Nearly Nine Thousand Institutions Of Higher Learning Had Their Grades And Assignments Held Hostage...
This seems fine: “The message from attackers ‘urged schools included on the affected list to consult with a cyber advisory firm and contact the...
Why The Lost Boys Epitomize The 1980s So Alarmingly Well
And maybe, just maybe, why the movie is back as a Broadway show now. - The New York Times
Some Folks Really Could Not Deal With Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Show
And their reactions (or some astroturfing, perhaps) had them calling the FCC to complain. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
Opposition Is Mounting To The Paramount-WB Merger
Will it - can it? - make a difference? - Variety
This Bookstore Has Wheels, And More Than One Hundred Thousand Miles
“While there are library bookmobiles and other bookstores housed in trucks, … Collins believes hers is the rare traveling bookstore. She wishes there were...
The All-Seeing Eyes In Our Pockets
“Mixed in the flour that bakes digital technology sit two original sins pervading most gadgets, apps and platforms alike: surveillance and prediction; more specifically,...
There Are An Awful Lot Of Celebs On Broadway Right Now
Too many? Also, is it Bad For Theatre to have celebs there? - CBC
SoundCloud Isn’t Quite Dead, But It Won’t Produce The Next Billie Eilish
So what’s next? Eilish says she has no idea. "Ten years ago artists could build followings, like Eilish did, through livestreams, Instagram posts, and...
AJ Chronicles: The Venice Biennale Blows Up — Some Takeaways
Culture awards of all kinds have been steadily losing their currency over the past decade. So what's going on?
David Attenborough, Everyone’s Favorite Nature TV Host, Is Now 100
“(He's) the man who has brought frolicking gorillas, breaching whales and tiny poisonous frogs into living rooms around the world for more than 70...
America’s First Baroque Dance Company Is Now 50
“While early music enjoyed a strong following (since) the 1970s, historical dance needed help catching up — and the New York Baroque Dance Co.,...
Claim: Figuring Out Consciousness Isn’t Difficult
Amid the current cultural backlash against progressive ideas, today’s debate on consciousness reflects our human fears of belonging to the same family as inanimate...
How Gawker Reshaped Our Media Landscape
Gawker, which shut down 10 years ago this August, was guilty of lapses in judgment — former staffers interviewed for this story admit as...
Vice News Is Coming Back (Though Not Quite Like It Was)
“The hip current events platform targeted at Millennials, which sought to be ‘The Economist for young people’ during the decade (2014-2023), is now being resuscitated by...
Warner Bros. Posts $2.9B Loss In First Quarter
The New York-based media company released its first-quarter earnings report Wednesday, which included a $2.9-billion loss. That amount includes $1.3 billion in restructuring expenses,...
Portland, OR Has An Arts Tax. Now It’s Time To Reform It
“Without this much needed arts tax reform, including indexing it to inflation, we risk losing the very institutions that make Portland vibrant, and we...
How Trump Took Over The NEH
A little over a year later, after the Department of Government Efficiency eliminated more than half of the NEH staff and tried to terminate 97 percent of...
How Our Machines Are Getting In The Way Of Art
From the original, nineteenth-century form popularized by Balzac, Zola, and Stendhal to the “lyrical” variant of today, the verisimilitude that realism pursues—not just lifelikeness,...
Hungary: Will Péter Magyar Purge The Corrupted State Media Viktor Orbán Left Behind?
“Since taking power in 2010, Orbán and his Fidesz party reshaped the country’s media to promote themselves and demonise their opponents, sending press freedom rankings plunging and leaving...
Time For Ballet To Go Big Again?
His way of turning chaos into clockwork, of shifting the act of watching ballet to an out-of-body experience, might do a number on a...
Is Substack The New Book Tour?
Some experts say Substack’s rise fits into a longer arc in publishing, one shaped by the early wave of self-publishing tools like Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing...
Report: Twice As Many Books Banned This Year From Libraries And Classrooms
PEN America’s report released Thursday called “Facts & Fiction: Stories Stripped Away by Book Bans” found that 3,743 unique titles were removed from school libraries and...
U.S. Book-Banners Step Up Attacks On Nonfiction: Study
“PEN America analysed the 3,743 unique titles removed from school libraries and classrooms in the (2024-25) July to June period and found that over...
Judge Rules DOGE’s Cancellation Of NEH Grants Was Unconstitutional
“The Trump administration’s cancellation of more than $100 million in humanities grants to scholars, writers, research groups and other organizations was unconstitutional, and the Department of...
More Mayhem At Venice Biennale: Artist Strike Closes Several Pavilions
“The Biennale was disrupted on Friday morning as some of the major artists at this year’s event shuttered their exhibitions in protest over Israel’s...
