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A Traditional London Music Venue, Reimagining Everything
"Remixing maypole dancing is just one of the myriad ways that English folk culture is currently having a reboot, thanks to a new wave...
Richard Dreyfuss Says The Academy’s New Diversity Rules For Oscar Movies Make Him Want...
Dreyfuss: "No one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what...
Work Has Changed – Can The Office Novel Keep Up?
Sure. Here's a list of "a few unconventional work novels that remind us of the way things once were, offer alternatives to the way...
Netflix Is Making Even More Of A Bet With South Korean TV
Thanks to the massivehit series The Glory and, of course, Squid Game, Netflix's Ted Sarandos has invested a lot of money into developing Korean...
The Rise Of A New Sort Of Mediocre Film
The genre of movie doesn't matter - the point is, this kind of movie is never going to sell at movie theatres. But it...
Why Are Conservatives So Intent On Banning A Book That Fights Childhood Sexual Abuse?
"What is consistently missing in the national conversation about book banning: the voices of those children and teenagers who see their experiences in print...
Do You Remember IBM’s Watson?
This is the future of ChatGPT. "Watson should be bragging in its stilted voice, not fading into irrelevance. But its trajectory is happening all...
A Truly Unforgivable Book For Kids
"Generally, there is something subversive and inspiring about the people Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara chooses to immortalize (RuPaul! David Bowie!), which raises the question,...
Painter Alfredo Arreguin Has Died At 88
Arreguín "fused the tools of classical oil painting with Mexican folk traditions, compressing fine art and ancient craft into stretched canvases that often stood...
The Broadway Producer Who Says She Wants To Sharpie Women Into Art History
Jenna Segal is intent on buying art by women from Peggy Guggenheim's 1943 Exhibition of 31 Women. That show contained "names that would later...
Berkeley’s Famed Eastwind Books Closes Up Shop
The Asian American bookstore was never just abou the books - the owners' vision was to create a place "that used books and reading...
How The Bleep Changed Everything
The Jerry Springer show had many iconic sounds, but one of its best-known "was added in post-production: the 1,000 hertz censor bleep, which became more...
Los Angeles Chooses A Design Team For Its Memorial To The 1871 Massacre Of...
"The concept was inspired by the banyan trees that guard the entrance to many villages in Guangdong, where many early Chinese immigrants to Los...
Fatimah Asghar Wins The First Carol Shields Prize
Asghar's When We Were Sisters "follows three orphaned Muslim-American siblings left to raise one another in the aftermath of their parents' death. The prize...
It’s Been A While Since A Ham4Ham Crossover Happened Live
But the years melted away in a very special Sweeney Todd and Hamilton mashup on Friday: "The entire cast of the current Sondheim revival...
Laura Pels, Devoted And Determined Patron Of Nonprofit Theatre, Has Died At 92
Her foundation helped many a theatre in New York and beyond. "There were rules: Productions had to be run by accredited nonprofit theaters; a...
No, We Can’t Separate Artists From Their Art
"When someone says we ought to separate the art from the artist, they’re saying: 'Remove the stain.' Let the work be unstained. But that’s...
The Right-Wing Desire To Control Kids’ Books Has Its Tentacles Everywhere
"If we all know that the largest children’s publisher in the country, the one with the most access to schools, is capitulating behind closed...
A Look Back At All Of This Century’s Fiction Pulitzer Winners
As we await Monday's prize announcements, here's a look back at Jennifer Egan, Colson Whitehead, Louise Erdrich, Colson Whitehead (again), Cormac McCarthy, Elizabeth Strout,...
As Writers Go On Strike, Streamers Boast Of Record Profits
Maybe this isn't great timing - for the streamers, anyway. For instance: "On Friday, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav announced that the company’s...
Art Museums Are In The ‘Find Out’ Stage Of Buying Looted Art
As The NYT elegantly puts it, "the art and antiquities market had for too long been a 'no-questions-asked' environment." Now, those questions are being...
Japanese Game Companies Push For Accessible Design
One of the hardest things to figure out? Making game choices not dependent on color so that color blind players can still play through....
An Illustrator Pulls Out Of A Literature Festival Thanks To The Fest’s Use Of...
The Bradford Literature Festival used AI to generate its marketing images this year. Illustrator "Chris Mould was due to hold a masterclass at the...
The ‘Volume War’ In Vocal Music
You wouldn't know it from Adele, true, but "according to acoustic scientists at the University of Oldenburg in Germany, lead singers have been getting quieter...
This Writers Strike Might Last A Really Long Time
Says one expert, "I was very startled by the degree to which the two sides are apart. ... It was really shocking to see...
