So, Are We Living In The West Wing Or Veep?
TV show memes lit up Instagram, texts, and group chats when President Biden stepped down. “One thing someone on text thread said is...
Counting Down To James Baldwin’s 100th Birthday
At Baldwin & Co in New Orleans, the founder believes "his independent bookstore sells more books by Baldwin than any other, anywhere. ‘They're our...
What It Was Like Making A Documentary Of The Taliban Re-Taking Afghanistan
“It’s hard not to wonder – as a viewer – why the Taliban’s top brass agreed to let Nash’at shoot a fly-on-the-wall documentary of...
On Reality Love Shows, The Setting Is The Main Character
While tropical island resorts are sick of the all-too-common narrative, the camera folks love the golden hour in paradise. - The New York Times
Why Local Indie Bookstores Might Never Have Hillbilly Elegy In Stock
And it's not because indie bookstores hate Republicans. - LitHub
Celine Dion, Who Quit Performing Due To A Rare Autoimmune Disease, ‘Trained Like An...
In April, Dion said, "I have two choices. Either I train like an athlete and work super hard, or I switch off and it’s...
After Decades Of Pleas And Laws And Lawsuits, The Museum Of Natural History Says...
The museum “said it was making progress on returning the human remains of nearly 2,200 Native Americans and thousands of tribal funerary objects, which...
A Dublin Wax Museum Is Rebooting Its Newly Unveiled Sinead O’Connor Figure
Just before the anniversary of the Irish singer’s death, the museum revealed the figure to a swift and furious reception. O’Connor’s brother John said...
Factcheck: It’s True That The Olympics Are Set In The Ratatouille Cinematic Universe
Apologies to this excellent post on the site formerly known as Twitter. Point is, a lot of great movies are set in Paris, so...
Did The New York Times Books People Forget The Existence Of An Entire Continent?
Sure seems like it. But “the meteoric rise of African publishing is one of the most remarkable stories of the last 25 years. If...
What The Video Game Strike Means For Big Games Like Fortnite
Unless the strike lasts longer than 60 days, “actors and other union members who are already under contract and working on games in development...
Amazon Buys British Studios Where Rocky Horror Was Filmed
The historic studios hosted The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula’s Bride. And then, "Ridley Scott built and shot the miniatures for his Academy Award...
The Paris Olympics’ Opening Ceremonies Were, Basically, Opera
“Pull out the checklist: There’s music (and lots of it). There’s a cast of hundreds (or in this case, thousands) of performers. There’s grand...
Alice Munro’s Biographer Knew About Her Second Husband’s Abuse Of Her Daughter
And he wrote nothing about it. He didn’t add it to “the book's 2011 update — even after Munro herself sat down with him,...
The Future Of Film With AI Already Cutting Into Reality
Not great: “Short of regulation or relevant union agreements, it has come down to film-makers – directors, producers, writers, visual effects and VFX artists...
Video Game Actors Are On Strike, And Here’s What That Means
Third verse, same as the first (two strikes last year): "'We’re not going to consent to a contract that allows companies to abuse AI...
What Orwell Would Have Thought About Cancel Culture
“Orwell would have been more disturbed by the mendacity of those claiming to have been canceled than he would have been by the decision...
“Brat” Summer And The Emptiness Of Zombie Publicity
Something about this “Brat” summer we’re living through gets me down — something about our eagerness to replace the seasons of our lives with...
Sonos CEO Admits Enormous Failure Of App Update
I am having trouble thinking of an app update fiasco large enough to compare it to this one, because in my time as a...
Leonard Slatkin At 80
Few currently active conductors have developed such a natural affinity with the recording studio. The independent producer Andrew Keener, who collaborated on his UK...
Study: Memory For Music Doesn’t Degrade With Age
Research has shown that many aspects of memory are affected by ageing, such as recall tasks that require real-time processing, whereas recognition tasks that rely...
Granny-Dancing In Japan Is Done To Hip-Hop
"Senior breaking is one of a growing category of sports tailored to Japan’s large population of older people who, thanks to the country’s extraordinary...
Astonishing French Department Stores Changed Cities. Can We Learn From Them?
Inspired by opera houses, the grands magasins were astonishing spectacles, built on a pharaonic scale. A new exhibition in the French capital charts the golden age...
The Slow Strangling Of Welsh National Opera
"The company is liable for few of the major criticisms levied at the opera world, with varying degrees of justification, by politicians and their...
US House Fends Off Cuts To NEA, NEH Budgets
As of June 28, the House of Representatives has approved $203.9 million each to the NEA and the NEH, evenly distributing the Biden-Harris administration’s...
