UK Media Industry Is Having A Crisis Of New Workers
The reality is that access to these careers often comes down to personal connections and the kinds of skills that are fostered through private...
So, Just What Does The Onion Plan To Do With InfoWars?
"Plans (are) to relaunch it in January as a parody of conspiracy theorists. 'Our goal in a couple of years is for people to...
How People Focus Attention On Art Has Changed. Museums Need To Change Too
You can see how certain architectures for looking were created in the 19th century to produce what gets called “attention”—museums changing their hanging practices....
Festival Attendance Might Be Down, But Glastonbury Sells Out In 30 Minutes
Fans were "randomly assigned a place in a queue" rather than having to refresh the holding page when the tickets went live. - BBC
How Did Lucy Calkins Become The Scapegoat For America’s Reading Crisis?
Calkins’s critics say that her refusal to acknowledge the importance of phonics has tainted not just Units of Study—a reading and writing program that...
This Was To Be The Year Of The Screens Ban In Schools. How’s It...
The fate of phone restrictions will depend primarily on whether or not principals and superintendents can establish clear rules, stand up for teachers who...
Sacramento’s Public Radio And PBS Stations Sue Each Other Over Transmission Tower
"The legal battle arose after Capital Public Radio’s Endowment board, a nonprofit separate from the radio station, donated the tower used by CapRadio to...
Is This America’s Oldest Working Auctioneer? (He’s Certainly One Of The Quirkiest)
Michael R. Corcoran, 96, of Newport, RI, has an inimitable way of "whipping through hundreds of lots while engaging crowds with a blend of...
Is Chicago’s Arts Funding Going Up Or Down?
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2025 budget allocates $73 million for the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (which administers city arts grants) — 11%...
In Portland, Smaller Groups Say The City Is Giving Too Much Of Its Arts...
"Fifteen small arts organizations complained in a Nov. 1 open letter that the city of Portland plans to unfairly decrease their collective share from...
How, And Why, “Rust” Got Finished After Alec Baldwin Accidentally Shot The Cinematographer
It fell to director Joel Souza, new cinematographer Bianca Cline, and a cast and crew of about 250 people to complete Rust. Now they...
Sotheby’s Settles New York Tax Fraud Case For $6.25 Million
"Sotheby's will pay $6.25 million and adopt reforms to settle New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit accusing the famed auction house of fraudulently...
Notre-Dame Restoration Has A $148 Million Surplus (!)
"Restoration chief Philippe Jost says €140 million (around $148 million) still remains from the funds as the cathedral prepares to reopen next month. The...
Paris Opera Ballet Suspends Its Competition For Promotions
"Union representatives of the Paris Opera Ballet are calling for the abolition of the internal promotion competition for dancers. For the first time, the...
How The Ivy League Broke American Culture
If you control the choke points of social mobility, then you control the nation’s culture. And if you change the criteria for admission at...
Timothy West, Icon Of British Stage And Television, Is Dead At 90
"(He) brought a commanding presence to historical figures like Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and King Edward VII, and to notables of classic theater like...
Who Wins When A Mega-Event Comes To Town?
Projected economic gains from hosting such events can appear impressive on paper, but questions remain about who ultimately benefits. Several reports in support of...
A Revered Master Of Hula Wins $450K Gish Prize
Vicky Holt Takamine, who has spent decades mastering and teaching hula and working to preserve native Hawaiian culture, has been awarded the 31st annual...
Forty Years Ago The Celebrity-Fueled Band-Aid Changed Charity Fundraising Forever
Afterwards, fundraising became much more of a spectacle. Donors were re-imagined and empowered as “saviours”. Celebrities began to view endorsement of charities as a...
Is The 20th Century Novel Its Own Genre?
Everyone seemed to know which books the term picked out, what the generic bones of the novel were, and why novels mattered. People talked...
Authenticity Is Not A Feeling. It’s A State Of Being
Authenticity is not a feeling, but an active way of being defined by conscious attention to the fit between who we are and the...
How Roger Ailes Commandeered A Save-The-Earth Hippie Musical And Inadvertently Birthed A Pop Juggernaut
Yes, the future chief of Fox News, fresh off getting Nixon re-elected, took control of a California show called Mother Earth, revamped it (badly)...
The Tricky Negotiations Of Dark Comedy
Satire is just dark comedy’s alibi, a way for critics to render their attraction to the genre compatible with morality and self-respect. - The Point
We Assume That There’s An Order To “Laws Of Nature.” But…
In short, we assume that, thanks to science, there is a recipe of sorts for how the laws of nature work. - Aeon
Pompeii, Overrun By Tourists, Introduces New Limits
The site welcomed a record-breaking four million tourists this summer alone, and up to 30,000 per day during the peak summer season. Records were...
