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The Atlanta Opera, Bucking Trends, Is Doing Quite Well
Not to say there isn’t trouble brewing, particularly with its unions, but the opera’s numbers, and budget, have been on an upward trajectory for...
The FCC Gives Starlink Temporary Ability To Hook Hurricane Victims Direct To Their Cellphones...
Why? After Hurricane Helene, “communications continue to be heavily impacted throughout the southeast region of the US. Charts published by the FCC in recent days show...
Southern California Can’t Have All The Visual Art Attention, A Newly Launched Northern Cal...
Stand back, PST: Here comes the Further Triennial. The name - in honor of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters’ famous bus - “is...
Show Everyone The Money
On the literary importance of money in fiction (even Raymond Carver agreed). - LitHub
Nostalgia Is Driving An Awful Lot Of Television Reboots
Millennials want to share their shows with their kids - and, in addition, “the world is a little bit hectic and crazy right now,...
What Is The Graphic Novel Equivalent Of Show, Don’t Tell?
It’s the two-apple problem. - LitHub
Some Good News For Books, And Readers
“The number of independent bookstores has grown by 200 from 2022 to 2023, and the number has more than doubled between 2016 and 2023.” Then...
The British Artist Who Has Bonded With Cy Twombly
Artist Tacita Dean says, "He connects to the classical world in a way that is deeply emotive. … I’m interested in where your mind...
Hollywood Feels The Lure Of Europe, Again
First of all, Hollywood studios are a bit risk-averse right now. Then there’s the pull, for actors, of high-prestige indies. Witness Zoe Saldaña, starring...
How Is It That Saturday Night Live Is Sometimes Still Funny?
Television shows that are 50 years old aren’t thick on the ground. But SNL strikes a thread of absurd comedy from time to time...
Should We Be Worried That Taiwan May Be Running Out Of Electricity?
Only if we want computer chips. Which we definitely do. - Wired
Little Of The Money In Music Is Flowing To Musicians, Says Pink Floyd’s David...
Gilmour: “The music industry is a tough one these days, and for people who are recording in it, the rewards are not justifiable. The...
Companies Like Instagram Are Deleting Our Photos And Videos
So please - make sure they’re stored somewhere else as well (preferably not in a cloud). - Slate
Robert Coover, Postmodernist Author Of Great Invention, Dead At 92
Michiko Kakutani called him “probably the funniest and most malicious” of all the postmodernist novelists. - The New York Times
Demon Copperhead Author Barbara Kingsolver Knows A Thing Or Two About Anti-Hillbilly Bigotry
And she knows the real Appalachia - one, she says, a certain vice-presidential candidate doesn’t. - The Guardian (UK)
The Lines Among WordPress’s Commercial, Nonprofit, And Founder’s Interests Are Blurring
Matt Mullenweg “has muddied the boundaries between three essential entities that lead a sprawling ecosystem powering almost half of the web. To Mullenweg, that’s...
How The Sydney Metro Could Inspire An Improvement In Australian Architecture
“People are looking for serious change in the approach to the environment around us, and yes, there is an appetite to see design charting...
No One In The United States Will Distribute One Of The Year’s Most Powerful...
“The subject matter is politically fraught, but once upon a time, American film distributors and exhibitors embraced controversy — especially when it came to...
Spain Is Trying To Decide What To Do With The Remains Of Conquistador Hernan...
“The story began when Spanish pharmacist Leonardo Gutiérrez-Colomer met historian Alberto María Carreño in Mexico in 1946, who told him a secret: the body...
How Artist Wendy Red Star Learned Of Her MacArthur Fellowship
“They’re like, ‘Do you have a place where you can have a confidential conversation?’ So the next day I had a meeting, I was...
Steve McQueen’s Blitz Is About Ordinary People In Extraordinarily Difficult Circumstances
“It’s grimy and chaotic: people pick over dead bodies for valuables, fire crews wrestle with out-of-control hoses, while others find sexual freedom in the...
A Master Storyteller Approaches Her Death The Same Way She’s Approached Her Fiction
Lore Segal, at 96, “still approaches everything in life and her writing in the same way: as something interesting, something to be dealt with...
Finding Van Gogh In Arles
“Van Gogh would regularly walk for an hour or more, through the agricultural land that supplied the Saturday market to the Romanesque abbey Montmajour, not...
The Glass Timpani
On stage in DC: Two timpanists, seventeen timpani: “Rhythmic and melodic material is split between the two soloists — each surrounded by drums and...
The Arts Were An Economic Engine In North Carolina
Then Hurricane Helene hit - and hit hard. In Asheville’s long-gestated River Arts District, the president of the District’s art group describes “the current...