Trump’s New Social Network Soars To Top Of Apple Store (But New Users Encounter...
While it seemingly has attracted broad interest, many users who attempted to sign up for Truth Social accounts on Monday (Feb. 21) have reported...
The Problem Of Writing Fiction Of Now During The Pandemic
“It seemed too soon to be writing about the pandemic, which we were living through, but it also seemed hard to be writing about...
Does The Demise Of The Capitol Steps Comedy Troupe Say Something About How America...
Political humor had changed. It was less lighthearted, more snarky and sarcastic. Washington had changed, no longer a place where Democrats and Republicans would...
More And More Museum Workers Are Unionizing
Many of the workers who have recently joined unions have come from the curatorial, administrative and education staffs — white-collar office workers who often...
On The Frontlines Of The Battle For Our Attention
The reality is we simply don’t have the long-term studies that tell us whether our collective attention span has actually shrunk. What we do...
Theatre was Inventive During COVID. That Inventiveness Might Make Theatre Better Going Forward
In order to survive at all during this period, theatre did need to adapt, and notable examples of genius materialised, reimagining the genre entirely....
University Censors Project About Censorship
The irony is almost too neat: a college student plans a program of songs from musicals that have faced censorship – and with less...
The Scourge Of Book Blurbs
It is perhaps true that blurbs are rarely the deciding factor. Most likely a potential reader has heard word of mouth recommendations, read reviews,...
The Mechanizing Of The Humanities Is Not Going Well
The academic insistence on using bibliographic citation techniques developed for the printing press feels increasingly eccentric now that reading materials and essays exist in...
Developers Have Known All The Worldle Answers From The Very First Day
Developers have a little thing about looking at source script - "the digital equivalent of popping open the hood to see what’s underneath." -...
For Touring Musicians, Navigating The Pandemic Has Been Very Rough
"Now we're working on a new record, and someone recently asked me what the endgame is, like, 'Oh, you're making a record, what's the...
Watching ‘Slave Play’ With An All-Black Audience Makes For A Qualitatively Different Experience
"The communal understanding that this is our space, our work, our shared awareness is an incomparable feeling. ... Every joke hit. Every cultural reference...
Do College Dance Programs Really Need To Be Ranked?
Honestly, "most ranking systems are focused on academics; they aren’t designed to reflect the quality of artistic education. So do dance program rankings matter...
Jim Broadbent On Being An Anti-Establishment Actor And Turning Down And OBE, An
"When Richard Eyre accepted his knighthood and I asked why, he said 'vanity.' If somebody asks me why I turned down an OBE, I’d say...
Finally, Media Companies Are Starting To Support Latinx Podcasting Ideas
It's not just about music, but "as Latin music’s popularity balloons well beyond the Hispanic community, podcasters see opportunities for additional growth." Podcasts, like...
The Re-Re-Rise Of Pompeii
Pompeii, the city buried by Vesuvius' eruption in the year 79 CE/AD, nearly lost its fame and fortune again in 2010 this time because...
During The Pandemic, We Sometimes Read To Escape
Well, not just sometimes. "The practice provides a valuable form of understimulation, an inoculation against an illness-inducing reality." - Los Angeles Review of Books
A New Food Show Demonstrates How History And Food Teach Us Everything
A new show with veteran journalist Lisa Ling does what Ling's 10-year-old self could only imagine. "Food and travel shows sometimes take an idealistic...
The Hidden Text That Makes The Internet Somewhat Accessible
"In an image-saturated world — over 63 million were uploaded to Instagram alone in a single day in February, according to Internet Live Stats — it...
Actors With Down Syndrome Are Finally Getting Mainstream Roles
Shows like Who Do You Think I Am have "this effect of normalizing disability and showing us that people with Down syndrome are...
Amazon’s Lord Of The Rings Series Has A Diverse Cast, Which Is Freaking Out...
Says expert Dr. Ebony Thomas, "People are used to seeing fantasies and fairytales as all-white, particularly in faux-medieval or magical-medieval settings. ... We’re taking...
Pandemic Fiction Is Booming Right Now, But Have Novelists Had Time To Truly Contemplate...
"Some writers worry a pandemic plot might drive away readers who want to escape our grim reality, but ignoring it might feel jarringly unrealistic....
Netflix Tries Its Hand At Original Short Films
The streamer is always on the hunt for new talent, so an emerging director showcase is logical. One director: "I jokingly say it’s like...
The Joy And Promise Of Used Cookbook Sections
"When you inherit someone else's cookbook, there are stories contained within it beyond the author's words; there are stained pages, dog-eared recipes and notes...
Why Writers Switch From Fiction To Nonfiction, And Back Again
Events can overtake the imagination - and then after some decades, it's time to re-imagine experience and reaction. Basically, "this is how life is;...
