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People, Including University Presidents, Shouldn’t Get Fired For Making Explicit Videos In Their Free...
Conor Friedersdorf on the fired University of Wisconsin-LaCross president: "First Amendment law can tell us only so much. How should Gow’s superiors have responded to this...
The ‘Ghoulish’ And ‘Creepy’ Fake George Carlin Special
"Ahead of the special, a voice calling itself 'Dudesy the comedian AI' tells viewers that what they are about to hear is not Carlin,...
ESPN Returns Dozens Of Emmys After Scheme Unravels
Cheating isn't a great look in sports - or sports media. "Since at least 2010, ESPN employees attached fake names to awards entries, the...
Dear Audience Members, Please Get Better At Being In Public
Stop clapping so much! Stop drinking so much! Don't use your phone's flashlight to find your seats! And for pity's sake, stop eating potato...
Live, From The Critics Choice Awards
The latest film & TV awards are the Critics Choice Awards, for which Barbie had 18 nominations. Oscars nominee voting ends Jan. 16, so...
Marvel Introduces Two Indigenous Female Characters, And There’s An Immediate Backlash
A Marvel critic "called the two characters 'repetitive' because both are of Native American descent and have similar powers" - you know, just as...
The People Who Love A 24-Hour Marathon Reading Of Moby Dick
At the Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Mass., "the first speaker took the lectern at noon after the strike of eight bells. 'Call me...
Palace Where Alexander The Great Was Crowned Finally Reopens To Tourists
"The crowning glory of what had once been the royal metropolis of Macedonia, the palace was not just a model building but 'an architectural...
A Window Into A New Opera Festival
What the Prototype festival brings to audiences: Anything from Biblical translations to "a kind of nostalgic reminder of the loud, messy, nudity-filled, often self-serious,...
Bill O’Reilly Apoplectic At His Own Books Being On A Removal List In Florida...
The former FOX News host who hard-core supported this very book censorship legislation wrote on X/Twitter, "Things are getting crazy with book banning in #Florida."...
Queen Camilla Chooses A Rather Interesting Book For Her Book Club
The author of a book about King Charles and other members of the Royal Family being held hostage says, "the move showed the Queen...
The Portland Opera Is Selling Its Building To Relieve Debt
The company "will be vacating the entire bundle: administrative offices, costume shop, rehearsal space, parking lot and all." Where will it go? That's not...
AI Is Making Mincemeat Out Of Art, And Intellectual Property As Well
"Tech companies scrape the work of artists and writers to their benefit without consent or compensation, turning anyone who has ever had the audacity...
What The World Of Bestselling Celebrity Books Does To Regular Writers
It isn't pretty: "Publishing is competing with other forms of entertainment in an increasingly fragmented media landscape, and an author with existing name recognition...
The Rise And Spectacular Collapse Of Substack
The issues: "The company wanted to have it both ways: to exert the cultural influence of a major media company without shouldering any more...
A Fire In Seattle’s Pioneer Square Damages Work By Rembrandt, Picasso
"The artworks by local and international artists, both contemporary and historical, span a time frame from the 1400s to today and are valued anywhere...
Can The Bloomsbury Group Please Get Its Art Back?
At Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant's Charleston, the house and many furnishings have been preserved, but a foundation would very much like the creators'...
How Writer Octavia Butler Foretold The Future
This is a skill many science fiction writers would like to possess - but it wasn't uncomplicated. "Through the noise of late-20th-century America, Butler...
The Hotel That Launched A Million Books
Without a real-life murder mystery at an Indian hotel, Agatha Christie may never have launched Hercule Poirot. - BBC
How Actors Speak In Early Awards Shows Can Determine Whether They Earn An Oscar
While voting is still happening, "Many an Oscar has been won or lost on the basis of a good or bad performance on a...
Indiana University Cancels An 87-Year-Old Artist’s Retrospective
Why cancel Yale School of Art professor Samia Halaby's show? Well, she's Palestinian, and she's vocal in her support of the Gazans under attack...
Willem Dafoe Wants People To Stop Taking Sex So Seriously
At least the sex in Poor Things, his new movie. - Washington Post
In Chicago, Comedy Teachers Settle With Management To Avert A Second City Strike
When unions post "Strikes work" on social media, this is what they mean: "Negotiations had dragged on for almost two years before the union...
Who Will Win The Long-Delayed Emmys?
And who should win? (Hint: Not the third season of Ted Lasso.) - The Hollywood Reporter
So Were The Book Of Kells Illuminator Monks On Mushrooms Or What?
"All the monks who worked on it shared a sense of revelation liberated from verbal meaning." - The Guardian (UK)
