Visiting Museums Really Is Good For Mental Health: U.S. Study
"New research from the University of Pennsylvania found reductions in anxiety and depression and increases in cognitive function and empathy, among a number of...
Can The Hollywood Foreign Press Association Save The Golden Globes (Or Itself)? Should It?
There was a boycott of the Globes last year when it became public that the HFPA had zero black members. "But now that the...
Broadway’s Cleaning Workers Get A Much-Improved New Contract
Most of those workers haven't gotten a raise since before the arrival of the pandemic, which gave them lots of extra work and potential...
San Diego Opera’s Ticket Sales This Season Were $1 Million Below Projections, But The...
Thank heaven for COVID relief grants. And advance ticket sales for the coming season look promising. - The San Diego Union-Tribune
Antonio Banderas And Andrew Lloyd Webber Are Forming A Production Company For Live Performance...
Amigos Para Siempre ("friends forever"), as the firm is called, will produce musicals, plays, and other live events for Spanish-speaking markets throughout the world,...
TEFAF Maastricht Returns To New Realities
The long-established event, regarded as the world’s pre-eminent fair for art, objects and furniture ranging back through the centuries, was canceled in 2021 and postponed...
The Weird Wonderfulness Of Going Back To Glastonbury
If arriving onsite is a slightly discombobulating experience at first – even for a seasoned Glastonbury-goer, the sheer volume of people feels weirdly overwhelming...
Canadian Libraries Slammed By Hate Groups Over LGBTQ-Friendly Programs
More than half a dozen libraries and drag performers, from Saint John to Victoria, reported being inundated online and over the phone by homophobic slurs and, in...
Maldive Islands Announce New Floating City To Adapt To Climate Change
Called Maldives Floating City, the development will contain 5,000 low-rise floating homes floating within a 200-hectare lagoon in the Indian Ocean. As sea levels rise,...
Lost Masters? John Mauceri’s “War On Music”
Conductor John Mauceri has released a study of the forgetting of so much classical music, especially music composed in America by refugees from Nazi-dominated...
Making A Case For Art (It Takes More Than A Village)
You don’t know it’s art by looking at it. You know it’s art because galleries want to show it, dealers want to sell it,...
How The Lexicographers At The OED Try To Keep Up
The English language evolves at such a pace that, for the OED lexicographers, the goalposts aren’t so much shifting as sprinting away from them. -...
Bob Stanley On The Origins Of American Pop
The most dynamic music in the US in the first decade of the 20th century was ragtime, which Stanley claims “set the template for...
Riccardo Muti Unloads On His Way Out Of The Chicago Symphony
Muti, whose Chicago contract runs through the 2022-23 season, considers himself the descendant of strong Italian conductors reaching back to Arturo Toscanini and Tullio...
When A Legacy Newspaper Opens An Official Finsta
The 404 is the Los Angeles Times' new Finsta - slang for "fake instagram," usually an account for a closer group of friends or...
In Los Angeles, Street Symphonies Blossom
Young violinist Vijay Gupta "was shocked by the poverty and neglect he saw on Skid Row. The injustice and inequity upset him. He was...
Who Won Big At The BET Awards
And who flipped off the Supreme Court on live TV, too. - The Hollywood Reporter
Cuba Sentences An Artist To Five Years In Prison
"Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara will serve five years in prison for 'contempt, defamation, and public disorder,' charges human rights organizations have condemned." Otero Alcántara's...
How Los Angeles’ Fountain Theatre Is Responding To The End Of Roe
"Performer Christina Hall reminded the crowd that all three of the justices appointed by former President Trump had promised at their confirmation hearings that...
Queer Desire And Pakistani Life
Novelist Taymour Soomro: "It was important to me to write about queerness in Pakistan for so many reasons, including making visible experiences like my...
Google’s AI Issue Shows Us A Human Logical Fallacy
We hear fluent speech, we think "fluent thought." But wait: "The human brain is hardwired to infer intentions behind words" - even where there...
A Long Island Library Board Has Reversed Its Ban On Pride Displays
Way to not entirely buckle under to homophobes, Smithtown Library Board. - LitHub
The Disney Board Gathers To Discuss Bob Chapek’s Future
Why does this matter? Stocks are down though subscriptions to Disney Plus are up, and interest in Disney-owned properties is strong. But, one analyst...
What Makes For A Good Group Biography?
"The questions that make these biographies sing—what makes this group of people actually interesting, not just noteworthy? Why, of all the relationships in a...
Stylish Trans Elder Gloria Allen Was An Icon Who Taught History And Style To...
Allen, who has died at 76, inspired filmmakers and playwrights. She ran a charm school for young trans people in Chicago, usually from the...
