Streaming Is Looking More And More Like The Old Cable Bundles (And It Costs...
The “new” media landscape is starting to look a lot like the “old” media landscape. - Shelly Palmer
What Do You Get When You Cross African Dance With Arab Dabke?
Palestinian choreographer Sharaf DarZaid decided to find out after befriending a Cameroonian dancer while studying in Paris. Now he performs and teaches Afro-Dabke in...
Research: The Intellectual Abilities Required To Lie
Research suggests that, in addition to more obvious factors – such as moral beliefs about honesty and corresponding emotions such as guilt – the tendency to...
One of Turkey’s Major Film Festivals Is Canceled After Directors And Jury Protest The...
"'I regret to inform filmgoers that we canceled this year’s Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival… due to events beyond our control,' Muhittin Bocek, Antalya’s...
Spotify Is All In On AI – Now AI-Created Playlists
Following the successful launch of Spotify’s AI-powered DJ feature and, more recently, added support for AI-translated podcasts, Spotify now appears to be developing another means of using...
One Of Russia’s Greatest Living Stage Directors Found Himself Marooned In The US. He...
Dmitri Krymov had nine different shows running in Moscow when he left for Philadelphia to stage The Cherry Orchard. Then Putin invaded Ukraine, and...
In Test Of Watermarks For AI, Researchers Were Able To Break Them All
In addition to demonstrating how attackers might remove watermarks, the study shows how it’s possible to add watermarks to human-generated images, triggering false positives....
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Says That Social Media-Driven Sanctimony Is Stifling Today’s Literature
"You can see that even in the small space of a workshop — I constantly have to say to people, 'It’s okay. You can...
Pianist Russell Sherman, 93
"(He) was a pianist of arresting insight, majestic technique, and transfiguring grace. In his prime, he was compared with 20th-century luminaries such as Maurizio...
NFL Game Radio Broadcasts Dominate Audience Figures Like They Do On Television
"New data from Nielsen shows that NFL games broadcast on the radio attract audiences so large that they outperform the top-rated stations in many...
Chicago’s Arts Scene, Post-Pandemic, Is In Genuine “Crisis,” Says New Research Report
"The findings paint a picture of a cultural arts landscape plagued by: dwindling audiences and subscriptions; increased costs and shrinking budgets; declines in private...
“It Was Probably One Of The Most Stressful Work Experiences I’ve Ever Had”: Allegations...
"In roughly 20 interviews with the Globe, former museum employees and board members described a stressful workplace, characterizing (director Matthias) Waschek as an 'intimidating'...
Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians Reject Management’s Contract Offer; Strike Is Possible
"A union official said that it would seek continued intervention by a federal mediator and continue negotiations, but that a strike was possible. In...
Ed Fancher, Co-Founder Of The Village Voice, Is Dead At 100
"(He started) the nationally known alternative weekly newspaper with two partners" — editor Dan Wolf and writer Norman Mailer, who stormed off after a...
Europe’s Biggest Music Festival Struggled This Summer. Are The Good Times Over?
Summer festivals now face a balancing act between creative imagination and fiscal conservatism in the wake of a Covid wipeout that dispelled the older...
A Year After Their Last Contract Expired, San Francisco Symphony Musicians Sign A New...
The new contract mandates a minimum weekly salary of $3,313 ($172,276 annually), rising by the end of the term to $3,450 ($179,400). - San...
North Carolina Radio Director Tries To Make Her Case For Not Airing Metropolitan Opera...
Breaking into tears on the phone, Deborah Proctor said: "I have a moral decision to make here. What if one child hears this? When...
TV After Peak TV
Now television’s boom cycle has gone bust and Peak TV is winding down, like prestige TV did before it. There are hints of what...
The Next Act: What Post-Strike Hollywood Might Look Like
One veteran TV producer predicted the number of scripted shows Hollywood produces could fall by one-third in the next three years. - The Wall...
Banned Books? This Ritual Exercise Does A Disservice To Literature
This attitude toward reading — in which the only well-meaning response to a text is uncritical approbation, and anything else is tantamount to censorship...
How Bradley Cooper Worked To Become Leonard Bernstein
In his conducting studies, Cooper spent the most time with Dudamel and Nézet-Séguin. He visited Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, dressed and...
Banned In North Carolina: Now They Want To Ban “Banned Books Week”
"It has come to our attention that some schools have planned events next week October 1-7, to mark the American Library Association’s “Banned Book...
The Musee D’Orsay Has Added An AI Vincent Van Gogh
"Asked why he had cut off his left ear, the artist replied that this was a misconception and he had in fact only cut...
Is There A Way To ‘Opt Out’ Of Having AI Train On Your Art?
DALL-E-3 claims - unconvincingly - that artists can now decline having their work included in data sets. - The Atlantic
The Bookies’ Odds On The Nobel Prize For Literature
The list includes "the usual suspects—Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Michel Houellebecq, Anne Carson (who won’t win the year after Annie Ernaux, come on, the literary...
