Yearly Archives: 2023
The Bogus, Made-Up Holidays Clogging Our Feeds
"Dubious holidays are a phenomenon of the social media era, and many of them are designed to promote products. This may be the case with...
The South Dakota Dance Academy With Ties To The Hungarian Resistance
The couple running that dance academy? That's classified. - Yahoo News (Argus Leader)
Please, Make Movies And TV Weird Again
Look to Bottoms to lead the way. - The New York Times
How Publishing Invented The Fantasy Genre
Oh, you thought C.S. Lewis or J.R.R. Tolkien did it? Nah. It was Lester del Rey, and a lot of cynical marketing (that totally...
In France, They’re Building A 21st Century Castle With 13th Century Tools
Cool, but why the heck? "Guédelon is an example of experimental archaeology — which is a way to research how people did things in the past...
The World Of Jane AustenTok
Memes feed fandom, and Austen fandom can be "chronically online." - LitHub
That Time David Hockney Was Hitchhiking
It was 1955, and he and a buddy were soaked to the skin when a couple sheltered, dried, and fed them. He later sent...
A Native Artist Was Shot By A Right-Winger At A Protest Over A Statue
Native artists and others were protesting a "colonizer" statue in New Mexico when a 23-year-old wearing a MAGA hat shot and injured artist and...
Why There’s Not A Ton Of Violence In The Guido Brunetti Mysteries
Basically? Author Donna Leon doesn't like it. - Washington Post
Rudy Perez, Who Has Died At 93, Was A Groundbreaking Choreographer
Perez's "minimalist but wildly experimental work, marked by spare, precise movements, helped ignite a budding Los Angeles dance scene after he moved west from...
Before AI Was Seen As Such A Threat
Pitching a movie about a human war with robots was much harder in 2018. - NPR
Nancy Van De Vate, Who Broke Gender Barriers In Contemporary Classical, 92
After earning her doctorate in music composition, she wrote "more than a hundred compositions in a seven-decade career, including seven operas, many orchestral works...
Scottish Government Reinstates Massive Arts Budget Cut
"Creative Scotland will use National Lottery funding reserves to plug the gap, but said the moment was a 'tipping point' for an already fragile...
Michael Caine Has A New Movie Out
He's 90. One of his costars (John Standing) is 89; the other (Glenda Jackson) has died. "No wonder tempted them from retirement: meaty...
North Carolina Reaches Full-Scale Cultural Hysteria
Radio stations in the state are refusing to broadcast operas from the Met. You know why. - The New York Times
She Doesn’t Care If The Establishment Thinks Her Work Is Literature
Gabriela Wiener is "the most irreverent and daring voice of the new literary generation of Latin American women." - The New York Times
Nude Dating Show From Britain Seems To Be Freaking Out Some In The United...
"The debate over the series is growing increasingly heated as it becomes a surprising transatlantic export from the more traditionally buttoned-up Brits." - Washington...
The National Library Of Wales Is Missing Some Things
Twelve hundred things, to be precise, including Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood and a poem by Cranogwen, the first woman to win a Welsh...
When California – In All Its Complexity – Is Your First Love
Then you obviously become a literary historian. - Los Angeles Times
We’re Finally Going To Hear Christopher Plummer Singing Edelweiss
That's right, never before have any of us heard "Every morning I greet thee" in the actor's own voice, despite intense vocal training before...
Hattie McDaniel’s Donated Oscar Disappeared Years Ago
But the Academy has decided to replace it. - NPR
Fire In Maine Town Destroys Jamie Wyeth, NC Wyeth Works
The fire in Port Clyde destroyed restaurants, a general store - and an art gallery with Jamie Wyeth paintings. - The New York Times
Right Wing Trolls Are Attacking Taylor Swift. Good Luck With That
"There's nothing the right could do that could meaningfully affect Swift. She has an incredibly devoted fanbase, a sold-out tour that lasts until November...
The Writers’ Strike Settlement Was Good. But Not Good Enough Concerning AI
Studios are already busy developing myriad uses for machine-learning tools that are both creative and administrative. Will they halt that development, knowing that their...
Writers’ Settlement Tries To Define Streaming Subscriber
A “view” in this case means the total viewing time divided by its running time, a metric that can be applied fairly easily across...
