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Director Of Crash Arrested On Sexual Assault Charges In Italy
Paul Haggis "is accused of sexually assaulting the woman over the course of two days while in for an entertainment industry event." -...
Brits Drop Music Subscriptions As Cost Of Living Goes Up
More than one million subscriptions to Apple, Spotify, and other services have been cancelled - with a large percentage of people saying that's to...
Yo-Yo Ma Plays A Surprise Pop-Up Concert To Benefit An Arts School In Boston
"At the pop-up concert outside the cafe, wind threatened to blow sheet music away, and buses pulled in and out of the nearby terminal,...
The Cliburn Competition Awards Musicians From South Korea, Russia, And Ukraine
The competition was overshadowed by Russia's attacks on Ukraine; silver medal winner Anna Geniushene fled Russia for Lithuania and has been critical of the...
To Understand A Person’s Heart, Look At How They Organize Their Books
"The arrangement seems to have been made entirely at random, unless you know the quirk by which it was conceived. Books are placed next...
Sarah Hall On Writing While Single-Parenting And Homeschooling During Lockdown
Hall wrote by hand in the mornings: "I go into, as I call it, Sarah Connor mode from The Terminator: out there, here’s my child, what...
Two Cast Members Of Netflix’s The Chosen Ones Die In A Crash Near Their...
Two actors were killed when their van flipped off the highway, and six other actors and crew members were injured. "One person said that...
The Reality Of AI Is Stranger And Far More Interesting Than That Viral Google...
Part of the issue is language. "On the one hand, PaLM and other large language models are capable of understanding in the sense that...
Ukraine, Under Attack, Will Not Be Allowed To Host Next Year’s EuroVision
Though the Ukrainian entry won the 2022 version of the competition, the war makes Ukraine as a host impossible, according to the European Broadcast...
Why Were Van Gogh’s Empty Chair Paintings Never Shown Together?
Blame Gauguin - often a good answer for Van Gogh mysteries, of course. And in this case, Gauguin plus Theo Van Gogh's widow. -...
The TikTokification Of Food Media
Chefs love the food focus, but also aren't real happy with some issues. Alton Brown: 15-second clips on TikTok "trivialize cooking in a way...
A National Juneteenth Museum Is Planned For Fort Worth, Texas
"In 2016, at 89, Opal Lee walked from her home in Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., to help get Juneteenth made a federal...
The Artist Making Meticulously Detailed Carvings Of Melbourne Is Blind
Joe Monteleone was also born Deaf. During COVID lockdowns, he recreated Melbourne's iconic Flinders Street Station and "estimates he spent between 30 to 70...
The Crypto – And NFT – Crime Wave Is Here
"Financial losses specifically from NFT crimes just through May this year were already more than 600% higher than for all of 2021, with the...
The Man Who Gave Us The De Facto History Of Recorded Music Has Died...
Joel Whitburn, who published nearly 300 books, "was a music lover whose personal collection — meticulously curated in his basement and, later, in a...
The Brand Is Dead
That is, the personal brand. Thanks, internet culture. "We’ve arrived at a new era of anonymity, in which it feels natural to be inscrutable...
Architecture Students Deserve So Much More Than A Toxic Culture Of Overwork
"For years, both have been susceptible to a hero complex where the cause of great architecture is so exalted that almost no sacrifice...
Emmys Changes Force Filmmakers To Choose Between TV And Cinema
"For a long time, the Television Academy included a loophole in which Oscar doc contenders could turn around and try again for sloppy seconds...
The Limits Of The Advice To Write 500 Words A Day
Graham Greene's advice might have been rather ... specific. "Greene could have kids and write 500 words first thing every day because he had...
Who’s Making And Selling Racist Coins On Ebay?
Like the one that celebrates the U.S. Border Patrol's whipping, from horseback, of Haitian refugees? "Unofficial coins ... are funded independently and reflect a...
Who’s Responsible For The Death Threats To The Critics Of A Book?
British publishing surely does not know, or want to deal with it. "You’re not being cancelled, you’re being challenged. You’re not used to being...
The COVID Outbreak On The Show Expats
What happened after the outbreak, including a shutdown by Hollywood unions on the Amazon Studios set, "highlights the delicate balancing act facing Hollywood as...
Saving A Language Through Techno Music
"Benoit Fader Keita never intended to make electro music. But after a sell-out first show in Dakar last month, the singer believes the genre...
Why Do We Forget The Books We’ve Read?
Two big reasons: Interference - that is, the other books we've read get in the way; and passive engagement. That is, if you write...
Insurrection, Foretold In US Monuments
"Stone Mountain is a shining example of selective amnesia and Lost Cause propaganda. And the inventions of the Lost Cause bear a remarkable parallel to the...
