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The TIFF People’s Award Has Been Pretty Good At Predicting The Oscar Winners
What changed it all? Chariots of Fire. - CBC
Some Thoughts On Raising A Book Reader Amid A Digital Environment
For one thing, “the real challenge isn’t technology itself, but how technology has evolved to actively compete with the very cognitive processes that reading...
We Want Retro Movies, And We Want To See Them In Cinemas
Is a showing of Back to the Future or Jaws something like a ballet company’s Nutcracker - dependable money for a theatre, with a...
New DNA Cassettes Can, Apparently, Store Every Song Ever Recorded
Sadly, “if you put one of the new tapes into an old-fashioned Walkman, it won’t produce any meaningful sound, because the DNA cassette doesn’t use...
The Dictionary Had Its Beginning In The Enlightenment, But Now The Project May Be...
"Dictionary content is expensive. … The cost of lexicographers—people are expensive, and the output is low. It is very difficult to justify that just...
The 66-Year-Old Retired Accountant Who Just Joined LSU’s Marching Band
Apparently, it’s never too late to live your musical dreams. - NPR
Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet Wins The People’s Choice Award At TIFF
“The film, adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, is about how grief, following the death of son, Hamnet, may have inspired Shakespeare’s greatest...
Rolling Stone’s Parent Company Sues Google For AI Overview
“The company claims that the AI Overviews that often appear at the top of search results leave users with little reason to click through to the...
The People Chasing Thrills, And The Artists And Engineers Running Up Against Physics To...
“In recent years, Americans have drifted away from many of their once-beloved sources of pleasure: drinking, throwing parties, having sex, making friends. Yet they keep coming...
These Nazi-Looted Paintings Will, After An Intervention, Not Be Up For Auction
A nonprofit, the Monuments Men and Women Foundation, received a tip that the art was on the auction block in Ohio, and went into...
The National Gallery Can Finally Show Britain – And Tourists – The Story Of...
And gosh, maybe it can even start to include a fair number of women artists. - The Guardian (UK)
When A Writer Starts To Lose His Words, What Happens?
“After 50 years of publishing, Munsch told me, his ability to come up with new stories seems to have vanished. ... Plots used to...
A US Actor Trying To Restore A UK Manor He Calls ‘Downton Shabby’ Has...
Hopwood DePree "grew up listening to stories of the family’s ancestral home in England, but believed them to be fairytales, until he began researching...
The French Movies That Influenced Kristen Stewart As A Director
"In her typical unfiltered, brainy and self-deprecating fashion, Stewart made the audience laugh as she admitted that she actually struggles to watch entire movies.”...
What Jane Austen Had On Her Playlist
“In the last decade, after academics at the University of Southampton in England digitized the sheet music collection of Austen and her family, more and more...
Anthropic’s We Stole Your Books, Here’s Some Money Offer Isn’t Great
But this author wants the settlement money anyway. - Wired
There’s A Labubu At The Emmys, Plus Everything Else That’s Happening
The Vulture post will load if you click this headline, but here is the Los Angeles Times live chat, The Hollywood Reporter’s live stream...
How Poptimism Ate Itself
“The truth is that the vulgar poptimist ideal of letting people like what they like is also the preferred state of affairs for capitalism — cultural...
The Slow Death Of French Restaurant Criticism
“Paris, the centre of French gastronomy, has never been in more need of a great restaurant critic. Today, the Parisian food media scene has...
Many, Many Good Shows Weren’t Nominated For Emmys
"I guess what I’m saying is, you could watch the Emmys, or you could watch some of the other things that were on TV...
Erik Satie, Inventor Of Modern Music
“Despite music in general having long since assimilated the daring qualities of Gymnopédie No. 1, the original piece still catches our ears — in its subtle...
Sean Astin Is Elected To A Powerful Union Position
That’s right, Samwise Gamgee is now the president of SAG-AFTRA as the performers’ union heads into another contract year. - Los Angeles Times
TikTok Is Filled With Women Dressed As Alexander Hamilton Sneaking Out Of Windows And...
Many of the TikToks “deliberately portray as a stereotypical bad boyfriend or spouse with wandering eyes. Some are more explicit, like one in...
Belgian Music Festival Cancels Performance Because Munich Phil’s Conductor Also Helms Israeli Phil
“'In light of role as the chief conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, we are unable to provide sufficient clarity about his attitude...
Paramount Pictures Has Denounced A Boycott Of Israeli Film Industries
Paramount "sharply denounced a proposed boycott of Israeli film institutions by a group that calls itself Film Workers for Palestine and is supported by...
