Publisher Sold, Leaving Writers Wondering If They’ll Get Paid
The unique selling point of the publisher, launched in 2011 by QI researchers John Mitchinson and Justin Pollard, and Crap Towns author Dan Kieran,...
The New Yorker Parts Ways With Its Art Critic
Jackson Arn, who joined the magazine in 2023, was accused of making inappropriate overtures to some of the attendees and appeared intoxicated at the...
Inside Trump’s Meetings At The Kennedy Center (Unions? What Are They?)
"Somebody replied that, in a break with the past, the center would be doing some shows not affiliated with Actors’ Equity, the union representing...
Canadian Actor Writes About Her Two-Week Detention At U.S. Border
“I told them I would pay for my flight home and asked when I could leave. No answer. Then they moved me to another...
Why Robert Frost’s Poetry Became Uncool, Especially Among Literary Types
“This has a lot to do with the fetishization of what’s difficult, especially as both poetry and criticism professionalized. … (Ordinary people) understand the...
Come To The Cabaret Workshop
Reporter Elysa Gardner looks in on some master classes designed to hone young performers’ skills in delivering song lyrics, improvisation and scat singing, assembling...
Toronto Gets A New Venue For Theatre And Opera
The companies Tapestry Opera and Nightwood Theatre are the anchor tenants at the Jackman Performance Centre, which includes a flexible performance space as well...
Former FBI Lead Investigator Reveals His Theory About Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist
“Retired agent Geoffrey Kelly, who led the investigation into the (1990) thefts for more than two decades, recently (said) he suspects the initial plan ... was...
Writer-Director Arrested For Cheating Netflix For Show That Never Aired
“A Hollywood writer-director was arrested Tuesday on charges that he swindled $11 million from Netflix for a sci-fi show that never aired, instead steering...
Two Convicted In Theft Of Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet
The satirical artist’s piece, titled America, was stolen in September of 2019 while on display at an exhibition at Blenheim Palace in England. Michael...
There’s A Contemporary Dance Boom In Ireland
Two decades ago, despite the strength of traditional Irish dancing, the Republic had no national ballet or dance company, a handful of independent troupes...
To Use A Movie Intimacy Coordinator (Or Not)
Some professionals say the decision of whether to use an intimacy co-ordinator should rest with more people. - CBC
The UK Is Losing About 40 Libraries A Year
According to those who depend on them, local libraries are far more than a repository of books - they are community focal points and,...
The Pub Has Become One Of Ireland’s Major Cultural Exports
The Irish Pub Company has created over 2,000 pubs in more than 100 countries, in places from Berlin to Bahrain to Nigeria to Novosibirsk...
Graydon Carter And The Golden Age Of Magazines
The truism has it that most great New York magazine editors come from away—from the West or the Midwest or across the Atlantic—and arrive...
We Worry To Much About Misinformation At The Expense Of Focusing On What’s True
There are two errors we must avoid if we want to get closer to the truth: we shouldn’t believe things that are false, and...
“The Acoustics Are Perfect”: Berkeley Gets A New Concert Hall
Hertz Hall, the existing classical venue at UC-Berkeley, seats 600; it wasn’t uncommon for some concerts to attract 100 people or fewer, but there...
Italian Newspaper Publishes First All-AI Generated Edition
The initiative by Il Foglio, a conservative liberal daily, is part of a month-long journalistic experiment aimed at showing the impact AI technology has...
Why Beckett Is Perennially Relevant (But Especially Now)
Beckett is perennially timely because his works concern themselves with those eternal questions that the political emergencies of the day cannot override. Even as...
Fast Company’s List Of 2025’s Most Innovative Architects
Innovation doesn’t have to mean reinventing the wheel: Often it just means making it better, more relevant, and a lot easier to use. -...
Two Major Theater Figures Are Working On A New James Taylor Musical
Tony- and Pulitzer-winning actor-playwright Tracy Letts (August: Osage County and The Minutes) is writing the story and book for the jukebox show, titled Fire...
Trump Tours Kennedy Center, Declares It Substandard, Vows To Fix It
“It’s in tremendous disrepair, as is a lot of the rest of our country, most of it because of bad management,” Trump told reporters...
Edgar Allan Poe’s Life Was A Mess. He Wrote To Compensate
Through all his binges and bankruptcies, through every setback and depressive spell, he kept making art because he knew that’s where the best of...
American Universities Under Threat As Government Uses Funding Threats
“If the federal government can show up and demand a university department be shut down or restructured, then we don’t have universities in this...
The Rise Of Legislation That Could Make Librarians Criminals
A wave of proposed state laws that would hold librarians criminally liable for the presence of any material in their libraries’ collections deemed “obscene”...
