Yearly Archives: 2023
But Tattooing A Scannable Barcode Of Your Favorite Song On Spotify Seemed Like Such...
A growing cadre of music fans have joined the Spotify tattoo craze as a conversation starter or a way to commemorate sentimental favorites like...
The Opera Aria Painted On The Wall Of A Venetian Orphanage
Yes, this was one of the orphanages where girls were taught music to a high level by the likes of Vivaldi. The music room...
He Thought He Had Stumbled Into Owning A Chuck Close Painting. Then He Tried...
The auctioneer started the bidding at $40,000. Mr. Herman perked up. The camera crew leaned in. Then: crickets. By 1:32, with no live bids,...
Do Hot Guys Make Sense As Stand-Up Comedians? Conventional Wisdom Says No, But …
"Comedy has been the rare field where square jaws and chiseled features can count against you," writes Jason Zinoman. "The assumption in stand-up has...
Cleveland Ballet Suspends CEO And Artistic Director Amid Investigation Into Alleged Firing Over Body...
Artistic director Gladisa Guadalupe and president/CEO Michael Krasnyansky, who are married, are alleged to have fired a teacher at the company school's outreach program...
Aaron Dworkin Of The Sphinx Organization Becomes Complexions Contemporary Ballet’s “Poetjournalist-In-Residence”
A writer and spoken-word artist as well as musical entrepreneur, "Dworkin will work with Complexions founders and co–artistic directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson...
Meet The First Woman To Become A Permanent Member Of The New York Philharmonic,...
Orin O'Brien, now 88, played double bass in the Phil for 55 years, retiring in 2021. She chose the instrument because she likes being...
Orlando Museum Of Art May Just Settle Its Lawsuit Against Its Former Director Over...
Mentioned almost in passing in the museum's most recent court filing was this sentence: “The parties are currently engaged in settlement negotiations, the outcome...
American Comedy’s Highest Honor, The Mark Twain Prize, Goes To Kevin Hart
"Hart got his start telling jokes during amateur night at a local comedy club in his native Philadelphia. Today, his standup fills stadiums, cracking...
Justin Torres, Ned Blackhawk, Craig Santos Perez, Dan Santat Win 2023 National Book Awards
"Blackouts" by Justin Torres took the fiction prize; nonfiction honors went to Ned Blackhawk's "The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of...
I’m A Teacher. How I Went From Fighting AI To Using It To Help...
Redesigning assignments to force students to go back and critique, fact-check, and evaluate AI tools may also give them pause the next time they...
After Criticism, New Zealand Arts Funder Creates New Funding Model
After conceding the heavily criticised Arts Grants and Annual Arts Grants models (as well as the universally unpopular application cap structure) were no longer...
Why Logic Won’t Save You
Except for a few special cases, logic can’t tell you whether the premises or conclusion of an argument are true. - Aeon
National Book Awards Loses Sponsors Over Speech Fears
Rumors that authors would take a stand regarding the Israel-Gaza conflict during the ceremony were flying in the days leading up to the event,...
Vandal Attacks National Gallery In DC
In an email, National Gallery spokesperson Anabeth Guthrie said a member of the climate activist group Declare Emergency vandalized a wall in the West...
OMG – Did Streaming Just Turn Into Cable TV?
You need to take a hard look at whether these offers are really a bargain or if this is the slippery slope to paying...
Disney To DeSantis: We Add $40 Billion To Florida’s Economy
"The Walt Disney Company on Tuesday released a study showing its economic impact in Florida at $40.3 billion as it battles Florida Gov. Ron...
The “Robin Hood” Fund Embedded In The New Actors Contract With Studios
SAG president Fran Drescher wanted a fund over which SAG had broad discretion to redistribute money among its members. “She wanted her Robin Hood...
A Father Makes Theater Of His Son’s Murder In The Parkland School Shooting
"Manuel Oliver donned a paper mask of the face of Joaquin, who was a 17-year-old senior when he was killed. He grabbed a hammer...
Problematic: Dismissing Ideas By Calling Them “Problematic”
In ordinary conversation, social media, and even mass-media and academic publications it has now become routine to come across the claim that such and...
There’s A Big Controversy (As Usual) About The Latest Official Scrabble Tournament Word List
Actually, there are two controversies. One is about restoration to the list of some of the epithets that were deemed offensive and eliminated in...
South Coast Repertory Theatre Loses Its Leader After 44 Years
Paula Tomei is SCR’s first and only managing director, and she steered the Tony-winning institution through many years of growth, transformation and challenges. During...
Texas School District That Cancelled “Oklahoma!” Rather Than Let A Trans Student Appear In...
"The school board in Sherman voted unanimously Monday to reinstate the original show and cast after a meeting in which dozens criticized them and...
Want To Know More About Dance? Here Are The Year’s Best Dance Books
Wendy Perron (and friends) take a look at the year's best dance books. - Wendy Perron
Making Millions Of Dollars Dealing In Fake Robert Burns Documents
"In the 1880s, almost a century after Burns died, Edinburgh forger Alexander 'Antique' Smith produced hundreds of fake manuscripts, selling them to booksellers, pawnshops...
