Massachusetts Is One Of The Most Art-Vibrant States: Study
"A new study finds that Massachusetts stands out as a national leader in arts vibrancy, with every region — from the Berkshires to Cape...
True Cost Of Video Game Piracy: About 20 Percent Of Revenues
While the true effect of piracy on sales revenue is likely somewhere between those two extremes, piracy's precise financial impact on a game has...
Historic Bay Area Record Store Faced With Paying Millions To Stay In Business
Chris Strachwitz — who purchased the building in 1976 with money earned from the publishing royalties on Country Joe & the Fish’s “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die” — died in...
Wikipedia Declares War On Pink Slime AI
The group is clear that they don't wish to ban responsible AI use outright, but instead seek to eradicate instances of badly-sourced, hallucination-filled, or otherwise unhelpful AI content...
Beloved Classical Record Producer Adam Abeshouse Dead At 63
"Over a career that lasted more than 30 years, Abeshouse made hundreds of records with some of classical music’s biggest stars," many of whom...
Nobel Literature Win Demonstrates Importance Of Small Presses
South Korean writer Han Kang's win as the 2024 Nobel Literature laureate is a triumph not only for Korean literature but also a reminder...
Of The Three Kinds Of Luck, This Is Most Consequential
Perhaps the most important is “constitutive luck”, which covers all the fortunate or unfortunate circumstances of your very existence; the period of history in...
Writers Guild Issues “Do Not Work” Order Against Millennium Pictures
"The Writers Guild of America West has ordered its members to cease working with The Expendables producer Millennium Pictures, citing that the company is...
Meet Parris Goebel, The Popular Music Industry’s New Favorite Choreographer
"There’s a raw, instinctive quality to Goebel’s routines: The dancers look as if they aren’t just dancing but are following an elemental urge. ...
Who Uses Public Libraries In The US? A Look At Statistics
"One thing that doesn’t seem to drive most people to libraries? Financial hardship. In fact, the higher your income, the more regularly you avail...
Fleetwood Mac’s Sound Engineer Sues “Stereophonic” Playwright David Adjmi For Plagiarism
"The complaint alleges that Stereophonic is an 'unauthorized adaptation' of Kenneth Caillat’s 2012 memoir, Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac...
Cal Shakes Gives Up Its Struggle And Will Shut Down
One of the largest nonprofit theaters in the Bay Area, the California Shakespeare Theater for 50 years offered high-quality outdoor productions and theater education...
Film And TV Production In L.A. Dropped By One-Fifth Last Year
"Los Angeles film and TV production fell 19.7% to just 183 projects in 2023, according to an updated three-year analysis of scripted content by...
Joshua Bell Will Be New Jersey Symphony’s Principal Guest Conductor
The 56-year-old is best known for his decades-long career as a solo violinist, but he has been conducting for years and has been music...
How The Tampa Museum Prepared For A Hurricane
“Our facility has been designed to withstand a direct hit from a category three on the second floor, we just completed a 25,000 square-foot renovation,...
The Majorette Dancing Of HBCUs Is Going Mainstream
"At historically Black colleges and universities in the American South, the real stars of any football game are the majorettes. Their signature dance style...
The Internet Archive Has Been Hacked, Taken Down
An illicit JavaScript pop-up on the Internet Archive proclaimed on Wednesday afternoon that the site had suffered a major data breach. Hours later, the...
Who Invented The Marvel Multiverse? Look Back To Balzac
I believe the first person to master the fictional multiverse was the 19th-century French novelist, Honoré de Balzac, in his monumental work La Comédie Humaine (The...
Cleanup On Aisle 3! DVD-Rental Company Goes Bankrupt, Strands Its Retail Boxes Across America
Redbox’s parent filed for bankruptcy in the summer, saying it lacked the cash to buy the rights to many new releases, and the kiosk...
Jamaican Diaspora Is Reclaiming Patwa (Patois)
The immigrants to Britain and North America who speak the island's creolized language have usually discouraged their children and grandchildren from using it, believing...
Monet Pastel Stolen By Nazis Returned To Family Generations Later
Adalbert Parlagi and his son Franz kept meticulous ownership and search records. After Franz’s death in 2012, Françoise Parlagi stumbled upon her father’s cache...
The One Media Figure Everyone Trusts Is The Weatherman
Especially Denis Phillips in Tampa, where — in a state where climate denialism is spreading, encouraged by the Governor and his party — for...
Manhattan’s Trinity Church Bells Host Musicians In Ringing Contest
Bands had traveled as far as hundreds of miles to climb into the landmark Trinity Church tower and strike eight bells in a complex,...
New Toronto Opera Festival
Opera 5’s Toronto Opera Festival is Toronto’s first-ever festival to combine opera and musical theatre in a celebration of Canadian creators and performers. - Ludwig...
Using Mali’s Traditional Theater As Psychiatric Treatment
Koteba, a traditional form of theater by Mali’s largest ethnic group, the Bambara, mixes acting, singing and dancing to work through villagers' problems and...
