Awards were overridden in subject areas spanning architecture, biology, engineering, agriculture, animal sciences, medical sciences, music and history, it says, accusing the administration of "injecting politics and ideological mandates into the Fulbright program." - NPR
“It’s not just a genre,” he told me over email. “It’s a form expression for a younger generation of artists, which is both natural for them, profoundly inventive, and engaging for their viewers.” - Artnet
The researchers calculated each individual's "listening radius"—roughly how far they roamed across genres and artists. They found that people living in larger urban areas also tend to listen to a broader variety of music, expanding their personal musical repertoire. - Phys
The increase in music majors may be related to the COVID-19 pandemic. “It turns out people turned to music in their time at home, and they came back — just a (f)lood of people who had really committed themselves to it and wanted to be serious about continuing it." - The Daily Cal
“The advertising world might be at their funeral without even realizing it,” said Geoffrey Colon, an entrepreneur who spent two decades at creative agencies and tech giants. To sum it up, he said: “Iceberg ahead.” - The New York Times
"The 'Main Title' music from Jaws has inspired generations of commercial and cultural riffs and rip-offs — since filed under a larger surge of Jaws-inspired content termed ‘sharksploitation’ — that have dulled its bite a bit.” - Washington Post (MSN)
“Many of the buildings on the original list were not ‘underutilized’ at all. They were simply being used for government work that the president didn’t like or by government officials whom the president wanted to punish.” - The New York Times
Walliams is also a children’s author. “The show's production company and the BBC both described the gestures as ‘completely unacceptable’ and said the segment would not be broadcast.” - BBC
But federal funding cuts are threatening national history: "A scramble for stopgap funding from donors and bake sales allowed all qualifying teams to attend the national finals this year. But what happens next is unclear.” - The New York Times
“Television was a one-way medium, its audience tending to become passive. … I wanted to show the aggressive conditioning forced upon viewers by these programs.” - The New York Times
“Artists, writers and community leaders have gone the center to be inspired, root their work in a deep understanding of the vastness of the African diaspora, and spread word of the global accomplishments of Black people” - Seattle Times (AP)
“What does it mean when the majority of the African LGBTQI+ narratives lauded as ‘important,’ ‘urgent,’ or ‘powerful’ are ones where queer black bodies are tortured, shamed and violated? And what kind of reading culture is fostered by a publishing industry that prioritizes those particular narratives?” - LitHub
“The most important part of my job besides writing producible scripts that are on time is to keep my show on the air as long as possible, to keep everyone employed as long as possible. And that’s the thing I like the best about it.” - Los Angeles Times
“Five decades on, it’s easy to forget just how remarkably undiluted the pleasures of Jaws were, and how unassailable its craft.” - Washington Post (MSN)
