Teacher Quits After His Bulletin Board Featuring The Pledge Of Allegiance Is Taken Down
Of course, the Pledge isn't what got the teacher's bulletin board torn down by a co-worker. No - it was the people saying the...
Lost Banksy Reappears In A Tel Aviv Art Gallery
"Slingshot Rat, a stencil painting, appeared on a concrete block at an abandoned Israeli army position in Bethlehem next to a section of the...
On The Violent Attack On Salman Rushdie
"Writers represent the part of our culture that engages with humanity through ideas, whose passion is expressed through sentences and paragraphs and pages. It’s...
The Joyful Bicycles Of Jean-Jacques Sempe
Sempé, who died on Thursday at 89, had a whimsical style. "His ink cartoons were often set in a mythical mid-century Paris or millennial...
The Lucerne Festival Finally Wants To Diversify
But can its audience deal with the changes? - The New York Times
For Canada’s Indigenous Filmmakers, A Shift In Representation
An Indigenous crew member "remains cautiously optimistic about the future of Indigenous inclusion in the film industry," and actor Michelle Thrush says that "well-thought-out...
A Ukrainian Orchestra, Far From Home
The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra "coalesced quickly around a mission to stage, as the Met news release put it, 'artistic defense' of its homeland. Its...
Artists Who Say The Tate Silenced Them Agree To Six-Figure Settlements
"The payout illuminates a years-long issue facing Tate surrounding alleged sexual misconduct." - Hyperallergic
How Word Games Give Us A Sense Of Control In An Out Of Control...
"I started playing word games as a way to stop reading the news first thing in the morning. Death counts, infection rates, mass shootings,...
Actress Anne Heche Has Died At 53
Heche, an Emmy- and Tony-nominated actor, was declared brain dead six days after a fiery one-car crash in L.A. The Daily Beast said that...
The Right To Repair Movement Is Now Reaching Everything Electronic, Including Tractors
"After years of controversy in the United States over right-to-repair, the movement seems to have reached a turning point." - Wired
How Teens Are Getting Around Book Bans
Students have formed banned book clubs like the one at Vandegrift High School, organized with statewide groups, and even overturned bans, like the students at Central...
Colored Statues — Did The Ancients Just Have Bad Taste?
The supposed whiteness of ancient statuary is intertwined with larger ideas of Whiteness in European culture, and the sense that colorizing the statues somehow...
Is The Out-Of-Town Tryout Done?
There’s a certain romance in the bygone days when shows would play Boston, Philadelphia and New Haven before turning up in the Big Apple,...
Why Facts Mostly Don’t Change People’s Minds
For many people, a challenge to their worldview feels like an attack on their personal identity and can cause them to harden their position....
Dances With Chairs: How A Wheelchair Artist Conquered Australian Stages
One day a dance tutor, Catherine Chappell, came to show the children a video about “mixed ability” dance. She invited Rodney Bell to play harmonica...
Gen Z Dilemma: What Actually Is A Healthy Relationship With Social Media?
Because young people have grown up with online communities, they have a more inextricable relationship with platforms and their identities. This changes the idea...
Charlotte Politicians Battle Over Allocating $2 Million In Arts Funding
"When Charlotte City Council last discussed arts funding a month ago, members were sharply divided about ... $2 million allocated to the Arts &...
The Publishing Eco-System Is Consolidating, Narrowing What Americans Read
The Justice Department argues that the resulting merged company would control close to half of the best-seller market, continuing a longer history of publisher...
Was Lady Rochford Really The Villainess Of Anne Boleyn’s Story?
Jane Boleyn, married to Anne's brother George, tends to be portrayed as a schemer whose (likely false) testimony sent her husband and sister-in-law to...
Salman Rushdie Attacked On Stage
An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being...
There’s Country Music In Africa? Yes, And There Has Been For Almost 100 Years
"The history of African country music is largely uncharted. When you piece together the fragments, a long and rich musical relationship begins to emerge....
Steve Martin Is Busier Than Ever. Retirement?
What these projects have in common — and what distinguishes them from Martin’s early days as the only guy onstage — is that he...
The Mysterious, Endangered Language That Can’t Say “No” (Or “Yes”)
"Nepal's Kusunda language has no known origin and a number of quirks, like no words for 'yes' or 'no'. It also has only one...
Is There Any Such Thing Anymore As A Star Whose Name Can Sell Movie...
"The A-list is a shrinking paddock of ageing thoroughbreds. All five films in the top 100 this year that might be called 'star vehicles'...
