LA’s TV Commercial Business Is Tanking Too
Production in the third quarter of this year was 18 percent lower than last year, and 40 percent lower than the five-year average, according...
Explainer: The Crisis At The BBC That Cost The Director-General His Job And Drew...
“(A journalist) takes a deep-dive into all the facts of this fast-developing story, and why it’s brought the BBC to an inflection point.” -...
The Antique Movie Camera Reviving A Technology
A handful of rare and cranky antiques are powering the ungainly Hollywood resurgence of VistaVision. The format, developed in 1954 by Paramount, was once...
Masterworks Sold Shares In $1 Billion Of Art. Good Investment?
In just eight years, it has become one of the art market’s biggest buyers. Its collection of 500 artworks is now valued at more...
London’s Royal Opera Institutes Dynamic Pricing, And Top Ticket Prices Soar
“(The house) is selling tickets for Siegfried, the third instalment of Richard Wagner’s Ring cycle, for up to £415 ($546). This is the priciest known...
Netflix’s First Venture Into Theme Parks
"This is the first permanent physical manifestation of Netflix for our fans," says the company's chief marking officer, Marian Lee. "They've been inviting us...
Striking British Library Workers Expose Dire Low Pay Consequences
According to their union, they are offered pay deals so dire that many of them work multiple jobs and live in substandard housing. Seventy-one per...
Hollywood Has Slipped Dramatically In Diversifying
To my shock, when I looked at the numbers, I found that not only are things not significantly better, 2025 has been worse than any moment...
Choreography In Space: Exploring The Possibilities
“How? The answer in (one) case was Velcro-covered suits, … just one form of technology that dancers are using to simulate the effects of...
Staffers Call Strike At Britain’s Tate Galleries
Workers at all four galleries — Tate Britain and Tate Modern in London, Tate St. Ives in Cornwall, and Tate Liverpool — represented by the...
Some US Bookstores Have Set Up Food Banks To Help Cut-Off SNAP Recipients
“With the (federal government) shutdown creating anxiety and uncertainty for those who depend on government aid, many independent bookstores took on a new role...
US Museums Have Had A Pretty Rough 2025, Finds Survey
An American Alliance of Museums survey of over 500 museum directors found that one-third of responding museums have lost government grants or contracts under...
Disney’s Standoff With YouTube Could Cost It Quite A Lot
“Disney may lose $30 million in revenue per week as its carriage dispute with YouTube TV has left ABC, ESPN and more of the media giant’s...
Antiquities Stolen From National Museum Of Damascus
Thieves smashed open a door on Sunday night and reportedly took ancient Roman marble statues and gold items. The museum had reopened for good,...
Actress Sally Kirkland, 86
A Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award winner and Oscar nominee for the 1987 film Anna, in which she plays a great Czechoslovak actress...
Musicians Of Venice’s Opera House Lead March Through City To Protest Music Director
“On Monday, musicians, singers and stagehands (from Teatro La Fenice) marched through Venice with workers from other Italian opera houses. … They were joined...
Bart Sher: Theatre As Catalyst For Change
“I think theatre is a catalyst for change,” Sher said. “I don’t think you make theatre pieces to tell people how to change. We...
Inside The Negotiations That Ultimately Kept Broadway Actors From Striking
As the union’s executive director, Al Vincent Jr., tells it, Actors’ Equity was much closer to declaring a work stoppage than we might think....
We Have A Growing AI Slop Problem
Of course, with mass production comes surplus and, then, refuse. We containerize actual trash because otherwise debris gets on everything else and makes everything less...
The Brilliant Critic Who Took On Raising American Literature
Cowley’s power and influence lay in opening, not shutting, the door to a new generation. He came of age at an especially fertile literary...
Controversy Over Appointment Of Palm Springs Art Museum’s New Director
Christine Vendredi may well have proven to be the best candidate, but that the bungled process of simply elevating the chief curator to the...
There Are Two Farmer’s Almanacs In The US. Only One Is Shutting Down.
There are The Farmer’s Almanac and The Old Farmer’s Almanac. Both are over 200 years old and both are annual publications known for their...
AI Chatbots Can Make You Smarter. Or They Can Make You Dumber. Here’s How...
Whether we like it or not, chatbots are here to stay. It’s not necessarily a problem, but it risks becoming one if people use...
How Our Brains Are Wired For Motivation
People with higher levels of dopamine are more likely to choose a harder task with a higher reward than an easier, low-reward task. Low...
Rural Libraries are Struggling For Oh So Many Reasons
Communities are already feeling the impact: Some rural libraries in Florida and Mississippi, for example, have frozen interlibrary loan programs, sharply reducing the range...
