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When Oprah Picks An Argument With You Even As She Picks Your Book
Novelist Ann Packer is OK with that. “As any veteran author knows, books that get people talking have a better chance of bubbling up...
Gamers Are Running Scenarios In Fortnite To Prepare For ICE Raids
One of the organizers: “It’s a way to get folks to know or get used to what might look like. … What their...
Protesters Interrupt Performance Of Carmen At The Met
“While it was not immediately clear what they were protesting, eyewitnesses said one of them had denounced David H. Koch, the billionaire industrialist, a...
The Wicked Sequel Is Doing Solid Box Office Numbers, But Can It Win Over...
“One oddly uniting factor among Best Picture sequels is how few of them managed to compete in the acting categories.” - Vulture
Ireland’s Alt-Music Scene Was Nowhere – And Now It’s Spreading Throughout The World
“A generation of gen Z and millennial artists are reckoning with what it meant to come of age through recession, austerity and the tail...
Who Is AI Nostalgia Slop Even For?
“It’s hard not to see the platform as a place where users are encouraged to double down on familiar archetypes instead of making something...
What Happened To Al Rockoff’s Historic Photos Of Cambodia Is A Cautionary Tale Of...
A man who said he would help Rockoff - one of the last photographers in Phnom Penh as the Khmer Rouge marched in -...
High Visibility Can Be Great For Representation, And Hell On The First Person Through...
It’s great that wheelchair user Marissa Bode plays wheelchair user Nessarose Thropp, but “after the release of the first Wicked film in November 2024,...
London’s Royal Ballet And Opera Makes Bank, Or Maybe Sustainable Income, On Its New...
Dynamic pricing is common, and as one performing arts critic pointed out, it “can shift in both directions, with prices increasing when tickets start...
How Large Data Sets And AI Analysis Are Absolutely Murdering Our Private Lives
“Personal data isn’t just a record of who we are. It’s our actions, transactions, locations, conversations, preferences, inferences, and vulnerabilities. It’s our identities, our...
How Theatre Artists Survive Dictatorships
“If you press your ear to the plays of the 20th century, they’ll tell you secrets of human acts gone by and strategies to...
The Growing Popularity Of Madrid As A Film Set Isn’t Exactly Thrilling Its Residents
“While city officials celebrate Madrid’s popularity as a film and television set, residents of the most in-demand neighborhoods are not particularly thrilled to find...
The Studio Museum In Harlem Reopens, After Seven Years, In Its Own New Home
The museum director: “In many ways I do feel the timing of our opening now is ideal. … We’re opening in a moment that's...
Have Screens Actually – We Mean It, This Time – Destroyed Education, Worldwide?
“It seems ridiculous to have to say this, but digital distraction is terrible for academic performance.” - The New York Times
Can Theatre About Sports, Or A Sport, Really Work On Stage?
“As a sports obsessive and avid theatergoer, I’ve always found the communal experiences staggeringly similar. Either way, we root and cheer and gasp in...
Elizabeth Franz, A Versatile And Tony-Winning Actress, Has Died At 84
Franz's “vibrant portrayal of Linda Loman, the wife of the piteous title character in the 1999 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a...
Software Is Good At Pattern Recognition And Spitting Those Patterns Back Out, But Is...
“As with most things in life, when expertise is devalued, it’s easier to pass trash off as treasure. AutoTune and AI are enabling people...
Oh, BBC, WYD?
“In an increasingly polarized political and media landscape, the broadcaster has struggled to navigate its public interest remit and has proved inept at learning...
Disney May Be Turning To AI To Help Create ‘User-Generated Content’ On Its Main...
Bob Iger knows it’s, uh, interesting to be suing some AI companies while courting others. “'It's obviously imperative for us to protect our IP...
The Latest Threat To Authors And Books
What is “Take Back the Classroom” - and how did it get so prominent, so quickly? - BookRiot
If Your Musical Flops On Broadway, Why Not Just Restage It – At The...
Especially if you are, let’s say, a wealthy celebrity musician. "For Sting, 74, this is a chance to play in one of New York’s...
How The Internet Became A Misery Machine
“Sometimes you gotta use the dark arts, right? In benevolent ways, and just get people to care.” Ouf. - The Atlantic
Netflix House Is Temu Disneyland, In A Mall
“Let’s say you are a Netflix fan, as anyone making a pilgrimage to Netflix House is sure to be. What, then, are you a...
The Return Of A Night At The Natural History Museum
“Children ran, some of them in stocking feet, through the displays, with abandon. (Running had been discouraged in the safety lecture, but this did...
Man Who Stole A Banksy Print To Pay Off Drug Debt Sentenced To...
He “was seen on CCTV waiting outside the gallery for about 10 minutes on 8 September last year, before repeatedly smashing the glass door...
