For British Publishing, 2022 Was A “Record-Breaking” Success
"Trade body the Publishers Association found that sales were up 4% from 2021. In 2022, 669 million physical books were sold in the UK,...
RISD Students And Faculty Stage Walkout In Support Of Striking Workers
"Over 600 students, faculty, and Providence locals joined a walkout at the Rhode Island School of Art and Design last week in support of...
Playwright James Ijames Steps Down From Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater
The author of the Pulitzer-winning Fat Ham was one of a trio of revolving artistic directors who succeeded Wilma cofounder Blanka Zizka in 2020....
Peter Gelb And Yannick Nézet-Séguin Talk About The Met’s Pivot To Contemporary Opera
Gelb: "It's not contemporary opera. It's the right contemporary opera." YNS: "Now, composers are more aware of how to appeal to audiences. It's not...
In Record-Setting Numbers, Writers Guild Members Vote To Authorize A Strike Against Hollywood Studios
"Nearly 98% of the 9,218 votes were cast to authorize the strike, with nearly 79% of guild members voting. … The writers' three-year contract...
“Mozart In The Jungle” Author Blair Tindall Is Dead At 63
"(She was a freelance) oboist for the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke's who turned...
An Existential Question About Journalism
Who picks up the tab of paying for journalism when the audience won’t, and how does that change the truths that we journalists want...
Why Aren’t Canadian Movie Box Office Numbers Reported?
The website Box Office Mojo lists data on the top grossing films in more than 70 countries, but not Canada. Why are there no...
After A Year, Spotify Kills Its Wordle-Inspired Music Game
First appearing in February 2022 amid a surge of games that used the format of Wordle, which the New York Times bought in January of...
After A Century, Has Music As A Business Died?
We are a long way from understanding the ramifications of having it all available at the click of a button. Still, music will survive....
How Do We Separate The Artist From The Transgressions?
How do we weigh an artist’s accomplishment against his personal wickedness? “Do we believe genius gets special dispensation, a behavioral hall pass?” Should we...
“Phantom” Closes On Broadway After 13,981 Performances
"I got the gig of a lifetime. There's no other way to describe it," says Richard Poole, who's been a member of the ensemble,...
A Dancer Nearing 60 Says He’ll Never Leave The Profession
Noam Gagnon, who runs dance company Vision Impure, is premiering a solo work online at the Vancouver International Dance Festival. "My physicality is still...
A German Photographer Who Won For An AI Photo Turns Down The Award
Boris Eldagsen says, "It was not about winning anything. ... I have been a photographer for 30 years before turning to AI and I’m...
Paul McCartney Makes Billboard, At Last
That is to say, "the former Beatle debuts on two of Billboard’s dance charts with a new single titled 'Say Say Say'" - his first time...
Who Are The Newly Christened Best Young British Novelists?
"The class of 2023 are the children of “terror and the war on terror,' of credit crunch and austerity, too young to have known...
Streaming And Notifications Have Begotten New Spoiler Etiquette
Thanks a lot, news feeds and alerts, for not doing a better job with Succession. - Washington Post
The Return Of The RomCom
The popular genre, derided and outcast from the movie theatres for a while, has made a return - but with different values, and often...
Podcasts Are On YouTube Now
So are they Tubecasts? PodTube? Anyway, "more podcast listeners in the U.S. prefer to watch podcasts on YouTube than listen to audio-only version," and...
Hollywood Writers Vote This Week On Whether To Allow A Strike
"The strike authorization vote is meant to turn up the heat on companies such as Netflix and Walt Disney and convince them to raise...
TikTok Is Too Popular To Ban
"Cutting off Americans’ access to one of their favorite sources of information and entertainment would be legally and constitutionally dubious. Worse still, it would...
On Broadway, Fans Gathered As Phantom Ended
"The audience, which included Lin-Manuel Miranda, cheered not only the entrance of each principal performer, but also the first sightings of signature props, including...
The Outsize Power Of The Short Story In Literature
Agents and publishers might quail, but "a good story conveys a sense of more going on in the background, more to be discovered. We choose to return to...
The FBI Raids An Art Foundation In Puerto Rico
The investigators "seized over 100 works from the Michèle Vasarely Foundation in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which houses pieces by the late artist Victor Vasarely...
It’s Incredibly Hard To Find Canadian Box Office Figures
Except for Quebec, Canada's film numbers are lumped in with the U.S. But would knowing them make much difference? - CBC
