Detroit Opera Stages “The Central Park Five” And Braces For Trump Blowback
“(The company’s) leadership team understands the perils of mounting a production that waves a red cape at a pumped-up, reactive presidency. Surprisingly, the opera...
Civil Rights Leaders Rally Around Smithsonian’s African-American History Museum
“A coalition ... kicked off a weeklong campaign to rally around the national African American museum and push back against what it calls efforts...
San Francisco Symphony Musicians Use MTT’s Last Concerts Ever To Demand More Money
At these 80th-birthday concerts for Michael Tilson Thomas, who has suffered a recurrence of an aggressive brain cancer, the musicians distributed leaflets to the...
British Sunday Newspaper The Observer Relaunches After Being Sold By The Guardian
“Editor-in-chief and major shareholder James Harding set out his stall in the first issue under its new Tortoise ownership on Sunday, (saying) the paper...
Indiana Lawmakers Cut All State Funding For Public Radio And TV
“The public wasn't given a chance to testify on the 11th-hour change, quietly added to the 220-page budget bill just one day before lawmakers...
Jennifer Higdon On Writing Music
"I don't judge people in any way about how much they know about music. In fact, when I'm writing, I think, "Well, let's pretend...
Amazon Stomps On National Independent Bookstore Day With Big Online Sale
Independent bookstores and users on BookTok are expressing their frustration with Amazon while encouraging readers to stay off of the online shopping site and instead make...
What Should Be The Story Of American Culture The Kennedy Center Tells?
The Kennedy Center is more than a venue, it’s a “living monument” — a place where the story of American culture plays out onstage....
Study: Music Producers Report Widespread Use Of AI In Their Work
The consensus is that AI is an extremely potent technology and already very, very good at creating content, however, you are somehow a villain...
Trump Administration Threatens Wikipedia’s Non-Profit Status
“Wikipedia is permitting information manipulation on its platform, including the rewriting of key, historical events and biographical information of current and previous American leaders,...
Netflix CEO: Movie Theatres Are Outdated
What is the consumer trying to tell us? That they’d like to watch movies at home, thank you. The studios and the theaters are duking...
Smithsonian Is Removing Artifacts From The African American Museum
It comes a month after President Trump’s executive order to remove what he calls “improper ideology” from Smithsonian museums. - DCNewsNow
Remembering Maio Vargas Llosa
Vargas Llosa “has replaced Gabriel García Márquez” as the South American novelist North American readers must catch up on, Updike wrote in 1986, four...
How AI Has Changed The Ways I Explore The World
I can hold a tailored conversation on any of the topics I care about with a system that has effectively achieved Ph.D.-level competence across...
This Company Lights Hollywood, And Congress
But tariffs are putting that at risk. - Los Angeles Times (AOL)
How Leni Riefenstahl Hid Her Complicity With Hitler From The World
Riefenstahl, who was full member of the Nazi propaganda machine, spent her entire very long post-WWII life using every tool she had “to deflect...
The Challenges Of Putting Dance, And Other Performing Arts, On Screen
“Putting a camera in the audience POV of a dance show is only a reminder that the real thing is probably way better. Putting...
What Happens When A Reviewer Takes A Year Off
And when she comes back? “I wondered what the movies would look like a year later; the answer, it turns out, is not nearly...
Film Watchers Shouldn’t Have To Be Talking About Box Office Numbers
Unless you’re a studio, this discussion is useless, and can have even worse effects: “The defeatist coverage threatens to warp moviegoers’ understanding of box-office...
The Dangers Of Microdosing
Of microdosing Jane Austen at the office, that is. (Hint: An entire page? That’s an overdose.) - The Guardian (UK)
How ‘Real Women Have Curves’ Went From Diary To Film To Broadway
And a challenge: "We never wanted the amount of Spanish to take people out of the story. … So it’s been a kind of...
Bob Ross’s Happy Little Trees, In The Museum Spotlight At Last
“His bushy-haired, denim-wearing image has inspired all kinds of merch, from bobbleheads and boxer briefs to wigs and waffle makers. Yet said the...
The Massive Run Of The Original, Non-Blockbuster Sinners Continues In Its Second Week
Ryan Coogler’s film has box office followers’ eyes popping with its unheard-of second weekend take. It dropped a mere 6 percent from its opening...
Patrick Adiarte, Of Broadway And The TV Series MASH, Has Died At 82
As a baby, Adiarte was imprisoned by the Japanese during WWII. After his family moved to the U.S., he played a little prince and,...
The Song That Has Dominated One Chart For Ten Years
You didn’t know that a cover of The Sound of Silence was the most popular hard rock song of the last decade, did you?...
