What Does Netflix’s Purchase Of Famous LA Movie Theatres Mean?
Under the deal, the Cinematheque will continue to program autonomously on weekends, while Netflix will use the theater for their premieres and special events...
What Will Happen To The Music I Collected On Spotify?
"I feel uneasy about the hundreds of playlists I’ve taken the time to compile on the company’s platform: 10 or 20 years from now,...
NYC’s Historic Cherry Lane Theatre Bought By Lortel Foundation
The foundation is a few blocks from the Cherry Lane Theater on Christopher Street and has managed the building for the past decade. The...
Bourdain Voice Deepfake Reminds Us Documentaries Aren’t Real Reporting
The deluge of nonfiction filmmaking and its seemingly endless permutations has rendered the term "documentary" almost meaningless. - Washington Post
That Tune You Can’t Get Out Of Your Head? Annoying, Right? But There’s A...
These so-called earworms — gross — are annoying but useful, as new research published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in June helps illuminate...
When Ideas In Accademia Get Out Of The Lab, They Can Be Dangerous
There’s a huge leap in jumping from these general, aggregate findings to believing that such simple ideas can guide the behavior of complex states...
Are Master’s Degrees An Educational Scam?
In some ways, they’re more similar than they might seem. Many of them are one-year certificate programs. We don’t call them that. We call them master’s...
Is Changing The Name Of The Yale Drama School Worth A Big Donation?
To quote Shakespeare, “what’s in a name?” Quite a lot, it turns out, in these days of societal reckoning. - Los Angeles Times
The Anthony Bourdain Voice-Fake: Documentaries Have Been Faking For Some Time Now
A reenactment and a voice fake actually do different versions of the same thing: Both cement a reality in your mind — the image...
Here’s a Counter-Factual: Social Media Is Making Us… Nicer?
In person, we still know how to be classy friends. But class is tricky on social media. No one can be expected to read...
The Emotional Return To Tanglewood
One young musician: "What you want to do is play with people—you don't want to record iPhone videos and upload them to a cloud!...
Adapting Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Into An Action Film Was Quite The...
As anyone who's read the poem in English Lit classes (or for fun?) can imagine, the challenges ran deep. - LitHub
Graham Vick, Opera Director Who Sought Out New Audiences And Formats, Dies Of Covid-19...
Vick, who founded the Birmingham Opera Company, "made exciting and experimental stagings at opera houses across the world." - The Guardian (UK)
Movie Theatre Owners Blame Drop In Black Widow Numbers On Disney Plus
The cinema owners' association claimed that profits from Black Widow were less than expected, even when Disney added in those buying the movie to...
Dance Choreography Can Make Humans More Comfortable With Robots
For instance, "areas of robotics research like social navigation, where robots update their paths to account for nearby humans’ movements, implicitly build upon dance improvisation."...
The Friendliest Artist In America
Pope.L is finally having a moment, "but he does not take it for granted. 'The institution is always about itself,' he says of museums."...
The Hidden History Of Women Heroes Of The Holocaust
Judy Batalion didn't mean to find all of this out, but she stumbled across a book in Yiddish - which she speaks and reads....
It’s A Weird Performance Summer
Do you need a mask? Does the venue require social distancing? What about proof of vaccination? It all depends. - The New York Times
Can We Ever Truly Know Van Gogh?
Thinking of all of the immersive Van Gogh shows, a critic wonders, "Can an artist’s work be reimagined to give an audience in modern...
India’s Beautiful Single-Screen Cinemas Are Dying Out
The multiplex and the pandemic are a powerful one-two punch to the heart of "the talkies," as they're called. - NPR
What’s Holding Back The Vinyl Revival?
Record Store Day 2 was Saturday, but between production issues and the pandemic (and Brexit, for Britain), vinyl isn't doing as well as it...
Mat George, Co-Host Of Popular Podcast ‘She Rates Dogs,’ Killed In A Hit-And-Run At...
Mat George’s "humorous takes often drew widespread attention on Twitter. Last week, he shared a photo of his mother and Snoop Dogg." - The New York Times
It’s Not Easy For ‘Diverse’ Actors To Find Good Agents
"They basically told me they would only sign me if I permanently flat-ironed my hair. ... I was like, ‘I’m Black, I can’t get...
A Tasmanian Writer Wins Australia’s Most Prestigious Literary Prize
For her seventh novel, 74-year-old Amanda Lohrey won the Miles Franklin Literary Award for The Labyrinth. - The Guardian (UK)
Foundations Expand Focus On Long Neglected Disabled Artists
Disability Futures will have at least two more 20-person cohorts. Great, but "the feedback from the first class ... was frank: Do even better...
