Yearly Archives: 2023
Why Millennials Are In To New Age Music
As my generation grew up, new age seemed a bit like a lost world—a faerie realm we were promised but never got to go...
The Key To Happiness? Low Expectations
High expectations aren’t always a bad thing. But if you’re finding yourself flooded with disappointment more often than you’d like, you might consider the...
A History Of The Game “Monopoly”: Meant To Critique Capitalism But Turned In to...
There have now been more than a thousand versions of Monopoly, based not only on different cities but on properties such as “The Big...
BBC Relaxes Dress Code For Presenters: Sweaty Is More Authentic
“It’s a bit like, be as sweaty and dirty as when we’re in the field is actually more trustworthy than if we look like...
Time To Rethink The Meaning Of Indigenous?
Today, nearly half a billion people qualify as Indigenous. If they were a single country, it would be the world’s third most populous, behind...
Understanding The Wonder That Is BookTok
Although the Barnes & Noble event caters to fans of romance and fantasy, BookTok is vast and multifarious. The community is a constellation of...
Conspiracy Theories: Toxic Influence Or The Price Of Democracy?
If great masses of people maintain a certain belief over long periods of time, one can be fairly sure that there is something in...
Is This Painting A Raphael Or Not?
What began with a chance discovery turned into a quest that consumed Mr. Ayers for decades. He managed to discover a great deal about...
Turns Out Students Don’t Actually Want An ‘All-Digital’ Library
Make that 'library.' Faculty and students at Vermont State University were not having it when the financially strapped institution announced last week that everything...
Alvin Ailey Dance Turns 65
The troupe's third artistic director says it's been a real challenge during the past few years, and now is a time for joy and...
The Thames Quietly Gets Two New, Pretty Great, Pedestrian Bridges
Remember the Garden Bridge imbroglio? These two are far from that. Instead, the results are "faceted and intriguing ... driven by the imaginative response...
Mediocre Movies, Not Only Marvel, Can Save Movie Theatres
What theatres need "are the movies that grease the wheels of the theatrical experience: the friendly bread-and-butter formula films for adults that audiences can...
Who Painted This Portrait Of George Washington?
Turns out that after years of doubt and many studies, "experts are confident they can declare the portrait a true Peale, one of...
Britain’s Most Prolific Female Director
Muriel Box - the first woman to win an Oscar for screenwriting - "directed 13 feature films in the 1950s and early 60s and...
Rena Gluck, Who Brought Modern Dance To Israel
"Israel is now considered a global hotbed of contemporary dance, with Batsheva still at its center. But when Ms. Gluck arrived in 1954 as...
Was Disney’s Purchase Of Fox A Huge Mistake?
One analyst: "Even without Fox, Disney would still be struggling with linear channels and figuring out how to make streaming profitable. ... But they’d...
Native American Activists Ask Miami To Stop Archaeological Dig
The site is - of course - going to become a residential development. "The artifacts found at the site include pottery sherds, stone tools,...
Let Kids Read For Pleasure – And Never Tell Them What They’re Reading Is...
So said the UK children charity Booktrust's new writer in residence, SF Said. Unlike many recent censorship fans in the US, he said, "I...
How To Make A Movie When You Don’t Know Enough About The Topic
Enlist your friends, of course. One of the friends: "Like many other adoptees, I used to victimize myself and isolate. I didn’t want to...
To Open Their Bookshop, All They Had To Do Was Change An Entire City...
To be fair, it's a combination bookshop and wine bar. Therein lay the rub for Bliss Books. - KSHB (Kansas City)
Ireland Is Having A Really Good Film Moment
Another moment, that is. This certainly isn't the first go-round. Best Supporting Actress nominee Kerry Condon: "My friend at home was like, ‘Everybody’s celebrating...
People Really, Really Love Their Libraries
"The library was a haven. It was the one place we could all go and not spend a dime, but be filled with everything...
All Quiet On The Western Front Wins A Record Seven BAFTAs
Never bet against a war movie. The Netflix "adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel about an idealistic German soldier sent to the trenches...
How In The Entire Heck Did The Winnie-The-Pooh Horror Movie Get Made?
Sure, Disney owns the animation rights, but the story and characters came out of copyright on January 1, 2022. And director Rhys Frake-Waterfield "wasted...
Bing Was Nearly Irrelevant – Until Its Chatbot Went Off The Rails
"The company’s previously flatlining Bing app almost surpassed Google in downloads last Saturday, and search interest in Bing is spiking. The astonishing screenshots—as long...
