Criticize Artists For Promoting After the LA Fires? I Don’t Think So!
“The Oscars are a big show that will be seen by millions of people and will bring national attention to Los Angeles. That can...
How De-Gendering Language Works
“She’s an actor” simply phases out “actress” and sends it on its way, along with Studebakers, Koogle peanut butter and Red Skelton. It creates...
They’re Already Thinking About An “Emilia Pérez” Broadway Musical
"We would love to put Emilia Pérez on Broadway," said co-composer Clément Ducol. "At the start, (director) Jacques (Audiard) mentioned he was thinking of...
How We Listened In 2024: Increase To Almost 5 Trillion Streams
The global music industry hit 4.8 trillion streams in 2024, a new single-year record, Luminate’s 2024 Year-End Report found. That’s up 14% from 2023, which held the previous record....
The Death Of DEI
For a large swath of the country, the idea of DEI has become a catchall insult. DEI is part bogeyman, part always-there scapegoat for some combination...
The TikTok Ban — End Of An Internet Era
TikTok’s rapidly approaching deadline represents the end of an era in online life and a strange moment for many—even those who don’t consider themselves...
Getty Museums In L.A. Now Seen As “Beacon Of Fire Preparedness”
"The Center, which houses a sprawling collection in a modernist building, is described on the Getty website as a 'marvel of anti-fire engineering.' The...
The Art Of Amazon Reviews
He embraced all the stylistic quirks, choppy sentence fragments and run-ons, either darting from point to point like a distracted squirrel or leaning heavily...
How/Why Netflix Changed How We Watch
Guilds like the WGA and the Screen Actors Guild under-estimated just how quickly Netflix would take over the industry. Suddenly, most of the work...
Sesame Street Is Homeless After 55 Years
These shows didn’t just pioneer ways to teach children their letters and numbers. They created a set of tenets rooted in love – the...
US Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds Law Banning TikTok
"TikTok, which has 170 million monthly American users, had argued the ban tramples on the First Amendment rights of both the app and its...
Bankrupt University Of The Arts Building Is Sold At Auction — To Curtis Institute
The renowned music school outbid Temple University for the former Arts Alliance building, very near Curtis's home on Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, after an...
Countertenor David Daniels Sues U. Michigan For Firing Him For Sexual Misconduct
"Daniels, 58, was hired as a voice professor in 2015 and granted tenure three years later in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance....
Sacramento’s Public Radio Station Sues Its Ex-GM For Theft
"The lawsuit, filed in December, claims that (Jun) Reina used the misappropriated funds for lavish overseas trips, home renovations, his children’s college tuition, and...
Cape Cod Public Radio Station’s Home Is Saved, Though The Station Itself Still Has...
GBH, the Boston public radio/TV franchise that owns Cape Cod station CAI, agreed to sell the historic house where CAI has studios to the...
Wanamaker Organ’s Landlord Promises To Keep It In Place
"Left open are questions of access to and care of the instrument, as well as how often it would be played after the expected...
Actor Joan Plowright, 95
Until late in life, her fame as the wife/widow of Laurence Olivier obscured from the wider public (though not from colleagues) her own extraordinary...
David Lynch, 78
"(His films) bridged the mainstream and avant-garde, exploring the sinister recesses of the human psyche — and the mysteries behind America’s white picket fences...
Google “Cubism” These Days And You’ll Get A Bunch Of AI-Generated Garbage
Same with Bing and DuckDuckGo; the bogus AI images are crowding out Picasso and Braque in the results. The stuff comes from CubismArtwork.com, which...
Bay Area Arts Organizations In Funding Crisis
Similarly in San Francisco, hundreds of music and theater organizations (the latter in major decline recently) are struggling to survive despite the well-established fact...
Rehab For Actors Recovering From Playing Hamlet
It doesn't necessarily seem all that improbable, but no, this isn't really a thing. It is, however, the concept of the play Hamlet Camp,...
Critics Have Always Hated/Loved/Worried-About Newspapers. Let’s Understand The History
The abolition of most forms of censorship, declining paper costs, railway expansion and universal primary education triggered a newspaper boom that saw total daily...
Barnes & Noble’s Great Resurgence
The bookseller expects to open over 60 new bookstores in 2025, including five this month. - Geekwire
The California Roots Of Martha Graham’s Modern Dance Revolution
The metro Pittsburgh-born Graham spent her teenage years in Santa Barbara and saw her first dance performance — featuring her future teacher Ruth St....
Criticism Is So Much More Than Being Critical
Criticism can oppose; it can also cajole, provoke, consider, inform, and suggest. More than being punitive or dismissive, public criticism can provide an opportunity...
