Australia’s Leading Dictionary Declares “Enshittification” 2024’s Word Of The Year
Macquarie Dictionary defines the word as "the gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service...
Dictionary.com’s 2024 Word of The Year Is “Demure” (?)
The word saw an enormous spike in searches on the site in August, thanks to a TikTok video by a creator named Jools Lebron...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants To Go After NPR, And She Might Just Get The...
The Georgia Congresswoman has been tapped by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a new House subcommittee working with the pair's not-yet-created Department...
Janet Suzman On Returning Home To Direct “Otello” In Apartheid South Africa
"It was 1987, three years before Nelson Mandela walked free. ... We saw apartheid lasting till the crack of doom. It seemed impregnable. The...
Breyten Breytenbach, Author And Activist Against Apartheid, Is Dead At 85
"(He) was a celebrated wordsmith, a leading voice in literature in Afrikaans — an offshoot of Dutch that was developed by white settlers (in...
Former Shen Yun Dancer Sues Company, Alleging Abuse Of Young Performers
"The lawsuit brought by Chang Chun-Ko in White Plains federal court sought unspecified damages on behalf of Chang and other alleged victims of Shen...
Cincinnati Symphony CEO Announces Retirement
"After leading the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for seven years, CSO President and CEO Jonathan Martin has announced that he will retire on Feb. 16....
Comcast Unloading Its Cable Channels Signals A Major Shift In The TV Business
“This is a very clear, direct statement by Comcast” that “they are exiting the cable network business. This is them saying ‘We don’t want...
Spotify Says Music Created With AI Is Welcome
“We’re a tool for creators, and if creators want to use AI to enhance their music, as long as we follow the legislation and...
How The Internet Archive’s Fair Use Argument Lost At The Court
Copyright law is a jagged rock on which many seemingly promising ideas have been wrecked. In this particular case, the perilous legal provision turned...
Tracing The Lives Of The 20th Century American Novel
Taking Alex Ross’ 2007 book “The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century” as a model, Frank’s book makes the case for what,...
The Circus That Bought An Old West Town In The Desert
Spiegelworld, an entertainment and circus company based in Las Vegas, bought the entire town in 2022 for $2.5m. This isolated plot of land, roughly an hour’s...
Study: UK Artists Earn Average Of £12,500 Per Year
Visual artists in the UK take home a median annual salary of only £12,500 a year, a 40% decrease since 2010, a new survey commissioned by...
Outside Some High-Profile Sales (Banana Anyone?) Art Auction Market Is Down 40 Percent This...
The auction market "continues to sag behind its 2022 sales records, when a pent-up supply of masterpieces during the pandemic pushed the fall sales...
New Book Publisher Says It Will Publish 8000 Books Next Year Using AI
Spines, founded in 2021 but which published its first titles this year, is a startup technology business which—for a fee—is offering the use of...
Valencia’s Artists And Cultural Institutions Dig Out After Floods
In Spain, regional governments are responsible for disaster management, including heritage protection. The co-operation between the central government and Valencia’s to respond to the...
Writing A Recipe Versus Writing Fiction
Michèle Roberts, author of French Cooking for One, says, “Writing a recipe is very close to writing a poem, which is about choosing words...
A Graphic Novel About Elon Musk Is Having A Very Hard Time Finding A...
France? Sure, France published the book. But, the book’s author says, “I’m told that there was interest from various international publishers at the recent...
The Google Empire Is Under Assault From All Sides
"For many years, Google’s sprawling empire has faced little legal scrutiny, allowing the company to freely build up its search engine, browser, operating systems,...
The Blue Man Group Is Leaving New York, And Chicago Too
It’s been more than three decades and more than 17,000 performances Off-Broadway. But apparently, it’s time to head to Florida. - The New York...
Why Are Adults Returning To Ballet?
“I’d always been curious about ballet,” says one woman who started taking classes “after a major life shift.” She’s far from alone. - Los...
A Real-World Lesson From This Season Of Yellowstone
Never mess with a showrunner who can destroy your character and your legacy. - Variety
Eileen Diss, Set Designer Who Collaborated With Pinter And Won Six BAFTAs, Has Died...
Aside from the many, many collaborations with playwright Pinter, “her influence on BBC design work, ‘a slightly crazy mix of boarding-school perfectionism and free-spirited...
Evaluating Wunderkind Conductor Klaus Makela
“It is safe to say that no conductor in modern history has been entrusted with so much at such a young age. Does he...
Why This Weekend’s Two Blockbusters Arrived At A Perfect Time
Both movies tell similar stories. And both arrived on the same day, "at a moment when stories of crumbling empires plundered by deceitful despots...
