Something New In Hollywood: The 50-Something Female Lead
It’s been a slow burn, but Hollywood is finally recognizing a trend corporate America long ago seized upon: The spending power of the 50-something...
Meet Frankie Light, “YouTube Polyglot”
A handsome young Black man surprising Chinese immigrants with fluent Mandarin can amass quite a following on social media. Frankie Light is one of...
Smithsonian Announces New Policy Of Ethic Returns Of Art
“My goal was very simple: Smithsonian will be the place people point to, to say ‘This is how we should share our collections and...
Bolshoi Theatre Cancels Operas And Ballets By Directors Opposed To Ukraine Invasion
"The theatre gave no reason for dropping Timofey Kulyabin's production of the opera Don Pasquale and Kirill Serebrennikov's ballet Nureyev, which will be replaced...
Netflix’s Stumbles And Layoffs Have Employees Nervous And Angry
"Bleak subscriber numbers and the company's response have stirred a mix of angst and uncertainty among many rank-and-file workers. Some are worried that the...
Is It Possible To Run An Orchestra As A Publicly-Traded Corporation? This One Is...
Japan National Orchestra Co. was founded and is led by 27-year-old CEO Kyohei Sorita, a concert pianist convinced that his band (for now, really...
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cinderella” Posts Closing Notice, And Some Cast Members Found Out Only...
The West End run of ALW's latest musical will conclude on June 12. But the company was told after the Sunday matinee on a...
Russian Soldiers Remove Art From Mariupol Museums And Take It To Donbas
The city council of the occupied, now-largely-destroyed Ukrainian city says that more than 2,000 works, including paintings by the renowned 19th-century artists Arkhip Kuindzhi...
Russians Steal Ancient Scythian Gold From Ukrainian Museum
Russian soldiers and intelligence officers, along with "a Russian-speaking man in a white lab coat" and a film crew, entered the Melitopol Museum of...
A New CEO At Hay Literary Festival Following Founder’s Forced Resignation
"Julie Finch, … the former CEO of the Cheltenham Trust, … has been appointed CEO of the Hay festival and will succeed founder and...
Is Historic Preservation Hurting Our Cities?
As many cities today grapple with unprecedented housing shortages and cost-of-living issues, the degree to which historic-preservation laws can function as a pretext for preventing change entirely...
A Military Expert Defines What A Coup Is
January 6th was an extreme attack. But it was not a coup d’état. Because a coup d’état is not a demonstrative action, where you...
How China Built Enormous Influence Over American Entertainment
China's growing clout in global media extends beyond movies to the entertainment industry generally. Capital investments by U.S. firms in ventures such as the...
Influencer Culture Takes Over Academia
In the persistent wake of the pandemic, the pressure for scholars to self-promote has only intensified. Starved for opportunities to share our latest findings...
Netflix Employees Worry Company Is Unraveling
The company’s response have stirred a mix of angst and uncertainty among many rank-and-file workers. Some are worried that the streaming heavyweight may have...
Fears About Disappearing Ukrainian Culture
Museum curators and conservators are especially worried that because of the amount of un-digitalized catalogues and other existing print materials in archives and libraries,...
Bet You Didn’t Know Hyphens Were Controversial
The hyphen underwent an assault from a different corner in 2007, when Angus Stevenson, an editor of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, removed the...
Does Playing Word Games Make Us Better?
At heart, they just expose our funny, brilliant, quirky humanness. We love riddles because they show how we’re “rationalization machines. We are great at...
How Maia Kobabe’s Graphic Novel Became The Most-Banned Book In American Schools
Suddenly, Kobabe was at the center of a nationwide battle over which books belong in schools — and who gets to make that decision....
The Global Phenomenon That Is Seattle’s Indie Music Radio Station KEXP
These days, KEXP has roughly 180,000 weekly listeners on the airwaves, 100,000 listeners online, and a YouTube channel with 2.69 million subscribers and nearly...
The Pandemic-Formed Musical Group That Arose Out Of An Adirondack Love For Folk Dance
No, truly. And, in classic pandemic times fashion, "after several months of working remotely, the band members met one another in the flesh and...
Historic Preservation Is Really Mucking Up Cities, And The People Who’d Like To Live...
The laws have done some good for buildings that truly do need to be preserved. However: "In cities with significant numbers of old buildings...
Why Artisans In Japan Sometimes Choose Hard Physical Work
One wood turner: "Well, you know, tradition is not just something in the past. It’s something that we’re making. ... I hope that I’m...
In Russia, Most Foreign Ballet Dancers Have Fled Because Of The War
One dancer who fled to Estonia and then to the United States says, "Russian ballet is definitely going to be totally isolated," and the...
Disney Still Isn’t Paying Its Writers
There's "a systematic program of theft from a whole cohort of writers, stemming from Disney's orgy of acquisitions. ... Disney took the position that...
