Netflix Responds, Sort Of, To The Fallout Over Emilia Perez Star’s Social Media Posts
Chief content officer Bela Bajaria: “I think it’s really a bummer for the 100 incredibly talented people who made an amazing movie. … And...
The Not So Secret Gay History Of Saturday Night Live
“It all started when a drag performer named Connie Chutzpah sent Lorne Michaels a bouquet of flowers.” - Washington Post
Ken Wydro, Who Helped Create An Enduring Staple Of Off-Broadway Theatre, Has Died At...
Wydro was "a playwright, director and producer who with his wife, Vy Higginsen, poured their life savings into the Off Broadway gospel musical Mama,...
What Canada Thinks About The New Kennedy Center Guy
Author Louise Penny of the Inspector Gamache series: “I was supposed to launch The Black Wolf at the Kennedy Center in DC, but in the wake...
The Tiny British Publisher That Took A Big Risk – And That Is Now...
“Tilted Axis has carved out a unique literary niche, and has caught the attention of critics and prize juries, landing major awards and winning...
The Cleveland Museum Will Finally Send A Statue Back To Turkey
After years of lawsuits that included information about just how the statue was trafficked into the United States from a site in Turkey that...
What Fernanda Torres’s Oscar Run Means For Brazil
“In January, Torres made history as the first Brazilian actor to win a Golden Globe. Brazilian fans have been euphoric ever since, exalting every...
Kennicott: Can Trump Destroy The Kennedy Center?
Or will he use it in the usual way that authoritarians have used the arts in the past, as a vehicle for Trumpian...
The Industrial Revolution Completely Changed Valentine’s Day
Turns out that the mass production of cards led, in effect, to the manufacturing of emotions (not only affection) in and for the people...
Anne Midgette: The Kennedy Center Putsch
Even a president as attuned to the details of Kennedy Center programming as Nixon didn’t try to directly take a hand in running the...
The Fiercely Competitive Race To Decipher Cuneiform
"At stake: the immortality conferred on those who make a once-in-a-century intellectual breakthrough. Three men — driven by boundless curiosity, a love of risk,...
How To bridge Humanities And Science? Try Math
We must recognise that the natural and the mental order of things go hand in hand. Neither can be fully understood without the other....
Australia’s Venice Biennale Scandal
Events have moved quickly since Thursday night when Creative Australia sensationally dumped the Sydney-based multimedia artist Khaled Sabsabi as the nation’s representative for the 2026 edition...
This Little Three-Letter Verb May Be The Most Complicated Word In The English Language
The word "run" has 645 definitions just as a verb (plus others as a noun), and it took an Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer nine...
The Trump Threat To Academic Research and Publication
Pressures from the Trump administration threaten an already beleaguered research enterprise that historically has thrived on doing basic research with minimal influence from partisan politics and...
An Important New Definition Of Fair Use In The AI World
In 2020, Thomson Reuters sued Ross Intelligence for copyright infringement, alleging that Ross had scraped Thomson Reuters’ own law database, known as Westlaw, to create its database,...
The House In LA Where Music History Burned
Before it burned, Charlie Springer’s house contained 18,000 vinyl LPs, 12,000 CDs, 10,000 45s, 4,000 cassettes, 600 78s, 150 8-tracks, hundreds of signed musical...
Pianist Maria Tipo Has Died At Age 94
"(She) married technical mastery with charming unpredictability, receiving international acclaim for her sensitive and expressive interpretations of Scarlatti’s sonatas, Bach’s Goldberg Variations and the...
The New Pianos That Play Better Than Anyone
Recent years have seen a surge in options for physical customization of the piano and an enormous leap forward in the merging of acoustic...
A Look At New Visions For The British Museum
The problem is that this was really an ideas competition, with entrants expected to produce not detailed designs but rather a flavour of what...
FCC Commissioner Sics Investigation Of Comcast Over Diversity
The FCC's Brendan Carr this week leaked word to right wing propaganda mill Newsmax that he’s tasked the FCC’s enforcement bureau with launching an investigation into...
How One Regional Theater Company Was Resurrected Ten Years After Its Sudden Demise
Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (CAST) in Charlotte was founded in 1992 and won numerous regional awards; in 2014, it abruptly announced its closure shortly...
Ravinia Festival Announces Multi-Year $75 Million Renovation
"This marks the first such all-encompassing renovation since the iconic park, with its Prairie School architecture and sprawling lawn/picnic areas, opened in 1904 as...
New England Public Media Lays Off 13% Of Its Staff
"(The) public radio and television station based in Springfield, Mass. laid off 13% of its employees on Wednesday. It's the station’s second round of...
Inside The Kennedy Center, Employees Are Scared And Events Are Disappearing From The Schedule
"Several Kennedy Center staffers … described a week of chaos, fear and confusion under the new leadership. Trump’s comments 'collapsed all the nuance of...
