If Radio Is Becoming Streaming What If NPR Ditched Radio?
What if NPR decides radio is no longer worth the hassle and puts all its efforts into streaming audio and podcasts? What if it...
Will Sundance Lose Its Magic When It Moves From Park City To Boulder?
While many acknowledge that the festival has outgrown the tiny ski resort where it started, “longtime Sundance-goers hope that the festival’s indie spirit won’t...
Welcome To The Era Of De-Social Media
Platforms originally defined by keeping up with people you know, or have at least heard of, become something fundamentally different. - Intelligencer
Why Our Cities Need More Places Of Serenity
Perceptual psychologists have long studied what happens when people stare at uniform fields of colour without visual edges or contrasts. Sometimes, experiencing this kind...
Why More Professors Are Making Their Students Read On Paper
“The English classroom is increasingly a kind of special place where it’s still possible to converse without the screen. AI only seems to make...
Ex-General Manager Of Sacramento’s Public Radio Station Arrested For Embezzlement
“Capital Public Radio’s former general manager Jun Reina was arrested Thursday in connection to embezzlement, grand theft and forgery charges after prosecutors accused him...
Why Small Liberal Arts Colleges Are The Education Of Choice
At a small liberal-arts college, where a cohort may number fewer than 500 people, admissions officers can also take a stronger hand in assembling...
When Students Are “Customers” Education Suffers
Over the past 15 to 20 years, declining numbers of college-age Americans and a seemingly endless rise in tuition have brought about a shift in power. Students are...
Kennedy Center VP Of Artistic Planning, Resigns After Being On The Job Two Weeks
Kevin Couch, formerly the director of programming for ATG Entertainment, a British theater company, is the latest in a string of resignations and show cancellations since...
This Theater Company’s Idea To Attract Audiences? Free Childcare
“At Palo Alto Players, the initiative is part of a broader effort to lower barriers to getting to the theater — one (Managing Director Elizabeth)...
Parliament-Funkadelic For Full Symphony Orchestra, Now Playing In Detroit
“The Detroit Opera will showcase some of funk maestro George Clinton ‘s and P-Funk’s greatest hits this weekend, performed by violins, cellos, horns and other instruments...
As ICE Descends On Maine, Cambodian Immigrants Find Solace In Traditional Dance
Sokhoeun Sok came to the US in 2005 to teach traditional Khmer dance and is now a naturalized citizen. For now, she “is focusing...
San Francisco Has A Public Space Ripe For Becoming The Next High Line
“The second-level promenade of the Embarcadero Center is one of the more scenic, beautifully landscaped, well-maintained spaces in San Francisco. … Yet despite its...
Former CNN Anchor Don Lemon Arrested Following Minneapolis Protest
“Lemon was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles, where he had been covering the Grammy Awards, his attorney said. It is unclear what...
Dudamel And New York Philharmonic To Present Operas At Carnegie Hall
“Initially, the Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall will collaborate for five seasons, with Dudamel leading the orchestra in an annual concert opera, beginning (this coming)...
Kennedy Center Fires Senior Director Of Artistic Operations
Sarah Kramer “(had) spent the past decade rising through the ranks of the once-venerated cultural institution. She started as an assistant manager for special...
Diagnosing King Henry VIII
Over the course of his 38-year reign, he aged from a famously handsome monarch into an overweight, volatile despot. Various explanations, from syphilis to...
BBC Told To Avoid Color-Blind Casting
The BBC has been urged to rethink color-blind casting “tokenism” and “preachy” storylines about the UK’s colonial history in scripted series, according to a major study...
Why Is “American Psycho” Popping Up All Over? (And Should We Be Worried?)
In the 35 years since the novel made its bloody splash, there have been a hit movie, a stage musical, and countless memes. Now...
How Did The Iconic “Infinite Jest” Become A Punchline?
The occasion is a moment to ask how a novel that mourns addiction and venerates humility and patience became a glib cultural punch line,...
The Washington Post Is Imploding
Under Bezos’s leadership, CEO Will Lewis has floated a bunch of proposals to make the company profitable, few of which so far resemble anything...
Minneapolis Bookshop Becomes Famous After ICE Murders
Greg Ketter became a social media phenomenon over the weekend, when MS Now aired a video of him pacing half a block away from where Alex...
Music Companies Sue Anthropic For $3 Billion Over Copyright
The companies, including Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord Music Group, and ABKCO Music, are seeking more than $3 billion in potential statutory damages over alleged infringement of more than 20,000 songs....
Los Angeles Ballet At 20
For such a large city, L.A. has been a difficult environment for classical dance; before this company, no ballet troupe there had lasted for...
Why Liberal Arts Education May Be More Important In The Age Of AI
A machine will never possess the level of interpersonal skills needed to manage a team, to engage in civil discourse with individuals from different...
