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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...
Mario Vargas Llosa, Last Of The Latin American ‘Golden Generation’ Of Writers, Has Died...
“Vargas Llosa, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, gained renown as a young writer with slangy, blistering visions of the corruption,...
So You Want To Strike A Blow For Small Businesses?
Pay for shipping. That choice “forces you to think about your purchases in a way that one-click overnight free shipping does not.” - Fast...
Melbourne Cinema Says Threats Caused It To Cancel Screening Of No Other Land
“What does that say about freedom of expression in Australia, that an Oscar-winning film made by an Israeli-Palestinian collective, which is being screened in...
Looks Like The White House Has Replaced Obama’s Official Portrait With Portrait Of Trump...
A spokesperson wrote that the Obama portrait was simply moved. “Last month, the Trump administration and the Kremlin confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin gifted a...
The Academy Finally Adds A Stunt Award For Future Oscars
“For Hollywood’s stunt community, the announcement marks a historic milestone in a decades-long push for recognition.” The stunt award will debut in 2028. -...
