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Why Adults Have Such A Difficult Time Having Fun
We can, partly, blame social media. "One of the requirements for fun is that you be completely present and that your inner critic is...
Another Venerable Magazine Has Been Slowly – And Now Quickly – Destroyed
This time it's Sports Illustrated, which had been gutted but not completely demolished. The layoffs of what may be the entire staff "come after...
Why Can’t We Leave Princess Diana Alone?
Diana "is still too blazingly alive to be dragooned into trauma porn, mauled with the excuse of reincarnating her." But the last few years...
The Utter Devastation Of Music Media Continues With The End Of Pitchfork
"It is bleak on so many levels, first and foremost the job losses during a straitened time for media. Pitchfork was one of the...
UNESCO Added Opera Singing – In Italy, Anyway – To A World Heritage List
"The list identifies what UNESCO, the United Nations cultural organization, calls 'fragile' nonphysical elements that play a crucial role in 'maintaining cultural diversity in...
What Streaming Services Will Look Like By The End Of This Year
The Great Wave Of Consolidation is coming for all of our favorite streamers. Why? "Investment bankers are wishin’ and hopin’ for more of these deals in...
Author Helen Oyeyemi On The Difficulties Of Writing About Prague
"Prague doesn’t want to be put into anyone’s story; so many people have come and tried to make it part of this or that...
Here We Go: AI-Derived Music Is Getting A Trial On TikTok
Users create lyrics, and then TikTok "pairs the lyrics with the pre-saved music, based on three genres: pop, hip-hop, and EDM." (Results aren't great...
In Melbourne, A 16-Year Restoration Project Is Coming To Its Gorgeous End
Why did the Parliament Building need so much work? "Earlier attempts at restoration work had used different materials – sometimes even concrete – to...
Orlando Museum Drops Lawsuit Against Owners Of Fake Basquiats
The board chair "said that in an effort to cut its legal costs, the institution would focus its case solely on its former executive...
Alec Baldwin Indicted Again For Shooting Death Of Cinematographer
Baldwin was originally cleared of charges in April of 2023 because of testimony that claimed he didn't need to pull the trigger for the...
Winner Of Japanese Literary Prize Says ChatGPT Wrote Part Of Her Book
Rie Kudan "won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize this week for her sci-fi novel Tokyo-to Dojo-to (Tokyo Sympathy Tower), which centers around a high-rise prison tower and...
The British Government Doesn’t Recognize What A Library Is, Or Does
And a lot of the public don't really know either, a new study says. Is it time for a libraries minister? - The Guardian...
The Istanbul Biennial Is Delayed After Its British Curator Resigns
"Divisions in the art world over the biennial’s choice of Iwona Blazwick, a British curator, to oversee the event had made it 'impossible' for...
SoundCloud May Be For Sale
But whatever happens to it, the way it transformed musical access, its musical underground vibe, will never die. - Wired
Laser Mapping Reveals The Amazon’s Hidden, Ancient Cities
The discoveries in Ecuador's Upano Valley "upend historical understandings of civilization in the Amazon: the largest city in the network is comparable in size...
Barbie Won A Bunch Of Awards During Commercial Breaks, And The Host Was Not...
Chelsea Handler "went rogue" during the Critics Choice Awards, after Barbie won a bunch of awards during commercial breaks - including Best Comedy. Handler...
The West Coast’s First Woman TV Reporter, Ruth Ashton Taylor, Has Died At 101
Ashton Taylor got her start alongside Edward R. Murrow at CBS Radio, then broke into broadcast TV in Los Angeles. "One of her favorite...
Britain’s Cooling Towers Deserve To Be Preserved, Just Like A Church Or Castle
"They are monuments of industry, built at the size (and more) of pyramids and cathedrals, graceful in their geometry, the perfect marriage of form...
Why Do Taylor Swift Fans Think She Wrote A Mystery In Her Free Time?
Swift obviously doesn't have any actual free time, but anyway: It all comes down a movie trailer and a cat in a backpack, signifying...
The San Francisco Conservatory Of Music Violated Title IX, The Office Of Civil Rights...
The conservatory's "response to a student’s report of sexual assault and stalking 'violated Title IX at every stage' and was 'deliberately indifferent,'" the investigation found....
The Real-Life Couple Who May Have Inspired Edward Albee
The link between Albee's best-known play and artists Marie Menken and Willard Maas isn't undisputed although they "were notorious for drunkenly arguing in front...
Go On, Read The End Of The Book First
But by that, we mean the acknowledgements, "where you learn about the temperament of your author, which is sometimes unexpectedly different from that of...
Since The Emmys Opened To Cable, HBO Has Dominated The Awards
But that reign may be coming to an end as quickly as HBO turned into MAX. - Washington Post
Artists Worldwide, Including Annie Ernaux, Pledge To Boycott Germany For Its Attitude Toward Gaza
Their petition reads, "The German state has intensified the repression of its own Palestinian population and those who stand against Israel’s war crimes. ......
