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Can Japan Build A National Fandom Around Home-Grown Ballet?
Fans are actually pretty dialed in, but to international touring companies. "The country has struggled to build world-class companies and hold on to the...
Don’t Expect A Michael Douglas Comeback
“I’d been working pretty hard for almost 60 years, and I did not want to be one of those people who dropped dead on...
No Translation? No Problem
Are you happy to watch Cormac McCarthy’s characters speak both English and Spanish, since they live on the border, or do you seek out...
Google’s AI Summaries Of Recipes Are Going Away
Food writers were losing revenue at a terrible clip - but also, were the summaries any good? - Nieman Lab
Stravinsky’s Arrangement Of The Star-Spangled Banner Alarmed The Boston Police
They “issued Stravinsky a warning, claiming there was a law against tampering with the national anthem. (They were misreading the statute.) Grudgingly, Stravinsky pulled...
What Human Audiobook Narrators Think About The Rise Of AI
They’re not fans. One: “'I’ve narrated really raunchy sex scenes – AI doesn’t know what an orgasm sounds like,’ she says. ‘Birth scenes as...
What The Paramount Capitulation Means For Freedom Of The Press
“What’s clear, in any case, is that big corporations undoubtedly threaten journalistic independence.”- Salon
Carla Maxwell, Who Figured Out How To Keep Modern Dance Companies Going, Has Died...
Maxwell took over the José Limón Dance Company after he died, but no one expected her to keep it going - much less for...
The TikTok ‘Ban’ Will Morph Into A Sale And A New App
“The Trump administration says it’s close to working out a sale to a group of ‘non-Chinese' investors, including Oracle, with current majority owner ByteDance...
Reading Aloud To Each Other Isn’t Just For Little Kids
It’s all a win for families (and sometimes adults as well): “Reading aloud engages kids in the story rather than their getting tangled up...
We Have To Trick Our Brains To Align Short-Term Fun With Long-Term Achievements
Basically? Only connect. "Our brains are equipped with a social processing system that is engaged in thinking about other people’s minds and helps us understand and connect with them —...
Chaco Canyon Is Under Serious Threat From The Federal Government
“Chaco Culture, which includes Chaco Canyon National Historical Park and Aztec Ruins National Monument, was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. The...
Is Hollywood Inspired By The CIA, Or Is The CIA Inspired By Hollywood?
Wow, OK: “The agency is targeting professionals at the intersection of arts and technology for recruitment, CIA officers told The Times, and continues to...
Summer Reading, By NPR
There’s Prose to the People, "a kind of fun celebration of how bookstores in general operate as more than just, like, a place where...
Brad Pitt Is Fooling You
“The cumulative effect of F1 and its press tour have been a carefully tuned charm offensive meant to obscure, if not outright bury, the alleged violent...
Not A Huge Surprise, But That One AI-Generated ‘Band’ Was An Elaborate Hoax
"A Canadian who duped journalists in an elaborate AI music hoax says he apologizes to anyone hurt by his experiment but that it's been ‘too fascinating’...
A Strad That Disappeared At The End Of WWII May Have Resurfaced
“The case of the Mendelssohn Stradivarius highlights the opaque trade for rare instruments, in which details about provenance, or the history of previous ownership, are...
Netflix’s Animated K-Pop Band Is Beating Flesh And Blood Bands On Spotify
Perhaps this is not a surprise in a time of AI slop, but at least the villainous, fictional Saja Boys’s songs are performed by...
Is Digital Security Even Possible In An Age Of Dictatorship?
Likely not, but people, and groups, persist in countries where the consequences can be dire. For instance, “the government of El Salvador has created...
How A Whole Team Creates The Anxiety Inducing Sounds Of The Bear
“The sound team has anxiety-heightening tricks. ‘Whether it’s some repetitive sound that starts speeding up, like some chopping or whatever. Just adding, adding, adding,...
Test Audiences In Arizona Didn’t Like Elio, So Pixar Cut Out All The Gay...
Then the (gay) director left; "a number of creatives working behind the scenes left,” and America Ferrera, originally supposed to be Elio’s mom, left...
Recents Faves From The NYT’s Classical Music Writers
Recordings, live performances, and uncovered treasures have them hooked. - The New York Times
Did The Salt Path Seem Like A Good Story?
That’s because the “memoir” (and its sequels, not to mention the new movie starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs) was at least partly fiction,...
British Law Prevents The Victoria And Albert Museum From Returning Looted Objects
“They can get rid of an object only if it is a perfect duplicate; if it is unsuitable for retention in collections and can...
Where Did Sinners Get Its 1920s Costumes?
Thank you, Marvel, for (probably!) abandoning your planned 1920s version of Blade. - The AV Club
