Bill O’Reilly Apoplectic At His Own Books Being On A Removal List In Florida...
The former FOX News host who hard-core supported this very book censorship legislation wrote on X/Twitter, "Things are getting crazy with book banning in #Florida."...
Queen Camilla Chooses A Rather Interesting Book For Her Book Club
The author of a book about King Charles and other members of the Royal Family being held hostage says, "the move showed the Queen...
The Portland Opera Is Selling Its Building To Relieve Debt
The company "will be vacating the entire bundle: administrative offices, costume shop, rehearsal space, parking lot and all." Where will it go? That's not...
AI Is Making Mincemeat Out Of Art, And Intellectual Property As Well
"Tech companies scrape the work of artists and writers to their benefit without consent or compensation, turning anyone who has ever had the audacity...
What The World Of Bestselling Celebrity Books Does To Regular Writers
It isn't pretty: "Publishing is competing with other forms of entertainment in an increasingly fragmented media landscape, and an author with existing name recognition...
The Rise And Spectacular Collapse Of Substack
The issues: "The company wanted to have it both ways: to exert the cultural influence of a major media company without shouldering any more...
A Fire In Seattle’s Pioneer Square Damages Work By Rembrandt, Picasso
"The artworks by local and international artists, both contemporary and historical, span a time frame from the 1400s to today and are valued anywhere...
Can The Bloomsbury Group Please Get Its Art Back?
At Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant's Charleston, the house and many furnishings have been preserved, but a foundation would very much like the creators'...
How Writer Octavia Butler Foretold The Future
This is a skill many science fiction writers would like to possess - but it wasn't uncomplicated. "Through the noise of late-20th-century America, Butler...
The Hotel That Launched A Million Books
Without a real-life murder mystery at an Indian hotel, Agatha Christie may never have launched Hercule Poirot. - BBC
How Actors Speak In Early Awards Shows Can Determine Whether They Earn An Oscar
While voting is still happening, "Many an Oscar has been won or lost on the basis of a good or bad performance on a...
Indiana University Cancels An 87-Year-Old Artist’s Retrospective
Why cancel Yale School of Art professor Samia Halaby's show? Well, she's Palestinian, and she's vocal in her support of the Gazans under attack...
Willem Dafoe Wants People To Stop Taking Sex So Seriously
At least the sex in Poor Things, his new movie. - Washington Post
In Chicago, Comedy Teachers Settle With Management To Avert A Second City Strike
When unions post "Strikes work" on social media, this is what they mean: "Negotiations had dragged on for almost two years before the union...
Who Will Win The Long-Delayed Emmys?
And who should win? (Hint: Not the third season of Ted Lasso.) - The Hollywood Reporter
“Memorization” Could Force AI Companies To Rest And Start Over
Although it would set generative AI back in the short term, a responsible rebuild could also improve the technology’s standing in the eyes of...
Young Musicians Are Starting To Follow The Taylor Swift Career Playbook
This recalibration of the rules of engagement between artists and labels is also a result of the democratisation of information about the byzantine world...
Why Is Sondheim More Popular Now Than When He Was Alive?
The hottest ticket on the Great White Way at the moment, judging from what people are willing to pay for it, is Sondheim's notoriously...
How Dance Is Taking Up The Cause Of Black Justice
In 2016, David Roussève’s “Enough?” — with an accelerating choreographic phrase danced to a soundtrack of Aretha Franklin — asked whether dance can be...
Theatre Development Fund’s Deeksha Gaur Talks About The Return Of Theatre In NYC
"If we think that our relationship with our audiences is super transactional, that is a dangerous game to play, as we are finding." -...
The Latest Additions To The OED: “Wokeism”, “Screenshare”, “Forever Chemical”, “Chekhov’s Gun”
Both "wokeism" and "wokery" refer to culture war issues, though "wokery" has as a second definition cooking with a wok. Among other terms newly...
Why McGill University Is Contemplating Leaving Quebec
The announcement, last October, that out-of-province students would see their annual tuition fees double comes on the heels of repeated government efforts to chip...
Dance Data Project Reports On Leadership Transitions In 2023
From 2022 to 2023, artistic director transitions increased from 53 to 66 across companies, schools, and venues. Male artistic director appointments increased by 46%,...
The High Life Of The Emmys Is Over
If last year’s combined 191-day writers’ and actors’ strikes, with all the vitriolic exchange between creatives and management, has not convinced you that television’s...
Officials Back Off Plan To Remove Statue Of William Penn From Site Of His...
"Last Friday, the National Park Service (NPS) announced plans to remove the statue, as well as a model of Penn’s original home, from Welcome...
