Yuval Noah Harari: Truth Is Expensive, Information Isn’t Truth
When information is in a complete free market, the vast majority of information becomes fiction, illusion, or lies. This is because there are three...
How Some Books Thrive Without Viral Marketing
Giving away books for free might seem counterproductive, but it’s one of the best ways to get readers invested. Once they finish one book,...
Director of Smithsonian’s African-American Museum Is On Previously Undisclosed Leave
Kevin Young, who succeeded founding director Lonnie Bunch (now secretary of the entire Smithsonian) in 2021, has been on personal leave for an “undetermined...
How Leonard Bernstein Changed The Orchestral Canon
Initially, there was a lot of excitement in the press—the first American at the helm of one of the great orchestras! But the tone...
When To Trust Your Gut
“Trust your gut”, “be yourself” or “less is more” are aphorisms that contain much truth, while also being prone to catastrophic misinterpretation. - The...
City Of San Francisco Withdraws $500K Grant To African-American Shakespeare Co.
“The city (government) has pulled $500,000 of Dream Keeper Initiative funding previously awarded to African-American Shakespeare Company with ‘no explanation,’ according to its founder. Executive...
Organization Behind NaNoWriMo Closes Down
“The nonprofit behind National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, has announced that it is shuttering. The closure follows a period of turbulence which included...
One Of Toronto’s Top Concert Halls To Get Major Renovation
Work on the 998-seat George Weston Recital Hall will begin in the summer of 2026; the project will include upgraded seating, refreshed paintwork, and...
The Gérard Depardieu Trial As Both Tragedy And Farce
“The tragedy came from the women’s testimony — a set decorator who spoke of how Depardieu trapped her between his legs and groped her,...
Sudan’s National Museum Ransacked And Looted By Paramilitaries
“Videos of (the) museum showing empty rooms, piles of rubble and broken artefacts posted on social media after the Sudanese army recaptured the area from the paramilitary Rapid...
Trump Administration’s DOGE Comes At NEH
“On Tuesday morning, managers told staff members that DOGE had recommended reductions in staff of as much as 70 to 80 percent (of approximately...
Actor Val Kilmer Dead From Pneumonia At 65
“(He) experienced the ups and downs of fame more dramatically than most. His break came in 1984’s spy spoof Top Secret! … (and) his...
The Pair Of Episodes That Marked A Turning Point For “This American Life”
Revisiting the long-running series’s biggest misstep: the January 6, 2012, episode, “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory,” and its sequel, “Retraction,” which aired two...
Are Books — Finally — Obsolete?
More and more I have the sense of dealing with a technology that’s finished, that’s out of keeping with the times, by which I...
BMG Music Earned $1 Billion In 2024, Spent $263 Million On Buying Catalogs
BMG generated EUR €963 million (USD $1.04bn) in annual revenues in 2024, up 6.4% YoY or up 8.1% YoY on an organic basis. - Music Business Worldwide
Pianist András Schiff On Cancelling All His U.S. Engagements
“What has been lost is a sense of decency. It’s a new system of values or rather of a lack of values. We no...
The Kennedy Center’s Social Impact Initiatives Aren’t Just DEI, They’re About Figuring Out The...
I’d argue that the reason might have gone beyond a commitment to equity, diversity and social justice. It might have been an investment in...
Hugh Jackman Signs Up For Affordable Theatre
Audible Theater is teaming up with Together, a new accessible-theater initiative led by megastar Hugh Jackman and superproducer Sonia Friedman, for an eight-week series of...
Gigil, Videoke, Alamak: The Latest Additions To The OED
The most recent crop of words added to the Oxford English Dictionary is notable for terms from Southeast Asia: from the Philippines, gigil (that...
Trump Signs Executive Order On Concert Tickets
The order directs the Federal Trade Commission to more rigorously enforce existing law governing the use of bots that help scalpers scoop up hot...
What Would Happen To NPR And PBS If Republicans Cut Their Funding?
NPR can weather the funding cut, its document predicts, thanks in part to aggrieved listeners: Executives predict a sudden boom in donations if Congress...
The Unpredictable Power Balance Between Othello And Iago, And How Actors Have Pulled It...
“Othello is Shakespeare’s only major work in which the hero and antihero are given equal weight. … As the Shakespeare scholar Harold Bloom summed...
The Historic Buildings Lost In The LA Fires
It's been almost two months since the Eaton Fire destroyed thousands of homes in Altadena, including several noted historic and cultural landmarks like this...
UK TV Exec Warns That AI Companies Are Extracting £125bn From Creative Industries
Alex Mahon told MPs that if the government pursues its proposed plan to give AI companies access to creative works unless the copyright holder opts out,...
Small Nebraska Museum Says It Has Discovered Five Edvard Munches
Much like Munch’s iconic painting, this suite of five “never-before-seen” works made around 1893 all depict the main figure on a bridge alongside a...
