All Over The World, Poetry Fans Are Celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s 100th Birthday
Lawrence Ferlinghetti explained, years ago, that “‘Howl’ knocked the sides out of things, just the way rock music in the '60s knocked the sides...
As You Would Expect, Heated Rivalry Cleaned Up At The Canadian Screen Awards
So did the comedy series North of North. But Heated Rivalry, whoa: "The series entered the night riding on a red-hot winning streak after...
Tony Leung Was Ready To Quit Acting Out Of Boredom, And Then Wong Kar-Wai...
“From the first day I met him, when I was going through a period of frustration, I knew we would make special films, that...
Saying No To New Gadgets Might Make Us Happier
Just in case you’ve missed multiple strains of philosophy, ethics, and “happiness studies” over the years, not to mention Buddhist thought, well: "When we...
The Kansas City Symphony Wants To Add A New, Separate, Non-Classical Performance Space
Why? "The possibility of generating year-round sustaining revenue for an orchestra.” - KC Studio
We Knew Heated Rivalry’s Shane Was A Reader, But The Actor Playing Him Has...
“Williams is rarely spotted without a book in his hand. He’s now name-checked multiple Joan Didion titles in interviews, and was once photographed next to a...
Claude Bessy, Who Ruled The Paris Ballet School, Has Died At 93
Bessy was "a graceful French ballet star whose firm hand at the helm of the Paris Opera Ballet School for three decades made it...
Tennessee’s Latest Attempt At Banning – This Time Of Roots – Has Failed, For...
“Under the totalitarian Age-Appropriate Materials Act — a Tennessee law passed in 2022 that, along with an addendum passed two years later, has permitted the removal...
As Nearly All Musicians Pull Out, The President Wants To Cancel His ‘Freedom 250’...
He’s also said he wants to headline it himself. But “a senior administration official described the rollout of the concerts as ‘a mess’ and...
Dealing With Sudden Pop Fame By Exiting The Game Almost Entirely
Kim Petras was not happy with her experience of “what can happen when the general corporate powers that be force you to sideline your...
A Photographer Who Portrayed Women As Bold And Self-Possessed, Even In 1960s Hong Kong
Sheung was "deeply invested in crafting an image of female autonomy and audacity at a time when women’s lives were constrained by traditional expectations.”...
Museum Gift Stores Have Always Been A Little Special, But They’ve Leveled Up
“Rather than an exit point, this new wave of merchandising is quickly turning museum gift shops into a desirable entry point. Curated edits ......
The Five Top Takeaways From The Kennedy Center Ruling
And yes, we sure do mean the Kennedy Center. - The New York Times
The Creator Of This Animated Cupcake Is Furious At Buzzfeed’s GenAI Plan
Remember when Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed seemed like a good guy? That was a long time ago, and we were all so much more...
Marcia Lucas, Who Truly Created Star Wars Through Editing, Has Died At 80
Lucas not only co-edited the first movie and Return of the Jedi but also made various Spielberg, Scorsese, and many other movies far, far...
A Critic Begs Us All Not To Forget These Performances In The Lead-Up To...
These actors aren’t going to be nominated, but they (maybe!) should be. And some of us could at least watch their shows. - Vulture
The Serious Business Of Creating Illustrations For Children
“For years, illustrators have been overlooked, seen as people who come in and do the decorating after the house has been built. But this...
The Biggest AI Writing Tell
The prose - whether in a text or fiction submission - is “perfectly clean, without a stray comma; uniform in length, with evenly paced...
On TikTok, Scammers Are Using AI Blackface To Push Cheap Products
Those belt buckles sure aren’t handmade. And: “Nearly all aspects of the accounts appear to be AI-generated — from the ‘person’ in the video...
A Novel Twenty Years In The Making
“If you work on a book for twenty years—whatever we mean by work—people really act like you’re very neurotic. Like there’s something wrong with you,...
How Allen Toussaint, Post-Katrina, Found Himself Onstage At Joe’s Pub
Slowly, in front of star-studded crowds that included the rockers Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt and Boz Scaggs, Toussaint reinvented himself. - The New York...
Is Melbourne, Australia, The Vinyl Capital Of The World?
Probably it’s Tokyo - Australian record shops go on record-buying trips there to prop up their own inventory - but there is the new...
AJ Chronicles: Google Just Changed the way We’re Going to Find Culture
What Google presented this month was revolutionary, a declaration that the web as we know it is dead, and an operating manual for how the new web will work. More important, it suggests how we all will find — or fail to find — culture over the next decade.
Neil Barclay shares strategies for sustainability for BIPOC organizations
Neil Barclay, President & CEO of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, talks the evolving landscape for BIPOC organizations and avenues for sustainability.
Federal Judge Orders Trump To Take His Name Off The Kennedy Center
A federal judge Friday ordered that President Donald Trump’s name be removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and that...
