50 Years After It Was Canceled By CBS, “Gunsmoke” Is Still A Hit
“Since wrapping production 50 years ago, … the western drama starring James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon … has never gone away, finding fans on cable...
Should Big Media Companies Really Shape Our Culture Like This?
We need to pay careful attention to the uneven power dynamics between major media companies and then the musicians and music lovers who live...
Ocean Vuong Recounts The Death Of His Mother And Taking In His Young Brother
“It had been more than a decade since we lived together … a straight man with an affinity for collectible sneakers, basketball, sports cars,...
Why Literary Prizes Are A Bad Idea
As I got older and developed a more mature understanding of what literature is, the prizes started to seem increasingly bizarre and then sort...
London’s Most Admired Theatre Producer Says Broadway’s Business Model Is Broken
Sonia Friedman, the producer behind, among many others, last season’s game-changing revival of Merrily We Roll Along, the revival of Sondheim’s Company with a...
The Resurrection of Lapham’s Quarterly Begins
“The literary journal Lapham’s Quarterly is relaunching its website and podcast this summer under the editorial guidance of the writers Donovan Hohn and Francine Prose — a fortuitous...
Mayhem At World Cafe Live In Philadelphia: Staff Walkout, Firings, Picket Lines
“Employees continued to picket on the day after Wednesday night’s walkout when, during a Suzanne Vega concert, they protested ‘an unacceptable level of hostility and mismanagement’...
Daniele Gatti Appointed Music Director Of Florence’s Opera House And Festival
Gatti, currently chief conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden and formerly music director of the Rome Opera and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, is...
Peru Reverses Decision To Shrink Protected Area Around Nazca Lines
“Peru’s culture ministry (is) reinstating with immediate effect the protected area covering 5,600 sq km (2,200 sq miles), that in late May had been...
How Healthy Is New York’s Theatre? Here’s A Look At The Data
“How are New York City’s theatres really doing in the wake of pandemic disruption, economic instability, and social upheaval? (This report) dives deep into this...
Yes, No, And We Give Up: The Verdicts In Harvey Weinstein’s New York Retrial
After what were reported to be extremely contentious deliberations, the jury found the disgraced producer guilty of one count of sexual assault and not...
“The Simpsons” Is A Wholesome, Fundamentally Moral Show. Really.
“What critics of the prime-time cartoon either fundamentally misunderstood (or conveniently overlooked) was its core truths. Bart loved his parents. He went to church...
The Rise Of Anonymous Visual Art Critics
Several platforms are proliferating across cyberspace, seemingly in response to a culture in mainstream art criticism that the authors perceive as risk averse. ‘No...
Why Were The Early Seasons Of “The Simpsons” So Good? The Show Got Something...
And that’s almost no interference from network executives. Fox was the first new broadcast TV network in decades; new execs were intimidated by multiple...
Your Brain’s Two Sides Hear Language Differently
Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological multicore processor. -...
Dayton Dance Company Fights To Keep Mexican Dancer In The US
“In my opinion, they are asking for proof of things that are not tangible. We are really trying to jump through all of the...
Rural Conservatives Used To Back Public Broadcasting. Now, Not So Much
According to a Pew Research Center poll conducted in March, 43 percent of Americans supported continuing federal funding for NPR and PBS, 24 percent backed ending...
Chicago Symphony Cancels Next Season’s MusicNOW Series
“The orchestra has informed subscribers that the contemporary music series will be ‘paused’ for the 2025-26 season. There was no public announcement or acknowledgement....
Getty Images Suit Over AI Copyright Goes To Trial In London This Week
Opening arguments before a judge at the British High Court began on Monday. The trial could last for three weeks followed by a written...
Disney And Universal Sue AI Companies Over Copyright
They are the first major Hollywood studios to file copyright infringement lawsuits, marking a pivotal moment in the ongoing fight by artists, newspapers and...
Perp Walk? Trump’s Wednesday Night Kennedy Center Event
It had the feel of a Hollywood movie premiere. Ahead of showtime, the Kennedy Center was a festival of Trump officials. - Washington Post
Why MAGA, The #Resistance, Trump Himself, And Almost Everybody Else Identifies With “Les Mis”
Venezuelans suffering through the worst of Maduro saw themselves in the show, but so did committed Chavistas. Same for anti-Lukashenko protesters in Belarus, Occupy...
LA Arts Institutions Are Impacted By Militarization Of City’s Downtown
Organizations including Los Angeles Opera, Museum of Contemporary Art, the Broad museum and the Japanese American National Museum are grappling with the snowballing effects...
Apple Music Exec: It’s Crazy That Streaming Services Give Music Away For Free
“I think it’s crazy that 20 years in, we still offer music for free. We’re the only service that doesn’t have a free service....
After Decades Of Trying, Republicans May Finally Get To Kill Funding For Public Broadcasting...
The bill, known on Capitol Hill as a “rescissions” proposal, is the closest NPR and PBS have ever come to a complete loss of...
