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Why Is Everyone Still In Love With Sherlock Holmes?
“The real Holmes - the one written by Conan Doyle - is endlessly fascinating. He is a genius but flawed because he is so...
Tracy Kidder, Who Helped Redefine Nonfiction, Has Died At 80
“Kidder was careful to eschew focusing on his longtime loves like fishing or baseball, afraid that if he spent too much time in one...
Will A Lawsuit Allow Claire Tabouret’s Windows To Be Mounted In Notre Dame?
“At the crux of the controversy is the fact that Tabouret’s new windows would push out Viollet-le-Duc’s undamaged ones. Advocates for the project argue...
If Streamers Like Netflix Keep Raising Prices, How Will Viewers Keep Up?
The newest price increase includes a $27 a month premium (that is, not ad-supported; which was, one may remember, THE WHOLE POINT OF STREAMING)...
Rebecca Solnit Wants Progressives To Calm Down And Keep It Slow
“Yes, we’re living through a political revolution, but it’s not the one you think. It’s not the fast-paced hurtle towards fascist necropolitics we wake...
Why Did So Many People Walk Out Of Julian Schnabel’s Newest Movie?
“An audience member shouted to the stage that the movie was too violent. ‘Well, life is violent,’ Schnabel responded.” - San Francisco Chronicle
What We All Miss When We Second-Screen
“Short-form video habituates the brain to rapid stimuli, reducing its capacity to stay focused on the slower and more demanding. There’s a popular term...
We’ve Been Mispronouncing The Name Of A Foundational American Writer For Decades
“It was a hotly debated thing, and it came to a head with Meryl Streep.” - The New York Times
Iran Is Winning The AI Slop Propaganda War
An AI-generated LEGO movie mocking Trump as a pedophile “is the work of Iran-based propagandists called the ‘Explosive News Team’ and is just the...
The Lion King Lyrics Legal Battle Is Unfolding Before Our Eyes
So … does the opening line really mean “Look, there’s a lion; oh my God”? Or is all of this just a big GoFundMe...
Friday Was World Theatre Day
To celebrate, theatre makers give video messages. Willem Dafoe (a founding member of the Wooster Group) in his message: “Our challenge as theatre-makers is...
The World Is Hostile To Socially Progressive Art, But Also Wants To Copy It...
"Developers discovered the cultural value of place-making. Corporations embraced art as branding. Cultural nonprofits and academic institutions increasingly adopted the vocabulary of community engagement...
Black Music Isn’t ‘Influential’ In Britain
It’s foundational: "Over the past three decades, music originating from Black genres has generated £24.5bn of the UK music industry’s £30bn recorded music market.”...
The Paul Klee That Can’t Leave The Middle East Because Of The War
“Angelus Novus is renowned not just in its own right, but for what its most famous owner made of it. … It was purchased...
The Almost Unimaginable Influence Of Frederick Wiseman
“To imagine a hospital administrator agreeing to this sort of project in a post-Titicut world speaks to the devastating impact of Wiseman’s work; anyone who...
Why Did OpenAI Kill Sora?
Maybe it was this: “The platform’s operational costs proved unsustainable, with each 10-second video costing OpenAI approximately $130 in compute expenses. With millions of...
Yes, Buffy The Vampire Slayer Reshaped Television, But Now What?
“It's the kind of television writing that you can see in the blueprints of everyone’s favorite shows nowadays. There’s a reason why Whedon was...
Britain, Like Many Other Places, Has Serious Gender Disparity Among Songwriters And Composers
Nominations for the Ivor Novello songwriting awards: “reveal the gender disparity in British and Irish music: there are more than twice as many male...
City Ballet Won’t Perform At The Kennedy Center
Add it to the long, long list of cancellations. - The New York Times
What Are The Differences Between Humans Using ‘Artificial Language’ And AI Using It?
“Human English contains persistent, if subtle, linguistic patterns of variation and readability. By contrast, AI uses what I call exam English – a rather...
Inside The New New Museum
“The seven story addition introduces three levels of gallery space that plug directly into existing floors. Not only does this create much needed airflow,...
Change Your Life: Start A Music Group
Yes, even if you’re not great at it (yet). "Make it up as you go along. If nobody else wants to sing, you sing....
When A Sports Venue Demands Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars From Governments, We Need...
“The Moda Center has always been a candidate for upgraded design. Which is to say nothing of the 30-acre Rose Quarter property the arena...
The Guys Who Got Fired From The Han Solo Movie Took Some Lessons Into...
For one thing, they met some of the Hail Mary crew on Solo. "We met Neal Scanlan and the creature shop team that we...
Trump Has Columbus Status Installed On The White House Grounds
It’s “is a replica of one that protesters in Baltimore tore down and dumped into the city’s Inner Harbor in the summer of 2020....
