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The Poetry-Filled Nightstand Of San Francisco
In Golden Gate Park, a park ranger placed a piece of furniture with instructions: "'Take a poem, leave a poem.' Since the nightstand’s debut there...
Let’s All Calm Down About ChatGPT
Will the AI program kill high school English? Well ... maybe. But "if ChatGPT can do the things we ask students to do in...
After 29 Years In New York, STOMP Comes To An End
The co-producer says foreign tourist ticket money hasn't returned to New York in the COVID era. But the "group of street performers banging stuff"...
Why Writer Katherine Mansfield Divided Opinion A Century Ago, And Still Does Today
""One explanation might lie in Mansfield’s keen sense of the absurd and the striking lack of anything deferential in her attitude – whether towards...
Acting To Change History, Not To Win Awards
Danielle Deadwyler plays Mamie Till in the movie Till. She says, "It is a bigger thing to combat racism, right? And racism is seedy,...
Right-Wing Italian Government Targets Music Producers And Promoters
Italy has a draconian - and patently ridiculous - new code: "It makes organising raves a specific crime punishable with three to six years...
Speaking Of AI, Why Are We So Creeped Out By Dancing Robots?
"People have been afraid of robots for as long as robots have existed. But robots that can dance — really dance — are distinctly unnerving." - The...
The Science Of AI Art, And The Future Of Human Artists
"It’s pretty wild and a little disturbing. It definitely provokes some mixed emotions." - Science Friday
Joyce Meskis, Who Refused To Hand Bookstore Records To Law Enforcement, Has Died At...
Meskis was the owner of the Tattered Cover in Denver. "In addition to creating a bookstore famed for its vast selection and bibliophile-friendly atmosphere,...
To Cut Carbon Emissions, Look To Ancient Rome
Think of the Pantheon, for instance. "An ancient manufacturing technique can create self-healing concrete that naturally fills in cracks. Using a similar process now...
Poetry Isn’t Dead At All, But Thriving
If you only know where to look, that is. - Washington Post
How TikTok’s Anti-Aesthetic Is Shaping Culture
Performance and repetition rule: "Songs, settings, movements, dances and concepts are relentlessly rehashed, wringing a measure of soothing predictability from TikTok’s general anarchy. ......
The Sign Language Experts Bringing A Wider Range Of Speech To Theatre
As theatres reckon with racial diversity onstage, some of them are also hiring interpreters who speak Black American Sign Language, or hiring other interpreters...
Talking To The Author Of The Most Banned Book In The United States
Maia Kobabe, author of Gender Queer: "I drew as much as I felt like I needed to tell the story that I was trying...
Please, Say No To AI Audiobook Narrators
Apple has new AI narrators. They're not great. "Jackson sounds like a pretty standard—if maddening—customer service line voice. ... Madison, on the other hand,...
The Music Of Antarctica
"The space is alive with the sounds of thawing permafrost, cracking ice, grinding glacier. ... 'Sometimes, moving ice can sound like something that’s alive.'"...
The Fraught Process Of Turning An 800-Page Government Report Into An Audiobook
The head of production at Macmillan Audio started months ago. "Betting that the committee’s report would be substantial, accessible and 'very narrative-driven,' he hired...
The Rollout Of Prince Harry’s Memoir Has Been Chaotic
But hoo boy, is it selling. (This year's savior of publishing?) - The New York Times
Apple Tries To Perfect A Portable Karaoke Machine
The claim: "Combining the same kind of vocal-erasing processors used by those bespoke karaoke creators and Apple’s prodigious lyrics database, Sing can instantly engineer...
The Golden Globes Are Back On TV
But please, free to ignore them completely. They never deserved our attention in the first place. - Time
New Rules Of Reading For The New Year
"There are worse ways of groping through the opening murk of another miserable year. ... if you are going to take on a...
Is Poetry Dying, Or Already Dead?
The sales for poetry books - if your name isn't Amanda Gorman - are hovering at approximately zero. What is going on? - Inside...
The United States’ Addiction To Applause
What was the point of all that applause in the House? And what's often the point at plays, for that matter? "Which beaming retinue...
Tar, Cate Blanchett, Ke Huy Quan Complete Film Critic Trifecta
In the run-up to the Oscars, and the film Tár, its lead actor Cate Blanchett, and Everything Everywhere All at Once's Ke Huy Quan...
What Climate Change Is Doing To Book Preservation
"Many experts feel they are in a race against time. A 2018 study published in the Climate Risk Management journal assessed 1,232 archival repositories in the...
