Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
Was Longtime Star Canadian TV News Anchor Fired Because Her Hair Went Gray?
Lisa LaFlamme, who started hosting the flagship show in 2011, was one of many women who stopped dyeing her hair during the pandemic, and allowed...
A First: Streaming Tops Cable TV For The First Time
It was only a matter of time before the milestone was reached, as streaming usage has continued to climb while traditional TV declines amid...
Should Disney Sell ESPN )And What Would It Say About American Sports-Watching?)
Fewer Americans are getting cable TV—and, by extension, ESPN—every year, but the network remains home to some of the most popular content on TV,...
How HGTV Changed The Look Of American Houses
Flipping and landlording are both seductive economic propositions—so much so that shows about successful, self-made flippers and investment-property renovators have become their own genre...
Why Pop Music Stars Are Signing Up For Extended Residencies Rather Than Touring
In a rebounding touring market, with concert-starved audiences buying tickets in record numbers — and at higher prices than ever — these bookings are deliberate choices...
Why Teachers Are Stopping Teaching
The solutions to every year’s teacher shortage makes the problem even worse. The teachers who stay wind up doing more work for less pay....
Charlotte Symphony Expands Pay, Season, Diversity
“There is more demand in Charlotte for our services than we can usually meet, so I’m very pleased we were able to raise the...
NFTs Aren’t A Scam, They’re A Story
Most NFT projects are definitely bubbles—but the NFT art-and-collectibles trading ecosystem as a whole is something more like a new form of art-themed online...
Writing Workshops (An American Invention) Aren’t Bad. They’re Just Limiting
It is not that I think we should scrap existing syllabi, but rather that we must make room for other storytelling traditions in these...
Report: Rampant Harassment In The Comedy Industry
New research from Get Off! and the University of Sunderland saw nearly 850 members of the live comedy industry (more than half of which...
More And More Libraries Are Censoring Books From Children
“This is a state-sponsored purging of ideas and identities that has no precedent in the United States of America. We’re witnessing the silencing of...
Movie Theatre Giant Says Admissions Down Due To “Limited Film Slate”
Cineworld’s liquidity and debt burden, which stood at more than $5 billion in net debt as of the end of 2021, have long been...
Department Of Ego-Mania: Mariah Carey Tries To Trademark “Queen Of Christmas”
The 53-year-old pop singer is trying to trademark that title so that she alone can sell goods — perfume, lotion, sunglasses, face masks —...
How Google Search Has Evolved, Subtlely Undermining Democracy
By adding all of these features, Google has effectively changed the experience from an explorative search environment to a platform designed around verification, replacing a process...
Composer Eva-Maria Houben On Music Structure And Listening
"I think these methods of analysis and talking about music are ideas musicologists need to explore a piece. When I listen to music, it...
The Power Of Music To Drive TikTok Memes
Though TikTok didn’t invent the audio meme, its effortless interface may have perfected it, and the platform, which recently ended Google’s 15-year-long run as...
Argentine Prosecutors Link Placido Domingo To Criminal Gang
Numerous broadcast channels in Latin America have been airing excerpts of audio recordings, obtained by wiretap, that include the voice of a man whom authorities claim...
The Unexpurgated Darwin — Lost Notebooks Reveal His Thinking
For academics, the uncooked contents of the notebooks represent some of the liveliest writing in biology. “A lot of Darwin’s prose feels quite Victorian....
The Internet Has Become A Giant Whataboutism Chamber
Attention is finite, the record of how we spend it public, and it is easy enough to check if somebody who tweets every day...
Publishing’s Blockbuster Merger Trial Is Turning Out To Be Something Of A Circus
The spectacle has been curiously entertaining. Publishing executives have had to initiate federal employees into a dialect of “backlists,” “advance copies,” and “BookTok influencers.”...
Why Streaming Services Are Adding Ads
But ads are coming back because streamers have more info about our consumption habits than the cable companies or networks ever did, so the...
UK Literary Festivals Are Back. But…
“The mood music seemed that ‘leisure’ activities had to be jettisoned due to the already felt increased cost of fuel/food, and there was a...
Mounting Evidence? People Are Stopping Listening To Music
For the last few years, I have felt the inescapable disappearance of music from my friends’ lives. Even people with whom I have longstanding...
Seattle’s Arts After The Pandemic: Reckoning Or Opportunity?
In the ’80s and ’90s the arts were ascendant here, and Seattle was well regarded nationally as an up and coming arts town. Then...
Performers Were Among The Hardest Hit In The Pandemic. Recovery Is Slow
During the worst days of lockdown, some artists who couldn’t afford rent squatted in empty theaters to save money. Others left the art world...
