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Yes, This Is Toy Story 5, And Yes, It’s Still Devastating For Parents
Why? Because the toys are - this is not a secret - pretty much a stand-in for parents. And you know what happens to...
Smart Phones Enable An Awful Lot Of Fact-Checking – Sometimes To Our Detriment
“There is something thrilling about a document dump, and picking through boxes and boxes of government files. We have often associated these habits with...
Mark Singer, Longtime New Yorker Writer And Profile Expert, Has Died At 75
Singer “extended the magazine’s franchise of rich reporting and witty prose about offbeat, complicated and quintessentially American characters,” including a certain current president. -...
Oh, Bose, What Are You Thinking?
A speaker company wants to do what now? “What the company is undeniably great at is marketing. But selling mediocre Bluetooth speakers at inflated...
Basel’s Art Before Art Basel
For one thing, Basel “is a city of nearly 200,000 residents and nearly 40 museums — or about one museum for every 5,000 locals.”...
A Musician Points Out Some Racial Disparities In AI Scraping And Use
SZA on Instagram "If your a musician and you support this degenerate shit? Your DISGUSTING and there’s NOTHING YOU COULD EVER SAY...
Ireland, In The Midst Of A Real Housing Crisis, Is Seeing Huge Cinema Numbers
Some people think they’re linked (and, after all, what better way to escape the house than to go to the ice-cold cinema?). -...
Can You Pass This British Museum Quiz?
Sample question: Where was JMW Turner born: - The Guardian (UK)
Judy Blume, She Says, Has Written Enough
The author says, “You're living with for months, sometimes years. And you're locked up in a little room all day with them. That's...
Have Movies Doomed Us All?
Seriously: Movies have "proved to be a tool of dictators, an instrument of propaganda and the weapon of ruthless, unaccountable corporate interests.” - The...
With The Roku Sale To Fox, Not To Mention The Paramount Deal, Right-Wing Interests...
"The scale of this quiet coup is staggering. … In practical terms, Roku controls the television home screen.” - Salon
Apparently, There’s Such A Thing As ‘Dad Cinema,’ So Happy Father’s Day
The number one movie in Dad Cinema is, of course, a Kevin Costner classic. But there are many others, including classic Mel Brooks fare....
Experimental Composer Hainbach On Patreon, YouTube, And His Best Tools
“I am just about to drive to East Germany to get a set that used to belong to Deutsche Reichsbahn, the GDR train...
In New York, The City’s Oldest Museum Celebrates An Expansive View Of Democracy
The New York Historical’s new wing features a show that's “historically broad, thematically loose, unabashedly polemical, made up of equal then and now.” -...
David Hockney Wanted, And Got, Only Two Mourners At His Funeral
But “his publicist, Erica Bolton, announced that his life and work would be celebrated in a series of memorial services to be held in...
How Exhausting Is It To Voice A Minion?
Also, can one simply voice one Minion? No: French animator Pierre Coffin has co-written and co-directed most of the movies with the small mumbling...
A Former Disney Teen Turns A Hit Song Into A Book And Now A...
Hayley Kiyoko was “resolute that a film version should hit on ‘all the classic tropes’ that she had watched in straight coming-of-age stories and...
Burned By AI, Granta Will No Longer Publish External Award Winning Short Stories
Ouf. "For the sake of our own editorial integrity, the Granta Trust board has now taken the decision that we will no longer engage...
Norway Had Its Own John Singer Sargent
“Asta Norregaard was a sought-after portrait painter among the rich and famous in Norway at the turn of the 20th century, but when she...
Did The Pitt Put Forward Enough Of Its Actors For Emmys?
“Particularly curious is Irene Choi, who isn’t on the ballot for her performance as med student Joy Kwon, even though her character was essentially on...
The Fierce Dance That’s An Ode To Sinead O’Connor
“O’Connor was 56 when she died and still making music – she had almost completed a new album. To be a middle-aged woman in...
What Should Ghosts Look Like In Children’s Books?
“What children know of ghosts, and at what age they know it, is murky territory. … And if you show even a very young...
All Of The Music That’s Been Fed Into ‘Generative’ (Read: Theft-Based) AI
“Companies often claim to use only content that is freely available online, but the datasets reveal the quantity of downloadable music that developers can...
The Movie ‘Obsession’ Is Raking In The Money, But Who’s Seeing The Profits?
“The art director of Obsession disclosed her paycheck for about three weeks of work: $6,741.36, after taxes.” The movie has now made $300 million...
About Cannes, A Lot Of Alcohol, And Getting Sober
“The first film I was able to get into after that meeting was an anniversary screening of The Shining (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1980). I’d seen the...
