Signature LA: The Richard Neutra Houses
Their stories say something deeper about Neutra’s achievement, which has less to do with stylish surfaces than with underlying rhythms—the search for a shelter...
Yes, Music Really Can Be Infectious — Statisticians Apply Epidemiology To Pop Songs
"The pattern of music downloads after their release appears to closely resemble epidemic curves for infectious disease – and electronica appears to be the...
Netflix Is About To Milk The Hell Out Of Roald Dahl’s Stories
"Netflix has acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company (RDSC) and will expand their existing deal to … create a universe across animated and live...
Is The Future Of Newspapers 24/7 Online, With Actual Newsprint Only On Sundays?
That's already the case in Little Rock and Chattanooga, while the Tampa Bay Times prints only Wednesdays and Sundays. Many other papers throughout the...
Major Italian Baroque Painting Turns Up At Ordinary Suburban New York Church
An art history professor happened to be in the Church of the Holy Family in New Rochelle when he saw a painting that made...
The Rivals: As The Delta Variant Rages, Sydney Reopens Its Theatres While Melbourne Stays...
The difference is not in case numbers; it's in state government policies. New South Wales (Sydney), governed by the conservative Coalition, has relatively laissez-faire...
Long-Delayed Guggenheim Abu Dhabi At Last Has An Opening Date (And It’s Not Soon)
The Frank Gehry-designed museum, one of several starchitect-designed brand-name cultural institutions planned for the Emirati capital's Saadiyat Island, is expected to be October of...
France’s Top Book Prize Has A New Conflict-Of-Interest Scandal
One of the finalists for this year's Prix Goncourt, The Children of Cadillac, was written by François Noudelmann, the romantic partner of one of...
Why Podcasts Are So Popular (As A Medium)
New research finds that of all media, podcast content generates the greatest degree of consumer concentration. - Inside Radio
It’s A Weird Time To Be A Critic
The instinct to abuse critics is justified by the idea that it is “punching up” at elitist gatekeepers. But unlike Siskel and Ebert, modern...
The Next Era: The “Exponential Age”
The Exponential Age is challenging our assumptions about globalization. A car can be designed in Guiyang and assembled in California with remarkable ease. But...
More Governments Are Censoring Online Content
Governments are limiting or banning applications, content and connectivity itself — and Big Tech companies, rich and powerful as they are, can't or won't...
The News Shared On Facebook Gets Smaller And Smaller
The percent that are about news — defined broadly, including sports and entertainment — is now somewhere less than 4%. It’s something of a niche...
Pennsylvania School District Bans Children’s Books On MLK And Rosa Parks
In a clip from a meeting aired by CNN, which reported on student protests of the ban, members referred to the list of reading and...
Pathbreaking TV Writer Irma Kalish Dead At 96
Most female scriptwriters in the 1950s and '60s had to churn out proto-Hallmark-Channel movies, but Kalish thrived in comedy. Her biggest mark was in...
Clearing Up Simplicity: The Fallacies Of Occam’s Razor
Cited widely in science, but often misunderstood, for some it’s invaluable, hinting at profound truths about the nature of knowledge. For others it’s worse...
Someone Thought Putting The Bible, The US Constitution, And Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless The...
"Big-name Christian authors penned a letter blasting it as 'dangerous,' and more than 900 people signed a petition decrying the decision to print it....
Free Artistic Expression In India Is Being Gradually Strangled
Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party, "censorship (is) no longer about nudity, gore, or promiscuity. It (has) firmly set its...
Scientists Have Created The Whitest White Ever
Their original goal was to create a paint that would effectively reflect sunlight away from a building, which required producing an extremely white pigment. -...
Looping — Perhaps Hollywood’s Most Surprising, And Most Secretive, Profession
Loopers are the equivalent of extras: they're voice actors who provide realistic background chatter for just about any setting or subject. And no, you...
Do You Know About #DarkAcademia?
On Instagram, the tag #darkacademia now has over 1 million posts, and Grazia has named the aesthetic as autumn 2021’s biggest trend. The TikTok generation has keenly...
The Royal Ballet’s Most Unlikely Star Says Farewell To The Stage
Edward Watson was a very promising student, but the gangly ginger never fit the handsome-Prince mold. As he retires after 27 years with the...
China Now Has Its Own Version Of The Carbuncle Cup
Each year, an online architecture magazine offers a list of 80-odd edifices from which readers can vote for the ten ugliest buildings in China....
Ethiopian Popular Culture Is Making The Chinese Its Bogeymen
As investment from China flows into Ethiopia, social media and entertainment are voicing worries about inexpensive made-in-China versions of Ethiopian handicrafts, mocking Chinese eating...
Five Small Theaters Sue City Of New York Over Vaccine Requirements
The issue: the venues must require audiences to wear masks and be vaccinated, but similar buildings, or even the same one, are exempt from...
