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Philip Glass Warned The Crimean Ballet Not To Use His Music
“In an open letter posted on his social media accounts, Glass says he has not given the ballet company permission to use his music,...
The Woman Who Builds The NYT’s Connections Doesn’t Know Why People Are So Intense...
“Get invested enough in Connections, and its easy to feel like Liu holds a weird sway over your life, as a chosen one who’s...
Why Can’t AI Do A Better Job Of Recommending Movies?
“It’s one of the most common low-stakes annoyances in modern life: you flop down on the couch, … to watch one of the...
James C. Scott, An Iconoclastic Social Scientist Who Studied How Marginalized Groups Undermine Traditional...
He was “a big-picture scholar,” readable to non-academics as well as other scholars, and “the theories about resistance to power that he extrapolated led...
Bernini, The Sculptor Who Slashed His Mistress’s Face When He Was Done With Her
“Just months after lovingly carving Costanza’s face in marble, Bernini ordered it to be slashed with a knife by one of his servants.” -...
The University Of Iowa Paves A Path For Restitution With Benin Bronzes
Representatives from the U of I's Stanley Museum of Art met with the ceremonial leader of the Edo people "and officials of the Benin...
Edna O’Brien, Groundbreaking Irish Novelist, Has Died At 93
“Ms. O’Brien grew up in a newly independent and staunchly Catholic Ireland with firm ideas about the roles of women, who had no lawful...
Italian Officials Ask That Tourists Not Use Public Statues For Erotic Enjoyment
Grinding on a statue of Bacchus might sound fun (and, well, perhaps it was?), but the young woman who experienced that joy in Florence...
Hollywood Teamsters And Other Craft Unions Come To Tentative Agreement With Studios
“As of late Saturday night, the Hollywood Basic Crafts and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have reached agreements on six different...
So, Are We Living In The West Wing Or Veep?
TV show memes lit up Instagram, texts, and group chats when President Biden stepped down. “One thing someone on text thread said is...
Counting Down To James Baldwin’s 100th Birthday
At Baldwin & Co in New Orleans, the founder believes "his independent bookstore sells more books by Baldwin than any other, anywhere. ‘They're our...
What It Was Like Making A Documentary Of The Taliban Re-Taking Afghanistan
“It’s hard not to wonder – as a viewer – why the Taliban’s top brass agreed to let Nash’at shoot a fly-on-the-wall documentary of...
On Reality Love Shows, The Setting Is The Main Character
While tropical island resorts are sick of the all-too-common narrative, the camera folks love the golden hour in paradise. - The New York Times
Why Local Indie Bookstores Might Never Have Hillbilly Elegy In Stock
And it's not because indie bookstores hate Republicans. - LitHub
Celine Dion, Who Quit Performing Due To A Rare Autoimmune Disease, ‘Trained Like An...
In April, Dion said, "I have two choices. Either I train like an athlete and work super hard, or I switch off and it’s...
After Decades Of Pleas And Laws And Lawsuits, The Museum Of Natural History Says...
The museum “said it was making progress on returning the human remains of nearly 2,200 Native Americans and thousands of tribal funerary objects, which...
A Dublin Wax Museum Is Rebooting Its Newly Unveiled Sinead O’Connor Figure
Just before the anniversary of the Irish singer’s death, the museum revealed the figure to a swift and furious reception. O’Connor’s brother John said...
Factcheck: It’s True That The Olympics Are Set In The Ratatouille Cinematic Universe
Apologies to this excellent post on the site formerly known as Twitter. Point is, a lot of great movies are set in Paris, so...
Did The New York Times Books People Forget The Existence Of An Entire Continent?
Sure seems like it. But “the meteoric rise of African publishing is one of the most remarkable stories of the last 25 years. If...
What The Video Game Strike Means For Big Games Like Fortnite
Unless the strike lasts longer than 60 days, “actors and other union members who are already under contract and working on games in development...
Amazon Buys British Studios Where Rocky Horror Was Filmed
The historic studios hosted The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula’s Bride. And then, "Ridley Scott built and shot the miniatures for his Academy Award...
The Paris Olympics’ Opening Ceremonies Were, Basically, Opera
“Pull out the checklist: There’s music (and lots of it). There’s a cast of hundreds (or in this case, thousands) of performers. There’s grand...
Alice Munro’s Biographer Knew About Her Second Husband’s Abuse Of Her Daughter
And he wrote nothing about it. He didn’t add it to “the book's 2011 update — even after Munro herself sat down with him,...
The Future Of Film With AI Already Cutting Into Reality
Not great: “Short of regulation or relevant union agreements, it has come down to film-makers – directors, producers, writers, visual effects and VFX artists...
Video Game Actors Are On Strike, And Here’s What That Means
Third verse, same as the first (two strikes last year): "'We’re not going to consent to a contract that allows companies to abuse AI...
