The Internet’s Favorite Librarian Is All-In On The Reading Rainbow Reboot
Mychal Threets “recalls the joy he felt as a young boy watching Burton on the show, taking viewers anywhere from an underwater world...
Ski Ballet, Long Overshadowed By Snowboarding, May Be Making A Comeback
No, seriously: This is snow dancing, with skis. "In 1988 and 1992, ski ballet featured as a demonstration sport in the Winter Olympics. At a...
In Britain, A Plan To Funnel Money To Small Music Venues Is Gaining Steam
But small venues “should not be valued solely for their role in nurturing future superstars. Live music has an intrinsic value and venues can be part...
Why Did Netflix Buy, Brag About, And Then Suddenly Shutter This Gaming Company?
Boss Fight Entertainment was the studio behind the popular Squid Game: Unleashed, but that didn’t save the company. “Netflix’s next big gaming initiative is...
Benita Valente, Bel Canto Soprano Who Brought Joy To The Met For Decades, Has...
Valente “was acclaimed for the faultless technique and intelligence of her performances in operas, recitals and chamber music, but inexplicably failed to gain...
Paris Investigators Prefer To Let The Mystery Be
The mystery of who that dapper person in the now famous photo might be, that is. The jewel theft, they’re working on. - AP
Police Make Arrests In Louvre Heist
“The arrests were a major breakthrough for French investigators, who are racing to find the thieves before the jewelry is dismantled and the rare...
A Few Moments In The New Julia Roberts Movie Have Transformed Actor Lio Mehiel’s...
“Such a step has been years in the making. Mehiel, who lived in Puerto Rico until they were 5 years old, began their creative...
How A Hardline Evangelical Christian Childhood Can Lead To Mainlining Supernatural Horror As An...
“With his insistence on seeing only god’s will in the Catholic vs. Protestant religious wars of his Europe, Luther reminds me of nothing...
Along With The Entire East Wing, The White House’s Movie Theatre Is Now Destroyed
“The 42-seat luxurious movie theater a place where countless presidents, their families or staff have screened any movie of their choosing, whether the...
It’s Getting Harder And Harder To Take OpenAI Seriously
Curing cancer? Hm, not so fast. “Slop, memes, and sex seem like such a comedown from OpenAI’s carefully cultivated reputation as an ambitious but...
The Administration’s Pressure On Museums Will Soon Be An All-Out Assault
Museums are not ready. “Censorship corrodes trust in complex ways. … Solidarity is mostly lacking in the museum world, where the strategy so far...
The Chinese Artist Who Creates AI Slop By Hand
It was amazing at first. But “Mu says he doesn’t have any immediate plans to make another Sora imitation, partially because the video quality...
Guillermo Del Toro Says He’d ‘Rather Die’ Than Use Generative AI
“My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features. But I did want...
Longing To Watch An Art Heist Movie For Louvre Reasons?
Some of the great ones — minus Ocean’s 8, which, hm, wonder why — are on this long list, for your autumn and winter...
Can Broadway Truly Be Captured On Film?
Good question, one that 1948’s biopic about Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart - Words and Music, starring Mickey Rooney as a heterosexual Hart -...
Vampire Epidemiology, Axe Murder, Smoking On the Hindenburg: The Finalists For Oddest Book Title...
“A history of an “unruly appendage”, a look at the sadly neglected post-war Montreal erotic art scene and a scientific tome tackling whether fish...
In Her Day, This Artist’s Paper Cuttings Outsold Rembrandt And She Was Famous All...
Joanna Koerten was regularly visited by nobles and even royalty; a contemporary poet compared her skill with paper to Michelangelo’s with paint; one of...
Study: Podcasting Listenership Is Heavily Dependent On Who The Host Is
Eight in ten listeners say the host is one of the main reasons they listen to their favorite show, and more than half would...
Lessons From A Failed Utopia Near Phoenix
Located about 70 miles north of Phoenix, Arcosanti is the only “arcology” — Paolo Soleri’s portmanteau for compact, self-sufficient communities that fuse architecture and...
Pitchfork Is Experimenting With Reader Ratings
Pitchfork has historically been a one-sided affair. While it ran the occasional reader poll, there was no way for readers to directly voice their opinion on...
A Major New Center For Circus Arts Opens In Melbourne
“Circus Centre Melbourne, originally designed as a home for Circus Oz, has reopened as a home for the broader contemporary circus and physical theatre...
YouTube Paid The Music Industry $8 Billion In The Past Year
“Today’s $8 billion payout is a testament to the fact that the twin engine of ads and subscriptions is firing on all cylinders,” said...
Symbolically, The White House Is…
The White House was never meant to be a palace, nor the Oval Office a throne room. The East Wing was the living artery...
Why It Doesn’t Bother Me That My Students Are Using AI
It seems wrongheaded to feel wistful for a time when students had far less information at their fingertips. And who can blame them for...
