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The UK Is Looking Into The Pathetic Amounts Of Money Musicians Get From Streaming...
"The world’s three biggest music companies: Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music, control about three-quarters of the UK recording market, allowing them to strike...
Annals Of Fascism: Mississippi Mayor Withholding $100k From Public Libraries With All LGBTQIA Content
The libraries are steadfastly refusing to do such a thing, and the mayor is on thin - if any - legal grounds, but there's...
B Is For Broadway, And Bernadette
A new book rhymes ways to teach young children about theatre. "There are so many things in here that are favorite shows of mine...
Lee Godie Was Chicago’s Iconic ‘Bag Lady’ Artist
Godie was a "weathered blond woman wearing a rabbit fur coat and men’s orthopedic slip-ons as she hawked her art on Michigan Avenue." The...
Abigail Disney Is Disgusted By Disney, And Made A Movie To Explain Why
Disney and two of her siblings are executive producers on a new documentary that "positions the entertainment company that bears their name as 'ground...
A Ugandan Novelist Has Been Imprisoned For His Tweets, And May Have Been Tortured
The EU special representative for human rights says, "I’m alarmed by reports of alleged torture and incommunicado detention of author . He remains in...
When The Art Connoisseur Is A Robot
Artificial intelligence (OK, not an actual "robot") is really, really good at identifying brushstrokes. "The researchers hypothesized that brushwork on a painting leaves behind...
We’re All Used To Streaming Theatre Now, But What About Augmented Reality Theatre?
You know, hologram theatre in your kitchen or living room or ... wherever. "Theater makers are naturally fascinated: They’re used to working in 3-D....
Some Musicians Are Going Label-Free, Again
Why? Streaming royalties. - BBC
A Holocaust Museum In Virtual Reality
To be clear, one has to be at the museum to experience survivors' personal stories in VR. But "pretty much across the board, viewing...
I Swear We Are Still A Collective Of Humanity
No matter what our language choices. Consider the word like: "The conversational 'like' strikes many as merely a messy hedge that The Kids use...
When Two Stars Play One Part On The Same Stage
Uma Thurman and Renée Fleming are both Penelope; it's just that one speaks, and one sings. Thurman: "When you put language to music, it...
The Limits Of The Young Adult Label
Selling books is complex, and author Malinda Lo, winner of the National Book Award for young people, says the label is just marketing. "I...
An Actress Takes Control Of The ‘Unsexy’ Side Of Movies
Dakota Johnson is now a producer. She says, "It’s not about control. It’s about contribution. It’s about collaboration. ... It’s about really reaching for...
A Tricky Case For The Lawyer Who Wrote The Book On Restitution For Nazi-Looted...
Stuart Eizenstat, who helped write the Washington Principles, is in an odd position. "The optics of his surfacing for the first time in a...
Dear Audience, The Author Is Not Always The Novel’s Main Character
Or perhaps ever. Rebecca Watson: "I really don’t believe there’s a correlation ... but people try to map the piece onto the novel and...
Broadway Is Back, But What About Audiences?
Recently, Broadway shows haven't needed to cancel because of COVID cases in cast or crew, but there are a lot of empty seats -...
When Your First Novel Becomes A Political Lightning Rod For The Side You Don’t...
Ana Iris Simón has been "stunned not only by the success of her book, but also by how an ultranationalist and conservative audience ......
Super Bowl Half-Time Dancers Aren’t OK With Rehearsing And Performing For Exposure
Of course: "Field cast participants — aspiring dancers, actors, singers and musicians recruited from local drill teams as well as theatrical, community and athletic...
Andre Leon Talley And The Invention Of The Self
The fashion legend was "most of all his own project, Pygmalion as well as his subject, maybe with a little bit of Icarus thrown...
As Oscars Shortlist Is Released, Film Festivals Boost International Films
And nine of the 15 on the shortlist first came to attention at Cannes - though the winner of the Palme d'Or is not...
Isabel Allende Says The War Against Women Has Intensified
The writer of House of the Spirits says, "Didn’t I tell you that we live under a patriarchy? ... But women have been tearing...
Pay-TV Operators Are Cutting Ties With Right-Wing Networks
But why? DirecTV, for one, is tight-lipped. And "the pay TV providers who dropped OAN and Newsmax make the case that it’s not politics...
How The World Harmony Orchestra Decided To Lift Spirits During The Pandemic
The concerts for isolated people have ended up a lifeline for the musicians too. "Sometimes the concerts can be really unusual in that you...
Sometimes, Do Quit Your Day Job
Or, at least, that worked for Costa prize winner Caleb Azumah Nelson, who had been working at an Apple Store before an agent bit...