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Some Film Sets Are (Finally) Getting Therapy
Why? "Film and TV sets can be stressful and dangerous places to work. The pandemic added a raft of anxieties as cast and crews returned...
Dance Is Easing Some Pain For Survivors Of Civil War In Peru
The dance program Buenas Notícias, for those who suffered during the Shining Path insurgencies of the 1980s and '90s, "helps women connect with others...
The Latest Chapter In The Saga Of The Italian Man Who Stole Unfinished Manuscripts...
Filippo Bernardini pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court last Friday, admitting he "had engaged in an elaborate email-impersonation scheme aimed at duping others in...
American Historical Society Embroiled In History Wars
And at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, the argument over how to treat "history" has flared up into fierce battles over...
The Intimate Opera Of PROTOTYPE
Call it intimate opera, call it black-box opera, but the small-venue opera festival is making a post-COVID shutdown return. - NPR
Warner Bros Thinks We’re Ready To Pay More For Streaming
Sure, heck, it's only a time of rampant inflation. Tell us, current CFO, just how much more should we be paying for Warner Bros....
Outrage Spreads At An Author’s Faked Death And Recent Online Resurrection
After someone claiming to be the daughter of indie author Susan Meachen wrote that the author had died by suicide in 2020, her community...
Russell Banks, Award-Winning Author Of ‘Cloudsplitter’ And More, 82
Banks's "vivid portrayals of working-class Americans grappling with issues of poverty, race and class placed him among the first ranks of contemporary novelists." His...
The Poetry-Filled Nightstand Of San Francisco
In Golden Gate Park, a park ranger placed a piece of furniture with instructions: "'Take a poem, leave a poem.' Since the nightstand’s debut there...
Let’s All Calm Down About ChatGPT
Will the AI program kill high school English? Well ... maybe. But "if ChatGPT can do the things we ask students to do in...
After 29 Years In New York, STOMP Comes To An End
The co-producer says foreign tourist ticket money hasn't returned to New York in the COVID era. But the "group of street performers banging stuff"...
Why Writer Katherine Mansfield Divided Opinion A Century Ago, And Still Does Today
""One explanation might lie in Mansfield’s keen sense of the absurd and the striking lack of anything deferential in her attitude – whether towards...
Acting To Change History, Not To Win Awards
Danielle Deadwyler plays Mamie Till in the movie Till. She says, "It is a bigger thing to combat racism, right? And racism is seedy,...
Right-Wing Italian Government Targets Music Producers And Promoters
Italy has a draconian - and patently ridiculous - new code: "It makes organising raves a specific crime punishable with three to six years...
Speaking Of AI, Why Are We So Creeped Out By Dancing Robots?
"People have been afraid of robots for as long as robots have existed. But robots that can dance — really dance — are distinctly unnerving." - The...
The Science Of AI Art, And The Future Of Human Artists
"It’s pretty wild and a little disturbing. It definitely provokes some mixed emotions." - Science Friday
Joyce Meskis, Who Refused To Hand Bookstore Records To Law Enforcement, Has Died At...
Meskis was the owner of the Tattered Cover in Denver. "In addition to creating a bookstore famed for its vast selection and bibliophile-friendly atmosphere,...
To Cut Carbon Emissions, Look To Ancient Rome
Think of the Pantheon, for instance. "An ancient manufacturing technique can create self-healing concrete that naturally fills in cracks. Using a similar process now...
Poetry Isn’t Dead At All, But Thriving
If you only know where to look, that is. - Washington Post
How TikTok’s Anti-Aesthetic Is Shaping Culture
Performance and repetition rule: "Songs, settings, movements, dances and concepts are relentlessly rehashed, wringing a measure of soothing predictability from TikTok’s general anarchy. ......
The Sign Language Experts Bringing A Wider Range Of Speech To Theatre
As theatres reckon with racial diversity onstage, some of them are also hiring interpreters who speak Black American Sign Language, or hiring other interpreters...
Talking To The Author Of The Most Banned Book In The United States
Maia Kobabe, author of Gender Queer: "I drew as much as I felt like I needed to tell the story that I was trying...
Please, Say No To AI Audiobook Narrators
Apple has new AI narrators. They're not great. "Jackson sounds like a pretty standard—if maddening—customer service line voice. ... Madison, on the other hand,...
The Music Of Antarctica
"The space is alive with the sounds of thawing permafrost, cracking ice, grinding glacier. ... 'Sometimes, moving ice can sound like something that’s alive.'"...
The Fraught Process Of Turning An 800-Page Government Report Into An Audiobook
The head of production at Macmillan Audio started months ago. "Betting that the committee’s report would be substantial, accessible and 'very narrative-driven,' he hired...
