This Year’s Coachella Was A Down Year. But We Can Learn From It
A flop year remains valuable for the feedback it gives us. Remove the noise of a once-in-a-lifetime, Beychella-esque headline performance and you can take stock...
A Philadelphia Ballerina Battles MS In Scotland
After six years dancing with the Philadelphia Ballet, Emily Davis moved to Glasgow in 2021 to do a PhD degree in dance health. Her...
The State Of Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral Five Years After The Fire
The leader in charge of the reconstruction efforts says the giant project is within budget and on schedule, with official reopening planned for this...
Historic Artworks Rescued From Notre-Dame Fire Are Now On Display
The 13 "Mays," large-scale 17th-century paintings which had hung in the cathedral's side chapels, were evacuated from the burning edifice with only a bit...
CBS Approves The First Black Daytime Soap Opera On US Television In 35 Years
"The network on Monday announced that the series, (titled The Gates and) following the lives of a wealthy Black family in a posh, gated...
New York Philharmonic Suspends Two Players Accused Of Sexual Assault Whom It Had Tried...
In the wake of last week's Vulture/New York magazine article reporting details of an alleged drugging/rape while the orchestra was performing in Vail in...
Artists At Israel’s Venice Biennale Pavilion Refuse To Open Until There’s A Gaza Ceasefire
"Artist Ruth Patir said the exhibit ... 'will only open when the release of hostages and ceasefire agreement happens' in a statement shared on...
Armorer In Alec Baldwin “Rust” Shooting Gets Maximum Jail Sentence
"Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was convicted in March by a jury on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. … The...
Pre-History. (What A Concept!)
“Prehistory is about the present day; it always has been. Over the 250 or so years that human origins have been pursued, studied, and...
Hollywood Has Been Eating Its Own Tail (And Now It’s Dying)
“It is probably the deepest and most existential crisis it’s ever been in. The writers are losing out. The middle layer of craftsmen are...
Remembering Seiji Ozawa
Ozawa refused to live in Boston, raising his family in Tokyo and commuting when required. His English was never more than functional. Most musicians...
How GenAI Can Empower Musicians
GenAI can benefit musicians as well as the general public. Songwriters are no longer limited to the instruments they can play or a recording...
Australian Students Are Flocking To Humanities Studies Despite Attempts To Discourage Them
“A lot of young people are moving away from conventional ideas of education and the workforce to pursuing things we genuinely enjoy in life....
Why Do These People Hate Renoir So Much?
Armed with snobbish hipster fury and signage that read “God Hates Renoir,” “ReNOir,” and “We’re Not Iconoclasts, Renoir Just Sucks At Painting,” the group...
Spotify Working On Tools To Let Users Be Their Own DJs
The audio streaming company is developing tools that would allow subscribers to speed up, mash up and otherwise edit songs from their favorite artists, according to...
Disney’s Biggest Theme Park Challenge
A common vacation itinerary includes three or four days at Disney World and one or two days at Universal. If Universal can now persuade...
AI Translators Are Crushing Languages
The generative-AI boom, despite promises to bridge languages and cultures, may only further entrench the dominance of English in life on and off the web. -...
Why Are Broadway Tickets So Much More Expensive Now?
If Broadway feels more expensive than ever before, that’s because it is. Despite crowds that haven’t rebounded to pre-COVID levels, the average ticket price...
Dying For The Liberal Arts
In 1942, a young man at war wrote a defense of the liberal arts to his family, and to his favorite professor - letters...
How Harlem Stage Has Helped Create Choreography Careers
The series E-Moves is 25 years old now, and one of its "intended effects has been to take choreographers who work mainly ‘downtown,’ in...
The Irish Lads Who Founded Smut Press Are Having A Bit Of A Laugh
“The goal of Smut, says Scollard, is to 'champion work that might find it difficult to get published elsewhere – maybe a bit risqué...
The Resurrection Of Notre Dame Is Bringing The French Together In Some Unexpected Ways
"For almost five years, Parisians looked into a sad emptiness when they walked past Notre-Dame and looked up. The void reminded them of a...
In Recent US Cinema, Women Loving Women Have Gotten Very Funny And Bizarre
"With their offbeat B-movie feel, these stories are ‘managing to mess with this dichotomy between the good representation and the bad representation,’” one expert...
Why Are Seattle Libraries Announcing 1,500 Hours Of Closures In Eight Weeks?
Library workers aren’t happy. "The City is denying Seattleites 1,500 hours of learning, checking out books, applying for jobs, talking with neighbors, sheltering from...
How Edward Hopper Nails Life In New York
Or so says SNL’s Bowen Yang. "You look at a Hopper painting , and it’s like people being in rooms regarding the arrangement of the city,...
