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How Can A Judge Decide If Ed Sheeran Copied From Marvin Gaye?
"The music industry is keenly interested in the outcome. Over the last decade, the business has been rocked by a series of infringement suits...
In The Heart Of Paris, Archaeologists Uncover 2000-Year-Old Graves
The Gallo-Roman graves "will offer further insight into the funeral practices of the Parisii, the Gallic tribe that inhabited Lutetia. In the process, we...
The Leonardo Ferry Is Left High And Dry By Bureaucracy And Climate Change
"Since the last ferry operators left to run a more lucrative water taxi in Lake Como, no one has bid to take over the...
When Hilary Mantel Died, She Left Behind A Jane Austen-Inspired Manuscript
The book world is salivating. "Imagine the post-modernist-Austenite novel that would have been! Imagine the Mantel treatment being given to poor Charlotte Lucas, not-quite-good-enough-and-not-rich-enough...
Why Do Apps Love The Color Blue So Darn Much?
"It’s a very distinct color, it’s a distinct design. Paramount and Prime are a little bit on the lighter side, Disney+ has more of...
This Is How The Universe Ends
Not with a bang, but a black hole (or a few). - Wired
NBCUniversal CEO Ousted For Inappropriate Relationship
The news "sent shockwaves through the Burbank-based company, is unfolding days ahead of Comcast reporting its first quarter results on Thursday, including a conference...
The New Canon Of Julius Eastman
"We’re firmly enjoying some new period of appreciation for the pioneering but once-overlooked work of this Black queer composer and multi-instrumentalist; archival recordings and new...
Putin’s War On Ukrainian Cultural Memory
It's always the libraries. "Three national and state libraries, including the National Scientific Medical Library of Ukraine, as well as some 25 university libraries,...
Remember All Those Chromebooks School Kids Got Early In The Pandemic Lockdown?
Turns out they're low quality and not reparable, and, three years later, that's not turning out to be so great for the schools or...
The Small British City Getting A Bunch Of Dali’s Surreal Sculptures
In Shrewsbury, a town of 40,000 a few miles east of the Welsh border, "the organisers of an ambitious arts trail in the Shropshire...
Imagine Being A 16-Year-Old Bookstore Owner Who Gets To Interview Judy Blume
Just, like, wow. That is extremely cool. And: "'It’s people like you who give us hope, because you’re the next generation and you’re who’s...
A Blockbuster Show, Ripped In Half By War
The National Gallery in London and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow both have a new show up - "After Impressionism."...
Tracking Down Retired Celebrities Is A Gross New Trend For Paparazzi
"The rush to track down people who used to be famous does seem to have picked up some speed lately. And, as far as...
A City That’s Been Longing For A Bookstore Finally Gets Its Own
"Most of Buho's books are secondhand or donated, costing around $10 to keep them accessible. Literacy rates in the region are some of the...
Poised For Change At The Dance Theater Of Harlem
The legacy: "I remember being at barre on the first day, in Studio 3 with the beautiful red brick, and not having ever experienced...
Music Festivals Can Be Crowded, Hot, And Sometimes Seemingly Out Of Control
And yet, whether they're classical or pop or rock or whatever Coachella is, we fall for them. "As festivalgoers we untether, if only for...
The Woman Revolutionizing An Iranian Storytelling Tradition In Los Angeles
"For centuries, skilled Iranian storytellers known as Naqqals have transfixed audiences in traditional coffeehouses" - but it was always an art by men, and...
Author Celeste Ng On Book Hangovers And Getting Through The Last Few Years
"I had a crisis of faith in the early days of the pandemic. I thought: books don’t do anything, maybe I should go and...
Lynn Nottage And Her Daughter Are Creating Theatre, And Opera, Together
Ruby Aiyo Gerber to her mom: "For so long, I rebelled against wanting to be a writer, fearing that admiring any part of you...
The Bloody Past And Blurry Future Of The So-Called Digital Revolution In News
"The time has come for us to stop using the term 'digital revolution' in such a catchphrase-cute way, with the inevitable emphasis on 'digital' and little...
Pierre Lacotte, Choreographer And Self-Described Archaeologist Of Dance, 91
"A notation-based reconstruction movement took hold around the turn of the 21st century, but Lacotte — ahead of his time — had already been...
Perhaps Writers Don’t Actually Fetishize The Tools Of The Trade Enough
Tobias Wolff reflects on his unfilled notebooks and wonders, "At what point do the tools of writing go from functional objects in their own...
The Film Industry Is Pretty Much Gone, Says Jim Jarmusch, Who’s Releasing A Rock...
The director of Ghost Dog and Coffee and Cigarettes says that "funnelling creative energy into making music has become a vital escape from some...
Can EDM Get Milliennials And Gen Z Into Classical Ballet?
That's a gamble the San Francisco Ballet is willing to make. - San Francisco Standard
