An Argentine Man Has Spent Two Decades Reviving An All-But-Dead Indigenous Language
His painstaking work with a linguist has produced a dictionary of roughly 1,000 Chaná words. For people of Indigenous ancestry in Argentina, he is...
Trust In Universities Is Plummeting. There Are Good Reasons For That
The most recent debacle at Harvard, in which large swaths of academia seem to have conveniently forgotten what the term plagiarism means so they don’t have to admit...
The Crisis At Substack Is Of Its Own Making
The company wanted to have it both ways: to exert the cultural influence of a major media company without shouldering any more responsibility (or...
Scammers Are Stealing Artists’ Music And Posting To Streaming Platforms
The streaming ecosystem, say critics, is easily gamed. For $20, artists can buy an annual subscription to a music distributor, a company that can...
The Word Tags That Get You To Click On Netflix Shows
The two- or three-word tags, meant to convey the gestalt of a show or movie, regularly help viewers choose a show from the service’s...
SoundCloud May Be For Sale
But whatever happens to it, the way it transformed musical access, its musical underground vibe, will never die. - Wired
Laser Mapping Reveals The Amazon’s Hidden, Ancient Cities
The discoveries in Ecuador's Upano Valley "upend historical understandings of civilization in the Amazon: the largest city in the network is comparable in size...
Barbie Won A Bunch Of Awards During Commercial Breaks, And The Host Was Not...
Chelsea Handler "went rogue" during the Critics Choice Awards, after Barbie won a bunch of awards during commercial breaks - including Best Comedy. Handler...
The West Coast’s First Woman TV Reporter, Ruth Ashton Taylor, Has Died At 101
Ashton Taylor got her start alongside Edward R. Murrow at CBS Radio, then broke into broadcast TV in Los Angeles. "One of her favorite...
Britain’s Cooling Towers Deserve To Be Preserved, Just Like A Church Or Castle
"They are monuments of industry, built at the size (and more) of pyramids and cathedrals, graceful in their geometry, the perfect marriage of form...
Why Do Taylor Swift Fans Think She Wrote A Mystery In Her Free Time?
Swift obviously doesn't have any actual free time, but anyway: It all comes down a movie trailer and a cat in a backpack, signifying...
The San Francisco Conservatory Of Music Violated Title IX, The Office Of Civil Rights...
The conservatory's "response to a student’s report of sexual assault and stalking 'violated Title IX at every stage' and was 'deliberately indifferent,'" the investigation found....
The Real-Life Couple Who May Have Inspired Edward Albee
The link between Albee's best-known play and artists Marie Menken and Willard Maas isn't undisputed although they "were notorious for drunkenly arguing in front...
Go On, Read The End Of The Book First
But by that, we mean the acknowledgements, "where you learn about the temperament of your author, which is sometimes unexpectedly different from that of...
Since The Emmys Opened To Cable, HBO Has Dominated The Awards
But that reign may be coming to an end as quickly as HBO turned into MAX. - Washington Post
Artists Worldwide, Including Annie Ernaux, Pledge To Boycott Germany For Its Attitude Toward Gaza
Their petition reads, "The German state has intensified the repression of its own Palestinian population and those who stand against Israel’s war crimes. ......
People, Including University Presidents, Shouldn’t Get Fired For Making Explicit Videos In Their Free...
Conor Friedersdorf on the fired University of Wisconsin-LaCross president: "First Amendment law can tell us only so much. How should Gow’s superiors have responded to this...
The ‘Ghoulish’ And ‘Creepy’ Fake George Carlin Special
"Ahead of the special, a voice calling itself 'Dudesy the comedian AI' tells viewers that what they are about to hear is not Carlin,...
ESPN Returns Dozens Of Emmys After Scheme Unravels
Cheating isn't a great look in sports - or sports media. "Since at least 2010, ESPN employees attached fake names to awards entries, the...
Dear Audience Members, Please Get Better At Being In Public
Stop clapping so much! Stop drinking so much! Don't use your phone's flashlight to find your seats! And for pity's sake, stop eating potato...
Live, From The Critics Choice Awards
The latest film & TV awards are the Critics Choice Awards, for which Barbie had 18 nominations. Oscars nominee voting ends Jan. 16, so...
Marvel Introduces Two Indigenous Female Characters, And There’s An Immediate Backlash
A Marvel critic "called the two characters 'repetitive' because both are of Native American descent and have similar powers" - you know, just as...
The People Who Love A 24-Hour Marathon Reading Of Moby Dick
At the Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Mass., "the first speaker took the lectern at noon after the strike of eight bells. 'Call me...
Palace Where Alexander The Great Was Crowned Finally Reopens To Tourists
"The crowning glory of what had once been the royal metropolis of Macedonia, the palace was not just a model building but 'an architectural...
A Window Into A New Opera Festival
What the Prototype festival brings to audiences: Anything from Biblical translations to "a kind of nostalgic reminder of the loud, messy, nudity-filled, often self-serious,...
