Yearly Archives: 2023
The Hay Book Festival Is Going Eurovision
It's real: "The Eurovision book contest will culminate in an event at this year’s literary festival in June, where a panel will discuss the...
How Jamie Lee Curtis Emerged As ‘The Most Unhinged’ But Fun Nominee Of 2023
You can blame (or be grateful to) the visual flood known as meme culture (and the actress herself). - Slate
When Will Argentina’s 1980s Military Dictatorship Finally Face A Reckoning?
The events of the Oscar-nominated Argentina,1985 aren't much fictionalized. "With more than 300 open investigations and 14 trials, the process is 'permanently alive,' said...
Giving The English National Ballet Body Type A Makeover
"The new boss of English National Ballet wants to ditch the stereotypical image of super-skinny dancers and see 'all' body types on stage." -...
The Techno Club In Berlin Where Classical Music Composers Find Inspiration
One composer "felt at home in this genre, somewhere between abstract contemporary opera and sound art, but like many composers she had to reconcile...
What Reason Is There For Not Letting Former Guantanamo Prisoners Take Their Art With...
"We had nothing, so we made art out of nothing. We drew with tea powder on toilet paper. We painted our walls with soap,...
The View Of The Oscars, But From The Tuxedo Shops Of LA
"Tuxedo vendors say that awards season drives huge sales on top of their usual income from weddings and proms, on the order of 20%...
It’s The Most Wonderful Day Of The Year, For Some Movies, Anyway
How to watch the Oscars red carpet (this year, the red will be more beige) and the show itself, and here are also a...
An Indiana University Wants To Sell Its Valuable Museum Art To Pay For Renovating...
Valparaiso, a Lutheran university in northwestern Indiana that is struggling with the declining enrollment seen at many schools, is planning to sell several works from the...
Protect Children From Books? How Does That Make Sense?
The anxiety about what kids are reading inevitably bleeds into fear about what else they’re doing—the trope of the sexy librarian, ever about to...
Canada Looking At Canadian Content Rules For Streaming
Algorithms are not neutral: they train us as much as we train them. Using them to promote local music or Canadian music may inspire a...
Scottish Government Steps In To Save Youth Orchestras
To combat the councils decisions, four MSPs wrote to the Scottish government, asking them to intervene and save the music programmes. Over the weekend,...
Report: Where Black American Millennials Get Their News
Social media plays a large role in the news habits of all Millennials and Gen Z, as shown in our first report on these generations....
YouTube Has Created A Huge Foreign-Language-Dubbing Industry
“If you take the top 10,000 YouTube videos by performance and dub them in 20-plus languages, you could easily unlock an additional half a...
Kouri-Vini: The Creole Language Of Acadian Louisiana Sees The Dawn Of A Revival
Roughly a French Louisiana equivalent of Gullah, the African-English hybrid of the South Carolina and Georgia Sea Islands, Kouri-Vini developed among the region's Black...
Peeling Back The Curtain Of The Happiness-Industrial Complex
Whatever is being sold by the happiness experts, we imagine, cannot really be happiness, but can only bear a relationship to it even more...
Why The Best Animated Feature Oscar Irks And Depresses Animators
"Independent films, movies aimed at adults, or those created in different art styles rarely get nominated, let alone win. The 17 animators interviewed for...
The History Of Scientific Progress: Where Did It Advance?
For how long has science occurred outside the West? Is it fundamentally a Western export, a product of distinctly Western attitudes and values? - Boston Review
An Inside Look At Incubator, ABT’s Annual Winter Residency For Choreographers
"This year's cohort spanned five artists at different career stages ... whose movement styles encompass contemporary dance, classical ballet, tango and hip-hop. ... (The...
The Cost (And Rewards) Of Building The Great Cathedrals
We think of these buildings as expressions of faith, but they were more than that. They were ways of conceptualising faith in stone and glass — what the...
Bert I. Gordon, Sci-Fi B-Movie Schlockmeister Turned Cult “Auteur”, Is Dead At 100
"Critics called his storylines ludicrous and his special effects schlocky, … but many of his films turned a profit and gained a cult following,...
Balanchine’s Waltz
The world that Balanchine created for himself—one that moved from woman to woman, muse to muse—was itself a form of ronde. Come June 23, 1977,...
One Of Japan’s Most Honored Architects Calls For Building Fewer Buildings
"There has been an inextricable link between new buildings and economic growth in the 20th century, but that relationship must change because the climate...
NPR’s Michel Martin Is The Latest Host To Join “Morning Edition”
"Martin, who currently serves as a host of All Things Considered Weekends, will join Morning Edition on March 27. Martin joined NPR in 2006...
Well, Here’s What Apple Has Done With Primephonic, The Classical Streaming Service It Bought...
Classical fans have long complained about how poorly iTunes and Apple Music fit the genre. So, in 2021, Apple purchased Primephonic — which designed...
