The Very Tricky Art Of Translating And Subtitling Streaming TV Series
After the English subtitles for Squid Game attracted a lot of criticism, "improving the quality of translated content has become a priority for streamers...
End Of An Aura: Licensing Company Forbids Vegas Wedding Chapels From Using Elvis
The licensing company that controls the name and image of “The King” is ordering Sin City chapel operators to stop using Elvis in themed...
The Famed Cabaret Shows At The Lido In Paris Are No More
"Amid financial troubles and changing times, the venue's new corporate owner is ditching most of the Lido's staff and its high-kicking, high-glamour dance shows...
The Savannah Bananas, The Dancingest Team in Baseball
The players have their moves; the half-time dance team is a troupe of grannies; the ushers and umpires dance; the first-base coach is a...
Who’s The Greatest Performance Artist Of Our Lifetimes? HM Queen Elizabeth II
"Her controlled, carefully evolving, global visibility has been one of the great demonstrations of durational performance art. It is a feat ... made possible...
Yes, MoviePass Collapsed, But The Movie Theater Chains Seem To Be Making The Subscription...
Cinemark's Movie Club ($10 monthly for one movie) has 1 million active members, and AMC's Stubs A-List ($19.95 a month for 3 movies a...
How Did “The Karate Kid” Turn Into A Musical?
"Robert Mark Kamen was through with The Karate Kid, his semi-autobiographical 1984 martial arts film that spawned a string of movies, an animated program...
France Had Big Plans To Return Its African Art To Africa. Here’s Why There...
"It is almost five years since President Emmanuel Macron announced his revolutionary plan to return African heritage to the continent. … But following Macron's...
Is The Louvre About To Sue Its Former Director?
Last week, Jean-Luc Martinez, ousted as the museum's director last year, was indicted for complicity with the trafficking of stolen Egyptian antiquities purchased by...
Why We Can’t Stop Measuring Things
Around 6,000 years ago, the first standardised units were deployed in river valley civilisations such as ancient Egypt, where the cubit was defined by...
Why Are We So Attracted To Disaster Stories?
Maybe we rubberneck over disasters because we are bored by our relatively cushy safety. Or maybe we can’t avoid the threats as they creep...
Writer Who Wrote About Killing Husband Is Convicted Of Killing Husband
Ms. Brophy, who had written self-published romance novels, had once speculated in a 2011 blog post that a wife who kills her spouse must...
How They Lifted A Historic Times Square Theatre Thirty Feet
The theater, which weighs 14 million pounds, is a protected landmark, meaning the structure, from the stage to the balcony, had to be moved...
The Problem With Times Square
The more crowded Times Square becomes with visitors, the more off-putting it is for the white-collar office workers who now have the choice to...
The Internet Is Broken. Here’s How To Fix It
The root is simple: The internet is broken because the internet is a business. While the issues are various and complex, they are inextricable from...
The U.S. Military Has An Enormous Art Collection
"Each of the five branches of the US military (the air force, army, coast guard, marines and navy) has its own collection, curator and...
Has NYC Finally Gotten serious About Prosecuting The Illegal Antiquities Trade?
“That’s unheard of. It used to be a gentleman’s sport done by gentleman for gentleman. Now these gentleman and gentlewomen of the trade are...
Wisconsin May Lose NEA Money Because GOP Legislators Won’t Provide Matching Funds
"Every year, the NEA parcels out federal funding to state-level arts agencies ... to distribute as individual grants. The states have to match this...
Garrison Keillor’s Next Act
“I feel like I’m starting a new life as a writer,” he says to me. “What I have is a pleasure in writing that...
“Tony! (The Tony Blair Rock Opera)” — Yep, That’s The Title
"Blair is played by the comedian Charlie Baker. Saddam Hussein, with moustache and cigar, is given a Groucho Marx makeover. (Playwright Harry) Hill describes...
Not Just Top Gun: US Military Has Had Editorial Control Over Thousands Of Movies
The Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency have exercised direct editorial control over more than 2,500 films and television shows. These discoveries raise questions...
Once Again, France’s Government Attempts To Eliminate English From French Tech Jargon
This time it's about video gaming. "While some expressions find obvious translations — 'pro-gamer' becomes 'joueur professionnel' — others seem a more strained, as...
First Look: Pix Of Bradley Cooper As Leonard Bernstein
“I (told Spielberg), ‘I always felt like I could play a conductor, but may I research the material and see if I can write...
Writing In “The ‘New Yorker’ Sort Of Voice” (And Knowing When To Leave It...
"It is a voice of intelligent curiosity; it implies that the writer has synthesized a great deal of information; it confidently takes readers by...
Will Rogers — A Proudly Indian Actor In John Ford’s Cowboy-Movie America
He was born into the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma in 1879; his grandparents had survived the Trail of Tears. "Despite his consistent and very...
