What Does A Botany Professor Do After Her Book Becomes A Surprise Smash Hit?
Robin Wall Kimmerer takes her students out on two-week-long foraging field trips, plants trees that will better meet the climate changing nature of her...
The Good Friday Agreement Included Equality Of Expression For All Sides, Including Rap Groups
And that is why “Irish-language rap trio Kneecap have won their case against new Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch after she blocked an arts...
Hollywood’s Addiction To Sequels Is Going To Kill The Future Of Hollywood
In 10 years, they’ll be making sequels to what, exactly? - Variety
Canada’s Largest Publishers Have Had It With OpenAI
And they’re filing a major lawsuit over copyright violations. "The suit was filed by several leading Canadian media companies, including the owners of the National...
How To Win The Best Picture Oscar
If your cast is a big, happy family - or at least looks like on on Instagram - you’ve exponentially increased your chances. -...
Hal Lindsey, Author Of The Late, Great Planet Earth, Has Died At 95
Lindsey was “a onetime Mississippi Delta tugboat captain who became a campus preacher and improbably vaulted to fame and riches by writing that the...
We All Need To Apologize To LMM
Everyone who made fun of Moana - and that’s a lot of us - needs to beg forgiveness. Why? “The music of Moana 2 is the...
Does Music Have A Future In Health Care?
Tech folks would like to think so. "Soon, you'll have the option to subscribe to music on demand where the ‘demand’ comes from your...
What Maggie Nelson Likes About Emma Corrin, And Vice Versa
Corrin: "The vulnerability was always the hook for me.” - The New York Times
How Period Films’ Composers Use Odd Instruments To Recreate Sounds Of Their Times
For instance, for Nickel Boys, "Composers Alex Somers and Scott Alario recorded traditional instruments, children’s choirs and even the sounds of toys, then processed...
Her Name Turned Into ‘Moana’ When She Was Fourteen
Even her teachers called her that instead of her name. But Auli’i Cravalho now says, "I’m looking forward to directing, to producing, to starting...
The Issue For Gen-Z And Reading Isn’t Really Books Or Phones
Instead, it’s time. “Pundits and parents alike have emphasized preprofessional courses and downplayed the importance of humanistic study. ... In this environment, spending hours...
How Do Cities Decide What To Save?
“Landmark laws across the country have come into existence to preserve things we deem culturally significant. But they don’t always protect what we actually...
More Cities Should Have Places Like Dallas’s Chapel Of Thanksgiving
The scroll-shaped structure, designed in 1976 by Philip Johnson and illuminated inside with the ceiling's beautiful spiral of stained-glass windows by artist Gabriel Loire,...
What, Actually, Is Cancel Culture? (And How It Took Over The World)
The gambit of Stanford literature professor Adrian Daub’s clarifying new book, The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global, is the contention that,...
Publishers Freak Out Over Startup’s Plans To Publish With AI
The company is seemingly “just trying to speed up” self-publishing “in a way that won’t work well, and of course, they don’t want to...
What I Learned Setting Up A DIY Record Label
The biggest issue facing the DIY scene is simply getting noticed, such is the competition across all media – for all there is enthusiastic...
Make Thousands In Extra Income By Republishing Public Domain Books! (Not Really.)
"The theory is simple. Countless classic works of literature have fallen out of copyright and into the public domain, granting normal people the right...
Why Seattle Art Museum Guards Are Going On Strike
We plan to go on strike beginning this Friday, November 29, unless SAM’s Board of Trustees changes course and offers a contract that allows...
Will Box Office Success Of “Wicked” Rejuvenate Broadway Musical Movie Adaptations?
Bringing Broadway adaptations to the big screen can be a dicey proposition. For every "Wicked," there is a box-office flop, such as Universal's "Cats."...
Proposed Cuts To Berlin’s Arts Funding Will Have Profound Effect On The City’s Culture
About 450 institutes are reliant at least in part on state subsidies, from theatres and opera houses to nightclubs and galleries. They're attempting to...
Jonathan Franzen Shares His Journal About The Agonizing Process Of Writing “The Corrections”
Adam Moss: "(it) is full of notes-to-self that provide a real-time map of what was going through his mind. … It’s rare for a...
A Breakthrough In How Robots Learn
“This is the year that people really realized that you can build general-purpose robots,” she said. What is striking about these achievements is that...
Why The “Wizard Of Oz” Story Endures
Artists across genres and mediums have, for decades, found great storytelling potential in Baum’s characters and mythology. But the mode that Oz has continued...
Why Choreographer Kyle Abrahams Is Dancing Again Despite His Stage Fright
"Throughout his career, he has struggled with stage fright, he said, especially when dancing in groups. ... But for “Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful,”...
