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All Roads Lead To Rome, But Make It A Digital Map
OK, cool, especially if you’re a Roman Empire kind of person: “Users can digitally explore nearly 300,000 kilometers of roads laid across the vast...
A Vision Of Mar-A-Lago On The Potomac Is Not, Exactly, The American Ideal
Or is it? “Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, F.D.R., Kennedy, the list goes on: Many presidents have taken turns remodeling one or another part of...
Netflix Is Betting Heavily On Its New Reality TV Slate
Netflix has ordered 34 reality shows this year, way more than ever before. Why? Well: “They’re expanding the universe of big-budget, high-profile, high-concept reality...
Is It Ironic When A Crypto Founder’s Planned Statue Of Prometheus Has Only Raised...
“At 450 feet, Calvin’s proposed monument would stand 150 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty, but it remains far from realization. For now,...
Are We At Some Kind Of Endpoint Of Media Consolidation?
If Skydance Paramount Warner Bros Discovery becomes real, “this is probably the last mega deal we will see. The cable network assets are the...
Where Have All The Indie Hits Gone?
“The days when a buzzy fall movie could be a box-office bonanza are starting to look like a weirdly distant memory.” - Variety
How A Reader Evolves Into Being A Completionist
“I want to know: I want to watch writers grow from book to book, to follow the way their interests shift and their style adapts...
How Strangers Negotiate Sex, Onstage
"Without being clued in to the content of the play, connected with the show’s intimacy director … to go over the show’s simulated...
You Know How, Every Once In A While, A Brutal Review Can Be A...
Ouch, just ouch. “The writing suggests that ChatGPT was asked to emulate Fifty Shades’ E. L. James, and however cringeworthy and brand-name-peppered that sounds, I can promise...
The Oscar Race’s First Villain
“Superficially, at least, Hamnet fits better in the traditional mold of Oscars-friendly fare.” And that’s what scares fans of Sinners and One Battle After Another. -...
One Museum That Won’t Whitewash History
“But museum officials and civic leaders in Atlanta said providing an unvarnished depiction of the movement required a renewed level of perseverance in the...
AI Translation Is Nowhere Near Good Enough For Travel
“Each of these devices requires time, patience, and ideally, a solid internet connection. You need to predownload language pairs to ensure offline capability. You...
The Costume Designer For Frankenstein Looked To Prince And David Bowie For Inspiration
Of course, Kate Hawley also “looked at Lord Bryon. ‘He’s an artist finding his muse. He’s not a scientist in the way that we...
Gillian Tindall, Author Who Wrote About What Lies Beneath The Present, Has Died At...
Tindall’s The Fields Beneath: The History of One London Village “(1977) was a wonderfully discursive portrait of a community that Mary Shelley had described...
Why One Bowdoin Professor’s Mantra Is Never Talk To The New York Times
“If you have enough money to get somebody, anybody, to produce a white paper for you, which you can then put on some think-tank...
The Costumers Behind Your Favorite Ballet Are Sewing As Fast As They Can
The Boston Ballet’s Howard Merlin: “During the dress rehearsal, something looks really, really bad. … It’s my job to make sure it looks really,...
Theatre Might Just Want To Be Everybody’s Church
“There’s an inherent theatricality to church, and a furtive spirituality to theater. In form, they’re similar: Everybody crowds into a room, usually sits facing...
Mavis Staples Says That Her Long Singing Career Keeps A Light Shining
“There are some things going on in the US that are not pleasing to me, but I keep my head up. I turn on...
Is It At All Worth Going To The Cinema Anymore?
Bob Mondello says yes: "I love seeing movies in a theater, and if I can possibly avoid watching them at home, I do. ......
Will This Silent-Film Era Instrument Disappear?
"A cousin to self-playing player pianos, photoplayers automatically play music read out of perforated piano rolls. During their slim heyday — from their invention...
Dear Writers, If You Use AI To ‘Fix’ Your Writing, You Are An Ass
“Writing can terrify us, confuse us, devastate us. Good writing means that you’re engaging with practices that will force you to lean into things...
Workers At The Studio That Makes Grand Theft Auto Allege Union Busting
Rockstar Games fired a bunch of folks last week. “According to the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB), all of the employees fired...
In Possibly The Most German Moment Ever, ‘Grumpy Guide’ Museum Tours Sell Out
If you want to be yelled at for your art historical ignorance by an “aggressive” guide, get your kink on in Düsseldorf. "Asked to...
Some Of The Creepiest Locations In Britain
Not even counting the numerous Doctor Who locations (to be fair, many are in Wales), “England's historic buildings and landscapes ‘provide an essential ingredient...
Pour One Out For The Zune, Which Somehow Never Threatened The IPod
Microsoft really tried. “It had a bunch of interface design ideas that are still very present in our lives today. The universe in which the...
