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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...
On The Jewishness Of Pinter And Stoppard
"In the New York theatre, ... the fact that these two major figures happened to be Jewish may seem inconsequential. But in the universe...
Ballet Is The Pursuit Of Perfection
Siphe November, who's 23 and has risen through the ranks to become the youngest principal dancer in the National Ballet of Canada's history, "has...
As A Child, Sarah Polley Feared For Her Life On Terry Gilliam’s Chaotic Film...
On The Adventures of Baron Munchausen set, "Blasts of debris exploded on the ground around me, accompanied by deafening booms that made me feel...
Whose Venice Is It?
The Biennale is ticking along, and controversy remains: Some Venetians "feel that the Biennale, aided by the current city government, is monopolizing space that...
The Music That Gets The Deepest Inside Our Heads
Yes, it's videogame music. "When we hear this music outside gameplay, it can prove unusually moving. The first time I caught the London Video Game...
Why Did The Well-Liked, Newish Director Of MoMA’s PS1 Suddenly Resign?
Kate Fowle took up her position just before the pandemic started, so the last two and a half years have been, as they say,...
What Types Of Conflict Are Good For Democracies?
In order to live together, and to acknowledge each other and engage each other in a democratic society, conflict is necessary. Otherwise, we risk...
In The Wake Of Mass Shootings, Showrunners Pledge To Depict Guns Differently
"A group of 200 top writers, producers and directors have signed an open letter backed by the Brady gun violence organization that includes a pledge to...
Lightyear Is The Latest Movie Banned In Saudi Arabia And Other Countries
The censorious countries can't stand that Lightyear contains a nanosecond of a same-sex kiss, of course. - The Hollywood Reporter
Activists Have Had It With The Buyers Of Looted Antiquities
The problems of informal payments and freeports mean that "Western collectors are buying without fear of much reprisal, despite the already present provisions in international law...
