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Britain Proposes To Regulate Streaming Services
There are two major government claims: The regulations will protect (innocent?) watchers; and also, regulating streaming will "create a 'new golden age' of British...
TV Writers Enter The Metaverse
"A true metaverse — one accessible by a single gateway, in which life persists even in a user's absence — doesn't yet exist. But its depiction...
Is Bob Fosse’s ‘Dancin’ The Most Dangerous Job In Theatre?
Changes have been made; one act is gone. The director, who was in the original Broadway show, says, "We evenly distributed the show so...
Elon Musk’s Hostile Takeover Of Twitter Is A Reminder That Platforms Are Temporary
But community, real community, including community found on those platforms, can last a lot longer. - Vice
What Happened To All Those Great Film Soundtracks?
Nothing against the Hamilton cast album - obviously a different animal - but the 1990s were the last great decade of film soundtracks. Why?...
Singer And Country Music Star Naomi Judd Has Died At 76
She died on April 30, one day before she and her daughters Wynonna and Ashley were due to perform at the Country Music Hall...
Russian Troops Looted Art Museums In Mariupol
The Mariupol City Council says that "Russian forces have seized more than 2,000 pieces of artwork from the besieged port city of Mariupol," and...
Cultural Critic Margo Jefferson On TikTok, Fragility, And The Immaturity Of Chris Rock And...
"The incident crystallised several Jeffersonian themes: televised glamour, Black entertainers, and the question of how to behave in public." (In short, Smith and Rock...
The Librarians Fighting Book Censorship
"Libraries, principals, school boards, superintendents are just fending off not only formal complaints that have been filed, which is what ALA was counting, but...
Need A Laugh? Head To The Library Of Congress
That's where you'll find the papers of Neil Simon: "7,700 manuscripts, letters and other material that Simon’s widow, Elaine Joyce, has donated to the...
For An Audiobook To Be Good, It Needs More Than A Good Narrator
While the good narrator (or narrators) is essential, truly good audiobooks also need the right atmosphere - and sometimes the right music. - NPR
Regret Can Be A Positive Feeling
Of course, "there’s a reason we put so much effort into denying regret: The feeling can be corrosive." But instead of regretting lost symphonies,...
Handwriting Has A Power That Computers Can Never Create
"When you’ve written something by hand, the only person who could have done it is you. It’s unmistakable you wrote this, touched it, laid...
As Developers Swoop Into South London, Can Planning Offices Reject Ugly Schemes?
Yikes, says Rowan Moore: "The proposed building is, not to put too fine a point on it, a brute. ... It is out...
The Australian Author Who Was This Close To Chucking It All For A Steady...
Aaron Blabey "had been working a series of increasingly dissatisfying day jobs — from acting to advertising — and although his children’s books were...
Los Angeles Is Paying Tribute To Six Revolutionary Composers Who Have Recently Died
Mark Swed: "The consequence of the current loss is enormous and hard to process because little of their music is part of the regular...
It’s Not Just Nic Cage Playing Himself, But Exaggerated, In A Movie
Think Keanu Reeves in Always Be My Maybe, Anna Faris in Keanu (unrelated to Reeves, kind of), LeBron James in Trainwreck ... the list...
The Fight To Get Family Images Back From Harvard
Tamara Lanier is fighting "to reclaim the daguerreotypes of her ancestors from the Peabody Museum at Harvard University," where they'd been since Louis Agassiz...
Reclaiming Heritage Styles Means A Fresh Fashion Start In Much Of The African Continent
Yes, the reclaiming started in the 1960s. But "today's new cohort of designers is going a step further – not just questioning western dress...
Saudi Arabia, Other Countries That Have Homophobic Laws Ban Newest Marvel Movie
Much like the recent Eternals, banned in a variety of countries for a gay relationship and kiss, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness...
San Francisco’s Castro Theatre, Undergoing Renovation, Gets Hit Hard By Burglars
The historic theatre was hit "twice in the span of a single week — a repeat offense by the same suspect that reportedly resulted...
A Book Tour By Bike Leaves An Author Feeling Very Fulfilled, And Optimistic Too
Indie bookstores are thriving. "During the lockdowns these small shops discovered how much they were valued by their customers; booksellers tell me about switching...
The Black Artists Left In Limbo At The Super Bowl Stadium
Yeah, never a good sign: "The city gave up its customary percent for art ordinance as part of its contract with the property’s developer,...
What’s Behind All The Book Bans?
A Nambé Pueblo scholar describes how book bans might affect Native peoples. "We are few in comparison to nearly all other groups. If ...
British Artist Sonia Boyce Wins Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion
Boyce is the first Black woman to represent the UK at the Biennale. The jury "commended Boyce for raising 'important questions of rehearsal' as...
