Google was incredibly insecure—always was, and still is. The company, which had toppled a market leader by building better technology, is haunted by the fear of being pushed aside itself. - The Atlantic
Before Pathaan — which just knocked Avatar 2 out of the top spot on the global box office chart — Shah Rukh Khan hadn't made a movie in five years. And Modi's Hindu-nationalist government had been going after him. This new film, unsubtle in many ways, is a subtle retort to Modi. - Vox
This technology “is generating infinite music that isn’t actually composed by anybody, and that’s a terrible, scary, awful way of thinking about where music could go,” says composer Tod Machover. “I mean, really, it’s the worst kind of elevator music.” - Washington Post
"When Florida stripped Disney of its special tax zone around the company's theme parks, it led observers to wonder: Why would Disney cede this long-held ground? What it would come down to is a cost-benefit analysis ... and the results of an internal poll ... showing they're losing two important demographic groups." - TheWrap
"Great advertising does not create success. Great shows do. But advertising can expand success from a limited audience and make it larger. Much larger. But today's advertising needs to understand today's market" — which is not the market of three years ago. - Broadway News
"The community-tied music and dance clubs have always included women, commonly as seamstresses and dancers. They've played the schools' smaller instruments; Carnival queens lead processions in elaborate outfits. But rarely do women call the shots on finances, themes or even costumes." Except, that is, at Turma da Paz de Madureira. - AP
Last year the 67-year-old actor retired after receiving a formal diagnosis of aphasia. His condition has now worsened: he's suffering progressive loss of nerve cells in his brain's frontal and temporal lobes. There is currently no treatment for the disorder. - The Hollywood Reporter
"Before the proposed design had been chosen, the Association of Greek Architects had threatened to (go to) the country's supreme administrative court after it became clear that only award-winning foreign firms with experience in museum work would be permitted to participate." - The Guardian
"The group includes Renoir's 1883 seascape Marine Guernesey, and a study, completed around 1908, for The Judgement of Paris (in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art), as well as Gauguin's Still life with mandolin (1885) and a watercolor titled Undergrowth (1890-1892) by Cézanne." - ARTnews
In 2015 there were 4,803 craft breweries in the US, by 2021 there were 9,118. Equally important is the ideological shift in the beer market they signify. Big beer singularly seeks and values profit. Craft beer, while also motivated by profit, equally values community, quality and independence. - The Conversation
This campaign against Rowling is as dangerous as it is absurd. The brutal stabbing of Salman Rushdie last summer is a forceful reminder of what can happen when writers are demonized. And in Rowling’s case, the characterization of her as a transphobe doesn’t square with her actual views. - The New York Times
The mathematics that's all around us, after all, doesn't come to us smoothly, in neatly formed themes or topics or packages. It's not separated into ascending levels of difficulty. It's not necessarily chronological, certainly not alphabetical, never orderly. - Shaastra
The current state of public discourse, if it’s even worthy of that name, is a strange fusion where smarm and snark wrestle and embrace one another in vicious shadowy vacuums. It is less clear than ever which side is winning. - LitHub
Disney is, famously, a vast corporate content farm, with all artistic choices carefully examined by an assembly line of executives, marketers, focus groups, etc. Whereas Miyazaki’s vision is absolutely his own. Despite its global success, Studio Ghibli has remained quirky and unpredictable. - The New York Times
West End Theatres: “We are talking to them about marketing. So, when we market shows let’s not have phrases such as ‘best party in town’ or ‘dancing in the aisles’ – the show has something much stronger than that to sell.” - The Guardian
