When Did America’s First Black Theater Open? Exactly 200 Years Ago
"For the price of 25 cents — or, for a nicer seat, a hefty 50 cents — the African Theater" (which opened on Sept....
Inside The New Academy Movie Museum
While the May Co. building will be celebrated as a fine work of adaptive reuse, what will ultimately define the Academy Museum is its...
Saadi Yacef, The Man Who Started “The Battle Of Algiers”, Dead At 93
He didn't start the battle itself, but he was the top military man in Algeria's war of independence. When that was won, the new...
New Movie Academy Museum Succeeds At Celebrating Movies The Oscars Don’t
Perhaps the most notable alcoves of the Academy Museum are those where it resists the obvious, or at least takes a break from celebrating...
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet May Be Gone, But Its Successor Is Now Taking The...
The former company shut down in March after 25 years, but five of its dancers, with one colleague and choreographer Ben Needham-Wood, have formed...
Disney CEO: World Is Changing For Talent Contracts
The problem, Bob Chapek said, is that the company has found itself grappling with talent contracts that were struck three or four years ago...
Vantablack, The World’s Blackest Black? Hollywood’s Going To Be All Over It (And...
Yes, Anish Kapoor purchased exclusive rights to the color for visual art, but the entertainment world sees numerous uses for it and has been...
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...
