How Thelonius Monk Changed Music
Like his hero Duke Ellington, he had a gift for reconciling musical experiment with the immediacy of pop, finding freedom in the constraints of...
What Literary Criticism Is (And Isn’t) For
What is literary criticism — specifically, the kind of highly specialized, theoretically sophisticated textual readings generated by academic critics — really for? - The New...
Our Need For Constant Entertainment Has Ruined Everything
We have surrendered ourselves to our entertainment. We will become so distracted and dazed by our fictions that we’ll lose our sense of what...
Ukraine Ballet Comes To US
Some 60 dancers who fled the war make up The United Ukrainian Ballet. With help from local dance professionals and city officials, the company is...
Was This Antarctica’s First-Ever Professional Outdoor Dance Performance?
Probably. Earlier this week, members of the Ballet Folklórico Nacional Argentino and Compañía Nacional de Danza Contemporánea traveled from Buenos Aires down to Argentina's...
UK Playwrights Protest Low Pay, Working Conditions
“Theatre is in danger of just being a museum piece – not current and not tackling the things that are going on right now...
Remember The Guy Who Streaked At The Oscars? He Did A Hell Of A...
"Who was Robert Opel, and why did he do what he did? ... Even as Opel's fifteen minutes ticked down, his quest for exposure...
Monterey Jazz Festival Head Steps Down After 30 Years
Tim Jackson co-presented the ’92 season with Jimmy Lyons, who launched the festival with San Francisco Chronicle columnist Ralph J. Gleason in 1958. By...
Meet The Most Media-Friendly Of Maria Von Trapp’s Great-Grandchildren
"(He's) not one of the von Trapps you'd occasionally see performing 'Edelweiss' on Oprah or The View in years past. But ... when journalists...
Why Are People Bullying Librarians?
In a comically transparent escalation of this anti-intellectual crusade, they are targeting libraries. Worse, they’ve embraced a characteristically cruel approach to doing so: bullying...
Her Uncle Writes Plays, And She Turns Them Into Operas
Composer Emma O'Halloran had had her Uncle Mark adapt two of his scripts, Mary Motorhead and Trade, into librettos to which she's written one-act...
How Americans Lost Confidence In Journalism
When ratings drop, and with them advertising revenues, correspondents change, anchors change, coverage changes. News, especially but not only cable news, is curated for...
As A Black Man Running The Pasadena Playhouse For 20 Years, George Epps Has...
"There were years when it was me shouting into the wind and nobody was really listening. There are more voices now. They've been voices...
Translating Franz Kafka’s Diaries Was A Total Head Trip
"(I was) groping and straining to make sense of Kafka's groping and straining to make sense. Not only could I not always — or...
“Enshittification” — How TikTok Is, Inevitably, Ruining Itself (And Us)
Cory Doctorow: "Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for...
It Would Have Been America’s Biggest Solar Farm. It Was Killed For The Sake...
The 14-square mile project was to be on Federal land in eastern Nevada — on the way to Michael Heizer's 1970 work Double Negative,...
A Statue Of A Roman Emperor Pretending To Be Hercules Is Discovered In A...
"The marble sculpture, showing a Hercules-like figure with the hero's trademark lion skin and club, was unearthed on Jan. 25 (in) the Appian Way...
Brexit Has Cost The Arts In Britain $200 Million In Funding
"Work by the UK Trade and Business Commission found that ... had Brexit never happened, the UK's creative industries would have received an additional...
Chicago Budgets $11 Million In New Arts Funding
"Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events on Thursday announced $11 million in grants for nonprofit arts organizations,...
Facial Recognition Is Here To Stay At Entertainment Venues
Whereas Madison Square Garden is using face recognition to deny entry to people previously expelled from the venue—and certain lawyers—many stadium and entertainment center...
Museums Begin To Rethink Their Expensive Climate Control Practices
A growing awareness of the impact of those systems on the climate has led a number of major institutions to rethink their most fundamental...
Tracking Study: Women Still Remain Under-represented In The Music Industry
The Southern California Annenberg Inclusion Initiative report reveals that while the amount of women represented in Billboard’s year-end Hot 100 chart jumped 28.7% last...
Colleen Hoover Sold Tons Of Books. Then She Published A Coloring Book And It...
It Ends With Us is a book about domestic violence. Hoover detractors who say she romanticizes abuse had a new weapon in their arsenal: How...
How Wikipedia Distorts Indigenous History
Generally, U.S. history pages follow one strict interpretation of history written in the 1960s and ’70s, and most editors treat these matters as settled....
The People Who Have Been Marking Dickens’ Birthday Every Year Since 1905
The Toronto branch of the Dickens Fellowship, a group of dedicated Charles Dickens fans who have celebrated the birthday of the Immortal Boz annually...
