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WhatsApp’s Weird Privacy Debacle Hints At Deeper Tech Issues
When WhatsApp - for years, owned by Facebook - asked users to agree to a privacy update for something that had been true since...
In Paris, Bookstores Are Essential Landmarks – And Struggling To Survive
Paris has lost 30 percent of its independent bookshops in the last 20 years, despite a lot of government intervention: "Small shops qualify for...
Pervis Staples, Who Moved His Family’s Staple Singers From Gospel To Soul, 85
Staples once compared the Staple Singers' "effect on ecstatic church audiences to 'a miracle or the hand of God.'" Pervis Staples "attended grammar school...
The Shy Performance Poet Who Writes About Everything From Sex To Death
Hollie McNish, who once changed her name to "Hollie Poetry" - what she now calls "a search engine name" - says that sex and...
The Dictatorial Polish Conductor Who Changed The Sound Of American Orchestras
The tale of Artur Rodzinski is not a charming one, and yet, "arguably no man had more of a hand in turning American orchestras...
Artists Protest Plans To Raze Major Art Institutions In Delhi
A massive government redevelopment plan - funded and touted by Prime Minister Narenda Modi - will demand "the demolition and relocation of iconic Indian...
Apple Wants To Upend Podcasts The Way It Did Music Downloads
The company - which was one of the first to jump on the podcasting train, providing podcast sourcing through iTunes in 2005 - is...
Theatre Has Long Been Fatphobic, And Actors Are Speaking Out
An errant sentence in a New York Times article (since reworded) led to a lot of participation from actors via social media. They're fed...
Writers Know All Too Well The Other American Epidemic
And it was one exacerbated by the virus - loneliness. - The New York Times
During Covid, Geology Students Still Did Fieldwork – Via Video Game
Two geology professors built a 3D replica of Sardinia, and it worked so well (including providing a vital connection for lonely, isolated students to...
The History Of The Hollywood Foreign Press Association And Black Movie Critics
It's not great, as we all know. Here's the detailed story of Samantha Ofole-Prince, who was invited in 2013 to become a member, sponsored...
Novelist Brit Bennett Is Considering What To Think About Next
Her newest book is a deliberate picture of how America wasn't ever really great at all for quite a few people. And what's she...
Bob Koester, Of Delmark Records And Chicago’s Jazz Record Mart, 88
Koester funded his recording company by selling jazz and blues records at his store. He "was a pivotal figure in Chicago and beyond, releasing...
Masks And Other PPE Won’t Leave Movie Sets Anytime Soon
The one thing movie crew members - at least the vaccinated ones - can give up is face shields. One guild member says, "As...
Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad Is Different From Other Slavery Stories
Some of the show, though it does depict the violence of enslavement and other forms of anti-Black oppression, draws on an almost spiritual connection...
It’s Actually Good For Ellen – And Us – That Her Show Is Ending
Though she handled the end of the talk show far worse than anyone thought she could, even given the circumstances, she had to get...
We Need Unconventional Art Now More Than Ever
After 15 months of COVID-19 restrictions, deaths, infections, fear, and all kinds of life challenges, we must have more public art. "It does a...
The 90-Day Theatrical Window For Movies Is Fully Dead
Thanks, Disney: "After months of teetering precariously on the precipice, the final blow came on Thursday following Disney’s announcement that Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of...
How Spotify’s Podcast Dance Around Music Copyright Constraints
Basically, it owns both: Some shows use "a hybrid format, which Spotify calls 'shows with music' or 'music and talk, that allows creators to incorporate...
The Brontes Probably Died Young Because Of Their Water
It came from a graveyard. Or maybe some public privies. In any case, the water was very, very bad. - LitHub
Behind The Scenes At The Reopening Of The Hollywood Bowl
"If reopening the Bowl is like riding a bike," the L.A. Phil president and CEO says, "the organization has swapped out a Tour de...
Spotify’s Imposter Problem
That new album by your fave, the one you haven't heard hyped on social media or in music magazines? It's probably by a deliberate...
La Scala Is Opening Again
With a 500-person limit, a record high in private funding, new digital streaming infrastructure, and a mandate to be more ecologically conscious, the Milan...
Could New York Get A Really Good Penn Station?
Justin Davidson refuses to relinquish hope. "The MTA, Amtrak, and NJ Transit have jointly released not one but two possible visions for rebuilding the rest...
Director Barry Jenkins Says Maybe America Never Has Been Great
The director of Moonlight took on a 10-part adaptation of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad partly because it was such a wellspring of fear....
