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Why Are British MPs Declaring War On Opera?
Their reasoning: "Patronising claptrap. So, young people will only accept opera if it’s put on in a car park. The lower orders can make do...
The Nominations, Snubs, And Surprises For This Year’s Academy Awards
The fun, searing, rapidly movie Everything Everywhere All at Once led with nominations, but some actors, movies, and directors were - explicably or not...
The Arts Collective Ousted In Vienna Speaks Out
At the heart of the conflict: What is Austria? "We were trying to look beyond the Western canon as the only idea of what...
Dallas Paper Tries Replacing Its Architecture Critic With Artificial Intelligence
Things didn't go well: "Because an AI program can’t 'be there,' it ends up, like a lazy college freshman, culling what material it can...
Why Director Todd Field Employed Mahler And Elgar To Give His Film Tar Meaning
Mahler's Fifth is "a wide-open work, ripe for individual interpretation and impeccably suiting a film that doesn’t provide easy answers." - The Guardian (UK)
An Author Sells A Bucket List Weekend, And Fans Absolutely Line Up For It
What draws hundreds of fans of writer Elin Hilderbrand to Nantucket in January? The chance to hang out in person with the author, of...
LAPD Chief Apologizes For Officer Who Protected CBS Exec Les Moonves
The commander, Cory Palka, allegedly shared details of a sexual assault report with CBS and Moonves. - Los Angeles Times
Peru Closes Machu Picchu And Inca Trail Indefinitely
"Hundreds of people who were stuck for hours at the foot of the 15th Century Inca citadel have now been rescued. ... Rail services...
The Ambitious Second Novel Of Nigerian Author Ayobami Adebayo
Adébáyò's first novel, Stay With Me, "told a closely focused story about the impact of childlessness and sickle-cell disease on the life of a...
Dick Polich, Whose Foundry Made Artists’ Visions Into Reality, Has Died At 90
"The notably petite Ms. Bourgeois did not herself forge her looming metallic arachnids. For that, she — along with many of the world’s ...
How Did Anime Come To Be Everywhere In Culture?
It's all going to plan. But also, "Anime's fans are largely online, and the pandemic — when people were suddenly able to focus on...
Elon Musk Is Ending Twitter’s Use To Publications
Basically, what referrals Twitter provided - and the percentage wasn't large for most publishers - has dropped to near nothing after Musk's recent decisions....
Sculptor Hank Willis Thomas On The ‘Strange’ Backlash To His MLK Sculpture
Thomas says he "focused on the Kings’ arms 'an embodiment of the ‘beloved community,’' a term the civil rights leader often used to...
Wikipedia’s Thoughtful Dealing With Cultural Hot Topics
"Wikipedia’s editors are no longer simply citing dated sources; instead, they are hashing out how someone would want to be understood. But even though...
Why An Indian Action Spectacle Film Is Charming The West
Maybe the reason is that blockbusters churned out in the U.S. have been hit with a similarity stick, or with a cynicism audiences can...
If You Missed Broadway Musicals Last Year, Don’t Worry; Listen
Almost every show, even ones that closed relatively quickly, created a cast album. And "some improve on the shows they preserve merely by jettisoning...
British Artist Rachel Whiteread Says It’s Time To Hit Pause On Fourth Plinth Sculptures
Why would Whiteread say that? Well, the Trafalgar Square program has led to a lot of large-scale sculptures with no place to go. "Three-quarters...
This Year’s Book Resolution Is To Stop Worrying About Books You’ll Never Read
That's one writer's resolution, anyway: "After a lifetime of climbing, I’m happy to stop and just enjoy the view. For so long, I, like...
Watch Out, New York Times, The Dictionary Just Bought Quordle
The Wordle knockoff - though perhaps harder, since it has four five-letter words to guess at once, with only nine guesses - "now redirects...
When The Closed Captioning Device Failed, Sundance Jurors Walked Out
The problem illustrated a much larger issue: "According to multiple sources, the jury has repeatedly expressed concerns to both Sundance and filmmakers that movies...
English Museum Finally Removes Skeleton Of Man Called Irish Giant
Before Charles Byrne "died by the time he "died at in 1783, at the age of 22, he had told his friends to bury...
Science Fiction May Come Into Its Own This Awards Season
For instance: "It is not often that a movie featuring alternate universes, kung fu and a Chinese-American owned laundromat is in the running for...
Good Book News From Florida
That is to say, some libraries are still doing their darnedest to serve their communities - including creating a library on wheels, with mobile...
Why We Need Civics
"We are not tied together by a single religion, race, or ethnicity. Instead, America is organized around a set of ideas that needs to...
African Music Stars Say They Are Routinely Denied Visas For Europe
Performers have to meet all kinds of requirements for visas, ranging from the precise addresses where they're staying to financial statements to tickets home...
