A Place You Probably Don’t Want To Live: Oklahoma To Vet Teachers With America...

Oklahoma’s public education superintendent, Ryan Walters, told USA Today and CNN that the 50-question certification exam – which is reportedly set to roll out in the coming days...

That’s Just Skibidi: Cambridge Dictionary Adds New Words

“Skibidi”, “tradwife” and “delulu” are among the new words to have made this year’s Cambridge Dictionary in a selection that confirms the increasing influence...

Republicans To Ban Rainbow Painted Crosswalks

Across the state and the country, this and thousands of other brightly painted street crossings would be paved over under guidance recently issued by...

What To Do About AI In College? Too Late. Students Have Already Embraced It

Three years later, the AI transformation is just about complete. By the spring of 2024, almost two-thirds of Harvard undergrads were drawing on the tool at...

Skipping The Little Guys: Big Galleries Are Signing Emerging Artists

With high-end sales softening and galleries shuttering, mega-galleries are looking downmarket, encroaching on price points once dominated by younger dealers. The result? A reshuffling...

A New Approach To Disaster Relief Housing In Hawaii

“We hoped to convince them that their paradigm was inhumane and had to change. The housing had to be more robust and more thoughtful...

This Year’s Edinburgh Festival Was Filled With Unease

Many of the finest productions I saw in the Fringe took the position of living memorials to horrors. Sometimes an insistence on accuracy turned...

The United States Can’t Afford To Lose The Institute Of American Indian Arts

"I believe in the power of offering Indigenous people opportunity and space for investigation — both personal and communal. I believe in the power...

Oh, Francis Ford Coppola, You Can’t Lecture People Into Making Your Movie A Cult...

A basic - and weird - misunderstanding of fandom accompanied the director on a six-city tour and lecture series about Megalopolis (still unavailable to...

Bobbi Jene Smith And Or Schreiber, The Couple Who Are The ‘It’ Choreographers Of...

The dances they make “hinge on an evocative, slippery-fish ambiguity. Their dreamlike montages are often turbulent and disorienting, but can also feel unnervingly familiar.”...

John Grisham Adaptations, Ranked

The rate of Grisham adaptations has, of course, slowed down in recent years, which means there’s been time to catch up. - NPR

The Scottish Jazz Pianist Who Thought He Was Getting Punked When Spike Lee Called...

Then there was the email, which Fergus McCreadie also thought was spam. "Eventually I think my manager was like 'maybe we should just check...

After Decades At MoMA, Director Glenn Lowry Is Preparing To Step Down

“Having survived 9-11, the Covid pandemic, the 2008 financial crash and the 2021 protests that led to the resignation of chairman Leon Black over...

Creating KPop Demon Hunters Involved Years, And A Lot Of Acting

“Before KPop Demon Hunters became the megahit we know today, director Maggie Kang spent many years writing and animating her idea. And part of that hard...

Are Behind The Scenes Photos On Movie Sets Ruining Film Magic?

The senior fashion features editor at Grazia claims these photos are popular: “Across social and online, the appetite for it is huge. They lend...

Manhattan’s School Of Visual Arts Quietly Lays Off Staff

Two months after faculty unionized, "the faculty union told Hyperallergic that they believe reductions took place across the school, including undergraduate and graduate programs, the library,...

Novelist Sally Rooney Says She’ll Continue To Support The Group Palestine Action Despite New...

The Irish author writes, “If this makes me a supporter of terror under UK law, so be it.” - BBC

Inside The Luigi Mangione Musical That’s Playing To Sold-Out Crowds In San Francisco

“The San Francisco Chronicle’s review says the production is ‘the most talked-about play in S.F. It’s also terrible.’” But that might be far, far from the point....

Hollywood Will Never, Ever Stop With The Remakes

“Hollywood's affection for recycled and rehashed stories started right alongside Hollywood itself: going as far back as Georges Méliès' L'Arroseur from 1896, a remake of the...

When Puzzling Became An International Community Event

“Slocum first threw this party on April Fools’ Day in 1978; just 10 people gathered in the living room of his Beverly Hills home.”...

One Hot Immersion Summer, Or, How English Speaking Opera Singers Learn German

“I know after this program that when I walk into an audition room with other Americans, or people from different countries than Germany, that...

A Second Master Chef Contestant Has Been Edited Out Of The New Season

Why is the BBC still running this show after “a report which upheld claims against hosts Gregg Wallace and John Torode”? What will be left...

What Texas Needs Is A Huge Paramount Studio To Make More Yellowstone Content

Yep. “The massive production hub will be situated on the Alliance Texas campus, a 27,000-acre development owned by billionaire Ross Perot Jr.’s Hillwood, a...

How Are Native Broadcast Stations Preparing For Existence Without The Corporation For Public Broadcasting?

These stations “are unique in the landscape of American media. While many are part of the NPR and PBS networks, they are mostly staffed...

South Park Is Crude, Cynical, And Childish, So Perhaps It’s Perfect For This Moment

“If you were making a list of the series likeliest to become voices of the Trump 2.0 resistance, South Park would not have been...