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Online Ratings Are Deeply Broken
The real point of all the ratings requests? Begging for (all of) our data. - The Atlantic
Heckling Is Not Just Welcomed, But Encouraged
It's amateur night at Harlem's famed Apollo Theater, and if you don't make the cut, you'll get tap-danced off the stage. - The New...
Toronto Film Fest Loses One Of Its Biggest Sponsors
As Bell Canada pulls out after 28 years, that doesn't seem at all ominous for the international film fest's future. - Variety
Zadie Smith Returns To London, In Fiction And Reality
She once said she had to flee London in order not to write a historical novel - but now she's back, and thanks to...
Artist Spent Years Hand-Painting A Video Game Set Inside Monet’s Eyes
Players who succeed at solving the game's levels are "rewarded by a dozen or so pieces scrolling together to create one of the impressionist...
How Our Brains Think They Know If Something We See Is Real
Basically, "why aren't we constantly hallucinating?" - Wired
The British Museum’s Reputation May Never Recover
Oops: There are "reports of theft every single day from various museums, cultural institutions, churches around the world. What surprised us was the fact...
What We Know About The British Museum’s Missing Items, So Far
The twists and turns are intense - and ongoing. - BBC
Why We’re So Sad About The End Of The DVD
Basically, memory: "The bouncing DVD logo is my Proustian madeleine." - The Atlantic
The School Where Choreographers Learn To Dance With Spreadsheets
The whole idea is "that choreographers use their considerable creative powers to help imagine structures better suited to their needs." - The New York...
The Pulitzer May Go International
Time to end the citizenship requirement? Said one writer, "I think you could almost make the inverse argument — that to really understand America,...
Social Media Warps Our Worlds
And it's not exactly planned, but now not exactly accidental; there' a science to it. - Fast Company
Writers Love Instagram, But It Is Frankly A Weird Venue For Them
It's got its appeal. Amit Chaudhuri: "The publication of a book is a strange occasion for the author – a mix of disengagement and...
Can This Violent, Funny, Queer Comedy Break Through Summer’s Doldrums?
Possibly, Bottoms - being released in a post-Barbie world - can win through where Joy Ride (equally raunchy, but not violent) and No Hard...
The Deep Thrill Of Watching A Film That Is Streaming Exactly Nowhere
"We often let ourselves believe that everything, now, is available to us — that nothing is lost and every experience can be accessed and repeated."...
Why Would Writers Destroy Their Own Work?
Ask Sylvia Plath - or French writer Barbara Molinard, who ripped her finished stories into shreds and fed them to the fire before rewriting...
When You’re At A Music Festival, You Often Need A Cell Signal
And yet, none is to be found. Why? - The Guardian (UK)
Gimmick Or Not, National Cinema Day Returns
Sure, multiplexes and art houses are already crammed with people seeing Barbie and Oppenheimer, but for one day next week, it'll be a cheaper...
Need An Antidote To Hopelessness?
Try these films, music, books, and art. - The Guardian (UK)
Readers Want Comfort Fiction, It Appears
And Colleen Hoover is on the bestseller lists because that's what she provides, in every single book she writes, no matter the genre. -...
Where Have Theatre Audiences Gone?
One expert says theatres have to invest in kids to inculcate a cultural habit "they might enjoy as they get older" - but, she...
The Musicians In Love With Obscure Instruments
Paul Rogers plays "a hybrid of the baroque-period viola da gamba, double bass and Indian sitar, seven rather than four playing strings, as well...
AI Generated Work Is Not Copyrightable, Judge Rules
If there's one thing Hollywood moguls love more than cheap, AI-generated work, it's copyright. - The Hollywood Reporter
Actors With Dwarfism Aren’t Pleased With Hugh Grant’s Oompa Loompa
And those actors also point out that if Hollywood can go digital to make Grant small, Hollywood can use digital tools to make them...
A Teacher Read Her Fifth-Graders A Book About A Fish’s Shadow
And then she was fired. - Washington Post
