Unpublished Jack Kerouac Story Discovered In Mafia Boss’s Papers
“The two-page typewritten manuscript signed by Kerouac in green ink is titled ‘The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing’ and is dated 15 April...
How AI Could Change The Way We Listen To Music
As AI becomes more embedded in music creation, the challenge is balancing its legitimate creative use with the ethical and economic pressures it introduces....
How To Understand What We Used To Call The Idiot Savant
In the past (autism became a diagnostic category only in 1943), the ‘idiot savant’ was a paradox, who confounded categorisation because there was no...
Online Sales Are Changing The Market For Native American Art
An estimated one-third of Navajo Nation members make and sell art for a living, and in Zuni Pueblo, as many as 85 percent of...
Smithsonian Museums Have Now Shut Down
The Smithsonian manages 21 museums around Washington, DC, and in New York, as well as the National Zoo and 14 research facilities. It had previously...
What Happened to Kevin Costner?
The Oscar-winning director and actor with the most iconic American screen presence since Gary Cooper is now brawling with his castmates, getting sued by his crewmembers...
My Letter To AI Tilly On The Meaning Of Being An Actress
Tilly, you never had to be 14, so I’ll tell you what Google can’t. It feels like your soul gets a broken glass enema....
Zadie Smith Ponders The Point Of Essay-Writing
My entire future rested on a few essays written in the school hall under a three-hour time constraint? Really? In the nineties, this was what we called...
Libraries Scramble To Replace Industry’s Biggest Book Distributor
Given the complicated nature of library wholesaling and its existing position in the market, Ingram is well positioned to pick up a sizable chunk...
Scientist Used Sensors To Discover How Pianists’ Touch Changes Timbre
A team led by Dr. Shinichi Furuya at the NeuroPiano Institute and Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. has provided the first scientific evidence showing...
Will AI Create A Permanent Underclass?
The idea of a permanent underclass has recently been embraced in part as an online joke and in part out of a sincere fear...
Warner Bros Discovery Rejects Paramount’s First Offer, But The Talks Are Far From Over
Chat, is this less than ideal? “The merger would lead to the elimination of one of the original Hollywood film studios, and could see...
What’s Next For The Book Industry?
The CEO of Simon & Schuster has some thoughts about what will be going on a decade from now: "I fearlessly predict that the...
Every Portlandian Pays An Arts Tax, And Now There Are Tools To See Where...
The thing is, “music classes require ukuleles, recorders, and sheet music for every student. Visual arts classes require painting supplies –– easels, paper, paint brushes,...
Gamergate’s Ghosts Keep Haunting Gaming, But The Script Is So Boring
"This issue of right-wing men attacking minority creatives and characters in video games has been going on for well over a decade at this...
Actually, English Majors Are Thriving
At least, at the University of Minnesota: “Students come to our courses not only for practical career training but to fulfill their love of...
Eliza, The Best Of Wives, Was A Better Citizen After Hamilton Died
Eliza was worth a lot more than her quick summing up in two minutes at the end of a 165-minute musical. "Eliza’s widowed years...
No Surprise, But Oscar Winning Director Chloe Zhao Says Hollywood Isn’t Great At Nuance
Zhao, at the London premiere of her new Hamnet, said, “In Hollywood, in the film industry, we are not very good at preserving the...
It Was A Nice Dream, To Turn Office Blocks Into Apartments
In Australia, that dream — borne of the pandemic — appears to have died. - The Guardian (UK)
A Small Box Office Weekend, But A Big Secret Screening
“It’s been over a decade since the New York Film Festival has deployed a ‘Secret Screening’ of a major Oscars contender — not since...
How The Book Writer For ‘In The Heights’ Became A Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright,...
Quiara Alegria Hudes: "I think there is more space for our different communities in literature than in theater. It costs less, and you can...
Chicago Arts Leaders Ask The Mayor For An Arts Leader With The ‘Gumption’ To...
“My hope is that the administration continues to recognize how important artists and culture workers are to telling the story of Chicago and...
Bob Dylan’s Art Makes Its Off-Broadway Debut
To get into Masquerade, you must go through Dylan’s door. Masquerade’s creative director, Shai Baitel, says that Phantom of the Opera and Dylan’s work...
Amazon Awkwardly Edits Guns Out Of James Bond Posters For, Uh, James Bond Day
Yes, Bond, the action hero who famously solves problems without guns … er, sorry, that's Doctor Who. "Unsurprisingly fans went into a tizzy about...
Susan Griffin, One Of The Inventors Of Ecofeminism, Has Died At 82
Griffin was “an influential poet, playwright and prolific feminist author who pioneered a unique form of creative nonfiction, blending propulsive, poetic prose with history,...
