Send In The Clowns: This City Reduced Traffic-Related Deaths By Putting Mimes Amidst The...
In the 1990s, Bogotá mayor Antanas Mockus replaced hundreds of corrupt traffic cops with a few dozen mimes. Armed with nothing but signs that...
Is There Any Such Thing As A “Mainstream” Media Now?
What was once the mainstream media—the networks, the newspapers, certain magazines—years ago lost the command that it had of the nation’s attention and with...
Celine Dion Warns Fans About AI-Generated Music That Impersonates Her
“It has come to our attention that unsanctioned, AI-generated music purporting to contain Celine Dion’s musical performances, and name and likeness, is currently circulating...
The Songs Of Canada Versus Trump
The pro-Canada songs currently spreading across social media, including some by Canadian celebrities, reveal a range of reactions to Trump’s tariffs and annexation threats,...
Forget 1215 And “Bad King John” — Here’s The Real Magna Carta
The “Great Charter” signed by John of England and his barons lasted less than three months before they were back at war with each...
Sofia Gubaidulina’s Place in The Musical World
Gubaidulina’s work is not the kind of thing you put on during morning yoga. She makes sounds of struggle and disorder; of awaiting some...
Balanchine Wasn’t Just Important In Dance
Balanchine’s relevance to visual art is not just in direct collaborations and affiliations with artists in his lifetime. His formal gestures and patterns make...
Steven McRae On Coming Back From A Ballet Star’s Worst Nightmare
The Royal Ballet principal was performing at Covent Garden one evening in 2019 when — alone onstage in front of over 2,000 people —...
IATSE Stagehands Protest Show Cancelations At The Kennedy Center
“Behind-the-scenes workers need to feed our families and have neither participated in any decisions relating to booked content, nor have we considered social issues...
JD Vance Booed At Kennedy Center Concert
On Thursday night, the Kennedy Center concert hall was awash in nearly a minute of howling, passionate booing. It started with one or two boos...
OpenAI Urges Trump Whitehouse To Allow Its AI To Train On Copyrighted Work
In its proposal, OpenAI urged the federal government to enact a series of “freedom-focused” policy ideas, including an approach that would no longer compel...
How And Why Did Trauma Narratives Become Ubiquitous?
“You need only look at some of the biggest stories of the past decade to realise popular culture from the late 2010s had a...
The Persian National Epic Becomes An Extravaganza Of Shadow Puppetry
“The show” — Song of the North, adapted from the medieval Persian epic poem Shahnameh — “is mind-dizzyingly complex, involving 483 puppets, 208 animated...
The Market And The Rise Of “Red-Chip” Art
“What is red-chip art? … (It) comes in many guises, but certain visual patterns predominate: super-flat cartoons, a street art/graffiti aesthetic, and multi-colored chrome....
Miami Beach Mayor Threatens To Evict Cinema For Showing Best Documentary Oscar Winner
Mayor Steven Meiner has asked the City Council to terminate the lease of, and end a $40,000 grant to, nonprofit movie theater O Cinema...
South Dakota Lawmakers Reject Gov. Noem’s Bid To Cut State’s Public Radio & TV
The Legislature’s appropriations committee voted unanimously to reject the line in the Governor’s budget cutting $3.61 million — 65% of the network’s total general...
Eugene (Oregon) Symphony Appoints Alex Prior Music Director
A 32-year-old Briton (and a direct descendant of Konstantin Stanislavsky), Prior became assistant conductor of the Seattle Symphony at age 17 and music director...
What’s This About A New Frank Lloyd Wright House?
A house called RiverRock, based on the design plans that were on Wright’s drawing board when he died, was completed early this year in...
John Feinstein, Star Sports Commentator And Bestselling Author, Dead At 69
A full-time sportswriter for The Washington Post for 14 years and steady contributor thereafter, he became known to national audiences through regular appearances on...
Playlists For Your Plants (Yes, Really)
While it’s been clearly demonstrated that plants respond to sound, the evidence about whether they’re affected by music, let alone which genres, is far...
What Cancellation Of Big Bird Tells Us About The State Of Our Public Good
The cancellation of Big Bird and co. would be a loss, but there’s something bigger going on. Sesame Street’s fate is symptomatic of a larger...
At Angkor Wat, A Buddha’s Head Gets Its Torso Back
“Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head...
Italy’s Politicians Fight Over Protecting Heritage
The Italia Nostra heritage group warned that “downgrading interest in landscape” posed a “serious risk to the heritage of the widespread community”. - The...
Understanding Music Editing
Like a page turner for a pianist or a sheet music librarian, music editor is the kind of job that only the idiosyncratic structures of...
Actors Unions Frustrated In AI Negotiations With Video Game Industry
According to SAG-AFTRA, a recent proposal submitted by the major video game makers was filled with “alarming loopholes that will leave our members vulnerable...
