Criminal Charges Against Alec Baldwin For “Rust” On-Set Shooting Have Been Lowered
"Baldwin still faces one count of involuntary manslaughter, a fourth-degree felony that carries a sentence of 18 months in prison. But prosecutors have removed...
Changes To Language In Roald Dahl’s Books Draw A Backlash — And Not Only...
Salman Rushdie spoke out, as did PEN America: "If we start down the path of trying to correct for perceived slights instead of allowing...
The BAFTA Nominees Were Pretty Diverse. The Winners Were All White. Criticism Has Ensued.
"By the end of the night," wrote one journalist covering the awards, "when it slowly sank in that every single winner was white, you...
Stella Stevens, Sexy, Funny Hollywood Star Of 1960s and ’70s, Is Dead At 84
"(She was) known for her voluptuous figure and graceful comic touch in such films as The Nutty Professor with Jerry Lewis and the cruise-ship...
Public Radio’s “The Takeaway” Will End In June
"The news program, which launched in 2008 as an alternative to NPR's Morning Edition, has seen declining carriage and audience, according to leaders at...
An Algorithm For A Fandom Site? Makes No Sense
AO3 is one of the biggest fan fiction sites today. It’s an open source, multi-fandom archive for transformative fanworks that, as of January 2023,...
King Charles Taps Andrew Lloyd Webber For Coronation Music
Lord Lloyd-Webber said he wanted his new coronation anthem to reflect a "joyful occasion". A gospel choir will sing and there will be Greek...
Why Millennials Are In To New Age Music
As my generation grew up, new age seemed a bit like a lost world—a faerie realm we were promised but never got to go...
The Key To Happiness? Low Expectations
High expectations aren’t always a bad thing. But if you’re finding yourself flooded with disappointment more often than you’d like, you might consider the...
A History Of The Game “Monopoly”: Meant To Critique Capitalism But Turned In to...
There have now been more than a thousand versions of Monopoly, based not only on different cities but on properties such as “The Big...
BBC Relaxes Dress Code For Presenters: Sweaty Is More Authentic
“It’s a bit like, be as sweaty and dirty as when we’re in the field is actually more trustworthy than if we look like...
Time To Rethink The Meaning Of Indigenous?
Today, nearly half a billion people qualify as Indigenous. If they were a single country, it would be the world’s third most populous, behind...
Understanding The Wonder That Is BookTok
Although the Barnes & Noble event caters to fans of romance and fantasy, BookTok is vast and multifarious. The community is a constellation of...
Conspiracy Theories: Toxic Influence Or The Price Of Democracy?
If great masses of people maintain a certain belief over long periods of time, one can be fairly sure that there is something in...
Is This Painting A Raphael Or Not?
What began with a chance discovery turned into a quest that consumed Mr. Ayers for decades. He managed to discover a great deal about...
Turns Out Students Don’t Actually Want An ‘All-Digital’ Library
Make that 'library.' Faculty and students at Vermont State University were not having it when the financially strapped institution announced last week that everything...
Alvin Ailey Dance Turns 65
The troupe's third artistic director says it's been a real challenge during the past few years, and now is a time for joy and...
The Thames Quietly Gets Two New, Pretty Great, Pedestrian Bridges
Remember the Garden Bridge imbroglio? These two are far from that. Instead, the results are "faceted and intriguing ... driven by the imaginative response...
Mediocre Movies, Not Only Marvel, Can Save Movie Theatres
What theatres need "are the movies that grease the wheels of the theatrical experience: the friendly bread-and-butter formula films for adults that audiences can...
Who Painted This Portrait Of George Washington?
Turns out that after years of doubt and many studies, "experts are confident they can declare the portrait a true Peale, one of...
Britain’s Most Prolific Female Director
Muriel Box - the first woman to win an Oscar for screenwriting - "directed 13 feature films in the 1950s and early 60s and...
Rena Gluck, Who Brought Modern Dance To Israel
"Israel is now considered a global hotbed of contemporary dance, with Batsheva still at its center. But when Ms. Gluck arrived in 1954 as...
Was Disney’s Purchase Of Fox A Huge Mistake?
One analyst: "Even without Fox, Disney would still be struggling with linear channels and figuring out how to make streaming profitable. ... But they’d...
Native American Activists Ask Miami To Stop Archaeological Dig
The site is - of course - going to become a residential development. "The artifacts found at the site include pottery sherds, stone tools,...
Let Kids Read For Pleasure – And Never Tell Them What They’re Reading Is...
So said the UK children charity Booktrust's new writer in residence, SF Said. Unlike many recent censorship fans in the US, he said, "I...
