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Making Opera Local Again
“If you want to find a creative space, it doesn’t necessarily need to be in Manhattan or Brooklyn. … It’s where you are.” -...
How Trump And His People Want To Capture The History Of The United States
“The president has gone beyond rhetoric, moving to challenge or seize control of history-related federal cultural institutions including the Smithsonian, the National Park Service...
When An AI Chatbot Simply Makes Up A Company Policy, Things Can Go Very...
This seems fine: “Instead of admitting uncertainty, AI models often prioritize creating plausible, confident responses, even when that means manufacturing information from scratch.” -...
The Important Twins Of Recent Media
“Eer since people have feared the idea of doppelgängers, twins have been featured in hundreds of stories over the years.” - Variety
The Life Of An Author Can Be, Well, Imaginative
Author Sayaka Murata: “Ever since I was a child, I’ve had 30 or 40 imaginary friends who live on a different star or planet with whom I have...
Way Too Early Emmys Handicapping
“With so much time between now and July 15 (nomination day), not to mention September 14 (Emmys night), we’ll have plenty of opportunities to...
Some Hollywood Productions Are Filming Anywhere But California
“International sites often come with lower labor costs and more expansive tax incentives than those that California offers, making it much cheaper to film...
Can Architecture, And Urban Planning, Help Older People Age In Safer Neighborhoods?
“Cities are often defined by spatial ageism where environments are not set up for older people. The age-friendly movement aims to ensure older people can still play a...
Samuel Beckett Versus The Archbishop’s Censorship
“After the archbishop’s interference, Beckett withdrew all rights in protest, for all of his works in Ireland, indefinitely.” - Irish Times (Internet Archive)
Turner, 250 Years On, Is Still Britain’s Best Artist
That “is partly because he is so intensely aware of a defining fact about his country: it’s an island. For Turner, Britain is bordered...
More Cuts Hobble The Kennedy Center In A Variety Of Departments
Marketing, campus planning, and the entire social media team - gone as of Friday. “Kennedy Center staff members ... spoke on the condition of...
Are Em-Dashes Really A Sign Of AI-Generated Content?
If so — not to put too fine a point on it — is this a sign that the content AI stole, “scraped," from...
Where Is Ninety Percent Of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Material Cultural Legacy?
In Western museums, of course. - African History Extra
Cinemas Really Want That Theatrical Window To Lengthen
But we’re all addicted to streaming now, so it seems unlikely to change. - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
What If George Lucas Is Right, And The Original Star Wars Is Pretty Bad?
“It’s so long since we’ve seen the original version of Star Wars, our collective memories of it as a gritty, charming space western may...
An Author’s Desire To Be Seen, And Also Never To Be Seen
Kaliane Bradley: “There was the absolute dread that it would go to people I know and respect and they’d talk to one another and...
The Shining’s Creepy, Mysterious Photo Is Mysterious No Longer
“The camera zooms in toward a black-and-white photograph hanging in the hallway of the Overlook Hotel. It's dated July 4, 1921. Dead centre stands Jack...
The Weirdly Long Life Of A Buffy: The Vampire Slayer Podcast
“We released our first episode of Buffering the Vampire Slayer on September 14, 2016. We couldn’t have imagined that only a few weeks later, we’d have...
If You’re Worried About The Environmental Impact Of Large-Scale AI, Check Out Small Language...
“Small models are not used as general-purpose tools like their larger cousins. But they can excel on specific, more narrowly defined tasks, such as...
Turns Out Walking In A City Is Just As Great As Walking In The...
For some of us, it might be even better. But truly: "Researchers have identified a wellbeing boost known as ‘the cathedral effect’ which occurs...
The Problem For American Literature Under Someone Who Doesn’t Understand Soft Power
“The Trump administration, caring little for democracy and focused on hardness, is immune to the idea that literature, a supposedly feminizing kind of art, could...
A French Canadian Comedian Says English-Speaking Audiences Want Different Things
“After years of performing worldwide in French, Quebec comedian Rachid Badouri is touring a new solo show in English, and says there’s a subtle...
The Current President Says He Wants To Take All Of Taxpayers’ NEH And NEA...
“About $17 million would be routed from both the NEH and NEA to support the statuary garden project. No specific details were shared about...
Bernadette Peters, Back On Broadway, Longs To Ride The Central Park Carousel
Then there’s the time Sondheim took her to the Met for a Seurat exhibition. - The New York Times
What Inspired The BBC’s New Bilingual ‘Deaf Thriller’?
The writer was really sick of being frustrated and isolated in the hearing world, basically - and he also "wanted to put his own...
