Five Countries Say They’ll Boycott Eurovision Contest If Israel Is Allowed To Compete
Israel’s recent participation has been a divisive issue in Europe and its broadcasting community ever since Israel began its military campaign in Gaza Strip...
Des Moines Metro Opera Under Fire For Working Conditions
It sounds like boot camp. An 89.5 hour workweek. Back to back 14 hour days. Overtime pay a rarity (and lack thereof legally sanctioned)....
Cleveland’s Ideastream Public Media Gets $1 Million Gift For Dedicated Jazz Studio
“Since its launch in February 2024, (the station’s) JazzNEO (channel) has been operating without a dedicated studio and airing all pre-recorded programming. The new...
YouTube Says It Has Paid $100B To Creators In The Past Four Years
“Twenty years ago, YouTube launched with the idea that everyone should have the opportunity to create and find a global stage. Since then, we’ve...
Is The Literary World Reforming Around Substack?
The digital froth of the 2010s—BuzzFeed, Upworthy, the ceaseless click-baiting and SEO-hunting—could be understood as a Bronze Age, and we are now after the...
Not Just The Humanities: Conspiracy Theorists Are Attacking Physics
In recent years, a group of YouTubers and podcasters have attracted millions of viewers by proclaiming that physics is in crisis. The field, they...
Trump Administration Orders National Park To Remove Historic Photograph Of Enslaved Man’s Scarred Back
“The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, according to four people familiar with...
Traditional Dictionaries Are Dying Even As Interest In Words Soars
Definitions, professional and amateur, are a click away, and most people don’t care or can’t tell whether what pops up in a search is...
Two Blockbuster Collections To Open Sotheby’s New Home
They are "an estimated $400 million trove amassed by Leonard Lauder, chairman emeritus of the Estée Lauder, and an estimated $80 million collection from the Chicago...
Is Living “One Day At A Time” Really A Good Idea?
In some recovery programs, “one day at a time” is a mantra. This is a little like what E. L. Doctorow said about being a novelist:...
How A Small Theater Company In Brooklyn Keeps Going Following Funding Cuts
A reporter crunches some numbers and looks at the basic operation of The Brick, a 54-seat theater in a former auto-repair shop in the...
Robert Redford, 89
“His wavy blond hair and boyish grin made him the most desired of leading men, but he worked hard to transcend his looks —...
National Museum Of Yemen Damaged By Israeli Aerial Bombing
Photos and video show the museum’s courtyard littered with rubble; while doors and windows were blown out, the building is standing. The museum reopened...
For $1 Million, The Atlantic Settles Lawsuit By Writer Of Retracted Story
In 2020, the magazine published a story by freelance journalist Ruth Shalit Barrett about wealthy parents pushing their children into niche sports to gain...
Penn State Will Shut Down NPR/PBS Affiliate WPSU
A committee of Trustees of the university, which owns and operates the station, unanimously rejected a plan to transfer ownership of the station licenses...
The New U.S. Poet Laureate Is Arthur Sze
“The Library (of Congress) announced Monday that the 74-year-old Sze had been appointed to a one-year term, starting this fall. The author of 12...
Layoffs And Cancellations At D.C. PBS Station WETA
“The workforce reduction includes layoffs of 12 active workers and the elimination of nine vacant positions, representing approximately 5% of the employee roster of...
The TIFF People’s Award Has Been Pretty Good At Predicting The Oscar Winners
What changed it all? Chariots of Fire. - CBC
Philadelphia’s Brilliant New Home For Calder
Herzog & de Meuron has designed a deliberately “irrational” exhibition space, set largely below the Parkway and sheathed in reflecting steel, so that the...
A Short History Of Stupidity
The quality of stupidity is just, sort of, there; and there’s lots of it. Could you write a history of happiness, or bad luck, or knees? ...
The Current Dance Funding System Is Broken. What Needs To Replace It?
Universally, there is an urgent call for dance’s back offices to approach funding with the same creativity, vitality, and care that goes into artistic...
These Are Not The First Attacks On Education. But This Time The Attacks Are...
We are again confronting a massive attack on the very foundations of democratic education and, this time around, the stakes feel even higher. In...
How Seattle Theatre Group Became An Entertainment Juggernaut
This year, it will present over 700 shows across its stages, from pop music to Broadway musicals and seemingly everything in between. In recent...
The Temple Of Arvo Pärt
The whole place exudes the ethos of Pärt, whose music demands love and dedication from its interpreters yet almost nothing of its listeners, offering...
How Teacher Evaluations Broke Good Education
Teacher evaluations are a big part of how higher education got to this point. The scores factor into academics’ pay, hiring, and chance to...
