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Decoding Post-Screening Hype Tweets
For instance: "'I’m buzzing': The movie is better than Madame Web.” - Vulture
Navigating The Internet In 2024
Can a theory of “dark forests” (and how we can’t reside in them forever) help all of us? - Hyperallergic
California’s Governor Says He Wants To Save Hollywood
Gavin Newsom "declared his intent to expand the annual tax credit to $750 million, up from its current total of $330 million, which would...
Can Music Play A Role In Physical Healing?
Perhaps not healing so much as facing pain, illness, and death. “‘Ten minutes of Schubert is the equivalent of five milligrams of oxy,' the...
Let’s Face It, Charlotte’s Web Is Emotionally Abusive
“Of course the death of Charlotte was horribly sad, but far worse in my opinion was the moment when, during Wilbur the Pig’s hour...
Jeri Taylor, The Woman Behind Star Trek’s Captain Janeway And Some Of Picard As...
Brannon Braga, the writer who took over Voyager showrunning duties from her, said, “Her memory will live on in many ways, but perhaps most...
What Play Could Possibly Lure Robert Downey Jr To Broadway?
A play about the future of writing - and large language models, aka AI. - The New York Times
Instagram Makes Popular Videos Look Way Better
And it throttles the heck out of videos with lower viewer counts. That seems fine. - The Verge
Goodbye To Society, And Hello To Democracy
That’s the idea at the (former) New York Historical Society, now just New York Historical. The museum’s chief content officer knows the name isn’t...
Why We Don’t Read Books The Way We Used To
“Reading books is a battle in a way that, once upon a time, it wasn’t. That is to say: it’s never a battle while I’m inside...
One Young British Author Is Fed Up With The Industry’s Flagrant Sexism
Eliza Clark, one of the Granta best fiction writers under 40, has a new book out. - The Guardian (UK)
Classic Horror Makes A Creepy Return
In gaming, classic survival horror seemed to be over, a blast from the past—but its graveyard is only full of freshly created zombies. And...
The Actress And Singer Who Blackmailed All Of Spain
The blackmail plot cost millions. “The state’s objective was to prevent the leak of photos, videos and audios that revealed King Juan Carlos I’s...
Idris Elba Says He Wants To Boost The Film Industry In Africa By Moving...
The actor said he’ll found a film studio in Tanzania, and also, "I’m going to live in Accra, I’m going to live in ...
Joan Didion Told Us Over And Over Who She Was
But somehow, she remains a mystery - and there’s a biography race on to define her. - The New York Times
Want To Hear A New Chopin Piece?
Newly unearthed, that is, though “the finding may prompt debate in the classical music field, where reports of unearthed masterpieces are sometimes greeted skeptically,...
The American French Film Festival Changes Its Dates, And Perhaps Its Academy Awards Influence
The French industry may not appreciate this (until awards season): “Nearly half of the fest’s approximately 40 films and TV series ‘will be shown...
Talk About Reaching Back Down The Ladder
Bernadine Evaristo, Booker winner for Girl, Woman, Other, is “paying it forward” by hosting writer residencies at her house. “We need to build a...
If You’re Mad At Bezos, Cancel Prime, Not Your WaPo Subscription
“Prime subscriptions pay for Amazon to grow—to gobble up market share, put small stores out of business, and make Bezos more powerful. Newspaper subscriptions,...
The Goth Phase Of Vincent Van Gogh
Curators figured out that "Gothic architecture and medieval painting influenced modern art, and began to conjecture which works, shown together, would best exemplify...
A German Artists’ Group Is Demanding A Prize-Winning Artist Apologize
The Iranian-German photographer called Israel a “Zionist apartheid state” and said “Free Palestine” in her minute-long award acceptance speech. - Hyperallergic
When A Museum Is Closed For Years, How Does It Keep Up Engagement And...
Digital programming, online classes, offline pop-ups, and construction tours keep museums that are undergoing renovations in the eyes, and lives, of the easily distracted...
Publishers Using Print On Demand Is Flooding The Book Market With Off-Brand, Low-Quality Paperbacks
“Convenience has led us to a place where publishers are willing to charge more for an inferior product.” This is, truly, not good at...
As Somebody, Somewhere Ends, It’s Leaving A Gap In TV
The show, dubbed “nicecore” had a lot of potential to be snarky - and sometimes its main character certainly is. But “the show is...
Why Have A Poster On Your Dorm Wall When You Can Just Hang A...
At the University of Chicago, “students have about one week to peruse the collection and identify their favorites among the color lithographs by luminaries...
