Yearly Archives: 2023
California Musicians Across The State Celebrate California
The 100-plus participating organizations, some large and wealthy, others neither, include professional orchestras, choruses, opera companies, youth orchestras, and educational institutions. - San Francisco...
Hollywood Studios Are Deciding That Filming In L.A. Is Just Too Much Trouble
The city agency FilmL.A. has raised fees for various permits needed to film within Los Angeles proper — and introduced a new set of...
Lin-Manuel Miranda Is Building A New Arts Center At The Far Northern End Of...
Okay, he's not building it, or even funding it, entirely by himself, but the foundation run by the actor-playwright and his father is the...
A Visit To The Real-World Inspiration For Brian Friel’s Village Of Ballybeg
Laura Collins-Hughes travels to Donegal, in the northwestern corner of Ireland, to visit Glenties — not Friel's own hometown, but that of his mother...
Salman Rushdie Asks: “What Does The World Of Fable Have To Tell Us About...
"The news is not very good," goes part of his answer, given last month in his acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the...
French Authorities Arrest Alleged Leader Of Major Egyptian Antiquities Trafficking Operation
"Serop Simonian, the alleged leader of a suspected Egyptian antiquities trafficking ring, was arrested in Germany and transferred to France. … The 80-year-old dealer...
A Look Inside The Ancient Egyptian Book Of The Dead
"A standard component in Egyptian elite burials, the Book of the Dead was not a book in the modern sense of the term but...
How Did Bach’s Toccata And Fugue In D Minor For Organ Become The Emblematic...
After all, Bach knew nothing of Halloween, and to him the organ was an instrument for church worship. (Never mind the fact that some...
How Revelations Of Buffy Ste. Marie’s Heritage Is Affecting Indigenous Culture
Suddenly, this story broke and everything we believed about her was called into question. There was no warning and no sensitivity to the impact...
An Initiative To Radically Change The Way Scientific Research Is Shared
It outlines a future “community-based” and “scholar-led” open-research communication system in which publishers are no longer gatekeepers that reject submitted work or determine first...
How Big-Publishing Consolidation Has Changed Fiction-Writing
In the conglomerate era, authors like Stephen King and Danielle Steel are pressured to become advertisements for themselves, even as much of the work...
News Consumption Trends — Mainstream Journalism Down, Opinion Channels Up
In the past 16 months, seven publishers crossed the one million subscriber mark to enter Press Gazette’s ranking for the first time – including...
Theatre’s Crisis Is Really A Demographic Issue
I have been told that staff, tasked to phone up lifelong supporters and subscribers who didn’t renew for the first time, had to be...
Should Theatre’s Performance Time Norm Be 6:30?
Six-thirty may not be a traditional starting time for theatre. But then in the 16th and early 17th-century, before the advent of the indoor...
The Founding Novel Of The Regency Romance Genre Features Some Ugly Stereotypes. Is It...
Georgette Heyer's 1950 novel The Grand Sophy isn't exactly The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, but it definitely includes antisemitic language. That's been...
How Story-Telling In Podcasts Is Different From Radio
The podcast market is increasingly interested only in those that take the listener on a journey from one episode to the next. Without a...
What Companies Like Amazon And Facebook/Meta Are Really Using AI For: Generating Ads
"These AI ad-generation products are less visible to regular users than, for example, an Instagram bot pretending to be Tom Brady. ... But they’re...
We Live In An Always-On World. What Does It Mean To Withdraw From It?...
Acts of disengagement are routinely met with scepticism, judgment and pushback in public discourse. What if we were to treat them instead as opportunities...
As A Show, “Pal Joey” Has Always Been A Mess. Can Making Joey A...
That's the gambit being tried with a new adaptation, co-directed by Tony Goldwyn and Savion Glover, that's getting a five-day run in New York...
To What Extent Is Misinformation Changing How We Think?
Misinformation is most commonly defined as anything that is factually inaccurate, but not intended to deceive: in other words, people being wrong. However, it...
Who Looted The Ancient Roman Bronzes From This Village? The Villagers.
"The story of the Bubon bronzes, though, is more than just a tale of looters’ remorse, investigative zeal, art market intrigue and antiquities repatriation....
How Art Schools Are Approaching Artificial Intelligence
“It feels like the birth of photography all over again.” - Artnet
The Drama Is Over: Philadelphia Has Selected Its Harriet Tubman Monument
After a long and initially contentious process, a panel has selected a winner from the five finalist designs for a Tubman memorial to be...
Music Therapy: How And Why It Works
"Scientific research has begun to explore why music appears to have such a strong effect on health and wellness, particularly mental health, where sounds...
Now Boris Johnson Is Going To Be A TV Pundit
The disgraced ex-prime minister has been hired as a presenter and commentator on the UK's right-leaning network GB News. "I’m going to be giving...
