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SNL At 51 Is Reading The Room Of Our Pop Culture Swirl
“The women of HUNTR/X, the fictional pop trio that leads the sleeper hit, provided the kicker to a sketch that poked fun at what...
Can We Make Tech Better Again?
First, we must describe it accurately. What happens to cool new tech over time is, writer Cory Doctorow says, “enshittification.” - The New York...
Here’s What Portland’s Arts Organizations Have To Say About Making Culture In So-Called Hell
Portland is very clearly not “hell,” and just as clearly not a war zone. But also: "Although the number of events and the amount...
Cinephiles Should Bow Down To The Priesthood For Kicking Young Martin Scorsese Out
“The idea of priesthood, to devote yourself to others, really, that’s what it’s about. I realized I don’t belong there. … And I tried...
Over The Years, This Audio Editing Software Became Absolutely Terrible
Is a wholesale remaking of Audacity going to help sound engineers and musicians? Probably, but can they get beyond the awful new logo? -...
The Thriller Writer Who Took On Corporate AI- And Won
Andrea Bartz “was furious that the writing she had labored over for years got vacuumed up and fed into an algorithm, without her permission.”...
Remember When The United States Senate Went After Prince And Madonna?
Sure, McCarthyism mostly ended (until, well, now) in the late 1950s, but in the 1980s, Madonna and Prince scared some adults so much that...
The Mexican Painter Turning Machismo Upside Down
"By adjusting the focus just a little, adding suggestions of both humor and tension, and pumping up the characters’ sensuality, Segovia turns these recognizable...
Artists Don’t Feel Better About Spotify Just Because Founder Daniel Ek Sort Of Stepped...
One artist who removed his music: “Spotify is going to have to make Herculean efforts to roll back tons of damaging choices they’ve introduced...
How Romance Became The Publishing Industry’s ‘Recession-Proof’ Category
Romancelandia is big, and “the rest of the industry wants to emulate this success, but as many editors know, chasing a trend can be...
What Happens When You Start Dancing In Your 60s
“By now I’ve spent upward of 5,000 hours in ballet classes, and roughly 1,600 hours more in other, non-ballet dance classes. … I dance...
The V&A Has A New Exhibition Area – Its Storage Space
At the V&A East Storehouse, “visitors have the option to choose up to five via the ‘order an object’ service and have them delivered to a...
The Trump-Epstein Statue Is Back
“‘Just like a toppled confederate general forced back onto a public square, the Donald Trump Jeffrey Epstein statue has risen from the rubble to...
Yet Another Shortlist For Yet Another Literary Award, But This One Is The Cool...
Of course all, or at least many, books are cool. But the Goldsmiths Prize is for fiction that “breaks the mould or extends the...
Can The National Stonewall Museum Survive Trump?
Things aren’t going well right now, and the Florida-located museum and archives may need to find a new home. Corporate “contacts no longer return...
Kiran Desai On The Dark Side Of Fame
Becoming the (at the time) youngest person to win the Booker Prize wasn’t all fun and games for the novelist, and it took her...
Jenny Stein, The First Woman To Helm Britain’s Whitechapel Art Gallery, Has Died At...
“Despite financial pressures, Jenny continued the gallery’s tradition of innovation, exhibiting trade union banners and showcasing new and radical artists such as Joseph Beuys.” -...
Good Riddance To ‘Best American Poetry,’ For Reasons
"If The Best American Poetry captures ‘the zeitgeist of the current attitudes in American poetry,’ we should be asking: Why are those attitudes so fucked up?”...
Running The Million-Dollar Digital Sets For The New Met Opera Kavalier And Clay
“Two lighting technicians and a video operator bring the opera to its full pyrotechnic life. Hunched over banks of consoles, screens and keyboards, they...
Shakespeare Experts Are Totally OK With Taylor Swift’s Bard Fandom
“‘I love Shakespeare,’ Swift said earnestly during the movie, and then made fun of herself for saying something so obvious. ‘It holds up! It’s...
A Local Right-Wing Government’s Attempt To Quash Reporters In England Runs Up Against The...
“County council leader Mick Barton banned the Nottingham Post and its online arm, Nottinghamshire Live, from speaking to him and other councillors ‘with immediate effect’ on...
Actor Malcolm McDowell Says No Matter Whom He Plays, He Would Make A Terrible...
“I would be a total disaster, because I do love to gossip. I would be going: ‘You know that guy? I think he’s working...
Idea: Artistic Directors Should Create, Not Control, Space
“For theatre to remain ambitious, kinetic, and meaningful, we can’t let institutional constraints like funding models or planning cycles become barriers to fresh perspectives,...
Did The Man Who Wrote The English Libretto For Les Miserables Ever See His...
Herbert Kretzmer's letters to Cameron Mackintosh would indicate he did not. “I must emphasise that Les Miserables is not a show translated or re-written, but...
In Austin, Ten Artists Get A Small But Pleasant Surprise
The Frick Arts Foundation “was formed a year ago to ‘offer emotional encouragement to artists at the most difficult beginning stage of their careers,’ according to...
