Trial For Knife Attack On Salman Rushdie Begins This Week
Hadi Matar faces attempted murder charges for repeatedly stabbing the author as he was onstage, about to give a public lecture, at the Chautauqua...
Filmmaker Convicted Of Sexual Assault In Major French #MeToo Trial
Christophe Ruggia was found guilty of sexually assaulting actress Adèle Haenel, starting when she was the 12-year-old lead in his film The Devils. -...
Joe Biden Signs On With CAA Talent Agency
While a CAA client from 2017 to 2020, President Biden published his #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, “Promise Me, Dad,” launched the 42-date...
The Grammys Used The LA Fires As Prop Rather Than Honoring The Victims
The Grammys’ handling of the city’s ongoing trauma felt more performative than profound: The fires became a prop and backdrop to the night’s honors,...
A Dance Tour, A Topic Trump Doesn’t Like, And Suddenly The Funding…
If climate change is an integral part of your work, how do you write a proposal to an administration that is actively not wanting...
Trump’s New FCC Chief To Investigate NPR, PBS Underwriting
“In particular, it is possible that NPR and PBS member stations are broadcasting underwriting announcements that cross the line into prohibited commercial advertisements.” -...
US Copyright Says Its 1965 Law Anticipated (And Settled) AI Issues
The Copyright Office insisted that the AI copyright debate was settled in 1965 after commercial computer technology started advancing quickly and "difficult questions of...
As Emilia Perez’s Oscar Campaign Implodes, The Nominees Could Be So Much Better
“Outside of Dune: Part Two's occasional experimentation, there's not much you could point to as groundbreaking. There is Nickel Boys and The Brutalist: your-mileage-may-vary sociopolitical commentaries that, at...
How Portland’s Capella Romana Survived This Administration’s First Attempt To Shut Down The Arts
As Capella Romana was planning concerts in Portland and Seattle, their NEA grant funding was suddenly frozen. Donations have poured in, but the concert,...
The Loss Of Music In The Los Angeles Fires
A truly sickening number of studios, equipment, instruments, and reliquaries of precious artifacts, mementos, and material memories from so many lifetimes in music are...
Study: Teens Are Increasingly Being Misled By Online Misinformation
About 35% reported being deceived by fake content online. However, a larger 41% reported they had encountered content that was real yet misleading and...
The Practice Of Architecture Is About To Become Unrecognizable
With the rise of technology there are radical changes headed our way and the architecture/design industry as we know it (and have known it...
The Orchestra Of St. Luke’s @50: What Makes It Different
Without the rigid week-after-week subscription structure of the Philharmonic and other major orchestras, St. Luke’s has the versatility to take on unusual ideas. -...
How Our Attention Is Being Exploited (And Mined For Riches)
Something fundamental to us, as humans, is being exploited for inhuman ends. We are primed to seek out new information; yet our relentless curiosity...
As The Film Festival Ends, Here Are The Best Movies Of Sundance
In its second to last year in Park City, Utah, “it was hard to escape the specter of those difficult times,” including - of...
Two Of The Stars Of Emilia Perez Fight Back
The “French musical about a Mexican drug trafficker who transitions and leaves behind a life of violence has generated a wave of controversy,” but...
Artist Alonso Davis, Champion Of Black American Art, Has Died At 82
Davis and his brother Dale opened the first Black-owned gallery in Los Angeles, “showing and selling works from Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden, Betye Saar,...
Ballet Costumes, But Make Them Modern Fashion
“This one is a particularly huge, ambitious design—there’s probably close to 50 costumes in this ballet, and it’s a one-act ballet.” - GQ (MSN)
That Tough Move From Short Stories To Novels
It hasn’t been so hard for Irish writer Colin Barrett. “It was very rewarding in the end. And, immediately, another idea that definitely is...
Alicia Keys Gets More Grammys, But This Time One In Theatre
“Hell’s Kitchen, a coming-of-age show inspired by the adolescent experiences of Alicia Keys and fueled by her music, won a Grammy Award on Sunday for best...
The Use Of Fandom Tactics To Smear Blake Lively May Be The Future Of...
“People can manipulate what we see on social media, and ... this case will only make it easier for publicists to monopolize fandom tactics...
Why The Architecture World Hates The Brutalist
“There is nothing more irritating to enthusiasts than when the mainstream tries to portray their niche world and gets it wrong. And The Brutalist...
One Reporter’s After Hours At The Pompidou
Living the dream: A head security officer, “who is the only woman to have been appointed to this high-level position at the Centre Pompidou...
Millicent Dillon, Who Chronicled The Writers Jane And Paul Bowles, Has Died At 99
“Dillon won the coveted O. Henry Award five times for her stories, but she devoted most of her writing career to the Bowleses —...
Nicolas Cage, Like Many Actors, Isn’t Into Artificial Intelligence
After winning an award, Cage said, “I am a big believer in not letting robots dream for us. Robots cannot reflect the human condition...
