What The National Parks Contribute
The National Park Service report, 2023 National Park Visitor Spending Effects, finds that 325.5 million visitors spent $26.4 billion in communities near national parks....
Is The Late Night Talk Show Dead? Or Can It Be Reinvented?
Can the traditional talk show format — with an opening monologue, celebrity guests, live musical performances, a sidekick — survive in the streaming era?...
Second City Actors In Chicago Threaten Strike
“Performers and stage managers at Chicago’s venerable comedy venue The Second City are threatening to strike if they are unable to reach an agreement...
California Governor Proposes $7.5 Billion In Federal Tax Incentives For Film Industry
“Just a day after Donald Trump revealed his plan to impose 100% tariffs on ‘any and all’ films produced in ‘foreign lands,’ California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday he wants...
Senior NEA Officials Resign Amid Trump’s Mass Grant Cancellations
“Among those leaving the agency are directors overseeing grants for dance, design, folk and traditional arts, museums and visual arts, and theater. Also departing...
2025 Pulitzer Prize For Music Goes To Susie Ibarra For “Sky Islands”
It is, says the Pulitzer committee, “a work about ecosystems and biodiversity, that challenges the notion of the compositional voice by interweaving the profound...
“Purpose” By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize For Drama
This is his first Pulitzer, though he has been a finalist twice before. The production, directed by Phylicia Rashad, originated at Steppenwolf in Chicago...
Bloomberg CityLab Architecture Critic Alexandra Lange Wins Pulitzer Prize For Criticism
“The Pulitzer board praised (her work) ‘for graceful and genre-expanding writing about public spaces for families, deftly using interviews, observations and analysis to consider the architectural...
2025 Pulitzers For Literature Go To Percival Everett, Kathleen DuVal, Tessa Hulls
Percival Everett’s James continued its run of awards with the fiction prize, while Benjamin Nathans’s To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause won for...
Shares In Movie Producers, Streamers, Decline Monday After Trump Tariff Threat
At the open of the U.S. stock market regular trading Monday, Netflix’s stock was down -3.3%, Disney was -2.4%, WBD was -4.2% and Paramount...
Trump Movie Tariff Would Kill Independent Film
“It’s insane,” a veteran UK producer told us. “So U.S. companies can only make U.S. films? James Cameron can’t make Avatar overseas? Who pays...
Trump 100% Movie Tariff Would Kill Canadian Film Production
Vancouver is the third largest film and television production hub in North America after Los Angeles and New York. There were 26,000 persons employed...
Trump Movie Tariffs Would “Destroy” International Movie Production
Most film production – and indeed TV shows – are a complex patchwork of corporate investment, globally sourced labour and multinational revenue. Some are...
Odesa Struggles Over De-Russia-ing Its Culture
A cultural battle is dividing Odesa, with the Babel statue a flashpoint. The spark was the decolonization law, which was part of a broader effort in...
Alabama Town Goes To War Over Its Beloved Library
The library records more than 180,000 annual visits, one of the highest figures in Alabama, in a city of 25,000. It has been called...
Trump Declares War On Foreign Movies
The president announced on Sunday that he plans on slapping a 100% tariff on movies made outside of the U.S. - The Daily Beast
Pro-Social Parents Sing More to Their Infants and, By Doing So, Contribute to Greater...
Plenty of studies, some of them published by the Arts Endowment, have shown how arts participation in early childhood appears to awaken greater social skills...
Why People Don’t Admit They Don’t Know Something (And Why That’s A Dumb Thing...
For one thing, there is a desire in conversations to be cooperative with your partner. When they ask a question, the default cooperative answer...
How Ballet Helped Shape My Medical Career
When I scrubbed in for my first surgery, it felt strangely familiar—there was music playing, overhead lights shining, and a team working in synchrony,...
What 75 Years Of Studies Tell Us About How To Be Happy
“The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period." - The New York...
What Happened To Watching Movies? They Seem Like Background Activities Now
Now, “a movie” can be a meme or an endurance contest or just background wallpaper; if it’s playing on your TV, it could easily...
MTT’s Final Concert
With a pioneering sense of eclecticism, he connected the dots between John Cage and James Brown, between Mahler and MTT’s famous grandfather, Boris Thomashefsky, a...
Apple Made A Big Investment In Hollywood. How’s It Going?
Apple TV+ “has become a must-see destination” and posted record viewership in the quarter. Some have compared it to HBO — before Warner Bros....
How TicketMaster Swallowed Live Music
When you don’t get what you want, you tend to look for someone to blame. That someone is usually Ticketmaster. The company, which merged with...
25 Highlights Of Tate Modern’s 25 Years
When the gallery opened in 2000, it transformed the artistic life of Britain – and the world. - The Guardian
