PBS Cancels Its Saturday And Sunday Newscasts
“PBS News Weekend signed off Sunday, ‘at least for the foreseeable future,’ anchor John Yang said. ... Starting Saturday, PBS will air the weekly...
Adelaide Festival’s Writers’ Week Cancelled After Writers Withdraw And Board Resigns
In response to the festival board’s earlier intervention to disinvite Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah, more than 180 writers and speakers cancelled their appearances at...
Again, Louvre Completely Closes Due To Strikes
Last week the museum was partially closed due to the ongoing walkouts over inadequate pay, staffing and building maintenance, but public access to the...
Pressure Mounts On San Francisco Ballet To Pull Out Of Kennedy Center Performance
Supporters argue that performing at the center now risks aligning the Ballet with an institution they say has been politicized under Trump’s leadership. -...
We’re Increasingly Interacting With Non-Humans. This Is Changing Our Human Interactions
We ask for help from artificial customer service representatives. Some of us accept friend requests from bots and are, thereafter, influenced by the content...
Trump Withdrew The US From 66 International Institutions. This Is Damaging To Culture
“Disengagement” from institutions that uphold freedom of expression and artistic freedom “weakens the global protective frameworks on which artists and cultural workers depend.” -...
AI Could Mean The Death Of Canadian Culture
If Canada wants its cultural policy to survive the age of slop, it will have to insist that what claims to be human—and Canadian—be...
Students Are Arriving In College Unable To Read. Colleges Are Struggling To Adapt Their...
As Gen Z ditch books at record levels, students are arriving to classrooms unable to complete assigned reading on par with previous expectations. It’s leaving colleges...
I’m A Musician. I created An Album Using AI To See If It Worked
We have gone from clapping to drumming, and from using drum machines in recording studios to generating “new” sounds with AI. Yet now that...
The 3000 Imagineers That Make Disney Ideas Real
The theme parks and cruise ships Vaughn’s team designs cost billions of dollars, dwarfing the budgets of movies that cost several hundred million dollars at most....
Oops: Turns Out AI Models “Memorize Books They Ingest. This Could Cost Them Billions
This phenomenon has been called “memorization,” and AI companies have long denied that it happens on a large scale. - The Atlantic
Ticketmaster Tries To Get FTC Suit On Ticket Gouging Dismissed
Ticketmaster is urging a federal judge in Los Angeles to throw out the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's case accusing it of working with resellers...
The Scam Artist And The Masterpiece
Thomas Doyle already had 11 convictions to his name for various swindles. His latest alleged fraud involves a London gallery owner and Bruce Springsteen’s...
SAG-Aftra Negotiator: Let’s Make Using AI Really Expensive
Here’s the thinking: A lack of cost savings could dissuade employers from using AI-generated performers instead of real actors like Emma Stone or Viola Davis....
Hamnet Is No Shakespeare In Love
It’s far worse: It does wrong by Shakespeare. "Hamnet changes many details and events in Shakespeare’s life to tell its story, but it is in...
Why It’s Good For The Washington National Opera To Part Ways With The Kennedy...
Financially, it’s likely to be good for the Opera. “The news of the split could inspire a groundswell of support from longtime patrons who...
New York’s New Mayor Says Theatre Should Be For Everyone, Handing Out Free Tickets
“'The shared laughter in a crowded theater, the eager debrief after a musical, the heavy silence that hangs over all of us in a...
South African’s Right-Wing Culture Minister Axes The Country’s Venice Biennale Proposal
The proposal by artist Gabrielle Goliath was a performance to mourn Gaza’s dead after Israel’s actions against the area. A spokesperson said that it...
In A Last-Minute Decision, CBS Cut Best Original Score From The Golden Globes Broadcast
Welp, podcasts are in, music is out; sorry to "Alexandre Desplat for Frankenstein, Ludwig Goransson for Sinners, Jonny Greenwood for One Battle After Another,...
The Writers Who Saw All Of This Coming
In case you need a list of dystopian novels to read instead of, hm, the news. - The Guardian (UK)
Those Teeny Tiny Microphones Are Ruining The Red Carpet
“Even if tiny mics are a trend that’s crossed over from influencer culture, they’ve become yet another obnoxious staple of the film industry that...
Young Dylan Thomas, It Turns Out, Was A Serial Plagiarist
“The young Thomas was an enthusiastic contributor to Swansea Grammar School's magazine after joining as an 11-year-old in 1925, but Gallenzi found at least...
Jerome Lowenstein, Doctor Who Helped His Tiny Literary Press Pick A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Book,...
“His detour into literature began in 2000, when he was asked by Martin Blaser, the chairman of N.Y.U.’s department of medicine, to join him...
How Did Mystery Author Louise Penny Build Such An Intense, Huge Fan Club?
Her publisher sure didn’t help, at least not at first. But then the community “was nurtured and deepened by the connections that Louise made...
How Do You Move On From An Iconic, Long-Term Role?
Kit Harington’s timing was perhaps challenging. Game of Thrones finished; he went into rehab; then the pandemic hit. "When things started up again after...
