Meet Wikipedia’s “Deaditors” Who Updated Queen Elizabeth’s Entry
While some on the internet were glued to Twitter or the BBC, checking for news or watching the planes en route to Balmoral Castle,...
150 Years Of Technological Progress That Changed The World
It really looks that we had as much technological change and progress between 1870 and today as we had between 6000 BC and 1870 AD....
What The Arts Learned About Digital Engagement
Digital events can reduce geographic inequalities, and lessen the costs associated with attending a festival. Digital delivery of a festival also provides something of...
Amazon Settles With Writers Guild Over Residual Payments
“Like Netflix, Amazon had been systematically undervaluing imputed license fees on theatrical films where it was both the producer and the distributor,” wrote WGA...
That Time Duke Ellington Made A Record With A Single Copy Just For Elizabeth...
We created a unique album solely for the pleasure of giving it to Queen Elizabeth. With the help of Billy Strayhorn, he composed The Queen’s...
A First: University Offers Degree In Chess
Webster University in St. Louis is renowned for attracting top-notch chess talent to its school, and now its School of Education is offering a...
How Book Battles Roiled A Texas Town And Put Librarians On The Front Lines
Strategies on how to lodge complaints against books are traded on Facebook and shared among branch chapters of parental rights groups. One of the...
Putin Stifles Artists As War Goes Badly
The number of banned theater directors, filmmakers, playwrights and musicians had been growing by the day. “I look around and I cannot find anything...
How German Playwrights And Writers Gave Us All A Sense Of Self
The modern idea of the self emerged "in a quiet university town called Jena, some 150 miles southwest of Berlin. It was there that,...
The Lawsuit That Is Threatening The Entire Internet Archive
Early in the pandemic, "the Internet Archive made a decision that pissed off a lot of writers—and embroiled it in a lawsuit that many...
Let’s Talk About That NC-17 Rating For The Netflix Marilyn Monroe Biopic
The history of the rating is, one might say, fraught. But Netflix isn't a movie theatre; why does it have an NC-17 rating on...
The Not So Comfortable Discussions About Sidney Poitier
Poitier was "a man who both aspired and inspired just as much as he frustrated and disappointed. We rarely ever really talk about that...
Winnie The Pooh Stars In A New Horror Movie
Thanks, public domain! No, but truly, thank you for expiring, copyright. We now have everything from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to "all-time classic"...
France’s Anonymous Street Artist Fills The Cracks With Colorful Mosaics
Ememem "has made a speciality of filling divots and potholes with multicoloured mosaics made from tiles of different sizes and different hues, arranged in...
YouTube’s Chaos Led To Its Massive Rise
Why doesn't its history with a content provider who had zillions of subscribers - but was a favorite of the neo-Nazis - get the...
Peak TV Is Making The Emmys A Lot Weirder
There are so, so many series out there - 500 or more, and "the crush of programming means that even worthy shows struggle for...
Judging The Sometimes Violent Art Of Video Games
MoMA makes a case for including games in the permanent collection - and a case that says humans respond the same way to video...
Why Did Instagram Ban This Livestreamed French Play?
No one (associated with the play) knows. "In early 2021, a few months into the production’s run, Instagram started cutting off these live streams,...
Why So Many Book Bans? Facebook
"It’s absolutely beyond creepy—and therefore totally in keeping with Facebook’s general vibe—that adults are spending time avidly thumbing through children’s books to look for...
The Flamenco Singer Who Defies Tradition To Reinvent The Music
Rosália won Latin Grammys for her album El Mal Querer - a flamenco-pop fusion that also became her thesis project at the Catalonia School...
Some Teenage Girls In Afghanistan Meet In Secret To Read The Diary Of Anne...
One 17-year-old in the secret book club: "Anne Frank is, like, as a friend for me. ... I mean, Anne Frank is suffering from...
What It’s Like To Chair The National Endowment For The Humanities During A Pandemic
Shelly Lowe, the first Native American chair of the NEH, wants to make some changes: "More small organizations that haven’t had NEH funding will...
Russia’s War On Wikipedia Editors Ramps Up
Editors have been doxxed, threatened, and arrested. "Doronina of the Wikimedia Foundation’s board of trustees said that Russia’s state agencies could target one of...
When ABT Tried To Break Ballet Out Of The 18th Century
"Audience members generally rustle their programs and shift in their seats when performers are onstage. But on that late October evening inside Lincoln Center...
Marsha Hunt, Who Confronted The Blacklist And Paid For It, Has Died At 104
The actress spent the seven decades after her Hollywood career ended as a result of the 1950s-era hysterical anti-Communism as an impassioned activist for...
