Writers Guild And Studios Finally Resume Negotiations As Strike Continues
"The return to formal negotiations was announced Aug. 10, nearly a week after both sides met in an exploratory meeting about the talks between...
Disney Loses Subscribers, Reports Mixed Earnings
Disney+ reported a total of 146.1 million subscribers for the quarter, a decrease of 11.7 million from 157.8 million in the previous quarter. - The...
How The Freewheeling Edinburgh Fringe Deals With Cancel Culture
"When you look back at what the fringe has turned out, surely a wee bit of it somewhere can be allowed to upset. It's...
Google And Music Companies In Negotiations On What To Do With DeepFake Music
Google and Universal Music are in talks to license artists’ melodies and voices for songs generated by artificial intelligence as the music business tries to monetize...
American Universities Have Been On A Massive Spending Spree
The University of Kentucky upgraded its campus to the tune of $805,000 a day for more than a decade. Its freshmen, who come from one...
Could AI Become Conscious? How Would We Know?
What is or might be the evidence in favor of consciousness in a large language model, and what might be the evidence against it? ...
Consider: Taylor Swift, Dancer
As dance, the show is simple and unoriginal — yet exceptionally effective. Swift is a pop superstar who dances but is not known for...
London’s Royal Ballet School To Study Potential Of Strength Training To Reduce Injuries
"Around 90 students at the elite school, which prepares young people for careers with leading dance companies, will complete a series of strength tests...
When John Huston Left The United States In Disgust
While the filmmaker and actor was by no means a leftist, he was outraged by Senator Joseph McCarthy and his House Un-American Activities Committee...
When Pro Hockey, Romance Novels, And BookTok Collide
"The niche world of hockey romance novels is getting mainstream attention after the wife of an N.H.L. player criticized book fans who she said...
China Has Severely Restricted Screen Time For Children. Is It Working?
Many parents, both in and outside China, have celebrated Beijing’s past parental controls as the right approach for a government to take. But will all those people be...
Brice Marden, 84
Marden’s style may have made him different from many of his colleagues with more explicitly conceptual ambitions, but he continued to find admirers because...
Hollywood’s Self-Sabotage
To survey the film and television industry today is to witness multiple existential crises. Many of them point to a larger trend: of Hollywood...
Bringing The Song Recital Into The 21st Century
"This highly specific medium morphs every which way, with new outspoken repertoire, an influx of vocal talent from the early-music community and liberated performance...
Why Save The Current Form Of American Theatre? We Need A New Model
For theater, as we know it, to have any future at all, a new economic model must take its place, founded on a simple...
Australia Faces A Severe Shortage Of Piano Tuners
"Brent Ottley ... says it became obvious two decades ago that Australia had begun 'running out' of piano tuners. He estimates there are just...
Germany’s Culture Pass For 18-Year-Olds Generated $3.5 Million In Arts Spending In Two Months
"Germany has seen more than €3.2 million in revenue (US$3.5 million) generated for cultural products, events, and services thanks to the rollout of that...
Lebanon And Kuwait Move To Ban “Barbie” For “Promoting Homosexuality”
The Lebanese culture minister said, "The film goes against moral and religious values in Lebanon, as it encourages perversity and gender transformation while calling...
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Says It Needs To Raise $3 Million To Stay Open
The company, which is considered one of the Bay Area's leading professional theatres and has won the special Tony Award for regional theatre, already...
Barnes Foundation May Lend Artworks To Other Museums, Says Court
The local court with jurisdiction over the will of museum founder Albert Barnes ruled that the Foundation may loan a limited number of works...
Aaron Sorkin’s Stage Version Of “To Kill A Mockingbird” May Be Staged Anywhere, Rules...
"(The court) determined that production of the Sorkin version … did not infringe on any interest held by the Dramatic Publishing Company, which contended...
At 850 Years Old, The Leaning Tower Of Pisa is More Stable Than Ever
Subsidence became a problem not long after construction began in the 12th century, and by the early 1990s the tilt had worsened enough that...
Your Community’s Superpower? Its Libraries
In a country where nearly every iota of our psyches and our physical spaces has been captured for the purpose of generating a profit,...
When Evidence-Based Reasoning Can Lead Us Astray
We should not assume that motivated reasoning, or all other biased thinking that involves ignoring high quality and relevant information, can only lead us...
This Artist Has 30 Million TikTok Followers. Can He Now Make It In The...
With over 30 million followers on TikTok alone, Rodriguez has developed a following that has even extended to the outside world. Considered merely by...
