Sure, people are mostly back to live theatre - but " a newly formed nonprofit organization is collaborating to bring nonprofit Broadway ... into homes, schools and community centers." With high-quality streaming, at that. - Los Angeles Times
His wife said at the time of his arrest "that his detention - several months before the ongoing anti-government protests erupted - amounted to a kidnapping." - BBC
One Netflix exec said, though, that it will be coming, and he added, "I think it’s worth noting that this will not be a universally popular move." - Wired
"My favorites are the games that have intricate plots, because many of them are cultural markers that reveal what fascinates us — and more important, what scares us." - The Atlantic
First of all, Beyoncé "needs three wins to tie, and four to beat the conductor Georg Solti, who holds the record for most overall wins." - The New York Times
And those heads aren't spinning in a "get rich podcasting!" kind of a way. "Call it a pivot, call it a withdrawal; ... whatever the nomenclature, the financial realities of Spotify needing its big podcast bets to pay off have been true for some time." - Vulture
You might not revile Sir Arthur Evans in the same breath that you do Lord Elgin - but the British archaeologist was a fabulist who spun tales and poured concrete into the palace he claimed was the site of the Minoan Labyrinth. - The Observer (UK)
In addition, the more progressive U.S. membership has clashed - repeatedly - with the much more culturally conservative international contingent. - The New York Times
"It gave a name to the very common human experience of realising that you’re stuck. ... And that you can’t seem to get out of this repeating pattern of behaviours and consequences." But also, it offered hope. - The Guardian (UK)
Studies of grieving brains – be it scans of the brain regions which process grief, or measures of the stress hormone cortisol that is released in grief – show no differences in relation to race, age or religion. - The Conversation
Like his hero Duke Ellington, he had a gift for reconciling musical experiment with the immediacy of pop, finding freedom in the constraints of a verse-chorus-bridge grammar that might otherwise default to clichés. - The Baffler
What is literary criticism — specifically, the kind of highly specialized, theoretically sophisticated textual readings generated by academic critics — really for? - The New York Times
We have surrendered ourselves to our entertainment. We will become so distracted and dazed by our fictions that we’ll lose our sense of what is real. We will make our escapes so comprehensive that we cannot free ourselves from them. The result will be a populace that forgets how to think... - The Atlantic
