Walking Around The Bronx With Ian Frazier
Dan Kois writes that their excursion showed him just why Frazier may be, in Kois's words, "the Greatest Nonfiction Writer in America." - Slate...
What The Grooves Of A Vinyl Record Look Like At 1000x Magnification
Hereβs a photograph of the record grooves captured by Supranowitz at 500x magnification. Those dark chunks you see are dust particles. - Hasan Jasim
How To Sing Infanticide: Karita Mattila On Portraying JanΓ‘Δek’s Villainesses
"The bottom line ... is to remember that she, (and) everybody else in JanΓ‘Δekβs operas, are actually human beings. There arenβt any heroes, there...
Scottish Arts Organizations Protest Deep Funding Cuts
Many of Scotlandβs best known arts organisations, including the Edinburgh fringe and national jazz orchestra, are in uproar over plans for deep cuts in...
A Breakdown Of All The Upheaval At Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Here's what was and wasn't in the video that DBDT bosses claim is the reason they fired all the company's dancers, how the sackings...
What Edgar Bronfman’s Offer For Paramount Would Give Shareholders That The Skydance Bid Doesn’t
The beverage-heir-turned-entertainment-mogul's purchase offer ($4.3 billion, since raised to $6 billion) is lower than Skydance's $8 billion deal, but Bronfman says his plan to...
Edgar Bronfman Raises His Bid For Paramount Global To $6 Billion
"The latest twist in the chaotic auction came late Wednesday as Paramount's independent board members were mulling whether to keep the door open for...
Turmoil At Spoleto Festival USA: Exodus Of Board Members And Major Staff Turnover
"Since (CEO Mena Mark) Hanna took over, nearly all of the nonprofitβs established artistic and business leaders have been replaced. And in recent months...
Soaring Ticket Prices At Bolshoi Theater Leave Muscovites Furious
The opera and ballet mecca has seen two big price increases this year alone; admission now costs well over double what it did in...
New Jersey Symphony To Move To New Concert Hall And HQ In Jersey City
The orchestra will have a venue with a 550-seat auditorium, spaces for education and community programs, and 8,000 square feet of office space β...
Studio Trailer For Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” Is Withdrawn Because It Used Fake Quotes...
Lionsgate's trailer featured clips from The Godfather and Apocalypse Now along with unflattering quotes about those movies from famous critics β the idea being...
Anatomy Of An Artworld Fraud
Describing a particularly vertiginous exchange in which βsomewhere between $125k and $175k is created out of thin air, a few phone calls and an...
When Is It Okay To Quit Reading A Book?
The debate is much older than the internet, but in online reading communities such as Goodreads, or on the literary sides of Instagram or...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Epically Bad Statue Of His Wife
The sculpture byΒ Daniel Arsham, a brand-friendly New York-based artist with his own fashion line, is really bad β but itβs interestingly bad. When you...
Ian McKellen Says His Fat Suit Saved Him From Injury During Recent Stage Fall
"It was in the battle scene. My foot got caught in a chair, and trying to shake it off I started to slide on...
Authors Sue Anthropic AI Over Copyright
βAnthropic has enjoyed enormous financial gain from its exploitation of copyrighted material,β the complaint states, noting that Anthropic projects it will generate more than...
Publisher Is Selling George Orwell Papers, Breaking Up Valuable Collection
The treasure trove that is the extensive archive of correspondence and contracts amassed by Orwellβs original publisher, Victor Gollancz, could be scattered to the...
Judge Rejects Richmond Ballet’s Motion To Dismiss $11.5 Million Lawsuit By Two Former Dancers
"The lawsuits, which seek a total of $23 million in damages, claim the institutionβs environment led the former dancers to develop eating disorders and...
Judge Blocks Major New Sports Streaming Venture
ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery said they would appeal the ruling. - AP
The Real Spawn of The “Alien” Franchise Is Successful Directors
"The 1979 creature feature β¦ begot not only the unlikeliest and most malleable of franchises but also an astonishing array of cinematic careers β...
Too Many New Plays, Too Few Producers
The ratio of independent producers to new plays being written, and people wanting to make them, is completely out of kilter. And as subsidies...
Geffen Playhouse Expands Its Audience To Include Prisoners And Their Families
"The first thing we do is make sure that they can see plays that reflect their lives," says artistic director (and Oscar winner for...
Seattle Exhibit On Confronting Hate Spawns More Of It
βIn an exhibit that was supposed to be about coming together to confront hate, hate has won. And, our community feels more alone as...
What Have We Done To Beethoven’s Ninth, And What Has It Done To Us?
The symphony β and not only the "Ode to Joy" β has been used for everything from Nazi propaganda to the fall of the...
State Designates “Nutcracker” As “Living Historic Landmark”
The show is now officially known as a Living Historic Landmark by the state of Utah, the studio announced Monday. This designation is the...
