Netflix Says Ad-Supported Streaming Will Debut Late This Year
Netflix offers a variety of payment tiers for streaming access; its most popular plan costs $15.49 a month. The new ad-supported tier will cost...
A Tourist Trips, Falls On, And Rips A 17th-Century Painting
An elderly American woman, who may have been feeling ill or may have tripped on the slightly raised platform, landed on Guido Reni's St....
Dancers At An L.A. Strip Club Have Unionized And Are Picketing Their Employer
When two of their colleagues were fired for complaining to management about unsafe working conditions, the dancers at Star Garden in North Hollywood voted...
So What’s Happened To The Troubled Magazine “The Believer”? It’s Been Bought By The...
As an Instagram post by Believer co-founder Ed Park put it, "Not a joke." - The Daily Beast
They’re Going To Put A Zipline And Cable Car Into Old Jerusalem
The plan, first approved by Netanyahu's government and just affirmed by city authorities, will involve a half-mile zipline from a ridge between East and...
To Punish Disney, Sen. Josh Hawley Introduces A Bill To Curtail Copyright
"Hawley's bill would dramatically rewrite U.S. copyright law, shortening the total term available to all copyright holders going forward by several decades. It would...
$500 Tickets For A Play In London’s West End? Yes, To This We’ve Come
The £400 price for the revival of Mike Bartlett's play Cock, featuring Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey, isn't advertised. Some poor guy ordered online and...
Google Has Turned Off Ability To Buy Kindle, Audible Books In The Amazon App
When you visit the Amazon app, you can still buy physical books, but digital purchases now show a "Why can't I buy on the...
AI Is Creating Art. But Is It, Really?
What discussions about AI and creativity often overlook is the fact that creativity is not an absolute quality that can be defined, measured and...
How Big Data “Nudges” Our Decisions
The combination of Big Data and the success of nudging could thus be conceived of not only as aid to our decision-making, but also...
How Ukraine Is Protecting The Kyiv Symphony Orchestra
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense granted special permission for the male musicians to leave the country, calculating that the world will be more motivated...
What’s Happened To Fundraising Costs In The Pandemic
Whereas fundraising efforts in 2019 raised $6.22 for every fundraising dollar spent, return on fundraising increased to $7.35 in 2020, driven mostly by fundraising...
How American Discourse Got To Be So Stupid
We all know what we're doing in a classroom; we're putting on a class and we all share the same script as to what...
A Visit To The Independent Art Republic Of Užupis
For much of the past six centuries, the neighborhood was the Jewish quarter of Vilnius. Following World War II, the district was badly neglected...
Stephen Colbert Will Chair New 15-Member Board Of Stars Advising Second City Theatre
Colbert, who performed at the Old Town theater in the 1990s, will chair the board. He said in a statement Monday that his recruits...
How Moonbug Became The Titan Of Children’s Shows On YouTube
"The London company produces 29 of the most popular online kids' shows in the world, found on more than 150 platforms in 32 languages...
Dr. Seuss Decides To IPO
Dr. Seuss Enterprises is one of the most prized collections of intellectual property in the world, and nearly every major Hollywood heavyweight is likely...
Shivkumar Sharma, Pathbreaker In Indian Classical Music, Dead At 84
His great innovation was to turn the santoor, a hammer dulcimer which Indians had heard only in Kashmiri folk music, into a full-fledged solo...
Now There Are Calls For Artistic Director Patricia Barker To Follow Her Husband Out...
A week after Michael Auer was reportedly terminated as ballet master over abusive conduct toward company members, two dancers who performed with RNZB in...
What This Year’s Tony Nominations Tell Us About Broadway
So we’re back to normal, right? Not exactly. Broadway remains an economic conundrum and a contested cultural question. - Los Angeles Times
Golden-Age Stradivarius Named For Leonardo Could Sell For $20 Million
The "da Vinci" Stradivarius violin, made in 1714, is also called the "ex-Seidel" after former owner Toscha Seidel, who gave Albert Einstein lessons and...
Sex & Death & Rodgers & Hammerstein
Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and I, Carousel, The Sound of Music — they can seem corny today. Yet they deal with loaded issues...
How You Know When You’ve Entered A “Real” Bookstore
While authors can be colorful, book dealers are often notably cranky and eccentric. One conducting business in fashionable Cecil Court put up a sign...
$195 Million: Andy Warhol’s “Marilyn” Is Now The Most Expensive American Painting Ever Sold
Indeed, the work — full title Shot Sage Blue Marilyn and dating from 1964 — is also the highest-priced 20th-century artwork and the second-most...
This Year’s Pulitzer Winner For Drama Hasn’t Even Had A Live Staged Performance Yet
Fat Ham, which transmutes Hamlet from a tragedy in Denmark into a comedy at a Southern Black family's cookout, was produced for streaming last...
