What Role Will The Conflict In Gaza Play In Awards Shows?
There's basically no response that won't offend someone, says a USC prof. "Add alcohol to the mix, as is often the case at these awards...
A Public Radio Station Reporter Was Fired For Some Of His Online Comedy Clips
Then an arbitrator ruled that since his jokes "were funny," he had to be re-hired by Philadelphia NPR affiliate WHYY - but he also...
Why Is ‘Barbie’ In The Oscars Race For ‘Adapted’ Screenplay?
Judd Apatow, for one, is not having it. Sure, there were dolls, but dolls aren't a narrative. "It’s insulting to the writers to say...
Podcast Numbers Are Tanking. You Can Blame Apple.
The company after whom the entire genre is named (remember the iPod?) maybe shouldn't kill podcasting, and indeed, the numbers might be an accident:...
The Deeply American Story Of Waiting, And Longing, At Angel Island
In this 21st century oratorio, the director says, it's cathartic "to allow ourselves to feel what our ancestors have felt and know that we’re...
Can Anyone Make Awards Season Safe For Introverts?
"Creative introverts dread campaign season. They’re allergic to the self-promotion. Not to mention that the world is designed to reward extroverts. ... But you...
TikTok And Instagram Drive A New Brand Of Stand-Up Comedy Success
The real-life audience for stand-up is larger, and more diverse, thanks to viral clips. But, one comedian says, "If you base your comedy around...
Vinie Burrows, Who Got Her Start On Broadway At 15, Has Died At 99
Burrows grew frustrated with Broadway's lack of roles for Black women, and "took matters into her own hands as a solo artist. She received...
The Creative Arts Emmys Are Halfway Over, And There Are Some Big Winners
Awards season is what one might call compressed due to the Hollywood strikes of the spring and summer (and fall). Thus: "HBO’s post-apocalyptic drama The...
How Does Instagram Stack Up As A News Feed?
Young users "said that relevance and proximity were key to defining news, but that relevance was personal and individual rather than public, and that...
Why The NYT Really Sued OpenAI
The New York Times is "spending a fortune creating what’s unfortunately now called content - the articles, investigative pieces, analysis, puzzles, recipes, product recommendations...
Hollywood Is Still A Boys’ Club
At least in the director's seat, it's the old Ken Mojo Dojo Casa House all over again. - HuffPost
The Inevitable Steamboat Willie Mickey Mouse Slasher Movie Is On Its Way
You see, "while modern Mickey is known for his charming personality, Steamboat Willie Mickey was more menacing with his propensity to use his fellow animals as...
A New Gilbert And Sullivan Opera?
In Britain, the call has gone out for everyone to check attics, garrets, and old bookshelves: "The original score of Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia...
Elvis Costello Saw A Depressing Movie, So He Made A Musical From It, Of...
Cold War (the 2018 movie, and the new musical) "is a microcosm of the tragedy of a Poland wallowing in hardship and paranoia." -...
The Golden Globes Became Too Big To Fail
"At a time when the film industry is still struggling with deep existential anxieties, ... for many in Hollywood the impetus to look past...
Why You Shouldn’t Count The Books You Read
Quantifying my reading, whether by titles finished, pages read, or another metric, doesn’t capture the quality of my attention to each book. - The Atlantic
Four Predictions For Media In 2024
The scariest media moments of 2023 involved watching Internet-led disruption come for familiar forms of media, like late night TV and cable systems. - WBUR
What’s Next For Those Dancing Robots? Thinking
If you look at the reaction to our robots, humanoids get 10 times the reaction to anything else. So if you care about people...
The Cookie Crumble: Google Browser Changes Help Kill Journalism Ad Business
When Chrome’s cookies are fully removed the open web will have mutated from a place where up to 90% of users were in some...
Misty Copeland Hasn’t Danced In Three Years. Is She Done With It?
"I have so many things in my life that kind of fulfil what ballet has been, and ballet is still in that: it's ...
Hundreds Of Museums Suffer Cyberattack On Their Online Collections
eMuseum, the program that allows visitors to search an institution’s archives and collections suffered in the attack, as was a program named TMS, which...
Philip Roth’s Persona Has Now Superseded Philip Roth’s Books
"It's worth asking now, five years after Roth’s death, whether they have eclipsed the actual work that Roth produced, or any true reckoning with...
Latest US Jobs Report Shows Strong Entertainment Industry Gains After Strike
Employment in motion pictures and sound recording climbed by 11,400 jobs to 463,000. After months of declines, industry employment began rising again in November. - Deadline
This Little New York Town Closed Its Public Library Because Of A Drag Queen...
Last spring, the library in Lake Luzerne announced, as a one-time event, a drag queen story hour. After months of strife that included a...
