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How Has TikTok Outrun YouTube And Facebook In Just A Few Short Years? It...
Or, to be more precise, it's very good at guessing what will interest you: "the most powerful tool TikTok has to grab users and...
Berlin Philharmonic Conductor Kirill Petrenko Worried That The Pandemic Demonstrated That Orchestras Were Expendable
"We all were very destroyed because at a certain point we thought no one needs us anymore. Their life goes on. The concert halls...
A Boy-Meets-Girl Play, Set At A Real-Life Pro-Nazi Summer Camp On Long Island
"For much of its running time, Camp Siegfried resembles a romantic drama, a coming-of-age story. That's a queasy proposition, considering the play's setting. In...
Boris Pasternak’s Grand-Niece Loses Her Copyright Suit Against A Historical Fiction Author
"Anna Pasternak claimed seven chapters in Lara Prescott's (novel), The Secrets We Kept, copied elements from her own book Lara, a 2016 biography of...
History’s First Named Author And What She Achieved
Enheduanna, the daughter of King Sargon, founder of the Akkadian Empire, played perhaps the leading role in consolidating the religion of conquered Sumer with...
Warner Bros. Discovery Is Spending $4 Billion To Shrink Itself
"The newly combined media company said that costs associated with cutting content" — such as the Batgirl film whose release was canceled entirely —...
Dept. Of Silver Linings: Artemisia Gentileschi Painting Identified After 2020 Beirut Explosion
"In one Lebanese mansion an anonymous painting — pierced by shards of glass from a blown-out window and impaled by wood from the window...
Mike Davis, L.A. Urbanist And Author Of “City Of Quartz”, Is Dead At 76
"(His) work exposed L.A.'s social fractures and disquieted its most ardent boosters, and (his) mark on the intellectual history of Southern California remains indelible....
Arkansas Museum Of Fine Arts Gets A Starchitect Makeover
"The countdown is on for the much-anticipated April 22, 2023, reopening of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock as it emerges...
One Day Before They Were Due, England’s State Arts Funder Postponed Its Plans For...
"Arts Council England has revealed it has hit the brakes on its imminent investment programme announcement. ... The 2023-26 programme has promised to be...
118 Composers Join Forces To Complete One Of Bach’s Great Unfinished Projects
Original sources indicate that J.S. planned to have 164 chorale preludes in his Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book), but he only wrote out 46 of...
While Repairing Damage Done By ISIS, Archaeologists Discover Unknown Assyrian Carvings
"A cache of 2,700-year-old marble relief carvings have been unearthed by archaeologists beneath the dilapidated Mashki Gate, just east of Mosul in Iraq. The...
“The Paper Chase” Author John Jay Osborn, Jr. Is Dead At 77
"The Paper Chase became a sort of pre-law school bible that students read before embarking on a career in law. One of them was...
The Bolshoi And Mariinsky Ballets Have Made Alexei Ratmansky A Non-Person
He's the world's most admired classical ballet choreographer, and he was artistic director at the Bolshoi. But, because he opposes Russia's invasion of Ukraine,...
“The Waste Land” At 100 — The Most Important English Poem Of The 20th...
"In honor of the 100th anniversary of the publication of 'The Waste Land,' we invited four writers and academics — Beci Carver, Jahan Ramazani,...
“The Waste Land” Is 100 Years Old, But Part Of It Is 2,500 Years...
Alok A. Khorana: "When I first read the poem, I was puzzled by the structure ... because it felt strangely familiar. ... The entire...
After A Few Years Of Progress, Is Hollywood Backsliding On #MeToo And Diversity?
"In recent months, however, Hollywood's business culture has started to regress in subtle ways. New problems — widespread cost-cutting as the box office continues...
MetLife Fired This Guy Because He Co-Hosts A Popular Supreme Court Podcast
"On the official 5-4 website, there is a one-liner that pretty much tells you everything you need to know: 'A podcast where we dissect...
A New Arts Journalism Initiative In Dallas
"The Dallas Morning News and KERA announced Monday the formal launch of their new shared endeavor Arts Access, 'a first-of-its-kind journalism partnership' designed to...
Irish Dance’s Match-Fixing Scandal Sees Its First Resignations
Two members of the board of competitive Irish step dancing's chief governing body have stepped down in the wake of revelations that some coaches...
Leslie Jordan, Beloved Actor And Social Media Star, Dead At 67
"After a late start in his performing career, (he) became a recognizable face from roles on numerous television shows, most notably Will & Grace,...
This Play About Abortion And Birth Control Is A Century Old And In Yiddish
Lena Brown's play Sonia Itelson, or, A child, a Child was written, and set in, the 1910s; it was almost certainly not produced then,...
A High School Kid Paints A Mural, And Some Parents Freak Out, Alleging Hidden...
"School district officials and a high school student in Michigan have drawn the ire of parents who allege that a painted mural contains LGBTQ...
Archaeologists Find Original 4th-Century Mosaic Floors That The Real St. Nicholas Walked On
"Archaeologists excavating the Church of St. Nicholas in Demre, Turkey, have uncovered the original stone mosaic floors where the saint ... would have stood...
Dalit Standup Comics In India Have A Few Things To Say About Caste
"A small but growing number of Dalit comedians (is) breaking into India's Brahmin-dominated comedy scene. Onstage, they're finding that examining caste through humor not...
