100+ UK Music Festivals Pledge To Take Tougher Stand On Sexual Violence
One of the key promises is that “all allegations of sexual harassment, assault and violence will be taken seriously, acted upon promptly and investigated”....
Questions About The Arts Donations Of The UK’s Richest Man
While not on any sanctions list, the Ukrainian-born billionaire’s links to sanctioned Russian oligarchs were the focus of discussion among officials involved in a...
How To Buy Music So Musicians Get The Most For It
As a local musician who has put out vinyl (in very limited quantities), I’ve come to realize there are ethics when it comes to...
The Clutter Versus Anti-Clutter Wars
Why do some people revel in collections of novelty eggcups? Or have so many framed pictures you can barely see the (ferociously busy) wallpaper?...
The Women Changing 21st Century Dance
The recent appointments of the women and the recent commissions of choreography by women too numerous to mention, are good news for feminism. But...
The “Like” Problem
Why do people have such a problem with “like”? Is it because it simply won’t go away? In 1992, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a robust...
Texas Judge Doesn’t Think YouTube Is A Website. This Could Be A Problem
HB 20 says that if you run a social network — even a nonprofit one — you’ll have to throw out your community standards...
Immersive Theatre — Another World But With Real-World Concerns
It's no coincidence that Punchdrunk has begun collaborating with Pokemon Go creator Niantic. The company's work offers the same promise as virtual reality: At its...
Disgraced LA Gallerist Ordered To Pay $14.2 Million After Cheating Artists
Douglas Chrismas was considered to be at the forefront of the Los Angeles art scene in the 1980s and 90s at his now-defunct Ace Gallery....
The Prolific Korean Movie Director Who Does It All
He has directed twenty-seven features in twenty-six years. Hong has achieved abundance through a radical reduction of means. He funds each movie with the...
Netflix Explicitly Tells Employees They’ll Just Have To Deal With Content They Find Offensive
In what looks like a reaction - some might call it an over-reaction - to the employee walkouts over Dave Chapelle's transphobic jokes, the...
David Marcuse, Who Provided Progressives With Books And Gathering Places, Has Died At 73
Marcuse ran several bookstores, but Common Concerns, in Dupont Circle during the Reagan and (H.W.) Bush years, was the most important for a community...
Katsumoto Saotome Preserved The Stories Of Firebombing Survivors
Saotome, a novelist who has died at 90, compiled six books of survivors' testimony and founded a museum as well. - The New York...
Toronto Gets A Horror Bookstore
Why an entire bookstore and café devoted to scary things? "Imagine your problems were a ghost, a monster, a serial killer — that the...
The Musician Making New Words In Hmong
Twin Cities spoken word artist and musician "SUNAH hopes to replace negative language some in the Hmong community use to describe LGBTQ people. There...
Chicago’s Alt-Weekly May Have Finally Saved Itself
After the sale of the Chicago Reader "was nearly derailed over a co-owner’s column opposing COVID-19 vaccine requirements for children," and after a lot...
Disney Hasn’t Had This Much Trouble With Its Public Image Since The Early Days...
"The characters in the showdown were as colorful as any drawn on the studio's animation cels: union activists, gangsters, communists and anti-communists, and, not...
The Heartbreak And Necessity Of Ending A Feminist Magazine Right Now
Co-founder of Bitch Magazine Andi Ziesler says that "the thing that made us stand out in an increasingly digital marketplace was the fact that...
Guess Where You Can Get The Best Free E-Books, Music, And Movies On The...
This should not surprise you, because it's also the best place to get free physical books, music, and movies. - Fast Company
Why Black Cinema Had A Kung Fu Explosion In The 1970s
"If the very essence of Blaxploitation films to challenge the world order, the creative marriage between Kung Fu and Blaxploitation offered global imagery...
The Painting From The Credits Of The Show ‘Good Times’ Sells For A Huge...
Look, this wouldn't really be a news story, but the energy trader who bought it said, "I’m walking away with the treasure while everybody...
What Happened To Britain’s Classic Sitcoms?
Probably what happened is streaming. "Perhaps it's no longer possible to amuse all of the people all of the time." - BBC
Why California College Of The Art Staff Went On Strike
"This protest was beautiful; we used our own craft and creative responsibility as artists to advocate for social change. From stenciled shirts to embroidered...
It Was The Sex Toy Scene That Broke Michelle Yeoh
Yeoh, on Everything Everywhere All at Once: "When we were doing the butt-plug fight sequences, I was on the ground, laughing my head off,...
The UN’s Global Emergency Meeting Of Writers
"There were impassioned statements on Ukraine, the killing of the Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, social media polarization, climate change, the deluge of...
