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Janeane Garofalo, True To The Gen-X Ethos, Never Sold Out
A trailblazer for years, "Garofalo didn’t just help shift the comedy scene away from clubs. Her style represented a sea change from the polished,...
Apparently, There’s A Rampant Violin Playing Scam In The United States
Scammers ruin everything, including violin skills: "At its most basic, it’s someone who is busking with a violin, apparently playing, while they’re actually faking...
Hollywood And Abortion Activism
Meetings, walkouts, subtle out of office notes - and representation: "Many in Hollywood have begun to think about how they portray characters receiving abortion and...
X-Rays Reveal A Hidden Van Gogh Self-Portrait
"Experts at the National Galleries of Scotland made the find when the canvas was X-rayed before an exhibition. The hidden self-portrait was covered by...
Meryl Streep’s One Weird Trick
You can never unsee this, so only click if you dare. - The New York Times
Real Objectivity Involves A Heck Of A Lot Of Subjectivity
That is, "being objective" means having the ability to identify with someone else's subjective experience. - Aeon
A New Law In The UK Would Harshly Target Those Who Physically Deface Monuments
The new law comes within a suite of rules intended to give the police more power over protesters. "Anyone caught damaging a memorial in...
YouTube Live Has Been Rather Quietly Growing Until It’s Bigger Than Hulu
"Google nearly decided to call the internet TV service 'YouTube Air,' because an early version used an over-the-air TV antenna," and then internally it...
The Serious Right-Wing Threat To Queer Children’s Literature
"The assumption that 'a gay book' is necessarily a sexualized book, and therefore inappropriate for children, is baked into the language of 'Don’t Say...
The Charming Actor Whose Star Power Has Grown Along With India’s
Why is Shah Rukh Khan so celebrated as he marks 30 years in the Hindi film industry? "He shows us a glimpse of a...
Spotify Bought Heardle, But Some Fans Aren’t On Board
Is this a little like The New York Times buying Wordle? Yes, and the outrage is not dissimilar. For instance: "I lost my game...
The Basketball Superstars Who Learned Ballet And Tap To Better Protect Their Flexibility And...
People described Michael Jordan's basketball moves as "balletic," and sometimes said Kobe Bryant "tap-danced" his way to the net - but those were metaphors....
Emmy Nominees Tell Us We’re Truly Not OK
Perhaps that's not such a surprise, well into our third year of a global pandemic, but the drama nominees show "it is easy to...
Artificial Intelligence Can’t Make Art Without Humans To Provide The Spark
At least, not for now. People using the program DALL-E, which takes human words and makes images in response, "have found that it elevates...
The Refugee Orchestra Of Glasgow
In a heavily refugee and immigrant area of Glasgow, "Musicians in Exile a way of helping to give musician asylum seekers and refugees...
Just Say What It Was, Texas
Obviously, "involuntary location" is a nonstarter, but also, "describing someone as a slave does nothing to diminish their humanity. Enslaving someone diminishes their humanity,...
In The Maw Of The Reality Show Beast: America’s Next Great Author
Will there be a montage of typing fingers? A poetry read-off in Iowa City? A "who navigated the workshop the best" scene in LA?...
Music Students Who Fled Afghanistan Remake Their School In Portugal
The school's leader, before the Taliban and now in exile: "We can show the world a different Afghanistan. ... We will show how we...
Social Media Noticed Some Issues With Plagiarism At The Guggenheim Bilbao
Can a painter plagiarize a film? Maybe not in the legal sense - but instead of litigation, the museum and the artists involved in...
Margaret Keane, Whose Paintings Were Claimed To By Her Husband To Be His, Has...
"Her husband Walter Keane fraudulently took artistic credit, while she painted for 16 hours a day to satisfy demand for the work, originally presented publicly...
Artist Maurizio Cattelan Narrowly Wins A Lawsuit, But Questions Of Attribution Remain
Basically, the plaintiff sued the wrong entity - Cattelan's gallery and a museum, not the artist himself. So "the ruling still leaves the key...
Take A Little Vivaldi, Add A Little Irish Dance
And the result is a viral video set in a beautiful environment: "The performance takes place in Swords Castle, an early medieval castle in...
New Use For Spotify Playlists: Recipe Instructions
Why not? People often listen to Spotify playlists while cooking — though a recipe for kimchi fried rice shouldn't usually take as long as...
The Full List Of Emmys Nominations, As It Happened
Ted Lasso? Only Murders in the Building? Squid Game? Better Call Saul? Find out here. - Los Angeles Times
Italy Tells Museums To Cut It Out With The NFTs
After an eye-popping NFT sale for the Uffizi turned out to net the museum only €70,000, far less than half of the sale, the...
