Vandals Attack Outdoor Skating Rink At The Kennedy Center
An unidentified person poured a substance, likely some combination of motor oil and antifreeze, on a temporary ice rink built outside the John F....
Has Hyper-specialization Harmed The Humanities?
Hyperspecialization has dominated the academy over the past decades. More and more, professors and outside observers note that academics silo research into increasingly minute...
The Vegas Sphere Generates $1.2 Billion In Income In 2025
The company reported adjusted operating profit of $261.8 million for FY 2025, which was up 138% YoY. - Music Business Worldwide
A Video Game That Lets Players “Repatriate” Art From Western Museums
A new South African video game lets players take back African artefacts held in western museums in a series of heists, amid a growing...
Does Counting The Books You Read Kill The Pleasure?
As reading is increasingly tracked and performed online, there is a growing sense that a solitary pleasure is being reshaped by the logic of...
FCC Pushes TV Programmers To Produce Patriotic Content
Suggestions of pro-America content the department made include running public service announcements, short segments, or full specials specifically promoting civic education, inspiring local stories,...
What Happens When Writing Becomes Easy?
The advent of the chatbot raised an unsettling question: What if writing didn’t have to be hard? What if that noble ordeal was no...
How The Washington Post Missed The Plot On What Readers Want
I don’t believe in this inevitability. As a reader of many distinctive publications, I want to be led by them. What makes them special is where...
Is Streaming The Key For Cable’s Survival?
The gains validate a bold bet by Charter Chief Executive Chris Winfrey: that cable could survive, if no longer thrive, by embracing the apps that had begun...
What Is The Pritzker Prize Going To Do About Tom Pritzker’s Ties To Jeffrey...
Looks like nothing except defend the jury’s independence — and say that “the announcement of the next laureate, which typically occurs in the first...
Disney Told The Creator Of A Fairly Anti-Fascist Series Not To Use The Word...
“You get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could...
At The BAFTAs, A Person In The Audience Yelled The N-Word At Michael B....
“A spokesperson for the BBC attributed the language outbursts to an attendee with Tourette syndrome,” but the BBC apologized to viewers. Social media outrage...
Movie Promotions Have Gotten Completely Out Of Control, But Why?
Think color, branding, social media - and publicists. - El País English
Susan Sheehan, Who Won The Pulitzer Prize For One Of Her Books Chronicling Life...
“Sheehan’s prose was cool and restrained, as if to counterbalance the harrowing and chaotic lives of many of her subjects.” - The New York...
Britain’s National Gallery Deficits Shouldn’t Be Taken Out On The Country’s Public
Or so says The Guardian: “Culture is not a luxury. It is vital to the country’s wellbeing, tourism and international standing.” - The Guardian...
Let’s Talk About A New Play That Deeply Understands A Very American Form Of...
That is, the kind of “theatre” that one might see on C-SPAN — indeed, that some people did, in 1993 (though the 1993 version...
A Tiny Museum In San Francisco That’s More Like A Giant Time Capsule
The museum “covers the entire history of city parks within a 6-by-10-foot room. … Because the museum capacity is five people and the pent-up...
K-Pop Demon Hunters Dominates The Annies
Does any other animated film have a chance at an award this year? The film “won in every category in which it was nominated,”...
The Symphonic Supermarket Aisles Of Sheffield
“I headed to the back of the shop and to a cluster of three freezers. This was it. The sound they were making was...
Trump Demands That Netflix Fire A Board Member After Her Warning That Corporations Shouldn’t...
Susan Rice, former United Nations Ambassador, said on a podcast this week that “corporations, media companies, law firms and universities that ‘take a knee’...
Why Is Nearly Everyone Reading Fantasy These Days?
“The strictly disenchanted world, where nothing exists but physical processes describable without metaphor, and even consciousness is just a material problem waiting to be...
Mexisistentialism Is A New Definition Of An Age-Old Strain Of Mexican Philosophy
Mexistentialism “teaches us that our crises, even if they are framed by the catastrophic, are that only in appearance. … Our crises will not...
Matz Skoog, A Charismatic Swedish Dancer Turned Director Of The English Ballet, Has Died...
Skoog came on board at a rough time, just as 9/11 obliterated any arts attention. “The softly spoken, self-effacing and courteous Skoog set about...
The Regular Schmoes Asked Up On The Ballet Stage
“When the mood and choreography strike, Kansas City Ballet Artistic Director Devon Carney invites a few folks to perform on stage as supernumeraries. That’s...
The Federal Communications Commission In The U.S. Is Going In On The ‘Must Be...
The FCC chair asked broadcasters to sign a pledge, and said they should “inform and entertain audiences by upping programming that ‘celebrates the American...
