Rhiannon Giddens: Country Music Belongs To Everyone
"All of these comments, which range from simply ignorant to downright misogynoir, presuppose that commercial country music is a legacy that belongs only to...
Merriam-Webster Breaks The Internet Over Grammar Change
"It is permissible in English for a preposition to be what you end a sentence with," the dictionary publisher said in a post shared on Instagram...
More Music Removed From TikTok
TikTok says up to 30% of what it calls "popular songs" could be lost. But some industry estimates say up to 80% of all music on...
A Surge In Online Book Clubs Followed By New Friendships In Real Life
User numbers of an app called “Bookclubs,” designed to help organize clubs, grew 240% from 2020 to 2021. Since then, its user base has...
The Refined Art Of Campaigning For An Oscar
To campaign for an Oscar, as for the Presidency, you need a narrative—some compelling story, decided on by a combination of the nominee, campaign...
Maps Show Us Not Only Where We Are But Who We Are
Cartography has become one of the most successful technologies we have developed for understanding the world around us. At the same time, maps have...
Literary Festivals Are Now Having To Worry About Safety And Risk Management
For instance, moderators at the Perth Festival Writers’ Weekend in Australia were sent a memo titled "Facilitator safety tips." Among those tips: discussing with...
Why Is Debate On College Campuses So Difficult These Days?
The fact of the matter is that the problem is not our students. It is us: faculty and administrators who are too afraid—of random...
For Its 30th Anniversary, An Oral History Of “Schindler’s List”
"Speaking to those who labored to get the film onscreen — including stars Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes, composer John Williams, agent...
Philosophy, Folk Wisdom, And Rethinking Values
I still believe in philosophy’s capacity to seek truth, but I’m conscious that I’ve tethered myself to an academic heritage plagued by formidable demons....
The Photographer Whom Kirill Serebrennikov Calls “A Russian Cartier-Bresson”
"(Dmitri Markov's) subjects were always the most vulnerable in society: orphans, alcoholics, addicts, homeless people, the very old and dying, conscripts and children. It...
In 1995 A Crowd Gathered To Describe Data On The Internet…
By the end of the long weekend, the eclectic crowd had created a radical system for describing and discovering online content that still directly...
North Carolina Theatre In Raleigh Cancels Season And Files For Bankruptcy
"The theater’s board announced the decision Friday, citing 'external forces during and after the pandemic,' including higher production costs, the loss of corporate and...
How Disney Built The Disney Adult Industrial Complex
Whether Disney adults are embarrassing or enchanting is largely a matter of opinion. What is missing from endless comment sections is the fact that...
John Waters Is Making His First Movie In 20 Years
The film, set to begin shooting in Baltimore (of course) later this year, is an adaptation of Waters's 2022 novel Liarmouth (subtitled "A Feel-Bad...
Conductor Jan Latham-Koenig Pleads Guilty To Soliciting Sex From A Minor
Prosecutors say the 70-year-old was chatting, first on an dating app and then directly on WhatApp, with someone he believed to be a 15-year-old...
Simone Young Extends Contract As Chief Conductor Of Sydney Symphony
She began her initial term in 2022, and it was set to expire at the end of this year. With her contract ending in...
Looking At The Financial State Of Dance In the U.S.
"Multiple reports published since last summer have shed long-awaited light on the fiscal health of the country’s dance sector. What those numbers say isn’t...
Another Week, Another Gérard Depardieu Sexual Assault Allegation
"(A) 53-year-old (set) decorator alleges that Depardieu grabbed her and kneaded her waist, stomach and breasts during filming for Les Volets verts, or The...
West Virginia Bill Would Let Museums Be Prosecuted For Displaying “Obscene” Artworks
House Bill 4654, now in the state senate, would "remove exemptions for criminal liability from schools, libraries, and museums, allowing them to be criminally...
Texas High School Cancels Student Production Of “The Laramie Project”
When notifying parents, school district leaders in the Fort Worth suburb of Keller gave no reason for cancelling the docudrama about the 1998 murder...
It’s Artists Who Rule New York
If no one industry rules the city, one group of people does: artists. Every year, a new generation of them arrive in New York...
Supreme Court Hears Case That Would Fundamentally Change Social Media
The laws, championed by right-leaning state lawmakers, are rooted in the idea that the tech platforms have had a bias against conservatives. They’ve long...
British Film Board Reclassifies Classic “Mary Poppins” Movie As “Unsuitable For Children”
Mary Poppins is being re-released in select UK cinemas next month to celebrate the film’s 60th anniversary, prompting BBFC to upgrade its classification for the...
Fran Drescher Warns About AI
AI will entrap us in a matrix where none of us know what’s real. If an inventor lacks empathy and spirituality, perhaps that’s not the...
