s Oldest Drag Queen, Has Died At 92
Walter Cole made Portland grow up. He, as Darcelle, "was a progressive pioneer, winning over just about anyone he encountered, helping ease a sometimes...
Alisa Weilerstein Emerges From The Pandemic With Her Cello In Fragments
That is, in "Fragments," solo recitals that interweave Bach's cello suites with commissioned new works. Why? "We all had a lot of time to...
New Claim – The Opening Of The Eiffel Tower Inspired Van Gogh’s Starry Night
An art historian "argues that the artist began this series in June 1889, shortly after the Paris monument was unveiled as the star attraction of the...
Composer Scott Johnson Has Died At 70
"His artistic breakthrough came with 'John Somebody,' a playfully inventive work for solo electric guitar with taped accompaniment, which he assembled from 1980 to 1982, and...
Like Vine Before It, TikTok May Disappear
And, just like Vine, TikTok created space for people "opening a small business or people who are no longer facing homelessness, people who are...
Tiny Lionsgate Studio Ends Up With A Huge Weekend Of Ticket Sales
"The John Wick franchise, built around a weary assassin played by Keanu Reeves, has now shown dramatic growth with each consecutive sequel, something no...
A Judge Sides With Publishers In Lawsuit Over Internet Archive
"The four publishing houses — Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons and Penguin Random House — accused the Internet Archive of 'mass...
The EuroVision Final Will Be Shown In Movie Theatres For The First Time
Since the final in Liverpool sold out in 40 minutes, theatres across the UK will show the final. "Organisers say the screenings will encourage...
