John Waters Is Organized And Disciplined. Yes, Really.
"He wakes up every day at 6 a.m., … checks his emails, and reads (several) newspapers before beginning his writing at 8 a.m. on...
Brexit Has Been A Disaster For UK Musicians
A recent study "found that 27.8% of musicians have had no work in Europe since Brexit. Nearly half of respondents had seen their work...
Standup Comedy Is In A Weird, Fragmented State. How Did It, And We, Get...
"On the one hand, there’s never been more of it — more specials, podcasts, comedy-generated discussions and debate and cultural flare-ups. … On the...
UK Labour Party Promises A Different Approach To Culture
“We need to protect the cultural spaces we already have. Everybody knows a pub theatre which is about to close down, or a local...
Bandcamp Has Been Sold Again, And Employees Were Locked Out Of The Site Without...
Epic Games (maker of Fortnite) purchased the streaming site for independent musicians 18 months ago. In late September, Epic announced the sale of Bandcamp...
The Iconic Sydney Opera House – 50 Years Later
On a windy spring day on 20 October 1973, Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the venue, drawing an estimated 1 million people to the city’s streets....
AO Scott Returns To The Movies. And Ponders The Wreckage Of Streaming
Just as streaming isolates and aggregates its users, so it dissolves movies into content. They don’t appear on the platforms so much as disappear...
UK’s National Lottery Will Spend $245 Million To Rehab Clusters Of Heritage Sites In...
"An oddly simple new £200m scheme will, for the first time," rather than funding only individual projects, "focus on clusters of heritage sites, including...
Chinese Porcelain Worth Millions Has Been Stolen From A Museum In Cologne
"The suspects ... broke into (the city's Museum of East Asian Art) on the night of September 12 and stole nine Chinese porcelain objects...
Cleveland Orchestra’s Tour Of Israel Is Canceled
The orchestra, with conductor Daniel Harding filling in for Franz Welser-Möst, was to have performed in Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem during the last...
Changes At The National Museum of Women In The Arts
"Following several years of planning, a pandemic closure, a temporary reopening and a $67.5m makeover, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington,...
The American Library System Is Under Attack, And Not Just By Right-Wing Censors
"Book bans are at record levels, and libraries across the country are facing catastrophic budget cuts. … In a separate line of attack, library...
As Breakdancing Becomes An Olympic Sport, Some Worry About A Drift From Its Hip-Hop...
"Now breaking is preparing for its biggest international spotlight yet when it bows as an Olympic sport at the Paris Games in 2024. …...
Writers Guild Members Officially Approve The Agreement That Ended The Hollywood Strike
"Hollywood writers have voted almost unanimously to approve the contract agreement reached by their union leaders that ended a strike after nearly five months,...
Gen Z Can’t Read Cursive
Thus, an iconic outdoor brand had to change its 60-year-old logo. - Fast Company
High School Advanced Placement Courses Have Failed Us
The damage is familiar to college faculty across disciplines: writing as a form of Frankfurtian bullshit for which it’s more important to be superficially convincing than...
Seeing Cape Cod Through Thoreau’s Eyes
Much of the coastline Thoreau walked on is now under water. The land he saw was a sandy “wasteland” without trees,which had been cut...
Words Aren’t Merely Words. Context Matters, And Words Processed By Machines Are Changed
We are at a moment of disjunction in the history of reading, driven by a technological shift that already seems to be as consequential...
Why Social Networks Die
“These platforms are fundamentally rooted in users being able to get value, not just from the platform but from each other. If the platform...
The Go-To Website For Vinyl Records Is Endangered
Discogs is a fairly clunky, definitely old-fashioned website devoted to even older technology: a vestige of an earlier, more idyllic internet that has spent...
Living The Archaeology Dream
A team of Egyptian and German archaeologists has found multiple hidden chambers in a pyramid - and they say the work "has completely changed...
How Paperback Publishing Helped The US Win WWII
"The paperbacks were intended to help soldiers pass the time. But they were also meant to remind them what they were fighting for, and...
New Orleans Drummer Russell Batiste Has Died At 57
Batiste was a "pyrotechnic" drummer, "the "whose furious style and genre-busting approach provided the rhythmic pulse for bands like the Meters and Vida Blue...
When Storefront Theatres Run Out Of Storefronts
It's not pretty. Just ask Chicago. - American Theatre
Yes, The Internet Truly Is Worse
Worse than it used to be, worse than it should be, thanks to Google and Amazon. - The Atlantic
